Northwest Passage (1958)
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.
Northwest Passage: Season 1 - 26 Episode s
1x1 - Fight at the River
September 14, 1958
An escape is made from a French Prison Camp with the news that the French Army is planning a major attack.
1x2 - The Red Coat
September 21, 1958
1x3 - The Gunsmith
September 28, 1958
1x4 - Surprise Attack
October 5, 1958
1x5 - The Bound Women
October 12, 1958
1x6 - Break Out
October 19, 1958
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.
1x7 - Court Martial
October 26, 1958
1x8 - The Hostage
November 2, 1958
1x9 - Sorrow Song
November 9, 1958
1x10 - The Assassin
November 16, 1958
1x11 - The Long Rifle
November 23, 1958
1x12 - War Sign
November 30, 1958
1x13 - The Traitor
December 7, 1958
1x14 - Vengeance Trail
December 21, 1958
1x15 - The Vulture
December 28, 1958
1x16 - The Counterfeiters
January 2, 1959
1x17 - The Secret Of The Cliff
January 9, 1959
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.
1x18 - Dead Reckoning
January 16, 1959
1x19 - Death Rides The Wind
January 23, 1959
1x20 - The Fourth Brother
January 30, 1959
1x21 - The Ambush
February 6, 1959
1x22 - The Witch (aka Witchcraft)
February 13, 1959
1x23 - Stab In The Back
February 20, 1959
1x24 - The Deserter
February 27, 1959
1x25 - Trial By Fire
March 6, 1959
1x26 - The Killers
March 13, 1959
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