
Northwest Passage
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.
- 1958-1959
- 1 season
- NBC
- Action & Adventure, Drama
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.
Season 1 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1958 - 1959
Episode 1
Fight at the River
Sun, Sep 14, 1958 30 mins

Episode 2
The Red Coat
Sun, Sep 21, 1958 30 mins
Episode 3
The Gunsmith
Sun, Sep 28, 1958 30 mins
Episode 4
Surprise Attack
Sun, Oct 5, 1958
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
The Bound Women
Sun, Oct 12, 1958 30 mins
Episode 6
Break Out
Sun, Oct 19, 1958 30 mins
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
Court Martial
Sun, Oct 26, 1958 30 mins
Episode 8
The Hostage
Sun, Nov 2, 1958 30 mins
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
Sorrow Song
Sun, Nov 9, 1958 30 mins
Episode 10
The Assassin
Sun, Nov 16, 1958 30 mins
Episode 11
The Long Rifle
Sun, Nov 23, 1958 30 mins
An old friend of Hunk's invents a better gunpowder. To attract the Army's interest, Hunk challenges the Army's current gunpowder supplier to a shooting contest.
Episode 12
War Sign
Thu, Oct 30, 1958 30 mins
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
The Traitor
Sun, Dec 7, 1958 30 mins
Episode 14
Vengeance Trail
Sun, Dec 21, 1958 30 mins
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
The 'Vulture'
Sun, Dec 28, 1958 26 mins
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
The Counterfeiters
Fri, Jan 2, 1959 30 mins
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
The Secret of the Cliff
Fri, Jan 9, 1959 30 mins
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
Dead Reckoning
Fri, Jan 16, 1959 30 mins
Episode 19
Death Rides the Wind
Fri, Jan 23, 1959 30 mins
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
The Fourth Brother
Fri, Jan 30, 1959 30 mins
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
The Ambush
Fri, Feb 6, 1959 30 mins
Episode 22
The Witch
Fri, Feb 13, 1959 25 mins
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
Stab in the Back
Fri, Feb 20, 1959 25 mins
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
The Deserter
Fri, Feb 27, 1959 30 mins
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
Trial by Fire
Fri, Mar 6, 1959 30 mins

Episode 26
The Killers
Fri, Mar 13, 1959 30 mins