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📺 Series

The Great Adventure

📅 1963 🕐 1h 0m US US

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.

Seasons & Episodes
Season 1 26 episodes
E1
The Hunley 1963-09-27
E2
The Death of Sitting Bull 1963-10-04
E3
The Massacre at Wounded Knee 1963-10-11
E4
Six Wagons to the Sea 1963-10-18
E5
The Story of Nathan Hale 1963-10-25
E6
Go Down, Moses 1963-11-01
E7
The Great Diamond Mountain 1963-11-08
E8
The Treasure Train of Jefferson Davis 1963-11-15
E9
The Outlaw and the Nun 1963-12-06
E10
The Man Who Stole New York City 1963-12-13
E11
A Boy at War 1963-12-20
E12
Wild Bill Hickok - the Legend and the Man 1964-01-03
E13
The Colonel from Connecticut 1964-01-10
E14
Teeth of the Lion 1964-01-17
E15
Rodger Young 1964-01-24
E16
The Testing of Sam Houston 1964-01-31
E17
The Special Courage of Captain Pratt 1964-02-14
E18
The Night Raiders 1964-02-21
E19
Plague 1964-02-28
E20
The Pathfinder 1964-03-06
E21
The President Vanishes 1964-03-13
E22
The Henry Bergh Story 1964-03-20
E23
Kentucky's Bloody Ground 1964-04-03
E24
The Siege of Boonesborough 1964-04-10
E25
Escape 1964-04-17
E26
The Pirate and the Patriot 1964-05-01
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