The Great Adventure (1963)

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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Seasons & Episode

Seasons 1 : 1963

26 Episode

Episode 1 - The Hunley

September. 27,1963

Episode 2 - The Death of Sitting Bull

October. 04,1963

Episode 3 - The Massacre at Wounded Knee

October. 11,1963

Episode 4 - Six Wagons to the Sea

October. 18,1963

Episode 5 - The Story of Nathan Hale

October. 25,1963

Episode 6 - Go Down, Moses

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 7 - The Great Diamond Mountain

November. 08,1963

Episode 8 - The Treasure Train of Jefferson Davis

November. 15,1963

Episode 9 - The Outlaw and the Nun

December. 06,1963

Episode 10 - The Man Who Stole New York City

December. 13,1963

Episode 11 - A Boy at War

December. 20,1963

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

January. 03,1964