Maverick
Bolt from the Blue
Season 4, Episode 11 · Aired 1960-11-27
Synopsis
Beau Maverick befriends a prospector named Ebenezer Bolt. Maverick is unaware that Bolt is the partner of notorious horse thief Benson January. An angry posse mistakes Beau for January and is determined to hang him. A young lawyer manages to halt the proceedings until Maverick can have a trial. Beau's conviction seems imminent when the lawyer locates a notorious "hanging judge" and a woman whose sister was engaged to January identifies Maverick as the horse thief.
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