Maverick: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Maverick Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
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Pappy
Sep 13, 1959 · 49 min
Beau Maverick (played by James Garner), father of Bret and Bart announces that he is getting married. The Maverick boys discover that the marriage is a business arrangement, not a
Royal Four Flush
Sep 20, 1959 · 49 min
Bart double-crosses a double-crosser — and winds up hogtied and kidnapped, with only his wits as a weapon with which to save his neck.
The Sheriff of Duck 'N' Shoot
Sep 27, 1959 · 49 min
Sheriff Bret astounds himself as well as the townspeople by taming the trail herders who have been devastating the town, beats a gang of bank robbers at their own game, but has to
You Can't Beat the Percentage
Oct 4, 1959 · 49 min
Bart is involved in a bizarre murder plot — in which he is high on the list of planned victims.
The Cats of Paradise
Oct 11, 1959 · 49 min
Bret Maverick falls for a soft-spoken girl, Modesty Blaine (Mona Freeman). They enter into a partnership — to sell cats to a mining camp overrun by rats. But rumor has it that mo
A Tale of Three Cities
Oct 18, 1959 · 50 min
Bart has trouble retrieving his poker winnings from thieves. But help is on the way — from the local Ladies Aid Society.
Full House
Oct 25, 1959 · 50 min
Bret Maverick runs into a notorious bunch of bank robbers; Cole Younger, Billy The Kid, Sam Bass, Jesse James, Frank James, Jim Dalton, Black Bart, Ben Thompson and Belle Starr. Th
The Lass with the Poisonous Air
Nov 1, 1959 · 49 min
After a rebuff by mysterious Linda Burke (Joanna Moore), Bart is left holding the bag — for murder.
The Ghost Soldiers
Nov 8, 1959 · 49 min
Bret finds himself one of three men secretly defending a deserted government fort against War Hungry Indians. Maverick succeeds in scaring them off by clever trickery. But a suspic
Easy Mark
Nov 15, 1959 · 51 min
Bart Maverick, for whom cowardice is a virtue, ""turns yellow"" when he learns that his friendship with a tycoon could cost him his life.
A Fellow's Brother
Nov 22, 1959 · 49 min
When George Henry Arnett hears that Bret Maverick is in town to collect his money, Arnett (Adam West) starts a ""top gun"" rumor about Bret. After he creates a smoke screen, Arnett
Trooper Maverick
Nov 29, 1959 · 51 min
Bart swings into trouble when he tries to help the cavalry uncover a traitor — and winds up facing a hangman's rope.
Maverick Springs
Dec 6, 1959 · 51 min
Bret is gired by a weathly texan to save her brother Mark from a conniving woman named Melanie. Posing as a Texas Colonel, Bret realizes that he's up against a master crook. With M
The Goose-Drownder
Dec 13, 1959 · 51 min
Taking shelter in a ghost town, Bart impatiently awaits a storm's end. But when four gunmen arrive, he fears he'll never get out alive.
A Cure for Johnny Rain
Dec 20, 1959 · 49 min
After saving Bret's life, Johnny Rain (William Reynolds) is arrested for robbing a stage coach. While Bret goes to his rescue he becomes ensnarled in a plot that involves a case of
The Marquesa
Jan 3, 1960 · 51 min
Bart Maverick wins big, when he wins the ""Lucky Lady"" saloon in a card game. When Bart goes to Santa Leora to stake his claim, a beautiful Marquesa refuses to relinquish the prop
Cruise of the Cynthia B.
Jan 10, 1960 · 49 min
Bret is one of the seven owners of a Riverboat who start down the Mississippi for Memphis to sell the broken-down craft, but soon in a deadly game of 10 Little Indians one owner af
Maverick & Juliet
Jan 17, 1960 · 51 min
Bret's freedom hinges on the outcome of a card game. He's ecstatic... until he meets his opponent: Bart — who will make a bundle if he wins.
The White Widow
Jan 24, 1960 · 51 min
A beautiful widow (Julie Adams) asks Bart to protect her from an unknown killer. He accepts — unaware that he is the intended victim.
Guatemala City
Jan 31, 1960 · 49 min
Maverick tries to straighten out his romance with Ellen Johnson and at the same time solve a million dollar jewel theft. When Bret finds out that his ardor has cooled, he also find
The People's Friend
Feb 7, 1960 · 51 min
Bart Maverick is running for office, he is a sure candidate for U.S. Senate. Bart's political ambition has some town's people out for his blood. His opponents will go to any length
A Flock of Trouble
Feb 14, 1960 · 49 min
Bret wins a sheep ranch located in the midst of cattle ranchers whose sole aim is to wipe out the sheep — and their new owner.
Iron Hand
Feb 21, 1960 · 51 min
Hired to protect a cattle drive, Bart dutifully chases Indians — while a masterful swindle takes place right under his nose.
The Resurrection of Joe November
Feb 28, 1960 · 51 min
A $10,000 temptation puts Bret unwittingly in the middle of a fantastic smuggling scheme.
The Misfortune Teller
Mar 6, 1960 · 51 min
Bret is fighting a murder charge. But when he meets his lawyer — a numerologist, astrologer and bungler — he knows his number is up.
Greenbacks, Unlimited
Mar 13, 1960 · 51 min
Bank robber Big Ed Murphy is at his wit's end: someone keeps beating him to the loot — and that someone is Bret.