The Great Adventure - Season 1
Season 1
Network
DatesSep 27, 1963 - May 1, 1964
Episodes
Season 1Episode 160 min
The Hunley
During the Civil War, an engineer working for the Confederacy develops a primitive submarine that can evade the Union ships blockading Southern ports.
Sep 27, 1963
Season 1Episode 260 min
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 movement the government believes will lead to another Indian War, and take action that ends in a double tragedy.
Oct 4, 1963
Season 1Episode 360 min
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 results in the unnecessary deaths of over 300 men, women and children.
Oct 11, 1963
Season 1Episode 460 min
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 Southern Pacific Railroad to foil their efforts and preserve their monopoly of transporting produce.
Oct 18, 1963
Season 1Episode 560 min
The Secret
American Continental soldier turns spy against the British and gives all for a concept called Democracy.
Oct 25, 1963
Season 1Episode 660 min
Go Down Moses
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.
Nov 1, 1963
Season 1Episode 760 min
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 Ralston, played by Barry Sullivan.
Nov 8, 1963
Season 1Episode 860 min
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.
Nov 15, 1963
Season 1Episode 960 min
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. She sets out to change that.
Dec 6, 1963
Season 1Episode 1060 min
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.
Dec 13, 1963
Season 1Episode 1160 min
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 Revolution.
Dec 20, 1963
Season 1Episode 1260 min
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.
Jan 3, 1964
Season 1Episode 1360 min
The Colonel from Connecticut
The story of Col. Edwin Drake, the first man to drill for oil in the U.S.
Jan 10, 1964
Season 1Episode 1460 min
Teeth of the Lion
Jan 17, 1964
Season 1Episode 1560 min
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 ends up earning the Medal of Honor for his deeds fighting the Japanese during WWII.
Jan 24, 1964
Season 1Episode 1660 min
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 clashes with both Jackson and the US Government over his fair and humane treatment of the Cherokee.
Jan 31, 1964
Season 1Episode 1760 min
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 traditions. He advocated for Native Americans and founded the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
Feb 14, 1964
Season 1Episode 1860 min
The Night Raiders
A recounting of the events leading to John Brown's disastrous raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859.
Feb 21, 1964
Season 1Episode 1960 min
Plague
Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse attempts to convince the US Government and the public of the value of vaccinations against small pox. One of his first patients - the President of the United States Thomas Jefferson.
Feb 28, 1964
Season 1Episode 2060 min
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 Mexico.
Mar 6, 1964
Season 1Episode 2160 min
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 suspicious reporter. It was twenty four years later that it was revealed that he had surgery to remove a tumor.
Mar 13, 1964
Season 1Episode 2260 min
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.
Mar 20, 1964
Season 1Episode 2360 min
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 Boonesborough by the Shawnee in 1778.
Apr 3, 1964
Season 1Episode 2460 min
The Siege of Boonesborough
This two part episode recounts the story of Daniel Boone and the 1778 Siege of Boonesborough by the Shawnee.
Apr 10, 1964
Season 1Episode 2560 min
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 and into an adjoining building which gave them access to the street. While some were recaptured, a few got away, including Colonel Streight [Michael Constantine] who had organized the escape.
Apr 17, 1964
Season 1Episode 2660 min
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 treatment by the British during the American Revolution with a little help from a local buccaneer.
May 1, 1964
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