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Season 1

The Great Adventure Season 1

September. 27,1963

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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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The Great Adventure Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 26 - The Pirate and the Patriot

First Aired: May. 01,1964

Episode 25 - Escape

First Aired: April. 17,1964

Episode 24 - The Siege of Boonesborough

First Aired: April. 10,1964

Episode 23 - Kentucky's Bloody Ground

First Aired: April. 03,1964

Episode 22 - The Henry Bergh Story

First Aired: March. 20,1964

Episode 21 - The President Vanishes

First Aired: March. 13,1964

Episode 20 - The Pathfinder

First Aired: March. 06,1964

Episode 19 - Plague

First Aired: February. 28,1964

Episode 18 - The Night Raiders

First Aired: February. 21,1964

Episode 17 - The Special Courage of Captain Pratt

First Aired: February. 14,1964

Episode 16 - The Testing of Sam Houston

First Aired: January. 31,1964

Episode 15 - Rodger Young

First Aired: January. 24,1964

Episode 14 - Teeth of the Lion

First Aired: January. 17,1964

Episode 13 - The Colonel from Connecticut

First Aired: January. 10,1964

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

Episode 12 - Wild Bill Hickok - the Legend and the Man

First Aired: January. 03,1964

Episode 11 - A Boy at War

First Aired: December. 20,1963

Episode 10 - The Man Who Stole New York City

First Aired: December. 13,1963

Episode 9 - The Outlaw and the Nun

First Aired: December. 06,1963

Episode 8 - The Treasure Train of Jefferson Davis

First Aired: November. 15,1963

Episode 7 - The Great Diamond Mountain

First Aired: November. 08,1963

Episode 6 - Go Down, Moses

First Aired: November. 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.

Episode 5 - The Story of Nathan Hale

First Aired: October. 25,1963

Episode 4 - Six Wagons to the Sea

First Aired: October. 18,1963

Episode 3 - The Massacre at Wounded Knee

First Aired: October. 11,1963

Episode 2 - The Death of Sitting Bull

First Aired: October. 04,1963

Episode 1 - The Hunley

First Aired: September. 27,1963