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September 13, 1959 to January 2, 1961 NBC Television Sunday, September 13, 1959; 7:00 – 8:00 PM Twenty episodes ran at this time period. Beginning with episode #21, “Path of the Eagle,” (February 1, 1960), the series was moved to Monday night at 7:30-8:30 PM. Incidentally, this was the last episode Burt Reynolds appeared in.
31 episodes first season (two of which Darren was not in)
Regular cast first season: Darren McGavin – Grey Holden Burt Reynolds – Ben Frazer Dick Wessell – Carney Jack Lambert – Joshua Mike McGreevey – Chip John Mitchum – Pickalong Bart Patton – Terry
13 episodes second season
> Regular cast second season: Darren McGavin – Grey Holden Noah Berry, Jr. – Bill Blake
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Early Promo (1959) “John James Audubon, the noted ornithologist was decidedly put out when Internal Revenue officers took a flask of whiskey away from him while he was riding a Missouri riverboat through “dry” territory. And Charles Dickens, who traveled the Mississippi aboard another riverboat, summed up the cruise with a terse “uncivilized.” On the other hand, artist George Catlin so thoroughly enjoyed his riverboat roaming that he talked dozens of foreign dignitaries into taking the “grand tour” of the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. Because they rode the boats, some of history’s most noted figures will be portrayed in this years NBC-TV’s RIVERBOAT, a full-hour weekly program dealing with the romantic, colorful and sometimes uncomfortable life aboard sternwheelers. The famous names will be worked into the storylines but they will not be entire episodes in and of themselves. Young Philippe of France is one likely person encountered. He and his two brothers traveled from Pittsburgh to New Orleans and created a legend in so doing. Story has it the barge they were on got stuck. One of the boatmen yelled into their cabin, “Hey, you kings there, get yourselves up and shove this…barge off the bar!” And, according to tale-teller, the royal gentry did just that. William Cullen Bryant toured as a newspaper correspondent of sorts and a young Captain of Volunteers named Abraham Lincoln was one of the persons he interviewed. Port Bryant described himself as enchanted by Lincoln’s “quaint and pleasant speech.” And Walt Whitman, who is somewhat better remembered as a poet than a newsman, also made the tour as a reporter. He didn’t like it much better than did Dickens, however, since his principal recorded observation is that there “was not room to turn and people sleep at night on the saloon floor.” Many theatrical greats traveled by riverboat to New Orleans to perform. Among them were Tyrone Power (great-grandfather of the late movie star), the Swedish Nightingale Jenny Lind and dancer Lola Montez, also famed, too, for her romance with Ludwig, “the king of Bavaria.” William S. Hamilton, son of Alexander Hamilton, steamed by riverboat to the Mississippi Valley, looking for Aaron Burr, in the expectation of challenging him to a duel to avenge his father. The quest failed, however, when Burr refused to duel him. Series stars Darren McGavin as Captain Grey Holden.
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Episodic reviews taken or adapted from “Television Westerns Episode Guide, All United States Series, 1949-1996,” by Harris M. Lentz III.
- 09/13/59 “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. Nancy Gates Also Ray Louis Hayward Barbara Bel Geddes William Bishop John Larch
2) 09/20/59 “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. Elizabeth Montgomery John Kerr William Bendix Read Morgan
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. Anne Baxter Monica Lewis Robert Lowery Lloyd Corrigan Don Haggerty
5) 10/11/59 “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. Eddie Albert Debra Paget
6) 10/18/59 “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. John Ireland Karl Swenson Joan O’Brien William D. Gordon
7) 10/25/59 “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. Jeanne Crain Claude Akins Philip Reed Richard Wessel
8) 11/01/59 “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. Vincent Price Barbara Lawrence
10) 11/22/59 “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. Richard Carlson Bethel Leslie Burt Freed William Phipps Jeanne Bates
Tommy Nolan Mona Freeman Robert Emhart
12) 12/06/59 “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. Mercedes McCambridge Clu Gulager Richard Gardner
13) 12/13/59 “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. Jan Sterling Rhys Williams Lawrence Dobkin Peter Lazer Richard Wessel William D. Gordon Lee Van Cleef Glenn Thompson
17) 01/10/60 “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. Gloria Talbott Richard Devon Kay E. Kuter Arthur Batanides Jerry O’Sullivan Frank Warren
18) 01/17/60 “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. Directed by Darren McGavin Whitney Blake Dean Harens Carlos Romero James R. Scott John Day
19) 01/24/60 “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. Miguel Landa Patricia Michon Bruce Gordon Patrick Westwood
20) 01/31/60 “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. Judi Meredith Richard Garland Bern Hoffman Johnstone White
Series moved to Monday night, 7:30-8:30 PM
23) 02/22/60 “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. Charles Aidman Jean Allison John Maxwell John Archer
24) 02/29/60 “The Wichita Arrows” *Darren was not in this episode* Dan Duryea Betty Lou Keim Don Haggerty
25) 03/07/60 “Fort Epitaph” *Darren was not in this episode* Dan Duryea Joan Camden Brad Weston Charles Cooper Mark Allen Stuart Randall Ronnie Rondell, Jr.
27)03/21/60 “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. Stephen McNally Kren Steele Walter Sande Dallas Mitchell Ray Hamilton
29) 04/04/60 “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. Perry Lopez Abraham Sofaer Anthony Caruso Harry Lauter
31) 04/18/60 “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. Frank Overton Barbara Stuart Bartlett Robinson
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2) 09/26/60 “That Taylor Affair”
6) 10/31/60 “Trunk Full of Dreams” Sir Oliver Garnett and Juliet, his young companion, are shipwrecked actors. Captain Holden fishes them out of the river and books them as entertainers aboard the Enterprise. Raymond Massey Bethel Leslie Willard Waterman Mary Tyler Moore Hugh Sanders Jody Fair
7) 11/07/60 “The Water of Gorgeous Springs” The feuding families of Jennings and Cox are going to a fair, and Holden unwittingly books both families on the Enterprise. Now he has to act as peacemaker or have the riverboat wrecked by gunfire. Buddy Ebsen Sherry Jackson Barry Atwater Jocelyn Brando Gregory Walcott Dody Heath
8) 11/21/60 “Devil in Skirts” If Grey will lure a belle named Lucinda away from Colonel Ashley’s son Tony, the colonel will provide a profitable cotton cargo for the Enterprise. Unfortunately, Lucinda overhears the proposition. Gloria Talbott Frank Silvera Brad Weston Arthur Batanides
10) 12/05/60 “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 bed by Juan Cortilla. Joe DeSantis Connie Hines John McLiam
11) 12/12/60 “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. Fay Spain Claude Akins Robert Emhardt Edgar Buchanan
12) 12/26/60 “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. Charles Bronson Stella Stevens William Fawcett Don O’Kelly John Milford Ray Teal Tom Fadden Phil Tully
13) 01/02/61 “Listen to the Nightingale” Norwegian songbird Julie Lang wants to take her troupe to New Orleans for an engagement, but she has no money. Grey finally agrees to take the troupe aboard the Enterpris e, for an IOU against their New Orleans receipts. Along the way, a future crewman of another famous ship called Enterprise , steals her jewelry. DeForest Kelley Jeanne Bal Jack Albertson Paul Stader Hal Needham Claire Carleton John Warburton
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The Enterprise was a 100-foot-long paddle steamer that churned up and down the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio rivers during the 1840s.
The captain and owner of the boat was Grey Holden (Darren McGavin), a former fighter, rum-runner, swordsman, dock foreman, and soldier. A fun-loving romantic, Grey had won the boat in a poker game and was determined to make it a profitable venture, carrying passengers, hauling freight, and doing anything else it could to generate revenue.
Boat pilot Ben Frazer (an early role from Burt Reynolds) was the co-lead when Riverboat first aired, an orphan whose entire life had been spent along the Mississippi.
Both he and crew member Travis (William D Gordon) were written out of the series in the middle of its first season.
When it returned in 1960, Riverboat had a new co-lead in Bill Blake (Noah Beery Jr), as a pilot who had bought 49% of the Enterprise and was constantly seeking to take a controlling interest.
First mate Joshua (Jack Lambert) and crew member Carney (Richard Wessell) were still in the cast, but gone were cabin boy Chip (Mike McGreevey), ballad-singing cook Pickalong (Jack Mitchum), and Terry Blake (Bart Patten), the cub-pilot who had replaced Ben Frazer.
Captain Holden spent more time away from the boat and got involved in more romantic entanglements than during the first season.
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The Enterprise is hijacked by the captain of a riverboat that sank a month earlier, leaving Captain Holden and his men stranded on shore. Holden and Fraser are determined to recapture their ... Read all The Enterprise is hijacked by the captain of a riverboat that sank a month earlier, leaving Captain Holden and his men stranded on shore. Holden and Fraser are determined to recapture their ship and they and their crew set off on a cross-country shortcut through Indian territory ... Read all The Enterprise is hijacked by the captain of a riverboat that sank a month earlier, leaving Captain Holden and his men stranded on shore. Holden and Fraser are determined to recapture their ship and they and their crew set off on a cross-country shortcut through Indian territory to head her off.
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[When the Enterprise is hijacked, Captain Holden asks his crew to travel overland to recapture the vessel]
Carney Kohler : Well, we signed on for the whole voyage, Skipper, up river and down. There wasn't nothin' in the papers that said we wouldn't walk or ride a little if we had to.
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Created during the heyday of TV westerns, “Riverboat” aspired to be a bit different. Set in the mid to late 1840s, stories revolved around the 100 foot-long stern-wheeler The Enterprise, steaming up and down the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Produced by Revue/Universal, “Riverboat” was a black and white one hour series that began on NBC on Sunday September 13, 1959, from 7-8pm EST and ran for 44 episodes (a season and a half) through January 2, 1961. However, as you’ll see, due to star rivalry, constant cast, producer and writer changes, format changes, plus scheduling changes, “Riverboat” never quite found its audience. Gordon Kay produced several episodes of “Riverboat” and once told WC, “Darren McGavin was a nut. A wonderful Irishman. A very good actor. I liked him very much as a person. He was, if anything, too honest for his own good. Burt Reynolds was brought in at studio head Lew Wasserman’s request, who said, ‘This is a new actor we just hired. Please use him.’ They even wanted some lines. We were halfway through filming and didn’t know where the hell we were going to use him. Darren said, ‘We gotta shoot me up in the wheelhouse. Put him in as the helmsman. I’ll tell him to come right full rudder and let him say, aye aye sir.’” From the get-go there was an acrimonious relationship between established star McGavin and newcomer Reynolds. McGavin assumed he was hired as the star of the show while Reynolds hoped the series would give him an opportunity to ultimately make a name for himself. It was an immediate clashing of egos. Perhaps the series was rushed into production, it certainly offered a different concept but too often the Enterprise was only used as a backdrop or prop rather than a controlling factor while the stories were simply tried and true western plots. Little was done to introduce or give any background to the series regulars and Grey Holden’s character often changed week to week to fit in with the plots. Besides the on-screen and off-screen antagonistic relationship between McGavin and Reynolds, producer and cast changes began to emerge midway through season one. As of episode 15, crewman Travis was unceremoniously killed off and Jack Lambert as crewman (soon pilot) Joshua McGregor was introduced. This episode also brings aboard 11 year old Michael McGreevy whom Grey Holden appoints as his cabin boy, orphaned Chip (and his dog Andy Jackson). McGreevy was in every episode til the end of season one, particularly “Treasure of Hawk Hill” and “Night of the Faceless Man”. Still more changes, with episode #16 John Mitchum was suddenly aboard as cook Pickalong (often called Piccolo by Lambert). He never made much of an impression so his character was abandoned as of episode #26. Even worse, after only three episodes on Monday night, McGavin, in a contract dispute over salary threatened to walk out. When Revue/Universal threatened to replace him, McGavin called their bluff and went home! Producers hired Dan Duryea to temporarily take over the helm of the Enterprise as Captain Turner (Ep. #24, 25), explaining Captain Holden had gone to scrounge for cargo upriver. As negotiations lumbered on, Duryea was asked to retain the role of Captain Turner but he refused, unwilling to get in the way of contract discussions between McGavin and the studio. As to the “public why” of McGavin’s disappearance, TV GUIDE reported McGavin had been injured in an auto accident. As terms were worked out, McGavin returned with episode #26…which also saw the exit of Bart Patton as Terry Blake. The second season was aborted after 13 episodes—and again too many directors and writers. Sadly, after 44 episodes with a vague original concept, no single strong hand to oversee production, tension and rivalry on the set and too many cast changes all served to sink the Enterprise. top of page |
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The Boy from Pittsburgh: Directed by Frank Arrigo. With Darren McGavin, Burt Reynolds, Mona Freeman, Tom Nolan. Holden agrees to ship a box full of valuable diamonds, not realizing a pickpocket has already switched the box with the real stones for worthless paste. Complicating matters are a beautiful widow, a young stowaway who wants to become a riverboat pilot.
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A Night at Trapper's Landing: Directed by Felix E. Feist. With Darren McGavin, Burt Reynolds, Ricardo Montalban, Peter Whitney. The U.S. Army plans to commandeer The Enterprise to launch a punitive expedition against the Indians and avenge the loss of Lieutenant Devereaux and his men. Frazer tries to convince the army brass that the local Indian agent and his men are the cause of the Indian ...
In this episode, Holden (Darren McGavin) and Fraser (Burt Reynolds) are stranded on shore when the Enterprise is brazenly stolen by the captain of another riverboat that sank a month earlier. Determined to recapture their ship, they set off with their crew (Jack Lambert, Dick Wessel, Mike McGreevey, John Mitchum) to catch up with the vessel by ...
Landlubbers: Directed by William Witney. With Darren McGavin, Burt Reynolds, Gloria Talbott, Dick Wessel. The Enterprise is hijacked by the captain of a riverboat that sank a month earlier, leaving Captain Holden and his men stranded on shore. Holden and Fraser are determined to recapture their ship and they and their crew set off on a cross-country shortcut through Indian territory to head ...
Created during the heyday of TV westerns, "Riverboat" aspired to be a bit different. Set in the mid to late 1840s, stories revolved around the 100 foot-long stern-wheeler The Enterprise, steaming up and down the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. ... In the beginning Darren McGavin, a Universal star who was concurrently playing the title role of ...