The Great Adventure

1. S01E01The HunleySeptember 27, 1963—During the Civil War, an engineer working for the Confederacy develops a primitive submarine that can evade the Union ships blockading South
2. S01E02The Death of Sitting BullOctober 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 g
3. S01E03The Massacre at Wounded KneeOctober 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 u
4. S01E04Six Wagons to the SeaOctober 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 Pac
5. S01E05The Story of Nathan HaleOctober 25, 1963—American Continental soldier turns spy against the British and gives all for a concept called Democracy.
6. S01E06Go Down, MosesNovember 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 Und
7. S01E07The Great Diamond MountainNovember 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, pla
8. S01E08The Treasure Train of Jefferson DavisNovember 15, 1963—The Confederate Government of Jefferson Davis makes a futile attempt to escape Richmond and capture by the Union Army.
9. S01E09The Outlaw and the NunDecember 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 out
10. S01E10The Man Who Stole New York CityDecember 13, 1963—The rise and fall of Boss Tweed and his Tammany Hall political machine in 1860s New York City.
11. S01E11A Boy at WarDecember 20, 1963—The future seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, is a 13 year old boy soldier struggling to survive the American Revolutio
12. S01E12Wild Bill Hickok - the Legend and the ManJanuary 3, 1964—Down on his luck and in decline, Wild Bill Hickok arrives at the end of his trail in Deadwood in 1876.
13. S01E13The Colonel from ConnecticutJanuary 10, 1964—The story of Col. Edwin Drake, the first man to drill for oil in the U.S.
14. S01E14Teeth of the LionJanuary 17, 1964—
15. S01E15Rodger YoungJanuary 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 e
16. S01E16The Testing of Sam HoustonJanuary 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 b
17. S01E17The Special Courage of Captain PrattFebruary 14, 1964—Richard Pratt's now controversial efforts to assimilate Native Americans into "white" society by education and rejection of tribal tradition
18. S01E18The Night RaidersFebruary 21, 1964—A recounting of the events leading to John Brown's disastrous raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859.
19. S01E19PlagueFebruary 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 fir
20. S01E20The PathfinderMarch 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.
21. S01E21The President VanishesMarch 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 rep
22. S01E22The Henry Bergh StoryMarch 20, 1964—A man crusades for better treatment of animals and forms the ASPCA in 1866. He later crusades for better treatment of children.
23. S01E23Kentucky's Bloody GroundApril 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
24. S01E24The Siege of BoonesboroughApril 10, 1964—This two part episode recounts the story of Daniel Boone and the 1778 Siege of Boonesborough by the Shawnee.
25. S01E25EscapeApril 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 an
26. S01E26The 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

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