• 1958
  • 25m
Northwest Passage

Summary Major Robert Rogers organized "Rogers Rangers" to search for the alleged waterway across the United States during the French and Indian War (1754-1759). Helping Rogers, an experienced explorer and Indian fighter, were Hunk Marriner, another experienced Indian fighter, and Langdon Towne, a Harvard graduate who was the map maker. The episodes told the story of their trials and tribulations searching for the Northwest Passage and their battles with both the French and Indians during this war. View more details

  • 1958
  • 25m

Northwest Passage

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Keith Larsen Buddy Ebsen Don Burnett Philip Tonge

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6.9

Details

Genres : Adventure

Release date : Sep 13, 1958

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Production companies : MGM Television

Summary Major Robert Rogers organized "Rogers Rangers" to search for the alleged waterway across the United States during the French and Indian War (1754-1759). Helping Rogers, an experienced explorer and Indian fighter, were Hunk Marriner, another experienced Indian fighter, and Langdon Towne, a Harvard graduate who was the map maker. The episodes told the story of their trials and tribulations searching for the Northwest Passage and their battles with both the French and Indians during this war. View more details

Details

Genres : Adventure

Release date : Sep 13, 1958

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Production companies : MGM Television

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 13, 1958
Fight at the River
Episode 2 • Sep 20, 1958
The Red Coat
Episode 3 • Sep 27, 1958
The Gunsmith
Episode 4 • Oct 04, 1958
Surprise Attack
Major Rogers plans for a decisive blow against the French army are thwarted when Ensign Towne is captured by Black Wolf's tribesmen. Rogers must rescue his young officer before the Indians can force him to reveal the Rangers attack plans.
Episode 5 • Oct 11, 1958
The Bound Women
Episode 6 • Oct 18, 1958
Break Out
Maj. Rogers, Sgt. Marriner and Ens. Towne are captured by a French patrol and thrown into a prison stockade. There they are subject to inhuman conditions and brutal torture by the sadistic French commander, Maj. Marten.
Episode 7 • Oct 25, 1958
Court Martial
Episode 8 • Nov 01, 1958
The Hostage
During the Rangers attack on Montreal in 1760, Rogers is injured when a wall collapses, is captured and held prisoner by French insurgents. A group of children and a priest help him try to escape.
Episode 9 • Nov 08, 1958
Sorrow Song
Episode 10 • Nov 15, 1958
The Assassin
Episode 11 • Nov 22, 1958
The Long Rifle
Episode 12 • Oct 29, 1958
War Sign
Rogers and Marriner meet the Martin family while on a scouting trip. The Hurons decide to raid so the Captain decides to make a stand but Mr. Martin is perceived as a coward by his son and the community. The skirmish changes minds.
Episode 13 • Dec 06, 1958
The Traitor
Episode 14 • Dec 20, 1958
Vengeance Trail
A bounty hunter reports that the Mohegans, an Indian tribe who were previously neutral in the fight between the French and the English colonists, are preparing to go on the warpath against the Anglo-Americans. Rogers distrusts the man's story and over the bounty hunter's objections is determined to investigate first, rather than make a preemptive strike against a previously peaceful tribe.
Episode 15 • Dec 27, 1958
The 'Vulture'
Sir Martin Stanley is determined to avenge himself upon Major Rogers and his men because his wife flirted with the Ranger commander when last they met. He blocks all attempts to appropriate funds to pay his troops and then schemes to have Rogers and his two right hand men, Hunk Marriner and Langton Towne shanghaied aboard a sailing ship bound for the far reaches of the British empire.
Episode 16 • Jan 01, 1959
The Counterfeiters
Maj. Rogers, Sgt. Marriner and Ens. Towne dine at a local tavern, and when they go to pay the bill, they find that their money--which they've just received from the military paymaster--is counterfeit. An investigation reveals that counterfeiting isn't the only criminal activity going on.
Episode 17 • Jan 08, 1959
The Secret of the Cliff
The French capture a British spy upon Quebec's Plains of Abraham and are convinced that he has discovered a route to climb the 200 foot cliffs that protect the city from the St. Lawrence River below. The British army believes this too and sends Rogers with a beautiful double-agent to Quebec to try to learn about the route from the spy who is imprisoned in the city's deepest dungeon.
Episode 18 • Jan 15, 1959
Dead Reckoning
Episode 19 • Jan 22, 1959
Death Rides the Wind
Two escaped convicts break into a trapper's cabin. While the man is sleeping, they eat his food, steal his pelts and a rifle and leave. What they don't know, however, is that the trapper wasn't sleeping--he was dying of smallpox. When the Rangees discover what has happened, they set out to capture the fleeing men before they're able to get to Portsmouth and bring that contagious, and fatal, disease with them.
Episode 20 • Jan 29, 1959
The Fourth Brother
When a local trapper is robbed and murdered, suspicion immediately falls on a family of troublemakers, the Wade brothers. However, Dan Wade, the youngest brother, insists that he had nothing to do with the crime and pleads with Maj. Rogers to help prove his innocence.
Episode 21 • Feb 05, 1959
The Ambush
Episode 22 • Feb 12, 1959
The Witch
While scouting French army positions, Rogers is shot. He manages to elude his pursuers and floats downstream unconscious until his canoe is recovered by an old woman skilled in herbs and poultices who recently escaped from Indian captivity. The woman is accused of witchcraft by a sick child and when a traitor learns she was caring for the injured Rogers, plans to turn the ranger over to the French for the thousand dollar reward.
Episode 23 • Feb 19, 1959
Stab in the Back
Rogers must learn why his men are being killed and stripped of their uniforms before an envoy with important dispatches reaches the Crown Point area. He suspects that a new trading post owner and his beautiful daughter are involved and details Ensign Towne to learn more about the recent arrivals, much to the young man's delight.
Episode 24 • Feb 26, 1959
The Deserter
Major Robert Rogers and his Sgt. Hunk are assigned to pursue Pvt. Tom Jason who deserted his post. They discover the young man Tom had left to see his wife Betty and to see his baby. Rogers tries to find a lenient punishment.
Episode 25 • Mar 05, 1959
Trial by Fire
Episode 26 • Mar 12, 1959
The Killers
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