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Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'Bret Maverick' from 1970-1982:



1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'Bret Maverick':


(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)

December 1, 1981: The Lazy Ace
Season 1, episode 1
W: Gordon Dawson   D: Stuart Margolin

With Janis Paige (Mandy Packer), Richard Moll (Sloate), Chuck Mitchell (Joe Dakota), John McLiam (Doc Holliday), Bill McKinney (Ramsey Bass), Billy Kerr (Blue-Eyed Kid), Bill Gross (Dembro), Kirk Cameron (Boy), Ed Bakey (Lyman Nixon).
Series return. Itinerant gambler Bret Maverick returns to Sweetwater in the Arizona Territory, wins ownership of the saloon in a poker game and decides to settle down in the little town.

December 8, 1981: Welcome To Sweetwater
Season 1, episode 2
W: Gordon Dawson   D: Rod Holcomb

With Lesley Woods (Miss Rose), John Randolph (Frenchy Montana), Aesop Aquarian (Virgil Stubbs), Priscilla Morrill (Estelle Springer), Roger Torrey (Pete Schroeder), Russ Marin (Linus Garrick), Fred Stuthman (Ben).
Maverick's reluctance to sell his ranch, the Lazy Ace, is the major stumbling block to bringing the railroad into Sweetwater.

December 15, 1981: Anything For A Friend
Season 1, episode 3
W: Lee David Zlotoff   D: Ivan Dixon

With Glenn Withrow (Billy The Kid), Charles Hallahan (Terrible Fred McShane), Lawrence Dobkin (U.S. Marshal Philip Mondragon), John Perak (Lester), Russell Wiggins (Doc Vetter).
A barn-raising celebration at Maverick's ranch helps him conceal a wounded Billy the Kid from the authorities.

December 22, 1981: The Yellow Rose
Season 1, episode 4
W: Lee David Zlotoff   D: William Wiard

With Keye Luke (Lu Sung), Lydia Lei (Kwai Bo Yung), Anthony Eisley (Alfred Baniger), Marj Dusay (Kate Hanrahan), Marcia Rodd (Captain Slater), Priscilla Morrill (Estelle Springer), Tom Rosqui (Philadelphia Hunter).
Women's suffrage catches fire in Sweetwater and no one feels the heat more than Maverick, who's just won a Chinese girl in a poker game.

January 5, 1982: Horse Of Yet Another Color
Season 1, episode 5
W: George F. Slavin   D: Ivan Dixon

With Ray Tracey (Geronimo), Geno Silva (Running Wolf), Holly Palance (Dolly Denard), William Hootkins (Congressman Theodore Roosevelt), Jim Gosa (Joe Ferris), Seamon Glass (Kelly), Allan Arbus (Phineas Swackmyer), Simon Oakland (Delwood Crestmore).
Teddy Roosevelt comes to town to present an Indian chief with a stallion from the President, but the horse is stolen and an unwitting Maverick ends up winning it in a poker game.

January 12, 1982: Dateline: Sweetwater
Season 1, episode 6
W: Ira Steven Behr   D: William Wiard

With Ed Nelson (Andrew J. Tendall), Byron Morrow (Mr. Shaw), Roy Jenson (Monte), William Bryant (John Davis), Joshua Bryant (Busted Bill Sharples), Howie Allen (Peter Davis), Richard O'Brien (Steven A. Hennessey).
Eastern financial interests attempt a takeover of Sweetwater businesses as part of their town-by-town sweep of the West.

February 2, 1982: The Mayflower Women's Historical Society
Season 1, episode 7
W: Lee David Zlotoff   D: Ivan Dixon

With David Young (Aaron Sylvane), Neva Patterson (Emma Crittenden), Jenny O'Hara (Samantha Dunn), Priscilla Morrill (Estelle Springer).
It looks like Maverick is going to be hanged, unless he agrees to sell his life story to an ambitious historian; Mary Lou falls for a notorious gunslinger.

February 9, 1982: Hallie
Season 1, episode 8
W: Marion Hargrove   D: John Patterson

With William Sanderson (Kenneth Broomick), Geoffrey Lewis (Barney Broomick), Dixie Carter (Hallie McCulloch).
An old flame of Bret's shows up in Sweetwater, pursued by two homicidal brothers she swindled.

February 16, 1982: The Ballad Of Bret Maverick
Season 1, episode 9
W: Gordon Dawson   D: Jeff Bleckner

With James Whitmore Jr. (Justin Smith), Sandy McPeak (Fake Jacob Voorsanger), Cliff Emmich (Titus Openshaw), Howard Caine (Tercius Openshaw), Dan Barrows (Real Jacob Voorsanger), Priscilla Morrill (Estelle Springer).
A stranger arrives in town, claiming to be in the process of finishing an epic ballad on the life -- and death -- of Bret Maverick.

February 23, 1982: A Night At The Red Ox
Season 1, episode 10
W: Lee David Zlotoff   D: William Wiard

With Savannah Smith (Addie Burnett), Paul Koslo (Fletcher Mayberry), Murray Hamilton (Judge Nat Cobb).
Vigilantes take over the Red Ox saloon and put former sheriff Tom Guthrie on trial for crimes he allegedly committed in the past.

March 2, 1982: The Not So Magnificent Six
Season 1, episode 11
W: Geoffrey Fischer   D: Leo Penn

With Kelly Ward (Willie Trueblood), Jesse Vint (Tulsa Jack Turner), Shawn Stevens (Sidney Bent), Joseph Sirola (Nimrod Bligh), Joseph Chapman (Jasper Weems), David Banks (Sam Durham), Ed Bakey (Deacon Tippett), Art LaFleur (Cockeye Pete Shosney), Ross Hagen (Cole Farnsworth), Kario Salem (Virgil La Fleur).
Six men who each want to gain a reputation as the one who killed the famous Bret Maverick have followed a western pulp writer to Sweetwater.

March 16, 1982: The Vulture Also Rises
Season 1, episode 12
W: Gordon Dawson, Rogers Turrentine   D: Michael O'Herlihy

With Peggy Walton-Walker (Eloise Mayhew), Thomas Rosales (Cinto Morado), Ron Oxley (Sgt. Buchanan), Monte Markham (Captain Dawkins), Maggie Malooly (Irish Annie), Eddie Hice (Sam Black), Clifford Happy (Lt. Thackery), Gary Lee Davis (Sledge), John Anderson (General Frye).
When a stagecoach is attacked by Apaches and Maverick's sweetheart is killed, the angry townspeople want to call in the cavalry; Maverick asks Philo Sandeen for help in finding those responsible for the lady's death -- and Philo insists that the Indians are innocent.

March 23, 1982: The Eight Swords Of Dyrus and Other Illusions Of Grandeur
Season 1, episode 13
W: Gordon Dawson   D: John Patterson

With W.T. Zacha (Rupert Cutler), Sarah Rush (Princess Athena), Cliff Potts (The Great Malooley), Sid Haig (The Mighty Sampson).
Bret exposes a crooked magician who is performing at the Red Ox.

April 13, 1982: Faith, Hope And Clarity (1)
Season 1, episode 14
W: Lee David Zlotoff   D: Leo Penn

With Robert Webber (Everest Sinclair), James Staley (Brother Samuel), Richard Libertini (Fingers Wachefsky), Simone Griffeth (Jasmine Du Bois), Marj Dusay (Kate Hanrahan), Kathleen Doyle (Angela), Tony Burton (Arthur), Jameson Parker (Whitney Delaworth III), Priscilla Morrill (Estelle Springer).
A religious charlatan dupes the townpeople so that he can obtain the rights to their land; Maverick comes up with a sting operation to get their property back, but it requires the cooperation of the entire town.

April 20, 1982: Faith, Hope And Clarity (2)
Season 1, episode 15
W: Lee David Zlotoff   D: Leo Penn

With Robert Webber (Everest Sinclair), James Staley (Brother Samuel), Richard Libertini (Fingers Wachefsky), Simone Griffeth (Jasmine Du Bois), Marj Dusay (Kate Hanrahan), Kathleen Doyle (Angela), Tony Burton (Arthur), Jameson Parker (Whitney Delaworth III), Priscilla Morrill (Estelle Springer).
Bret masterminds a con to get back the townsfolk's land, which was legally stolen by the clever leader of a religious cult, but the plan hits a snag.

April 27, 1982: The Rattlesnake Brigade
Season 1, episode 16
W: Geoffrey Fisher, Barton Dean   D: Fernando Lamas

With Stanley Wells (John Henry), Arlen Dean Snyder (Colonel Bang), J. Edward McKinley (Emmett Snow), Herb Armstrong (Matthew Varney), Stanley Ralph Ross (Coates).
Maverick and Guthrie are suckered into agreeing to protect a shipment of gold from a ruthless band of outlaws.

May 4, 1982: The Hidalgo Thing
Season 1, episode 17
W: Gordon Dawson   D: Thomas Carter

With Dub Taylor (Toothless Tim Teal), Jack Kelly (Bart Maverick), John Dennis Johnston (Burt Full Moon), Hector Elizondo (Mr. Gomez), Sandra DeBruin (Screaming Woman).
Tom Guthrie, who is trying to get re-elected as sheriff, tries to get Maverick to keep a low profile, but Bret is working on the biggest con of his life and isn't going to stop now. (Last show of the series.)


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