Season 1
26 episodes · Sep 27, 1963
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- S1E1
The Hunley
Sep 27, 1963During the Civil War, an engineer working for the Confederacy develops a primitive submarine that can evade the Union ships blockading Southern ports.
- S1E2
The Death of Sitting Bull
Oct 4, 1963The 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.
- S1E3
The Massacre at Wounded Knee
Oct 11, 1963The 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.
- S1E4
Six Wagons to the Sea
Oct 18, 1963The 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.
- S1E5
The Story of Nathan Hale
Oct 25, 1963American Continental soldier turns spy against the British and gives all for a concept called Democracy.
- S1E6
Go Down, Moses
Nov 1, 1963Ruby Dee plays the escaped slave Harriet Tubman and her attempts to rescue enslaved family members and friends through the pre-Civil War Underground Railroad.
- S1E7
The Great Diamond Mountain
Nov 8, 1963In 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.
- S1E8
The Treasure Train of Jefferson Davis
Nov 15, 1963The Confederate Government of Jefferson Davis makes a futile attempt to escape Richmond and capture by the Union Army.
- S1E9
The Outlaw and the Nun
Dec 6, 1963A 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.
- S1E10
The Man Who Stole New York City
Dec 13, 1963The rise and fall of Boss Tweed and his Tammany Hall political machine in 1860s New York City.
- S1E11
A Boy at War
Dec 20, 1963The future seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, is a 13 year old boy soldier struggling to survive the American Revolution.
- S1E12
Wild Bill Hickok - the Legend and the Man
Jan 3, 1964Down on his luck and in decline, Wild Bill Hickok arrives at the end of his trail in Deadwood in 1876.
- S1E13
The Colonel from Connecticut
Jan 10, 1964The story of Col. Edwin Drake, the first man to drill for oil in the U.S.
- S1E15
Rodger Young
Jan 24, 1964James 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.
- S1E16
The Testing of Sam Houston
Jan 31, 1964In 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.
- S1E17
The Special Courage of Captain Pratt
Feb 14, 1964Richard 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.
- S1E18
The Night Raiders
Feb 21, 1964A recounting of the events leading to John Brown's disastrous raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859.
- S1E19
Plague
Feb 28, 1964Dr. 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.
- S1E20
The Pathfinder
Mar 6, 1964The meeting of two great American Legends in 1846 California - Colonel John C. Fremont and John Sutter - on the eve of war with Mexico.
- S1E21
The President Vanishes
Mar 13, 1964In 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.
- S1E22
The Henry Bergh Story
Mar 20, 1964A man crusades for better treatment of animals and forms the ASPCA in 1866. He later crusades for better treatment of children.
- S1E23
Kentucky's Bloody Ground
Apr 3, 1964The 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.
- S1E24
The Siege of Boonesborough
Apr 10, 1964This two part episode recounts the story of Daniel Boone and the 1778 Siege of Boonesborough by the Shawnee.
- S1E25
Escape
Apr 17, 1964The 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.
- S1E26
The Pirate and the Patriot
May 1, 1964Thirty 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.