The Great Adventure

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1963

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Season 1
Episodes

EP 2: The Death of Sitting Bull

The first of a two part episode, the US Government believes that Sitting Bull has joined the Ghost Dancers, a Sioux religious move...

EP 3: The Massacre at Wounded Knee

The second of a two part episode. Days after Sitting Bull's death, the US Army's bungled attempt to disarm a party of Sioux result...

EP 4: Six Wagons to the Sea

The attempt in 1894 by farmers from California's Central Valley to get their produce to market by wagon despite attempts by the So...

EP 5: The Story of Nathan Hale

American Continental soldier turns spy against the British and gives all for a concept called Democracy....

EP 6: Go Down, Moses

Ruby Dee plays the escaped slave Harriet Tubman and her attempts to rescue enslaved family members and friends through the pre-Civ...

EP 7: The Great Diamond Mountain

In this humorous episode, two con men perpetrate the Diamond Hoax of 1872 in an attempt to swindle San Francisco banker William Ra...

EP 8: The Treasure Train of Jefferson Davis

The Confederate Government of Jefferson Davis makes a futile attempt to escape Richmond and capture by the Union Army....

EP 9: The Outlaw and the Nun

A nun comes to a town to teach school and finds that education is so undervalued by the community that she has only two pupils. Sh...

EP 10: The Man Who Stole New York City

The rise and fall of Boss Tweed and his Tammany Hall political machine in 1860s New York City....

EP 11: A Boy at War

The future seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, is a 13 year old boy soldier struggling to survive the American...

EP 12: Wild Bill Hickok - the Legend and the Man

Down on his luck and in decline, Wild Bill Hickok arrives at the end of his trail in Deadwood in 1876....

EP 13: The Colonel from Connecticut

The story of Col. Edwin Drake, the first man to drill for oil in the U.S....

EP 14: Teeth of the Lion

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EP 15: Rodger Young

James MacArthur plays Rodger Young. The story of a young man that enlists in the Army despite having poor eyesight and hearing and...

EP 16: The Testing of Sam Houston

In 1817, Andrew Jackson appoints a young Sam Houston to oversee the forced relocation of the Cherokee from Tennessee. He soon clas...

EP 17: The Special Courage of Captain Pratt

Richard Pratt's now controversial efforts to assimilate Native Americans into "white" society by education and rejection of tribal...

EP 18: The Night Raiders

A recounting of the events leading to John Brown's disastrous raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859....

EP 19: Plague

Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse attempts to convince the US Government and the public of the value of vaccinations against small pox. One ...

EP 20: The Pathfinder

The meeting of two great American Legends in 1846 California - Colonel John C. Fremont and John Sutter - on the eve of war with Me...

EP 21: The President Vanishes

In 1893 President Grover Cleveland embarks on a mysterious voyage into Long Island Sound aboard a friend's yacht pursued by a susp...

EP 22: The Henry Bergh Story

A man crusades for better treatment of animals and forms the ASPCA in 1866. He later crusades for better treatment of children....

EP 23: Kentucky's Bloody Ground

The first of a two part episode recalling Daniel Boone's attempt to settle Kentucky and the events leading to the siege of Boonesb...

EP 24: The Siege of Boonesborough

This two part episode recounts the story of Daniel Boone and the 1778 Siege of Boonesborough by the Shawnee....

EP 25: Escape

The true Civil War story of an escape by Union POWs from the Confederate Libby Prison in 1864. The POWs tunneled under the walls a...

EP 26: The Pirate and the Patriot

Thirty four years later, General Andrew Jackson, commanding the US Army defending New Orleans, is about to get revenge for his tre...

Overview

The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964 television season. The series, narrated each week by Van Heflin, and featuring theme music by Richard Rodgers, presented a weekly one-hour dramatization of the lives of famous Americans and important historical events in American History.

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Episodes >>

The Hunley

Episode 1

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The Death of Sitting Bull

Episode 2

The first of a two part episode, the US Government believes that Sitting Bull ha...

The Massacre at Wounded Knee

Episode 3

The second of a two part episode. Days after Sitting Bull's death, the US Army's...

Six Wagons to the Sea

Episode 4

The attempt in 1894 by farmers from California's Central Valley to get their pro...

The Story of Nathan Hale

Episode 5

American Continental soldier turns spy against the British and gives all for a c...

Go Down, Moses

Episode 6

Ruby Dee plays the escaped slave Harriet Tubman and her attempts to rescue ensla...

The Great Diamond Mountain

Episode 7

In this humorous episode, two con men perpetrate the Diamond Hoax of 1872 in an ...

The Treasure Train of Jefferson Davis

Episode 8

The Confederate Government of Jefferson Davis makes a futile attempt to escape R...

The Outlaw and the Nun

Episode 9

A nun comes to a town to teach school and finds that education is so undervalued...

The Man Who Stole New York City

Episode 10

The rise and fall of Boss Tweed and his Tammany Hall political machine in 1860s ...

A Boy at War

Episode 11

The future seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, is a 13 year ...

Wild Bill Hickok - the Legend and the Man

Episode 12

Down on his luck and in decline, Wild Bill Hickok arrives at the end of his trai...

The Colonel from Connecticut

Episode 13

The story of Col. Edwin Drake, the first man to drill for oil in the U.S....

Teeth of the Lion

Episode 14

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Rodger Young

Episode 15

James MacArthur plays Rodger Young. The story of a young man that enlists in the...

The Testing of Sam Houston

Episode 16

In 1817, Andrew Jackson appoints a young Sam Houston to oversee the forced reloc...

The Special Courage of Captain Pratt

Episode 17

Richard Pratt's now controversial efforts to assimilate Native Americans into "w...

The Night Raiders

Episode 18

A recounting of the events leading to John Brown's disastrous raid on Harper's F...

Plague

Episode 19

Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse attempts to convince the US Government and the public of...

The Pathfinder

Episode 20

The meeting of two great American Legends in 1846 California - Colonel John C. F...

The President Vanishes

Episode 21

In 1893 President Grover Cleveland embarks on a mysterious voyage into Long Isla...

The Henry Bergh Story

Episode 22

A man crusades for better treatment of animals and forms the ASPCA in 1866. He l...

Kentucky's Bloody Ground

Episode 23

The first of a two part episode recalling Daniel Boone's attempt to settle Kentu...

The Siege of Boonesborough

Episode 24

This two part episode recounts the story of Daniel Boone and the 1778 Siege of B...

Escape

Episode 25

The true Civil War story of an escape by Union POWs from the Confederate Libby P...

The Pirate and the Patriot

Episode 26

Thirty four years later, General Andrew Jackson, commanding the US Army defendin...