In the series pilot, Bret Maverick wins big in a poker game by bluffing the owner of a local silver mine, but the losing mine owner refuses to accept his losses and hires Big Mike Macomb to kill Bret. Now, when he hears that the mine owner has been cheating the miners, Bret comes up with a plan to help the miners get a fair deal -- and save his own life.

An apparently innocent couple schemes to use Bret as a scapegoat in the plans to rob a bank. Mike Connors guest stars as Ralph Jordan.

Con woman Samantha Crawford (DIANE BREWSTER) gets the better of Bret when she beats him at a poker game with a little-known rule. Choosing to join forces rather than lose, Bret goes into business with Samantha -- but the partnership is only part two of her con.

Bret begins to doubt his sanity when he discovers that he beautiful woman with whom he has been traveling has really been dead for more than a week -- and that his traveling companion is really an imposter. Guest starring EDD "KOOKIE" BYRNES.

A dying outlaw confesses to Bret that he committed the crime for which an innocent man is serving a life sentence, but when Bret tries to prove the prisoner's innocence he discovers that someone want him to stay in jail.

Bret helps a widow attempting to take over her late husband's silver mine. Based on the story "That Packsaddle Affair" by LOUIS L'AMOUR and guest starring EDD "KOOKIE" BYRNES.