RIVERBOAT

 

1. Payment In Full (aka - 'The Penitent')   

First 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.

Writer: Douglas Heyes

Director: Douglas Heyes

Guest star: William Bishop (Monte), Louis Hayward (Ash Cowan), John Larch (Touhy), Barbara Bel Geddes (Missy), Nancy Gates (Sister Angela), Aldo Ray (Hunk Farber)

 

2. The Barrier 

First 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.

Writer: Tom Seller

Director: Richard H. Bartlett

Guest star: Read Morgan (Clint Casey), Elizabeth Montgomery (Abby Carruthers), William Bendix (Vance Muldoon), John Kerr (Jefferson Carruthers)

 

3. About Roger Mowbray 

First aired: 9/27/1959    Production Code: 12301

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.

Writer: Hagar Wilde

Director: Felix Feist

Guest star: Jon Lormer (Dr. Landers), Cameron Prud'homme (Jonathan Reed), Vera Miles (Jeanette Mowbray), Sandy Kenyon (Jeb Grant), John Hoyt (Antoine Rigaud), Hank Patterson (Rare), Robert Vaughn (Roger Mowbray), Madlyn Rhue (Cassie Baird)

 

4. Race to Cincinnati 

First 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.

Writer: William Raynor

Director: Jules Bricken

Guest star: Robert Lowery (Carstairs), Monica Lewis (M'liss McCabe), Don Haggerty (Dubois), Lloyd Corrigan (John Jenkins), Anne Baxter (Ellie Jenkins)

 

5. The Unwilling 

First 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.

Writer: Norman Jolley

Director: Richard H. Bartlett

Guest star: Eddie Albert (Dan Simpson), Debra Paget (Lela Candida)

 

6. The Fight Back 

First 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.

Writer: Robert E. Thompson, Mel Goldberg

Director: Jules Bricken

Guest star: Karl Swenson (Ansel Torgin), Joan O'Brien (Sonja Torgin), John Ireland (Chris Slade), William D. Gordon (Travis)

 

7. Escape to Memphis 

First aired: 10/25/1959

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.

Writer: Wanda Duncan, Bob Duncan

Director: John Rich

Guest star: Claude Akins (Jarret Sutton), Philip Reed (Raleigh), Jeanne Crain (Laura Sutton)

 

8. Witness No Evil 

First aired: 11/1/1959

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.

Guest star: Charles Herbert (Paddy Saunders), Vincent Price (Otto Justin), Barbara Lawrence (Abby Saunders)

 

9. A Night At Trapper's Landing 

First 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.

Writer: Halsey Melone

Director: Felix Feist

Guest star: Judson Pratt (Sergeant Ned Bolger), Stacy Harris (Colonel Nicholson), Ricardo Montalban (Lt. Andre Bastiste Devereaux), Peter Whitney (Noah Woodley)

 

10. The Faithless 

First aired: 11/22/1959

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.

Director: Richard H. Bartlett

Guest star: Bethel Leslie (Cathy), William Phipps (Abner Crane), Bert Freed (Kester), Jeanne Bates (Sara), Richard Carlson (Paul Drake)

 

11. The Boy From Pittsburgh

 First 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.

Writer: George Tibbles

Director: Frank Arrigo

Guest star: Robert Emhardt (Jeb Carter), Mona Freeman (Louise Rutherford), Tom Nolan (Tommy Jones)

12. Jessie Quinn 

First 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.

Writer: Tom Seller

Director: Jules Bricken

Guest star: Clu Gulager (Beau Chandler), Richard Gardner (Lieutenant Perry Quinn), Mercedes McCambridge (Jessie Quinn), Kevin Hagen (John Hollister)

 

13. Strange Request 

First aired: 12/13/1959

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.

Writer: Clair Huffaker

Director: John Rich

Guest star: Jan Sterling (Lorna Langton), Rhys Williams (Josiah Cragg), Lawrence Dobkin (David Fields), Peter Lazer (Bobby), Lee Van Cleef (Luke Cragg), Glenn Thompson (Mark Cragg)

 

14. Guns for Empire 

First 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.

Writer: Samuel A. Peeples

Director: William Witney

Guest star: Gena Rowlands (Rose Traynor), Dennis Patrick (Lancing), George Macready (Anthony Lorrimer)

 

15. The Face of Courage 

First 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.

Writer: Wanda Duncan, Bob Duncan

Director: William Witney

Guest star: Tracey Roberts (Lola Duhaime), Joanna Moore (Kitty McGuire), Tom Drake (Homer Atkins), Paul Birch (Sergeant Major Carmody), Doug McClure (Corporal Jenkins)

 

16. Tampico Raid 

First 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: Richard H. Bartlett

Guest star: Edward Colmans (Justin Marchand), Pat Crowley (Joan Marchland)

 

17. Landlubbers 

First 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.

Writer: Tom Seller

Director: William Witney

Guest star: Frank Warren (Brady), Gloria Talbott (Nora Lanyard), Kay E. Kuter (Hoskins), Arthur Batanides (Shag Ryan), Richard Devon (Barney), Jerry O'Sullivan (Captain Clegg)

 

18. The Blowup 

First 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.

Writer: Al C. Ward

Director: Darren McGavin

Guest star: Carlos Romero (I) (Juan Miguel), James R. Scott (Sailor), Dean Harens (Simon), John Daheim (Sailor), Roberto Contreras (Gonzales), Mary Adams (Mrs. Wilkins), Rush Williams (Helper), Boyd Stockman (Driver), Whitney Blake (Martha Crane)

 

19. Forbidden Island 

First 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.

Writer: Wanda Duncan, Bob Duncan

Director: Sidney Lanfield

Guest star: Patrick Westwood (Pierre), Patricia Michon (Caroline Duprez), Miguel Ángel Landa (Raoul Duprez), Bruce Gordon (Garnett)

 

20. Salvage Pirates 

First 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."

Guest star: Robert J. Wilke (Bolesy), Judi Meredith (Louise Harrison), Richard Garland (Jacques Tremaine), Bern Hoffman (Savage), Johnstone White (James Kincannon)

 

21. Path of the Eagle 

First 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.

Writer: Halsey Melone

Director: Jules Bricken

Guest star: Dayton Lummis (Gideon Templeton), Wilton Graff (Henry Schofield), Grant Richards (Captain James O'Bannion), Dianne Foster (Marian Templeton), Myron Healey (Steven Barrows)

 

22. The Treasure of Hawk Hill 

First 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.

Writer: Wanda Duncan, Bob Duncan

Director: William Witney

Guest star: Richard Hale (II) (Arden Dexter), Virginia Christine (Aunt Samantha), Stephen Wootton (Sam Dexter), Kent Taylor (Murrell)

 

23. Fight At New Canal 

First 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.

Writer: Tom Seller

Director: R.G. Springsteen

Guest star: Jean Allison (Tracy Paxton), John Maxwell (Sam Harper), John Archer (Dunnigan), Charles Aidman (Frank Paxton)

 

24. The Wichita Arrows 

First aired: 2/29/1960

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

Writer: Wanda Duncan, Bob Duncan

Director: William Witney

Guest star: Robert Armstrong (Sheriff), Betty Lou Keim (Holly Andrews), Victor Millan (Rico), Eve McVeagh (Julie Scott), Dan Duryea (Captain Brad Turner), Don Haggerty (Albert Scott), Roy Barcroft (Carley)

 

25. Fort Epitaph 

First aired: 3/7/1960

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

Writer: Richard Neil Morgan

Director: John Brahm

Guest star: Stuart Randall (Chief Running Bear), Dan Duryea (Captain Brad Turner), Brad Weston (Lieutenant Tom Henshaw), Charles Cooper (Major Daniels), Ronnie Rondell Jr. (Kicking Bear), Joan Camden (Barbara Daniels), Mark Allen (Sargeant Matthews)

 

26. Three Graves 

First 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.

Writer: Al C. Ward

Director: William Witney

Guest star: Robert Bray (Tom Byson), Will J. White (Man), John R. McKee (Stoneman), Beverly Garland (Nora James), Harry Ellerbe (Harrison)

 

27. Hang the Men High 

First 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.

Writer: Jerry Adelman

Director: Hollingsworth Morse

Guest star: Walter Sande (Tom Feller), Ray Hamilton (Brad Phelan), Karen Steele (I) (Sue Parker), Dallas Mitchell (Jerry Madden), Stephen McNally (Jeb Randell)

 

28. The Night of the Faceless Man 

First aired: 3/28/1960

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

Writer: Bob Duncan, Wanda Duncan

Director: William Witney

Guest star: Douglas Kennedy (McLeigh), Hugh Downs (Dan Flynn), Frank Ferguson (Rogers), Patricia Medina (Eileen Mason), Jocelyn Brando (Mrs. Pauley), Charles H. Gray (Joe Oliver)

 

29. The Long Trail 

First 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

Guest star: Perry Lopez (James Evans), Harry Lauter (Colonel Tryker), Abraham Sofaer (Mark Evans), Anthony Caruso (Chief White Bull)

 

30. The Quick Noose 

First 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.

Writer: Tom Seller

Director: Hollingsworth Morse

Guest star: Ed Nelson (Jim Tyler), Nan Leslie (Amy Carson), Jack Mather (the Sheriff), Willis Bouchey (Judge Wingate), William Hudson (I) (Lon Ogden), Irving Bacon (Zack Mannion), Darlene Fields (Ruby)

 

31. The Sellout 

First aired: 4/18/1960

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.

Director: Richard H. Bartlett

Guest star: Frank Overton (Nick Logan), Barbara Stuart (Nanette), Bartlett Robinson (George Channing)

 

32. End of a Dream  

First 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.

Guest star: June Vincent (Countess de Madrigal), Susan Cummings (Tekla Kropen), Ben Wright (Mr. Shaftoe), Cliff Robertson (Martinus Van der Brig), Robert J. Wilke (Red Dog Hanlon)

 

33. That Taylor Affair 

First 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.

Guest star: Stanley Adams (Captain Morgan), Robert Ellenstein (Sheriff Stone), Milton Frome (Governor DeWitt), Gilman Rankin (Pierce), Paul Fix (Zachary Taylor), Arlene Dahl (Lucy Belle)

 

34. The Two Faces of Grey Holden  

First 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

Writer: Kathleen Hite

Director: Richard H. Bartlett

Guest star: Lomax Study (Father Paul), Nico Minardos (Sebastian), Celia Lovsky (Grandma Joe), Thomas Gomez (Mr. Tourette), Herb Ellis (Papite), Lillian Buyeff (Mrs. Tourette), Suzanne Pleshette (Marie Tourette)

 

35. River Champion 

First 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."

Guest star: Ralph Reed (Bates), Slim Pickens (Porter Slagle), Dennis O'Keefe (Dan Muldoon), George Kennedy (Gunner Slagle), Jack Hogan (Fletcher), Norma Crane (Sarah Prentice)

 

36. No Bridge on the River 

First 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.

Guest star: Sandy Kenyon, Hayden Rorke, Patricia Michon, Denver Pyle, Bartlett Robinson, Tyler McVey

 

37. Trunk Full of Dreams 

First 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.

Guest star: Mary Tyler Moore, Raymond Massey (Sir Oliver Garnett), Bethel Leslie (Juliet), Willard Waterman, Hugh Sanders (I), Jody Fair

 

38. The Water of Gorgeous Springs 

First 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.

Guest star: Buddy Ebsen, Sherry Jackson, Barry Atwater, Jocelyn Brando, George Walcott, Dody Heath

 

39. Devil in Skirts 

First 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.

Writer: Irwin Gielgud, Gwen Bagni, Bob Duncan, Wanda Duncan

Director: David Lowell Rich

Guest star: Gloria Talbott (Lucinda), Frank Silvera, Brad Weston, Arthur Batanides

 

40. The Quota 

First 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.

Guest star: Ron Hagerthy (Phelan), Stuart Randall (Gen. Winfield Scott), Tom Gilleran (Joe Rogers), James Griffith (Corporal Sam Giler), Gene Evans (Sergeant Dan Phillips)

 

41. Chicota Landing 

First 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.

Guest star: John Harmon (Sheriff Matson), Joe De Santis, Connie Hines (Lucy Bridges), John McLiam

 

42. Duel on the River 

First 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.

Guest star: Edgar Buchanan (Wingate), Fay Spain (Laurie Rawlings), Claude Akins (Beaudry Rawlins), Robert Emhardt (Brian Cloud)

 

43. Zigzag 

First 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.

Guest star: John Milford (Egan), Tom Fadden (Lear), Phil Tully (Bartender), Stella Stevens (Sugie Walters), William Fawcett (Pinty Walters), Charles Bronson (Crowley), Don Kelly (Clyde), Ray Teal (Sheriff Clay)

 

44. Listen to the Nightingale 

First 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.

Guest star: DeForest Kelley, Jeanne Bal (Julie Lang), Jack Albertson, Paul Stader, Hal Needham, Claire Carleton, John Warburton