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  • NBC
  • Dec 13, 1959
  • 1 h
  • NBC
  • Dec 13, 1959
  • 1 h
Riverboat

Summary Riverboat was an adventure series set in the 1840's aboard a 100-foot-long-stern-wheeler called the 'Enterprise' that traveled up and down the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio rivers. The riverboat was owned by Captain Grey Holden (played by Darren McGavin) who had won the boat in a poker game and then determined to make a success of it. ...

Directed By: John Rich

Written By: Clair Huffaker

  • NBC
  • Dec 13, 1959
  • 1 h
  • NBC
  • Dec 13, 1959
  • 1 h
Riverboat
S1 • Episode 13
Strange Request
Air Date: Dec 13, 1959
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Summary Riverboat was an adventure series set in the 1840's aboard a 100-foot-long-stern-wheeler called the 'Enterprise' that traveled up and down the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio rivers. The riverboat was owned by Captain Grey Holden (played by Darren McGavin) who had won the boat in a poker game and then determined to make a success of it. ...

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Episode 1 • Sep 13, 1959 • 50 m
Payment in Full
A simple-minded man betrays his friend and employer when the latter accidentally kills a man, selling him out to the authorities and collecting the reward to make a better life for himself.
Episode 2 • Sep 20, 1959 • 1 h
The Barrier
The boat's passengers include a young couple whose husband is on his way to his first assignment as an Indian agent. Also aboard is a man who plans to try to bribe the new agent to help him smuggle liquor to the Indians.
Episode 3 • Sep 27, 1959 • 1 h
About Roger Mowbray
A wealthy young man's marriage is in danger when an ex-girlfriend claims that he married his new wife for money. He also discovers that his father appears to be involved in the attempt to break up his marriage.
Episode 4 • Oct 4, 1959 • 1 h
A Race to Cincinnati
Three ruthless men try to block the Enterprise's path so a farmer's crop of peaches will spoil and he won't be able to make the last payment on a valuable plot of land.
Episode 5 • Oct 11, 1959 • 49 m
The Unwilling
Episode 6 • Oct 18, 1959 • 49 m
The Fight Back
Episode 7 • Oct 25, 1959 • 48 m
Escape to Memphis
Episode 8 • Nov 1, 1959 • 1 h
Witness No Evil
Episode 9 • Nov 8, 1959 • 49 m
A Night at Trapper's Landing
Episode 10 • Nov 22, 1959 • 1 h
The Faithless
Episode 11 • Nov 29, 1959 • 49 m
The Boy from Pittsburgh
Episode 12 • Dec 6, 1959 • 1 h
Jessie Quinn
Episode 13 • Dec 13, 1959 • 1 h
Strange Request
Episode 14 • Dec 20, 1959 • 1 h
Guns for Empire
Episode 15 • Dec 27, 1959 • 1 h
The Face of Courage
Episode 16 • Jan 3, 1960 • 1 h
Tampico Raid
Episode 17 • Jan 10, 1960 • 1 h
Landlubbers
Episode 18 • Jan 17, 1960 • 49 m
The Blowup
Episode 19 • Jan 24, 1960 • 1 h
Forbidden Island
Episode 20 • Jan 31, 1960 • 1 h
Salvage Pirates
Episode 21 • Feb 1, 1960 • 49 m
Path of the Eagle
Episode 22 • Feb 8, 1960 • 1 h
The Treasure of Hawk Hill
Episode 23 • Feb 22, 1960 • 49 m
The Fight at New Canal
Charged with building an canal that would shorten the river voyage and avoid rapids, Captain Holden runs into murderous opposition from the freight and stagecoach line that hauls cargo and passengers along the proposed route.
Episode 24 • Feb 29, 1960 • 1 h
The Wichita Arrows
Episode 25 • Mar 7, 1960 • 48 m
Fort Epitaph
Episode 26 • Mar 14, 1960 • 1 h
Three Graves
Episode 27 • Mar 21, 1960 • 1 h
Hang the Men High
Episode 28 • Mar 28, 1960 • 1 h
The Night of the Faceless Men
Episode 29 • Apr 4, 1960 • 1 h
The Long Trail
Episode 30 • Apr 11, 1960 • 49 m
The Quick Noose
Someone has stabbed the son of Judge Wingate in the back with Carney's knife and unless Captain Holden can find the real murderer, Carney will hang for the crime.
Episode 31 • Apr 18, 1960 • 1 h
The Sellout

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