The Great Adventure

The Great Adventure

1963
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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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Season

1
26 - The Pirate and the Patriot
May. 01,1964
25 - Escape
Apr. 17,1964
24 - The Siege of Boonesborough
Apr. 10,1964
23 - Kentucky's Bloody Ground
Apr. 03,1964
22 - The Henry Bergh Story
Mar. 20,1964
21 - The President Vanishes
Mar. 13,1964
20 - The Pathfinder
Mar. 06,1964
19 - Plague
Feb. 28,1964
18 - The Night Raiders
Feb. 21,1964
17 - The Special Courage of Captain Pratt
Feb. 14,1964
16 - The Testing of Sam Houston
Jan. 31,1964
15 - Rodger Young
Jan. 24,1964
14 - Teeth of the Lion
Jan. 17,1964
13 - The Colonel from Connecticut
Jan. 10,1964

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

12 - Wild Bill Hickok - the Legend and the Man
Jan. 03,1964
11 - A Boy at War
Dec. 20,1963
10 - The Man Who Stole New York City
Dec. 13,1963
9 - The Outlaw and the Nun
Dec. 06,1963
8 - The Treasure Train of Jefferson Davis
Nov. 15,1963
7 - The Great Diamond Mountain
Nov. 08,1963
6 - Go Down, Moses
Nov. 01,1963

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

5 - The Story of Nathan Hale
Oct. 25,1963
4 - Six Wagons to the Sea
Oct. 18,1963
3 - The Massacre at Wounded Knee
Oct. 11,1963
2 - The Death of Sitting Bull
Oct. 04,1963
1 - The Hunley
Sep. 27,1963

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