Season 1
35 episodes · Dec 24, 1951
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- S1E1
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Dec 24, 1951120mBroadcast live from New York, Gian Carlo Menotti's Christmas story was the first opera commissioned for television, and was repeated in several subsequent telecasts.
- S1E2
Doctor Serocold
Jan 6, 1952120mA Hollywood press agent is assigned to promote a starlet with whom he was once in love.
- S1E4
The Big Build-Up
Jan 20, 1952120mDramatization of the love affair between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
- S1E5
The Story of Roger Williams
Jan 27, 1952120mIn 1631 Roger Williams landed in Boston. He had come to America to find freedom of belief and worship; instead, he found the church here still connected to the church in England and just as oppressive. He refused to join the church in Boston because it still held communion with the Church of England, from which he had just fled. He thought it his duty to renounce all connection with any church that would stain its hands in the blood of the Lord's people.
- S1E6
Florence Nightingale
Feb 3, 1952120mBiography of Florence Nightingale: her determination to build hospitals and train nurses for the sick and disabled during the Crimean War, her correspondence with the Minister of War, and the letter of appreciation she received from Queen Victoria.
- S1E7
Woman with a Sword
Feb 10, 1952120mStory of Anna Ella Carroll, prominent member of a Maryland family who served as unofficial but close advisor and special representative to President Lincoln.
- S1E8
The Plot to Kidnap General Washington
Feb 17, 1952120mIrish-American tailor Hercules Mulligan's contribution to the American Revolution.
- S1E11
Juliette Low and the Girl Scouts
Mar 9, 1952120mThe founding of the Girl Scouts, presented on the occasion of their 40th anniversary.
- S1E12
Constitution Island
Mar 16, 1952120mA salute to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on its 150th anniversary, focusing on Anna Warner's historic gift of Contitution Island to the institution; set in 1907.
- S1E14
The Vision of Father Flanagan
Mar 30, 1952120mThe story of Reverend Edward Joseph Flanagan who, as a young priest from Ireland, founded Boys Town, Nebraska, where outcast boys could find the love and care denied them in their own homes.
- S1E15
Ordeal by White House
Apr 6, 1952120mLittle-known incidents in the life of Grover Cleveland.
- S1E19
A Woman for the Ages
May 11, 1952120mThe story of Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams.
- S1E20
Reign of Terror
May 18, 1952120mEliza Monroe, in Paris as the wife of the U.S. Foreign Minister toFrance, obtains Madame Lafayette's release from prison and sentence of death by guillotine.
- S1E21
The Magnificent Failure
May 25, 1952120mA biography of Louisa May Alcott, ending with her writing of ""Little Women"" in 1860.
- S1E22
The King's Author
Jun 1, 1952120mBiography of Ben Jonson, covering the writing of Eastward ho; set in London, 1606.
- S1E23
Nefretiti, Queen of Egypt
Jun 8, 1952120mBiography of Nefretiti, illustrating her life with the Pharoah and her influence on Egyptian history and culture.
- S1E24
Mr. and Mrs. Freedom
Jun 15, 1952120mThe story of Anna and John Peter Zenger and their fight for freedom of the press.
- S1E25
Forgotten Children
Jun 22, 1952120mA dramatization honouring American educator Martha Berry, founder of Mt. Berry, a Georgia home for mountain people.
- S1E27
The Legend of Josiah Blow
Jul 6, 1952120mAn infantryman in the American Revolution lights a firecracker and gets blown into another generation.
- S1E28
The Real Glory
Jul 13, 1952120mStory of a town in U.S. taken over by corrupt men due to the neglect of the citizenry.
- S1E31
The Carlson Legend
Aug 3, 1952120mA young state senator runs into a moral problem while conducting a cleanup campaign.
- S1E33
I Lift Up My Lamp
Aug 17, 1952120mA young Czech girl in the U.S. is faced with the choice of returning to her family behind the Iron Curtain or remaining free in the U.S.
- S1E34
Crabapple Saint
Aug 24, 1952120mStory of Johnny Appleseed, the wanderer who planted trees as he traveled.
- S1E35
Refresher Course
Aug 31, 1952120mStory of a wealthy middle-aged married couple who retrace their honeymoon, and in so doing, regain their love for each other.