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Riverboat

Season 1 Episode 16: Tampico Raid

A pretty stowaway convinces Grey Holden and his crew to rescue a group of teachers who are held as political prisoners on an island off the coast of Mexico for advocating democracy. Grey must not only adapt his riverboat to sail across 40...

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 Payment in Full

1. Payment in Full

Aired: Sep 13, 1959

A simple-minded man betrays his friend and employer when the latter accidenta...

Episode 2 The Barrier

2. The Barrier

Aired: Sep 20, 1959

The boat's passengers include a young couple whose husband is on his way to h...

Episode 3 About Roger Mowbray

3. About Roger Mowbray

Aired: Sep 27, 1959

A wealthy young man's marriage is in danger when an ex-girlfriend claims that...

Episode 4 A Race to Cincinnati

4. A Race to Cincinnati

Aired: Oct 4, 1959

Three ruthless men try to block the Enterprise's path so a farmer's crop of p...

Episode 5 The Unwilling

5. The Unwilling

Aired: Oct 11, 1959

Even though Dan Simpson lost his last cargo, he refuses to give up his dream ...

Episode 6 The Fight Back

6. The Fight Back

Aired: Oct 18, 1959

Seeking cargo for his riverboat, Captain Holden docks in the town of Hampton ...

Episode 7 Escape to Memphis

7. Escape to Memphis

Aired: Oct 25, 1959

A woman kills her brutal husband in self-defense and flees her plantation, wi...

Episode 8 Witness No Evil

8. Witness No Evil

Aired: Nov 1, 1959

In Natchez, the Enterprise takes on board a number of passengers one of whom ...

Episode 10 The Faithless

10. The Faithless

Aired: Nov 22, 1959

An escaped prisoner being returned to jail is chained to the Enterprise's mas...

Episode 12 Jessie Quinn

12. Jessie Quinn

Aired: Dec 6, 1959

During Texas' War of Independence, Holden agrees to ship a load of lead to Sa...

Episode 13 Strange Request

13. Strange Request

Aired: Dec 13, 1959

An actress charters the Enterprise to transport her and her manager to an aba...

Episode 14 Guns for Empire

14. Guns for Empire

Aired: Dec 20, 1959

A businessman charters the Enterprise to deliver a cargo of farm machinery to...

Episode 15 The Face of Courage

15. The Face of Courage

Aired: Dec 27, 1959

Grey Holden and his riverboat are hired to deliver a cargo of guns, ammunitio...

Episode 16 Tampico Raid

16. Tampico Raid

Aired: Jan 3, 1960

A pretty stowaway convinces Grey Holden and his crew to rescue a group of tea...

Episode 17 Landlubbers

17. Landlubbers

Aired: Jan 10, 1960

The Enterprise is hijacked by the captain of a riverboat that sank a month ea...

Episode 18 The Blowup

18. The Blowup

Aired: Jan 18, 1960

A woman with a load of unstable, experimental, gunpowder connives to draw Hol...

Episode 19 Forbidden Island

19. Forbidden Island

Aired: Jan 24, 1960

A group of Cajuns hijack part of the Enterprise's cargo while it makes a stop...

Episode 20 Salvage Pirates

20. Salvage Pirates

Aired: Jan 31, 1960

A schooner wrecks on an uncharted reef near the Florida coast and the Enterpr...

Episode 21 Path of the Eagle

21. Path of the Eagle

Aired: Feb 1, 1960

A wealthy but inexperience party of pioneers hire Captain Holden to transport...

Episode 24 The Wichita Arrows

24. The Wichita Arrows

Aired: Feb 29, 1960

While Holden is away from the riverboat seeking business, The Enterprise, und...

Episode 25 Fort Epitaph

25. Fort Epitaph

Aired: Mar 7, 1960

In the absence of Captain Holden, Captain Brad Turner takes a cargo of milita...

Episode 26 Three Graves

26. Three Graves

Aired: Mar 14, 1960

The crew finds three recent graves at a town they had planned to dock in. The...

Episode 27 Hang the Men High

27. Hang the Men High

Aired: Mar 21, 1960

Based on a statement allegedly made by a dying man, a lynch mob forces two pa...

Episode 29 The Long Trail

29. The Long Trail

Aired: Apr 4, 1960

A U.S. Army detachment is ordered to remove the Cherokee Indians from the anc...

Episode 30 The Quick Noose

30. The Quick Noose

Aired: Apr 11, 1960

Someone has stabbed the son of Judge Wingate in the back with Carney's knife ...

Episode 31 The Sellout

31. The Sellout

Aired: Apr 18, 1960

While sailing down the Mississippi in a heavy storm, the Enterprise strikes a...

Info about Riverboat

Seasons: 2

Current Status: Ended

Network: NBC

Genres:Adventure, Western