About this season
Riverboat is a 44-episode western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds broadcast on the NBC television network from September 13, 1959 until January 2, 1961. It was produced by Revue Studios.
Episodes (31)
1. Payment In Full
Aired 13 September 1959 • 60 min
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.
2. The Barrier
Aired 20 September 1959 • 60 min
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.
3. About Roger Mowbray
Aired 27 September 1959 • 60 min
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.
4. Race to Cincinnati
Aired 4 October 1959 • 60 min
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.
5. The Unwilling
Aired 11 October 1959 • 60 min
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.
6. The Fight Back
Aired 18 October 1959 • 60 min
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.
7. Escape to Memphis
Aired 25 October 1959 • 60 min
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.
8. Witness No Evil
Aired 1 November 1959 • 60 min
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.
9. A Night At Trapper's Landing
Aired 8 November 1959 • 60 min
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.
10. The Faithless
Aired 22 November 1959 • 60 min
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.
11. The Boy From Pittsburgh
Aired 29 November 1959 • 60 min
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.
12. Jessie Quinn
Aired 6 December 1959 • 60 min
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.
13. Strange Request
Aired 13 December 1959 • 60 min
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.
14. Guns for Empire
Aired 20 December 1959 • 60 min
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.
15. The Face of Courage
Aired 27 December 1959 • 60 min
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.
16. Tampico Raid
Aired 3 January 1960 • 60 min
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.
17. Landlubbers
Aired 10 January 1960 • 60 min
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.
18. The Blowup
Aired 18 January 1960 • 60 min
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.
19. Forbidden Island
Aired 24 January 1960 • 60 min
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.
20. Salvage Pirates
Aired 31 January 1960 • 60 min
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.""
21. Path of the Eagle
Aired 1 February 1960 • 60 min
A trip to Independence, Missouri brings back memories of a bitter adventure to Grey Holden. Holden tells the story to Chip and Joshua.
22. The Treasure of Hawk Hill
Aired 8 February 1960 • 60 min
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.
23. Fight At New Canal
Aired 22 February 1960 • 60 min
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.
24. The Wichita Arrows
Aired 29 February 1960 • 60 min
Dan Duryea steps into the leading role for the first of two episodes.
25. Fort Epitaph
Aired 7 March 1960 • 60 min
Dan Duryea has the leading role in the second of two episodes.
26. Three Graves
Aired 14 March 1960 • 60 min
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.
27. Hang the Men High
Aired 21 March 1960 • 60 min
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.
28. The Night of the Faceless Man
Aired 28 March 1960 • 60 min
The Enterprise makes a wood stop at a small river town. But there is no wood for sale to strangers.
29. The Long Trail
Aired 4 April 1960 • 60 min
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.
30. The Quick Noose
Aired 11 April 1960 • 60 min
A noose is about to tighten around Carney's neck. Visiting his brother in Wingate, the riverboater is charged with murder.
31. The Sellout
Aired 18 April 1960 • 60 min
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.