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Season 1

Riverboat Season 1

September. 13,1959
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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.

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Riverboat Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 31 - The Sellout
First Aired: April. 18,1960

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.

Episode 31 - The Sellout
First Aired: April. 18,1960

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.

Episode 30 - The Quick Noose
First Aired: April. 11,1960

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

Episode 30 - The Quick Noose
First Aired: April. 11,1960

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

Episode 29 - The Long Trail
First Aired: April. 04,1960

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.

Episode 29 - The Long Trail
First Aired: April. 04,1960

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.

Episode 28 - The Night of the Faceless Man
First Aired: March. 28,1960

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

Episode 28 - The Night of the Faceless Man
First Aired: March. 28,1960

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

Episode 27 - Hang the Men High
First Aired: March. 21,1960

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.

Episode 27 - Hang the Men High
First Aired: March. 21,1960

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.

Episode 26 - Three Graves
First Aired: March. 14,1960

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.

Episode 26 - Three Graves
First Aired: March. 14,1960

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.

Episode 25 - Fort Epitaph
First Aired: March. 07,1960

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

Episode 25 - Fort Epitaph
First Aired: March. 07,1960

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

Episode 24 - The Wichita Arrows
First Aired: February. 29,1960

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

Episode 23 - Fight At New Canal
First Aired: February. 22,1960

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.

Episode 22 - The Treasure of Hawk Hill
First Aired: February. 08,1960

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.

Episode 21 - Path of the Eagle
First Aired: February. 01,1960

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

Episode 20 - Salvage Pirates
First Aired: January. 31,1960

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.""

Episode 19 - Forbidden Island
First Aired: January. 24,1960

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.

Episode 18 - The Blowup
First Aired: January. 18,1960

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.

Episode 17 - Landlubbers
First Aired: January. 10,1960

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.

Episode 16 - Tampico Raid
First Aired: January. 03,1960

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.

Episode 15 - The Face of Courage
First Aired: December. 27,1959

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.

Episode 14 - Guns for Empire
First Aired: December. 20,1959

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.

Episode 13 - Strange Request
First Aired: December. 13,1959

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.

Episode 12 - Jessie Quinn
First Aired: December. 06,1959

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.

Episode 11 - The Boy From Pittsburgh
First Aired: November. 29,1959

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.

Episode 10 - The Faithless
First Aired: November. 22,1959

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.

Episode 9 - A Night At Trapper's Landing
First Aired: November. 08,1959

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.

Episode 8 - Witness No Evil
First Aired: November. 01,1959

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.

Episode 7 - Escape to Memphis
First Aired: October. 25,1959

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.

Episode 6 - The Fight Back
First Aired: October. 18,1959

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.

Episode 5 - The Unwilling
First Aired: October. 11,1959

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.

Episode 4 - Race to Cincinnati
First Aired: October. 04,1959

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.

Episode 3 - About Roger Mowbray
First Aired: September. 27,1959

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.

Episode 2 - The Barrier
First Aired: September. 20,1959

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.

Episode 1 - Payment In Full
First Aired: September. 13,1959

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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