All Episodes of Riverboat
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Season 1
7.1/1026 votesPayment In Full
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1959
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.
Director: Douglas Heyes
Writer: Douglas Heyes
- 8.3/1017 votes
The Barrier
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1959
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.6/1018 votes
About Roger Mowbray
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1959
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.
Director: Felix E. Feist
Writer: Hagar Wilde
- 7.7/1013 votes
Race to Cincinnati
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1959
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.
Director: Jules Munshin
Writer: Unknown
7.5/1025 votesThe Unwilling
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1959
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.7/1016 votes
The Fight Back
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1959
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.
Director: Jules Munshin
Writer: Unknown
- 7.4/1017 votes
- 7.2/1019 votes
A Night At Trapper's Landing
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/1959
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.
Director: Felix E. Feist
Writer: Unknown
- 7.1/1020 votes
The Boy From Pittsburgh
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1959
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: George Tibbles
- 7.7/1012 votes
Jessie Quinn
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1959
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.
Director: Jules Munshin
Writer: Unknown
- 7.8/1014 votes
- 7.5/1014 votes
Guns for Empire
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/20/1959
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.
Director: William Witney
Writer: Unknown
- 7.9/1010 votes
The Face of Courage
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/27/1959
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.
Director: William Witney
Writer: Unknown
- 6.8/1012 votes
Tampico Raid
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/3/1960
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.9/1011 votes
Landlubbers
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/10/1960
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.
Director: William Witney
Writer: Unknown
- 6.3/1012 votes
The Blowup
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/18/1960
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.
Director: Darren McGavin
Writer: Unknown
- 7.0/109 votes
Forbidden Island
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/24/1960
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.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: Unknown
- 7.3/109 votes
Salvage Pirates
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/31/1960
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.""
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.7/1013 votes
Path of the Eagle
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/1/1960
A trip to Independence, Missouri brings back memories of a bitter adventure to Grey Holden. Holden tells the story to Chip and Joshua.
Director: Jules Munshin
Writer: Unknown
- 7.0/107 votes
The Treasure of Hawk Hill
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/8/1960
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.
Director: William Witney
Writer: Unknown
- 6.9/1011 votes
Fight At New Canal
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/22/1960
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.
Director: R.G. Springsteen
Writer: Unknown
- 7.6/1010 votes
The Wichita Arrows
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 2/29/1960
Dan Duryea steps into the leading role for the first of two episodes.
Director: William Witney
Writer: Unknown
- 7.5/1015 votes
Fort Epitaph
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/7/1960
Dan Duryea has the leading role in the second of two episodes.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Unknown
- 7.7/109 votes
Three Graves
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/14/1960
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.
Director: William Witney
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Hang the Men High
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 3/21/1960
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.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Night of the Faceless Man
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 3/28/1960
The Enterprise makes a wood stop at a small river town. But there is no wood for sale to strangers.
Director: William Witney
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Long Trail
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/4/1960
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.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: Unknown
- 6.7/1012 votes
The Quick Noose
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/11/1960
A noose is about to tighten around Carney's neck. Visiting his brother in Wingate, the riverboater is charged with murder.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: Unknown