Northwest Passage

Northwest Passage

1958
6.5
1 Seasons
Drama Action & Adventure

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.

Season

Episodes

Ep 1

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.

Ep 2

The Red Coat

Ep 3

The Gunsmith

Ep 4

Surprise Attack

Ep 5

The Bound Women

Ep 6

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.

Ep 7

Court Martial

Ep 8

The Hostage

Ep 9

Sorrow Song

Ep 10

The Assassin

Ep 11

The Long Rifle

Ep 12

War Sign

Ep 13

The Traitor

Ep 14

Vengeance Trail

Ep 15

The Vulture

Ep 16

The Counterfeiters

Ep 17

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.

Ep 18

Dead Reckoning

Ep 19

Death Rides The Wind

Ep 20

The Fourth Brother

Ep 21

The Ambush

Ep 22

The Witch (aka Witchcraft)

Ep 23

Stab In The Back

Ep 24

The Deserter

Ep 25

Trial By Fire

Ep 26

The Killers

Cast

Buddy Ebsen

Buddy Ebsen

Sergeant Hunk Marriner

Keith Larsen

Keith Larsen

Major Robert Rogers

Don Burnett

Don Burnett

Ensign Langdon Towne