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The Great Adventure (1963)
10.0 1 season 26 episodes Ended
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.
Seasons & episodes
E1The HunleySep 27, 1963
During the Civil War, an engineer working for the Confederacy develops a primitive submarine that can evade the Union ships blockading Sout…
E2The Death of Sitting BullOct 4, 1963
The first of a two part episode, the US Government believes that Sitting Bull has joined the Ghost Dancers, a Sioux religious movement the…
E3The Massacre at Wounded KneeOct 11, 1963
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 results in the…
E4Six Wagons to the SeaOct 18, 1963
The attempt in 1894 by farmers from California's Central Valley to get their produce to market by wagon despite attempts by the Southern Pa…
E5The Story of Nathan HaleOct 25, 1963
American Continental soldier turns spy against the British and gives all for a concept called Democracy.
E6Go Down, MosesNov 1, 1963
Ruby Dee plays the escaped slave Harriet Tubman and her attempts to rescue enslaved family members and friends through the pre-Civil War Un…
E7The Great Diamond MountainNov 8, 1963
In this humorous episode, two con men perpetrate the Diamond Hoax of 1872 in an attempt to swindle San Francisco banker William Ralston, pl…
E8The Treasure Train of Jefferson DavisNov 15, 1963
The Confederate Government of Jefferson Davis makes a futile attempt to escape Richmond and capture by the Union Army.
E9The Outlaw and the NunDec 6, 1963
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. She sets ou…
E10The Man Who Stole New York CityDec 13, 1963
The rise and fall of Boss Tweed and his Tammany Hall political machine in 1860s New York City.
E11A Boy at WarDec 20, 1963
The future seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, is a 13 year old boy soldier struggling to survive the American Revoluti…
E12Wild Bill Hickok - the Legend and the ManJan 3, 1964
Down on his luck and in decline, Wild Bill Hickok arrives at the end of his trail in Deadwood in 1876.
E13The Colonel from ConnecticutJan 10, 1964
The story of Col. Edwin Drake, the first man to drill for oil in the U.S.
E14Teeth of the LionJan 17, 1964
E15Rodger YoungJan 24, 1964
James MacArthur plays Rodger Young. The story of a young man that enlists in the Army despite having poor eyesight and hearing and ends up…
E16The Testing of Sam HoustonJan 31, 1964
In 1817, Andrew Jackson appoints a young Sam Houston to oversee the forced relocation of the Cherokee from Tennessee. He soon clashes with…
E17The Special Courage of Captain PrattFeb 14, 1964
Richard Pratt's now controversial efforts to assimilate Native Americans into "white" society by education and rejection of tribal traditio…
E18The Night RaidersFeb 21, 1964
A recounting of the events leading to John Brown's disastrous raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859.
E19PlagueFeb 28, 1964
Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse attempts to convince the US Government and the public of the value of vaccinations against small pox. One of his fi…
E20The PathfinderMar 6, 1964
The meeting of two great American Legends in 1846 California - Colonel John C. Fremont and John Sutter - on the eve of war with Mexico.
E21The President VanishesMar 13, 1964
In 1893 President Grover Cleveland embarks on a mysterious voyage into Long Island Sound aboard a friend's yacht pursued by a suspicious re…
E22The Henry Bergh StoryMar 20, 1964
A man crusades for better treatment of animals and forms the ASPCA in 1866. He later crusades for better treatment of children.
E23Kentucky's Bloody GroundApr 3, 1964
The first of a two part episode recalling Daniel Boone's attempt to settle Kentucky and the events leading to the siege of Boonesborough by…
E24The Siege of BoonesboroughApr 10, 1964
This two part episode recounts the story of Daniel Boone and the 1778 Siege of Boonesborough by the Shawnee.
E25EscapeApr 17, 1964
The true Civil War story of an escape by Union POWs from the Confederate Libby Prison in 1864. The POWs tunneled under the walls and into a…
E26The Pirate and the PatriotMay 1, 1964
Thirty four years later, General Andrew Jackson, commanding the US Army defending New Orleans, is about to get revenge for his treatment by…
