6.0/107 votes#1 - End of a Dream
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1960
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#2 - That Taylor Affair
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1960
Milton Frome, Holden and Blake have an idea for making the Enterprise famous by shanghaiing President Zachary Taylor. They get some help from a girl named Lucy Belle.
Director: Allen H. Miner
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1012 votes
#3 - The Two Faces of Grey Holden
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1960
To Captain Holden, his romance with Marie Tourette was just a pleasant interlude, until he discovers she is passing him off as her fiancé. While her family is in on the deception, they expect Grey to follow through and marry
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#4 - River Champion
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1960
Gentleman Dan Muldoon is backing Dublin Boy against Gunner Stagle for the bare-knuckle championship of the river. Before the fight, Dublin Boy proves to have a glass jaw, when flattened by Grey, thus forcing the captain to take his place in the ring. Grey triumphs and becomes ""river champion.""
Director: William Witney
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#5 - No Bridge on the River
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1960
There was no bridge on the river to Captain Holden's knowledge, but someone has constructed a railroad trestle over the water. When the Enterprise runs into its pilings, Holden sues for damages, finding himself in court against a young lawyer named Abraham Lincoln.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1010 votes
#6 - Trunk Full of Dreams
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1960
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.
Director: Hollingsworth Morse
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#7 - The Water of Gorgeous Springs
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1960
The feuding families of Jennings and Cox are going to a fair, and Holden unwittingly books both families on the Enterprise. Now Grey has to act as peacemaker or have the riverboat wrecked by gunfire.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.3/1012 votes
#8 - Devil in Skirts
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/1960
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.
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#9 - The Quota
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/1960
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1010 votes
#10 - Chicota Landing
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/1960
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#11 - Duel on the River
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/12/1960
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1011 votes
#12 - Zigzag
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/26/1960
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.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: N/A
- 5.5/1010 votes
#13 - Listen to the Nightingale
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/2/1961
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 Enterprise, for an IOU against their New Orleans receipts. Along the way, a future crewman of another famous ship called Enterprise, steals her jewelry.
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Riverboat Season 2
Every episode of Riverboat Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Riverboat Season 2!
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...
Genre:Western
Network:NBC
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"End of a Dream" is the best rated episode of "Riverboat" season 2. It scored 6/10 based on 7 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/19/1960. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "That Taylor Affair".