Riverboat - Season 1
Season 1
Network
Episodes31
DatesSep 13, 1959 - Apr 18, 1960
Episodes
Season 1Episode 160 min
Payment in Full
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.
Sep 13, 1959
Season 1Episode 260 min
The Barrier
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.
Sep 20, 1959
Season 1Episode 360 min
About Roger Mowbray
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.
Sep 27, 1959
Season 1Episode 460 min
Race to Cincinnati
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.
Oct 4, 1959
Season 1Episode 560 min
The Unwilling
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.
Oct 11, 1959
Season 1Episode 660 min
The Fight Back
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.
Oct 18, 1959
Season 1Episode 760 min
Escape to Memphis
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.
Oct 25, 1959
Season 1Episode 860 min
Witness No Evil
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.
Nov 1, 1959
Season 1Episode 960 min
A Night at Trapper's Landing
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.
Nov 8, 1959
Season 1Episode 1060 min
The Faithless
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.
Nov 22, 1959
Season 1Episode 1160 min
The Boy from Pittsburgh
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.
Nov 29, 1959
Season 1Episode 1260 min
Jessie Quinn
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.
Dec 6, 1959
Season 1Episode 1360 min
Strange Request
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.
Dec 13, 1959
Season 1Episode 1460 min
Guns for Empire
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.
Dec 20, 1959
Season 1Episode 1560 min
The Face of Courage
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.
Dec 27, 1959
Season 1Episode 1660 min
Tampico Raid
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.
Jan 3, 1960
Season 1Episode 1760 min
Landlubbers
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.
Jan 10, 1960
Season 1Episode 1860 min
The Blowup
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.
Jan 18, 1960
Season 1Episode 1960 min
Forbidden Island
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.
Jan 24, 1960
Season 1Episode 2060 min
Salvage Pirates
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.""
Jan 31, 1960
Season 1Episode 2160 min
Path of the Eagle
A trip to Independence, Missouri brings back memories of a bitter adventure to Grey Holden. Holden tells the story to Chip and Joshua.
Feb 1, 1960
Season 1Episode 2260 min
The Treasure of Hawk Hill
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.
Feb 8, 1960
Season 1Episode 2360 min
Fight at New Canal
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.
Feb 22, 1960
Season 1Episode 2460 min
The Wichita Arrows
Dan Duryea steps into the leading role for the first of two episodes.
Feb 29, 1960
Season 1Episode 2560 min
Fort Epitaph
Dan Duryea has the leading role in the second of two episodes.
Mar 7, 1960
Season 1Episode 2660 min
Three Graves
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.
Mar 14, 1960
Season 1Episode 2760 min
Hang the Men High
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.
Mar 21, 1960
Season 1Episode 2860 min
The Night of the Faceless Man
The Enterprise makes a wood stop at a small river town. But there is no wood for sale to strangers.
Mar 28, 1960
Season 1Episode 2960 min
The Long Trail
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.
Apr 4, 1960
Season 1Episode 3060 min
The Quick Noose
A noose is about to tighten around Carney's neck. Visiting his brother in Wingate, the riverboater is charged with murder.
Apr 11, 1960
Season 1Episode 3160 min
The Sellout
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.
Apr 18, 1960
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