This is the penultimate episode in the Two-Season run
of this 1959-1960 Western series set on the riverboat named the Enterprise.
Darren McGavin played captain Grey Holden, and Burt
Reynolds played his partner Ben Frazer for the first 20 episodes but…
The two stars did not get along at all.
Season Two sees Reynolds exit the show and Noah Beery,
Jr. is added as Bill Blake.
I chose this one as my first foray because of the guest
star, Charles Bronson; we also have a young Stella Stevens on hand.
The plot is meagre and redolent of 1950s episodic
television, and my guest star of choice is given little to do. To be fair,
McGavin is hardly used here either.
Perhaps a sign of a show that knows that it only has
one more episode to shoot before cancellation and the steam is no longer there.
It might be unfair to judge the shows run off of this single
episode but…it doesn’t have me running after another one immediately.
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