Maverick: Season 5
Season 5 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 4.
- 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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Dade City Dodge
Sep 17, 1961 · 50 min
Bart tries to track down Pearly Gates, a smooth con man who cheated him out of $5000.
The Art Lovers
Oct 1, 1961 · 50 min
When investors put the squeeze on railroad owner Paul Sutton, Bart tries to help by dealing with them directly — in a friendly card game.
The Golden Fleecing
Oct 8, 1961 · 50 min
Bart forsakes the poker table for the stock market — and finds himself trying to bluff wealthy Loftus Jaggers and his glamorous daughter (Paula Raymond).
Three Queens Full
Nov 12, 1961 · 50 min
Bart must either face two years in jail or chaperone three brides to their intendeds — the sons of wealthy Joe Wheelwright (Jim Backus).
A Technical Error
Nov 26, 1961 · 50 min
Bart feels like a million when he wins a bank in a poker game. But unlucky Maverick soon learns the truth: the bank's broke — and so is he.
Poker Face
Jan 7, 1962 · 50 min
Bart's latest poker adventure has him playing for a full house: the lives of his fellow stagecoach passengers.
Mr. Muldoon's Partner
Feb 11, 1962 · 50 min
After being granted a wish by a "leprechaun," Bart faces a pot of trouble: he must be either jailed, murdered or married.
Epitaph for a Gambler
Mar 4, 1962 · 50 min
Bart, waiting to collect on a $10,000 IOU, makes an uncomfortable observation: murder may be the pay-off in a gambler's life.
The Maverick Report
Mar 11, 1962 · 50 min
Crusading newspaper publisher Bart? The publisher Bart won the rag from is assassinated and a corrupt U.S. Senator files a $100,000 libel suit against the Chronicle. Luckily, Bart'
Marshal Maverick
Apr 1, 1962 · 50 min
Bart is closer to tears than laughter when he is forced to battle the funniest and fastest gun in the West.
The Troubled Heir
Apr 8, 1962 · 50 min
Life is anything but heaven when Bart meets Pearly Gates and his girl, who steal Maverick's poker winnings so they can be married.
The Money Machine
Apr 15, 1962 · 50 min
A money-making machine costs Bart a bundle. His cousin (Kathy Bennett) has just bought one with the $10,000 he lent her.
One of Our Trains is Missing
Apr 22, 1962 · 50 min
While trying to get a young girl's romance back on the right track, Bart gets involved in a train robbery to end all train robberies.