Maverick

- Season 3

(1959)

Bret travels home to find out why his father Pappy is marrying a much younger woman.

Bart befriends a rich farmer who is targeted for marriage by a conwoman that Bart knows.

Bret gets coralled into serving out jail time as a wild-and-woolly Western town's sheriff, and does a surprisingly good job of it - until he ends up imprisoned in his own jail.

One of Bart's former romances calls Bart to a town, and says that she warts him to help her take over the local casino. But then a visiting cowboy turns up dead, and Bart is framed for his murder.

Modesty Blaine ropes Bret into a cat-selling scheme to a mining town infested with rats.

Bart has to pose as a repentant gambler as part of a scheme to recover $2,000 for an attractive woman - who initially robbed him at gunpoint.

Due to a case of mistaken identity, Bret ends up leading a band of famed outlaws

Bart falls for a beautiful girl but doesn't know he's being set up for a murder nor does he know whom he is going to kill. He is steered to the truth about both by another girl who also likes him.

Arriving at an army fort shortly after an Indian massacre, Bret and two soldiers must find a way to survive the gathering Indian war party until reinforcements arrive. Bret's plan involves turning the Indians' superstitions against them.

Bart, escaping his last poker game due to sore losers, runs into an heir to a railroad in the middle of the desert who just has two concerns: getting to a meeting by Friday and cross pollinating a delicate and rare cactus.

Bret isn't so eager to spring into action, after he hears that Bart was murdered.

Involuntarily enlisted into the army, Bart becomes a spy for the local base commander trying to find out who is selling arms to the local Indians. But when the commander dies and Bart is caught with the arms dealers, he faces a court martial and potential execution for treason.

In an effort to save her brother from the clutches of a scheming Melanie Blake, a wealthy rancher blackmails Bret into playing the role of a wealthy Texan to seduce Melanie into giving up the brother. But the brother has already been cheated out of his share of the ranch, so it is up to Bret with help from brother Bart to regain the asset through a land development ploy.

A "goose-drownder" (rainstorm) perilously strands gambling rivals Gentleman Jack and Bart in a tiny roadhouse. A stagecoach has to pull in, too, brimming with suspicious, hostile characters, especially a wounded, notorious highwayman, The Arapaho Kid, and a bedding salesman named Red Herring! The Kid's blonde lady-friend, Stella Legendre (in French, "the sex star") once robbed Bart, but Bart forgives her. Does Bart still have a soft spot for Stella, or is he just trying to discern which ones are The Kid's gang?

Johnny Rain, a friend to all and beloved by all, has a problem. He does not particularly like whiskey and it doesn't agree with him, but his girlfriend insists that he should drink. While under the spell of whiskey, Johnny takes to stagecoach holdups. Bret figures out that it is Johnny behind the robberies, but can he figure out where the loot is hidden?

Having won a saloon, Bart arrives in town to find it closed because of a competing claim of ownership by the Marquessa, the alleged heir to the land grant on which the saloon and the town sits. Bart suspects that the Marquessa is a fraud, but is she?

Having been tricked into buying a share of a steamboat instead of the whole boat, Bret and his co-owners sail the boat up the Mississippi to an interested purchaser. Along the way, however, the co-owners start dying one by one.

Bret and Bart are hired by the feuding Carteret and Montgomery families to settle a longtime dispute by a poker competition. The families are unaware of Bret and Bart's relationship, but when they become suspicious the stakes are considerably raised for the brothers.

A beautiful widow asks Bart to protect her from an unknown killer. He accepts -- unaware that he is the intended victim of the poison pen letters.

Bret's love of his life ducks out on him without explanation and flees to Guatemala City, and Bret follows there to learn why.

Bart thwarts an assassination attempt on a local politician. With the wounded man unable to run for election, Bart is drafted to take his place on the ballot as a candidate for the Reform Party, a matter not looked on with favor by the competing politician behind the assassination attempt.

Bret has won a large herd of livestock, but soon finds out that the livestock is sheep and not cattle. And as the new owner of the sheep, Bret is now the object of the local cattlemen's wrath.

Losing the last few dollars in a poker game, Bart goes after some seemingly easy money for him and his friends. He thinks he can insure a cattle drive and meets a man who looks familiar but can't place his face - soon he does his hand.

In New Orleans, Bret tries to solve a mystery involving missing jewelry, assumed identities, and the supposedly dead Joe November.

Bret tries to beat a murder rap in Medicine Bow, a town he's never been to before.

A friend of Bret's discovers a way to safely rob the Bank of Denver. Now he has to return the money before a safecracker and his gang discover the money is gone.