Die Brüder Bret und Bart Maverick ziehen beide unabhängig voneinander durch den Wilden Westen. Einer geregelten Arbeit gehen sie nicht nach. Das brauchen sie auch nicht, denn ihren Lebensunterhalt verdienen sich die Mavericks beim Kartenspiel in diversen Saloons. Natürlich haben die Brüder durch ihre Glücksspiele nicht nur Freunde.
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Originaltitel
Maverick
Produktionsland
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
Originalsprache
Englisch
Regie
David Lowell Rich, Leslie H. Martinson, Douglas Heyes, Richard L. Bare, Irving J. Moore, Budd Boetticher, John Ainsworth
FSK
12
Untertitel
Deutsch
Besetzung
James Garner, Roger Moore, Jack Kelly, Kathleen Crowley, Tol Avery, Chubby Johnson, Harry Harvey, Frank Ferguson, Gerald Mohr, Hal Taggart, Lane Chandler, Clyde Howdy
Sprache
Deutsch
Episoden-Guide
1. Staffel 1 (27 Episoden)
Die sehr erfolgreiche Westernserie "Maverick" wurde in den USA zwischen 1957 und 1962 mit James Garner und Jack Kelly in den Hauptrollen produziert. Die Episoden mit Garner und Kelly wurden von unterschiedlichen Produktionsteams gleichzeitig gedreht. Eigentlich war James Garner als alleiniger Hauptdarsteller der Serie vorgesehen.
01
Episode 1
Bret Maverick takes down a money-hungry gambler in the town of Echo Springs. He befriends an old drunk, who turns out to be a successful judge. Maverick strikes a deal with the gambler, Phineas King, to merge the ""silver lady"" mine with ""the new hope"" mine.
02
Episode 2
Bret meets a delightful and cunning girl (Karen Steele). Within minutes, she makes plans for his future — a permanent plot on boot hill.
03
Episode 3
Samantha Crawford is a con artist employed by George Cross. Cross once lost $50,000 to Bret Maverick and is determined to get it back. Two riverboat owners staked Maverick $5,000 which he promptly loses to Samantha. Samantha claims Cross is her father and needs the money to get out of jail. Maverick forms a partnership with Samantha and purchases gambling equipment in a scheme to put Joe Riggs, a crooked game room owner, out of business. Samantha and Cross doublecross Maverick by selling the equipment to Riggs.
04
Episode 4
A woman who'd been traveling with Bret suddenly disappears. Looking into things he discovers that she'd been reported dead more than a week ago.
05
Episode 5
Bret tries to prove the innocence of a man serving a life sentence. But there's someone who wants the prisoner to stay where he is.
06
Episode 6
Fleeing a band of angry Native Americans, Bret takes shelter in a way station where a family of nasty outlaws are planning their bloodiest deal.
07
Episode 7
Bret wins a camel in a card game and ends up using her to bring a crooked gambling den owner to justice.
08
Episode 8
Bret Maverick meets up with brother Bart in New Orleans where they plan to obtain passage on a riverboat where big money poker games are held but end up getting involved in the kidnapping of the riverboat owner's daughter instead.
09
Episode 9
Bret and Dandy Jim Buckley bet heavily on a boxing match but when their fighter withdraws it's up to Bret himself to step into the squared circle.
10
Episode 10
Bart agrees to pose as the husband of a woman who's traveling through the badlands. Big mistake because he soon finds himself the target of a killer.
2. Staffel 2 (26 Episoden)
Einer geregelten Arbeit gehen die beiden Maverick-Brüder Bart und Bret nicht nach, denn sie haben auch gar kein Interesse ihren Lohn durch harte Arbeit und Fleiß zu erwirtschaften. Unabhängig voneinander verdienen sie sich ihren Lebensunterhalt beim Pokerspiel in diversen Saloons. Sie zögern auch nicht, in ausweglosen Situationen gezinkte Karten ins Spiel zu bringen.
01
Episode 1
Bret attends a hanging under very uncomfortable conditions: he's the intended victim.
02
Episode 2
Bret falls for the tempting trickery of a pretty woman (Joanna Barnes) — and finds himself helplessly involved in a swindle.
03
Episode 3
Bart meets a gentleman after his own heart — who skips town with his money, and leaves him to face a murder rap and a man-hungry female (Arlene Howell).
04
Episode 4
In a desert, Bret and a hunting party are ambushed — and left to fight a blazing sun.
05
Episode 5
Bart Maverick and two of his friends are charged with murder. The town's citizens demand a confession from one of the three men, or else all three men will be prosecuted. Bart falsely confesses to the murder, but help from his friend Dandy Jim Buckley exonerates him from the crime.
06
Episode 6
In Mexico, Bret tries to trick an American renegade into returning to the U.S. — where he's wanted for murder.
07
Episode 7
Bart tails a pretty cancan dancer who stole his money — only to find himself being followed by two very sinister characters.
08
Episode 8
Good-hearted Bret lends a pal $200 for an ""honest"" transaction — which lands the pal in jail.
09
Episode 9
A case of mistaken suitcases unfolds into political warfare, leaving Bart the unhappy target of ruthless killers.
10
Episode 10
Bret, helpless against a crafty banker (John Dehner) who robbed him, bides his time — while Bart and friends set up an elaborate con game.
3. Staffel 3 (26 Episoden)
01
Episode 1
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 love commitment. The young girl, Josephine St. Cloud is being forced by her father to marry the older Beau Maverick. The brothers set out to sabotage the wedding plans, not knowing that Beau Maverick already had a plan.
02
Episode 2
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.
03
Episode 3
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 summon the aid of brother Bart when his eye for a woman's beauty lands him in his own lockup.
04
Episode 4
Bart is involved in a bizarre murder plot — in which he is high on the list of planned victims.
05
Episode 5
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 most men lose either their lives or their money when dealing with this young beauty. However, Bret stands to lose both his life and his money, so he plots to save both.
06
Episode 6
Bart has trouble retrieving his poker winnings from thieves. But help is on the way — from the local Ladies Aid Society.
07
Episode 7
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. The outlaws believe that Bret is the infamous Foxy Smith, a well known bad guy. When the outlaws discover Bret's true identity, they force him to do the robbery in Denver. Bret ends up in a mint of trouble.
08
Episode 8
After a rebuff by mysterious Linda Burke (Joanna Moore), Bart is left holding the bag — for murder.
09
Episode 9
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 suspicious Indian chief (Paul Clarke) causes him to reconsider.
10
Episode 10
Bart Maverick, for whom cowardice is a virtue, ""turns yellow"" when he learns that his friendship with a tycoon could cost him his life.
4. Staffel 4 (32 Episoden)
Der Spaß und die Kartenspiele gehen weiter! In der vierten Staffel gesellt sich Roger Moore als Barts Cousin Beau zum bekannten Jack Kelly. Die Gesichter mögen sich ändern, doch die Kartenspiele und Gaunereien bleiben dieselben. Beau und Bart müssen sich mit falschen Mordanschuldigungen, korrupten Sheriffs, verfluchten Goldminen, hübschen Hexen und vielem mehr herumschlagen. Diese Staffel ist ein Muss für jeden Fan! Je mehr Moores, desto besser!
01
Episode 1
This is the episode that introduces Roger Moore as Cousin Beauregard Maverick. Beau is considered the ""white sheep"" of the family because he had the misfortune of earning a medal in the Civil War. (He had won the medal purely by accident.) Pappy had banished him to England for five years because no Maverick had ever been a hero. Bart Mavrick greets Beau upon his return to America and enlists his cousin to impersonate the son of the Marquis of Bognor, who had been indentured to work on a ranch in Wyoming for six months. The Maverick cousins stand to earn $4,000, but the play goes awry when Beau is kidnapped by a man who wants to settle a grudge with the Marquis.
02
Episode 2
Bart meets a comical sheriff (Edgar Buchanan) who is dead serious about killing him.
03
Episode 3
Beau Maverick wins ownership of the Silver Hill, a worthless ore mine. A crooked railroad agent named Shanks tries to cheat the townspeople out of their land by offering them a price that is well below market value. Beau convinces the town to relocate Silver Hill to a sheep ranch twenty miles away. The plan backfires when a new vein of silver is discovered in the supposedly worthless Silver Hill mine, thus enabling Shanks to claim the land without cost. The only hope is for the town to relocate back to Silver Hill before the railroad takes over the land.
04
Episode 4
In hostile Sioux territory, Bart is caught between a woman prisoner's devastating charms and a pending Indian attack.
05
Episode 5
On their way to Denver, Beau and Bart Maverick pick up $6,500 in a poker game at Stop Gap. They decide to wire the money to Denver through the Hulett Telegraph Company. They discover the company is a fake and that the telegraph line leads to a cave two miles away where the crooks stash the customers' money and send phony messages in return. The cousins devise a scheme to recover the money and put the company out of business.
06
Episode 6
Looking for a peaceful and profitable poker game in New Orleans, Bart is plunged into a mysterious murder involving the Black Hand society.
07
Episode 7
In St. Joseph, Missouri, Beau Maverick wins halfl-ownership of the Golden Wheel Casino. The business venture is short-lived when his partner, Rand Storm, is shot to death by Flo Baker. Storm was a notorious ladies' man and Flo, a female entertainer, was resisting his advances. Just before he dies, Rand tells his younger brother, Luke, that the shooting was an accident. But Luke has Beau framed for murder so that he can take over the business.
08
Episode 8
Toil and trouble overcome Bret when he tangles with two burly thieves and their enchanting sister (Anita Sands) — who claims she's a witch.
09
Episode 9
Two Army shopkeepers, Marsh and Lawson, have been cheating the local Indian tribes by supplying them with faulty or inferior goods. When one of the tribeswomen named Pale Moon threatens to report them to the Army Commission, the shopkeepers decide to start a war with the Indians. They know the Army will not investigate the woman's claim if they are at war. Marsh and Lawson murder Pale Moon's brother and pin the crime on the stranger who won $2,500 from them the night before - Beau Maverick.
10
Episode 10
Inheriting a stagecoach line from Uncle Micah is only the beginning of financial problems for the Maverick brothers.
5. Staffel 5 (13 Episoden)
Jack Kelly kehrt für die fünfte und letzte Staffel von MAVERICK zurück. In den Originalfolgen der fünften Staffel erleben wir Bart Maverick (Kelly), wie er skrupellosen Senatoren, betrügerischen Bankern, glamourösen Gaunern, Glücksbringern, Bonanza-parodierenden Ranchern und mehr in 13 klassischen Abenteuern gekonnt ein Schnippchen schlägt.
01
Episode 1
Bart tries to track down Pearly Gates, a smooth con man who cheated him out of $5000.
02
Episode 2
When investors put the squeeze on railroad owner Paul Sutton, Bart tries to help by dealing with them directly — in a friendly card game.
03
Episode 3
Bart forsakes the poker table for the stock market — and finds himself trying to bluff wealthy Loftus Jaggers and his glamorous daughter (Paula Raymond).
04
Episode 4
Bart must either face two years in jail or chaperone three brides to their intendeds — the sons of wealthy Joe Wheelwright (Jim Backus).
05
Episode 5
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.
06
Episode 6
Bart's latest poker adventure has him playing for a full house: the lives of his fellow stagecoach passengers.
07
Episode 7
After being granted a wish by a ""leprechaun,"" Bart faces a pot of trouble: he must be either jailed, murdered or married.
08
Episode 8
Bart, waiting to collect on a $10,000 IOU, makes an uncomfortable observation: murder may be the pay-off in a gambler's life.
09
Episode 9
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's pal Doc Holiday is in town for a dentists' convention and owes Bart $2000. When Doc brags "I have enough collateral to raise the dead!", Bart feels no compunction in selling ½ the headache to Doc. The senator and his sinister political boss are Ivy Leaguers, so the suave Philadelphia dentist/hired gun will come in handy.
10
Episode 10
Bart is closer to tears than laughter when he is forced to battle the funniest — and fastest — gun in the West.
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