Riverboat - Season 2

Episodes

End of a Dream

Fast talking Martinus Van der Brig persuades Holden and Bill Blake, the riverboat's new pilot, to transport a group of pioneers to some new territory, recently purchased from Mr. Van der Brig.

Sept. 19, 1960

Season 2Episode 260 min

That Taylor Affair

Arlene Dahl guest-stars, Noah Beery debuts as continuing co-star and Darren McGavin resumes his starring role as "Riverboat". A fact-based adventure on the shanghaiing of President Zachary Taylor.
Capt. Grey Holden (McGavin) risks the wrath of President Taylor by deciding the only way he can make his sternwheeler enterprise the talk of the river is to shanghai the nation's chief executive. Holden gets help in his bold plan from both the beautiful Lucy Belle (Miss Dahl) and the shrewd Bill Blake (Beery). Blake helps by putting up the money needed to take the sheriff's padlock off the boat after the captain had lost it in a card game. In return Blake gets a half interest in the vessel plus the job of pilot.

Sept. 26, 1960

Season 2Episode 360 min

Devil in Skirts

Debra Paget and Eddie Albert guest star in this story of a beautiful young dancing girl who is forced by circumstance to betray the only man she has ever loved.

Nov. 21, 1960

Season 2Episode 960 min

The Quota

Army Sgt. Dan Phillips is trying to recruit new members for his platoon. Using a convincing argument - a hit on the head - he has filled all but two spots in his quota. And he has eyes on Phelan, one of Grey's crewmen, for one of those spots.

Nov. 28, 1960

Season 2Episode 1060 min

Chicota Landing

The Enterprise arrives at Chicota Landing with a cargo of gunpowder for the Army. Before they can unload it, the boat is taken over by a gang of Mexican bandits led by Juan Cortilla.

Dez. 5, 1960

Season 2Episode 1160 min

Duel on the River

Brian Cloud monopolizes all the cotton crop in the area, and Laurie Rawlings, the wife of a cotton planter, doesn't like being under Cloud's thumb.

Dez. 12, 1960

Season 2Episode 1260 min

Zigzag

In town to have an aching tooth removed, Carney stops at the saloon for a bolstering drink. This makes him late for the dentist, so Blake undertakes to separate Carney from his tooth.

Dez. 26, 1960

Season 2Episode 1360 min

Listen to the Nightingale

A troupe of performers hire the Enterprise to transport them. However, when the manager can't pay, Grey agrees anyway since he believes their lead singer, Julie Lang, will make him enough money. However, when an unknown thief takes Julie's expensive necklace, she refuses to sing until it's recovered.

Jan. 2, 1961