Season 1
20 episodes · Oct 1, 1952
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- S1E1
Poor Richard
Oct 1, 195260mDramatized incidents are used to show how Benjamin Franklin delayed a conference between Lord Howe and John Adams until the spring rainy season commenced, thereby allowing General Washington to extricate his troops from Long Island under the cover of a storm. This drama sent the ""old and obstinate"" Franklin to delay American surrender talks with the British, thereby allowing General George Washington to escape capture to fight another day.
- S1E2
All's Well with Lydia
Oct 15, 195260mThe Revolutionary War story of Lydia Darragh, American patriot and Philadelphia widow, who by her cleverness gained information instrumental in an American victory.
- S1E3
The Man Who Took a Chance
Oct 29, 195260mThe story of an 19th century genius who adapted 20th century methods to solve an American problem, Eli Whitney first begins to manufacture muskets.
- S1E4
A Romance to Remember
Nov 12, 195260mThe tale of the two beautiful Peabody Sisters who become rivals for the love of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- S1E5
What Hath God Wrought
Nov 26, 195260mThe story of how Samuel Morse, after many hardships, gained recognition for the first telegraph.
- S1E6
No Greater Love
Dec 10, 195260mA story about Clara Louise Maas, a Spanish-American War nurse who allowed herself to be bitten by a Stegomyia mosquito in order to further the experiments which were being conducted in the Las Animas Hospital in Havana under the direction of Dr. William C. Gorgas during a yellow fever epidemic at the turn of the century.
- S1E7
In This Crisis
Dec 24, 195260mJohn Honeyman, American patriot, pretends to be a Tory in order to gain information that will mean Washington?s victory over the Hessians.
- S1E8
The Arrow and the Bow
Jan 7, 195360mThe career of Andrew Johnson, who, starting as a tailor, became the 17th President.
- S1E9
What Might Have Been
Jan 21, 195360mThe story of the tragic romance and marriage of Jefferson Davis and Sarah Knox Taylor.
- S1E10
New Salem Story
Feb 4, 195360mThe legendary tale of Abe Lincoln and his great love for Ann Rutledge.
- S1E11
A Matter of Honor
Feb 18, 195360mA historical drama portraying the misunderstanding between Sam Houston and his wife, Eliza, which resulted in Houston's resignation of the governorship of Tennessee. The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Alamo, who gave the woman he loved a locket engraved with one word, ""integrity"" but had she earned the right to wear it?
- S1E12
Experiment at Monticello
Mar 4, 195360mThomas Jefferson, President of the United States, uses himself as a guinea pig and is inoculated with the germs of small pox in a heroic effort to establish control of the disease.
- S1E13
Mightier Than the Sword
Mar 18, 195360mA pre-Revolutionary War drama. The freedom of the press is upheld through the trial and acquittal of John Peter Zenger, a New York newspaper publisher who was imprisoned for printing the truth about corruption of the British administration. Story of John Peter Zenger in the famous trial that established American freedom of the press.
- S1E14
The Indomitable Blacksmith
Apr 1, 195360mA story about Thomas Davenport, a blacksmith, and his long struggle to invent and perfect the electric motor. Setting: Brandon, Vt., in the 1830's. The story of how Thomas Davenport neglected his blacksmith trade and failed in business, but won immortality in science by inventing the first electric motor.
- S1E15
The Gingerbread Man
Apr 15, 195360mA true story about Christopher Ludwick, the baker, who came to America in 1776 from Germany. He made a most unusual gingerbread man which later became famous in America. He lived with his wife in Philadelphia. A comedy-drama about an elderly German baker who persuades 123 Hessian soldiers to desert the British Army during the American Revolution.
- S1E16
Night Strike
Apr 29, 195360mDramatizes an incident in the career of Captain John Paul Jones. Describes a raid made by Americans under Jones' leadership on the English coast at Whitehaven in 1778 and the unexpected outcome of the action.
- S1E17
Slater's Dream
May 13, 195360mDramatizes the story of Samuel Slater, a young Englishman, who came to America in 1790 and struggled to construct from memory the cotton spinner, the plan of which England jealously guarded to insure a monopoly on the machine.
- S1E18
The Pirate's Choice
May 27, 195360mDramtizes the events which led to the decision of the pirate Jean Lafitte to join Andrew Jackson in the defense of New Orleans against the English forces in 1814.
- S1E19
John Yankee
Jun 10, 195360mDramatizes John Adams' difficult and unpopular decision to defend eight English soldiers who participated in a Boston riot prior to the Revolution.
- S1E20
The Tenderfoot
Jun 24, 195360mA historical drama showing how young Theodore Roosevelt, undaunted by a blizzard, pursues and captures three outlaws in the Dakota Bad Lands. Time: 1886.