Northwest Passage
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.
Cast
Buddy Ebsen
Sergeant Hunk Marriner
Keith Larsen
Major Robert Rogers
Don Burnett
Ensign Langdon Towne
Seasons
E1Fight at the River
Sep 14, 1958
An escape is made from a French Prison Camp with the news that the French Army is planning a major attack.
E2The Red Coat
Sep 21, 1958
E3The Gunsmith
Sep 28, 1958
E4Surprise Attack
Oct 5, 1958
E5The Bound Women
Oct 12, 1958
E6Break Out
Oct 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.
E7Court Martial
Oct 26, 1958
E8The Hostage
Nov 2, 1958
E9Sorrow Song
Nov 9, 1958
E10The Assassin
Nov 16, 1958
E11The Long Rifle
Nov 23, 1958
E12War Sign
Nov 30, 1958
E13The Traitor
Dec 7, 1958
E14Vengeance Trail
Dec 21, 1958
E15The Vulture
Dec 28, 1958
E16The Counterfeiters
Jan 2, 1959
E17The Secret Of The Cliff
Jan 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.
E18Dead Reckoning
Jan 16, 1959
E19Death Rides The Wind
Jan 23, 1959
E20The Fourth Brother
Jan 30, 1959
E21The Ambush
Feb 6, 1959
E22The Witch (aka Witchcraft)
Feb 13, 1959
E23Stab In The Back
Feb 20, 1959
E24The Deserter
Feb 27, 1959
E25Trial By Fire
Mar 6, 1959
E26The Killers
Mar 13, 1959
Storyline
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.
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