Buddy Ebsen
Sergeant Hunk Marriner
Northwest Passage (1958)
Season 1
Northwest Passage is a 26-episode half-hour adventure television series produced by Metro Goldwyn Mayer about Major Robert Rogers during the time of the French and Indian War. The show derived its title and the main characters Rogers, Towne, and Marriner from the 1937 novel of the same name by Kenneth Roberts, and from the 1940 MGM feature film based on the novel. The scope of the novel was much broader than that of the series, and the second half of the book included an historically based attempt by Rogers to find a water route through North America as a "passage" to the Pacific Ocean. This attempt, lending its name to the novel and used by Roberts as a metaphor for the questing human spirit, is referenced in the first episode. One of the earlier series telecast in color, Northwest Passage aired new episodes on NBC from September 14, 1958, to March 13, 1959. Keith Larsen played the lead role; Buddy Ebsen, later the star of CBS's The Beverly Hillbillies and Barnaby Jones, appeared as Sergeant Hunk Marriner, and Don Burnett co-starred as Ensign Langdon Towne.
Released Sept. 14, 1958
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Keywords: tmdb.18th-century, imdb.french-and-indian-war, imdb.colonial-america, imdb.1750s, tmdb.french-and-indian-war, imdb.new-york, imdb.two-word-series-title + 2 more, imdb.single-season-tv-series, imdb.direction-in-title
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Production Companies: MGM Television
Network: NBC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Fight at the River
An escape is made from a French Prison Camp with the news that the French Army is planning a major attack.
Sept. 14, 1958, midnight
S1E2 - The Red Coat
Sept. 21, 1958, midnight
S1E3 - The Gunsmith
Sept. 28, 1958, midnight
S1E4 - Surprise Attack
Oct. 5, 1958, midnight
S1E5 - The Bound Women
Oct. 12, 1958, midnight
S1E6 - Break Out
Major Rogers, Hunk Marriner, and Langdon Towne fall into the hands of the French who imprison them in a stockade. During the day this trio, and other captured rangers, are forced to build a road through the forest. By night, using stolen tools, Rogers begins to dig a tunnel under the stockade wall.
Oct. 19, 1958, midnight
S1E7 - Court Martial
Oct. 26, 1958, midnight
S1E8 - The Hostage
Nov. 2, 1958, midnight
S1E9 - Sorrow Song
Nov. 9, 1958, midnight
S1E10 - The Assassin
Nov. 16, 1958, midnight
S1E11 - The Long Rifle
Nov. 23, 1958, midnight
S1E12 - War Sign
Nov. 30, 1958, midnight
S1E13 - The Traitor
Dec. 7, 1958, midnight
S1E14 - Vengeance Trail
Dec. 21, 1958, midnight
S1E15 - The Vulture
Dec. 28, 1958, midnight
S1E16 - The Counterfeiters
Jan. 2, 1959, midnight
S1E17 - The Secret Of The Cliff
General Amherst believes that a British captain named Stoddard has found a way to climb the 200-foot-high ""Heights of Abraham"" which shield French Quebec from a surprise attack. Amherst sends Major Rogers to make contact with a party in Quebec who might be able to contact Stoddard who's now being held (and tortured) in a French fort. The party proves to be a pretty woman named Audrey Bonay. She helps Rogers contact Stoddard by means of an arrow shot through the bars of the prisoner's cell. Rogers now returns to General Amherst with word of the location where the cliff might be climbed, but Audrey stays in Quebec to be with her mother.
Jan. 9, 1959, midnight
S1E18 - Dead Reckoning
Jan. 16, 1959, midnight
S1E19 - Death Rides The Wind
Jan. 23, 1959, midnight
S1E20 - The Fourth Brother
Jan. 30, 1959, midnight
S1E21 - The Ambush
Feb. 6, 1959, midnight
S1E22 - The Witch (aka Witchcraft)
Feb. 13, 1959, midnight
S1E23 - Stab In The Back
Feb. 20, 1959, midnight
S1E24 - The Deserter
Feb. 27, 1959, midnight
S1E25 - Trial By Fire
March 6, 1959, midnight
S1E26 - The Killers
March 13, 1959, midnight
Network: NBC
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 25 min.
Released: Sept. 14, 1958
Last Air Date: March 13, 1959, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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