First Episode:
Sunday 13 September 1959 / 7.00pm
Last Episode: Monday 16 January 1961 / 7.00pm
Period
drama series set during the 1860's and charting
the adventures of Grey Holden, owner and captain
of 100 foot long steamer The Enterprise which
travelled along the MIssissippi river. Holden
was a full blown adventurer having been a former
soldier and one time rum runner.
Regular characters on the boat included Holden's
co-captain Ben Frazer (for season one anyway
until Burt Reynold's departure - allegedly
Darren McGavin didn't like all the attention
given to Reynolds leading to a feud between the
two of them), Joshua the first mate, Pickalong
the cook (both only lasted one season too).
For the second and final season Holden
(who had actually won the Enterprise in a game
of poker) had sold a half share in the boat to
Bill Blake and he would take a hefty slice of
the action.
Cast
DARREN McGAVIN as
Grey Holden / BURT REYNOLDS as
Ben Frazer (1959-60) / NOAH BEERY JR. as
Bill Blake (1960-61) / WILLIAM D. GORDON as Travis (1959-60) / RICHARD WESSELL
as Carney / JACK LAMBERT as Joshua / MIKE McGREEVEY as Chip (1959-60) / JACK
MITCHUM as Pickalong (1959-60) / BART PATTEN as Terry Blake (1959-60)
