Maverick
Comstock Conspiracy
Season 1, Episode 14 · Aired 1957-12-29
Synopsis
Bret tries to collect a $10,000 bet from a Virginia City businessman, and ends up killing him in self-defense. The dead man turns up alive and well, and is involved in a scheme to keep an engineer from properly ventilating the Comstock Lode... and reducing the businessman's profits.
In the series
This episode is part of Maverick (1957–1962) on ABC.
A gambler hero who preferred cards to bullets — the western that winked.
Key cast
- James Garner as Bret Maverick
- Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick
- Roger Moore as Beau Maverick
- Robert Colbert as Brent Maverick