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Riverboat is an American Western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds, produced by Revue Studios, and broadcast on the NBC television network from 1959 to 1961. Reynolds was replaced by Noah Beery Jr. halfway through the series in the wake of conflicts with McGavin.
Riverboat: With Darren McGavin, Dick Wessel, Jack Lambert, Burt Reynolds. Grey Holden wins a river boat in a poker game, which he then pilots, along with his crew, in various adventures along the Mississippi River. This action series is set in the nineteenth century.
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May 15, 2012 · Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds head a superb cast in this thrilling adventure series set aboard a stern-wheeler plying the Mississippi River in the 1840s. McGavin plays Captain Grey Holden, who won the Enterprise in a poker game, and Reynolds, in his first TV series role, plays the boat pilot Ben Frazer.
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Oct 4, 2016 · Opening credits sequence (2 seasons; 44 x c.60-min episodes)"Riverboat" depicted the exploits of Captain Grey Holden (McGavin) and his crew as they navigated...
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Grey Holden and his riverboat are hired to deliver a cargo of guns, ammunition and troops to an army outpost on the Missouri River. When the Enterprise docks at a landing to pick up wood, Grey learns that the Sioux Indians are gathering for an attack.
The Enterprise is hijacked by the captain of a riverboat that sank a month earlier, leaving Captain Holden and his men stranded on shore. Holden and Fraser are determined to recapture their ship and they and their crew set off on a cross-country shortcut through Indian territory to head her off.
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 2, 1961.
