''Northwest Passage'' is a 1958-1959 26-episode half-hour

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produced by Metro Goldwyn Mayer about

Major Robert Rogers Robert Rogers (7 November 1731 – 18 May 1795) was an American colonial frontiersman. Rogers served in the British army during both the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. During the French and Indian War, Rogers raised and ...

during the time of the

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(1756–1763). 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

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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

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. This attempt, lending its name to the novel and used by Roberts as a

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for the questing human spirit, is referenced in the first episode.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Northwest Passage (Tv Series) 1958 American television series debuts 1959 American television series endings 1950s American drama television series Fiction set in the 1750s Fiction set in the 1760s Television series set in the 18th century NBC original programming American adventure television series 1950s Western (genre) television series Television series by MGM Television Television shows set in New York (state) Works about the French and Indian War Television series based on American novels