Fight at the River
14th September 1958The Red Coat
21st September 1958The Gunsmith
28th September 1958Surprise Attack
5th October 1958The Bound Women
12th October 1958Break Out
19th October 1958Court Martial
26th October 1958The Hostage
2nd November 1958Sorrow Song
9th November 1958The Assassin
16th November 1958The Long Rifle
23rd November 1958War Sign
30th November 1958The Traitor
7th December 1958Vengeance Trail
21st December 1958The Vulture
28th December 1958The Counterfeiters
2nd January 1959The Secret Of The Cliff
9th January 1959Dead Reckoning
16th January 1959Death Rides The Wind
23rd January 1959The Fourth Brother
30th January 1959The Ambush
6th February 1959The Witch (aka Witchcraft)
13th February 1959Stab In The Back
20th February 1959The Deserter
27th February 1959Trial By Fire
6th March 1959The Killers
13th March 1959Northwest 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.
