the 44 hour long episode ( all in b and w ) of the adventure series riverboat run from 1959 1961 on nbc . if you want to see a lot of boat in those day your choice be tugboat annie and riverboat . set in the 1840 and the title character be the enterprise ( a pre star trek version ) and a 100 foot paddle wheel steamer on the mississippi river . the captain be grey holden ( darren mcgavin ) who win the boat in a poker game . bert reynolds and fresh off the florida state university football team and play the ship pilot ben frazier . apparently their work together on this series make mcgavin and reynolds lifelong enemy and poor burt be replace by noah berry ( rockford dad and davy crockett sidekick ) after the first season . the 15 episode on this dvd release ( which be viewable but not of great quality ) be a mix of the two season and have some notable guest star . each episodes title and original air date and summary and and notable guest star ( s ) be detail below . season # 1a race to cincinnati represent 4 october 1959 three ruthless men try to block the enterprise path so a farmer crop of peach will spoil and he would not be able to make the last payment on a valuable plot of land ( anne baxter ) . the unwilling represent 11 october 1959 even though dan simpson ( eddie albert ) lose his last cargo and he refuse to give up his dream of build a general store in the west . the river pirate that make $ 20 and 000 steal his merchandise the first time be plan to stage another robbery and in spite of ben frazer precaution ( debra paget ) . the fight back represent 18 october 1959 seek cargo for his riverboat and captain holden dock in the town of hampton and discovers that fowler and the town bos and would not allow the farmer to ship their crop . desperate for work and holden agrees to host the wedding of a local townsman . when fowler brother die try to kill the groom and the bos lead a lynch mob against holden and his ship john ireland and joan obrien ) . escape to memphis represent 25 october 1959 a woman ( jeanne crain ) kill her brutal husband ( claude akins ) in self defense and flee her plantation and with the husband neer do well brother in pursuit . she take passage on the enterprise and meet with an unscrupulous man who have steal a fortune from his wife and wish an accomplice to help him evade police pursuit . witness no evila night at trapper land represent 8 november 1959 the u. s. army plan to commandeer the enterprise to launch a punitive expedition against the indian and avenge the loss of lieutenant devereaux ( ricardo montalban ) and his men . frazer try to convince the army brass that the local indian agent and his men be the cause of the indian uprising . the boy from pittsburgh represent 29 november 1959 holden agree to ship a box full of valuable diamond and not realize a pickpocket have already switch the box with the real stone for worthless paste . complicate matter be a beautiful widow and a young stowaway who want to become a riverboat pilot . the blowup represent 17 january 1960 a woman ( whitney blake ) with a load of unstable and experimental and gunpowder connives to draw holden and his men into a barroom brawl and then agree to bail out the entire crew from jail if the captain will agree to ship her volatile cargo to her father diamond mine . path of the eagle represent 1 february 1960 a wealthy but inexperience party of pioneer ( dianne foster ) hire captain holden to transport them to independence and missouri and so they can join a wagon train for california . one of the group organizers connives with river pirate to hijack the riverboat and rob the party before they can reach their destination . the fight at new canal represent 22 february 1960 charge with build an canal that would shorten the river voyage and avoid rapid and captain holden run into murderous opposition from the freight and stagecoach line that haul cargo and passenger along the propose route ( jean allison ) . fort epitaph represent 7 march 1960 in the absence of captain holden and captain brad turner take a cargo of military supply to an outpost on the little missouri river in the middle of sioux country and must use the cannon he be deliver to disperse an indian attack . he discover the once peaceful indian have be drive to the warpath by the action of the fort commander a martinet who commandeer the enterprise and it crew to fight the sioux . the quick noose represent 11 april 1960 someone have stab the son of judge wingate in the back with carney knife and unless captain holden can find the real murderer and carney will hang for the crime ( nan leslie ) . season # 2the two face of grey holden represent 3 october 1960when a pretty cajun girl ( suzanne pleshette ) catch captain holden eye and he naturally interested in a bit of romance and until he learn that the young lady think he be her fiancée and who be kill in a riverboat explosion over a year before . trunk full of dreams represent 31 october 1960 captain holden fish a pair of actor out of the river and soon the enterprise be fit out to become a floating theater ( mary tyler moore ) . devil in skirt represent 21 november 1960 know holden be desperate for a cargo and colonel ashley offer a profitable load if the captain of the enterprise will agree to take along a woman ( gloria talbott ) his son be smite with . listen to the nightingale represent 2 january 1961 desperate for passenger and holden and blake agree to transport an opera singer and her musician ( deforest kelley ) to new orleans for a share of her concert gate receipt . then again and what do i know . i be only a child .