Riverboat

Season 1

31 episodes · Sep 13, 1959

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  • S1E1

    Payment In Full

    Sep 13, 195960m

    For a price, simple-minded Hunk Farber is only happy to reveal the whereabouts of his boss, Monte, who accidentally killed a senator's son. The reward in his pocket, Hunk heads for Captain Holden's riverboat. There he is eager to impress a young lady aboard the Enterprise.

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  • S1E2

    The Barrier

    Sep 20, 195960m

    Young Jefferson Carruthers has been assigned to a new post as an Indian agent. He and his wife board the Enterprise to travel to their new home. Also on board is Vance Muldoon, who plans to offer Carruthers money if he will smuggle liquor to the Indians.

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  • S1E3

    About Roger Mowbray

    Sep 27, 195960m

    Wealthy Roger Mowbray's marriage is threatened when an old sweetheart intimates that Roger married for money. Because he really loves his wife, Roger is doubly upset to discover that his father seems to be involved in the scheme to break up the marriage.

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  • S1E4

    Race to Cincinnati

    Oct 4, 195960m

    John Jenkins has placed a large down payment on land owned by three ruthless farmers. Jenkins is planning to deliver a shipment of peaches, via the Enterprise, to Cincinnati, as a final payment for the land. But the farmers plot to block the boat so the shipment of peaches will be spoiled.

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  • The Unwilling
    S1E5

    The Unwilling

    Oct 11, 195960m

    Riverboat pilot John Murrell plans to hijack a shipment from rival pilot Dan Simpson. Murrell arranges to have Lela Candida take a job on Simpson's boat as a dancing girl, so that she can signal his raiders when to attack.

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  • S1E6

    The Fight Back

    Oct 18, 195960m

    Ansel Torgin hires the Enterprise for his daughter's wedding. Captain Grey Holden recognizes the bridegroom as a drifter he once threw off his riverboat.

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  • S1E7

    Escape to Memphis

    Oct 25, 195960m

    Laura Sutton is forced to kill her husband in self defense. Laura's brother-in-law, Jarrett Sutton, witnesses the shooting and tries to blackmail her.

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  • S1E8

    Witness No Evil

    Nov 1, 195960m

    Otto Justin, dealer in wild animals, is escorting a shipment of his captured beasts to St. Louis aboard the Enterprise. Widow Abby Saunders and her young son Paddy are both impressed with Justin's manner.

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  • S1E9

    A Night At Trapper's Landing

    Nov 8, 195960m

    French playboy Andre Devereaux has become an American lieutenant. Assigned to lead some troops into Indian Territory, he finds that the normally peaceful Indians have been provoked to violence.

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  • S1E10

    The Faithless

    Nov 22, 195960m

    Prisoner Paul Drake is being returned to custody by a prison guard. Because Drake has already tricked him once, the guard shackles his prisoner to a deckhouse on the Enterprise.

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  • S1E11

    The Boy From Pittsburgh

    Nov 29, 195960m

    Tommy Jones, a young stowaway, is discovered aboard the Enterprise. Also on board is a pair of thieves, who plan to blow up the boat to collect insurance on some diamonds they are shipping to St. Louis.

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  • S1E12

    Jessie Quinn

    Dec 6, 195960m

    Lt. Perry Quinn, an officer in Sam Houston's Texas Army, hires the Enterprise to deliver a cargo of lead down river. Captain Grey Holden is warned that Santa Ana's agents may try to sabotage the shipment.

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  • S1E13

    Strange Request

    Dec 13, 195960m

    Actress Lorna Langton wants to charter the Enterprise and a skeleton crew for a trip to St. Louis. The actress has been told that her young son, kidnapped some years before, is being held in another town.

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  • S1E14

    Guns for Empire

    Dec 20, 195960m

    Anthony Lorrimer charters the Enterprise to deliver a cargo of farm machinery to his thriving community of Lorrimer City. Captain Grey Holden is unaware that the cargo is actually arms and ammunition.

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  • S1E15

    The Face of Courage

    Dec 27, 195960m

    The Enterprise steams upriver with a cargo of arms and recruits for the Fort Union outpost. At Akins Landing, Grey Holden is told by Homer Atkins that the Sioux have been watching the boat and are planning an uprising.

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  • S1E16

    Tampico Raid

    Jan 3, 196060m

    A group of volunteer teachers who have gone to the island of Diablo Corozan off the coast of Tampico are imprisoned when Spain conquers the island. The corrupt Spanish officials allow Joan Marchland, one of the teachers, to return to the United States to raise a ransom for the rest.

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  • S1E17

    Landlubbers

    Jan 10, 196060m

    The Enterprise, tied up overnight, is boarded and highjacked by a vicious crew, who kill the three men left to guard the boat. Captain Grey Holden and Ben Fraser return to the scene in time to see their craft heading down the river. They set out overland to head her off.

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  • S1E18

    The Blowup

    Jan 18, 196060m

    Captain Grey Holden and his crew get into a street brawl over Martha Crane and land in jail. Martha agrees to bail them out on the condition that Grey will transport a supply of gunpowder up river to her father.

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  • S1E19

    Forbidden Island

    Jan 24, 196060m

    While the Enterprise makes a stop for wood, a group of Cajuns board the vessel and hijack a part of the cargo. Two people are shot during the incident.

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  • S1E20

    Salvage Pirates

    Jan 31, 196060m

    Louise Harrison and her boy friend, the only survivors of a boat tragedy, do some quick thinking. Realizing that a fortune in jewels went down with the ship, they appeal to their rescuer, Grey Holden, to help them retrieve Louise's ""dowry.""

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  • S1E21

    Path of the Eagle

    Feb 1, 196060m

    A trip to Independence, Missouri brings back memories of a bitter adventure to Grey Holden. Holden tells the story to Chip and Joshua.

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  • S1E22

    The Treasure of Hawk Hill

    Feb 8, 196060m

    Bank robbers have a falling-out over some hidden loot. One of the men manages to give a map of the hiding place to his son, before he is killed. The boy heads up river on a raft to deliver it to his uncle.

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  • S1E23

    Fight At New Canal

    Feb 22, 196060m

    Grey Holden is chosen to represent riverboat captains in seeking a government-subsidized canal. Preliminary surveys and work must be completed before Congress will approve the project. Opponents of the canal set out to sabotage the project.

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  • S1E24

    The Wichita Arrows

    Feb 29, 196060m

    Dan Duryea steps into the leading role for the first of two episodes.

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  • S1E25

    Fort Epitaph

    Mar 7, 196060m

    Dan Duryea has the leading role in the second of two episodes.

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  • S1E26

    Three Graves

    Mar 14, 196060m

    The crew of the Enterprise planned a big night on the town. But when they dock, they find the place completely deserted, except for three new graves.

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  • S1E27

    Hang the Men High

    Mar 21, 196060m

    A young passenger on the Enterprise has been accused of murder by his dying father. An aroused posse set out to drag him off the Enterprise and serve up their own brand of justice.

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  • S1E28

    The Night of the Faceless Man

    Mar 28, 196060m

    The Enterprise makes a wood stop at a small river town. But there is no wood for sale to strangers.

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  • S1E29

    The Long Trail

    Apr 4, 196060m

    An Army colonel warns the Cherokee to take the long trail to a new settling place. Pillagers burn the Indian village to make sure the Cherokee have no reason to stay.

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  • S1E30

    The Quick Noose

    Apr 11, 196060m

    A noose is about to tighten around Carney's neck. Visiting his brother in Wingate, the riverboater is charged with murder.

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  • S1E31

    The Sellout

    Apr 18, 196060m

    The Enterprise is badly in need of repairs and Holden has got to accept Nick Logan's offer. He will repair the boat, if afterward, he and his partner can use it.

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