Season 4
42 episodes · Sep 5, 1954
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- S4E1
Dynamite
Sep 5, 1954120mThe Swedish-American inventor of dynamite, established before his death the Nobel Prize to be awarded annually for the best work in the field of physics, medicine and chemistry.
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Do Not Cry For Me
Sep 12, 1954120mTells the story of the early life of the American composer Stephen Foster. Relates the difficulties Foster encountered when he tried to have his first song performed.
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A Man of Many Ideas
Sep 19, 1954120mThe story of John Nelson Wanamaker the 35th United States Postmaster General who was known for buying an abandoned railroad depot and converting it into a department story called "The Grand Depot" which was considered the first department store in Philadelphia.
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The Reluctant Redeemer
Sep 26, 1954120mThe story tells of Moses' upbringing by an Egyptian pharaoh, his killing of a cruel overseer and the flight to Media where he marries. When the voice of God comes from the burning bush he returns to Egypt to free his people. Natalie Wood will be featured as the beloved ot Moses when he was a young man.
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The Story of Johann Sebastian Bach
Oct 3, 1954120mFrom court appointed organist to his triumphant position as Kantor at the Thomasschule his story unfolds as his music was given to the world almost a century after he died after being rediscovered by Felix Mendelssohn.
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The Immortal Oath
Oct 10, 1954120mThe tale of Hippocrates, the father of medicine is dramatized.
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The Yankee Roadblocks
Oct 17, 1954120mAn all-male cast set in the Revolutionary War days, the story tells how a hero exposed the plot of Benedict Arnold and save General Washington from being captured by the British.
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The Lady in the Wings
Oct 24, 1954120mThe widow of the great composer, Edward MacDowell, remembering her happy past, wishes to create a place where artists from all quarters can work in solitude.
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A Matter of Principal
Nov 14, 1954120mAn incident in the life of John Adams, second President of the United States and his defense of an English Officer who was charged with the deaths of five American patriots in Boston.
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President for a Day
Nov 21, 1954120mThe story of the man who was President of the United States for one day is told. David Rice Atchison as President of the Senate automatically became President for 24 hours when Zachary Taylor refused to be inaugurated on a Sunday.
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Deadlock
Dec 5, 1954120mThe story of the Burr–Hamilton duel arose from a long-standing political and personal rivalry that had developed between both men over a course of several years.
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The Province of Man
Dec 12, 1954120mThe story of how William Harvey used King John of England as a guinea pig to test his theory of the circulatory system.
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Amahl and the Night Visitors
Dec 19, 1954120mThe tale of a poor boy and his mother who journey to visit Christ's birth in Bethlehem.
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The Joyful Tydings
Dec 26, 1954120mThe story of the stormy controversy during the reign of Henry the Eighth is dramatized.
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William Tell
Jan 2, 1955120mThe story of the legendary Swiss marksman William Tell is dramatized.
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The First Mintmaster
Jan 9, 1955120mStory of John Hull, first mintmaster of Massachusetts Bay Colony, who was appointed to the post in 1650 as the culmination of his efforts to abolish barter and foreign coinage in favor of a stabilized currency.
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Crusade for Freedom
Jan 16, 1955120mIn the name of his brother, the editor of a Boston newspaper, Benjamin Franklin launches a crusade against Cotton Mather.
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Dr. Harvey W. Wiley
Jan 23, 1955120mStruggle of chemist Wiley to expose frauds in food and drug trade and in patent medicine. His efforts to prove the harmful effects of adulterated and falsely labeled food ultimately led to passage of the Food and Drug Act.
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A Story About Henry Ford
Jan 30, 1955120mFord, unhappy with farm life, moves to Detroit where he begins to experiment with the gas engine, certain that it could be made to propel a vehicle.
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Patrick Henry
Feb 6, 1955120mSilver-tongued Patrick Henry studied law for only six weeks, but so impressed the board that they passed him. He was a successful Southern backwoods lawyer and reluctant to enter the Virginia House of Burgesses until the British introduced the Stamp Act.
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The Shining Beacon
Feb 13, 1955120mTale of Alcuin, the great educator who taught Charlemagne to read and write.
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Martha Custis Washington
Feb 20, 1955120mThe courtship of George Washington and Martha Custis, a widowed mother of two.
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The Talking Wire
Feb 27, 1955120mThe story of Alexander Graham Bell and experiments that led to the electric hearing aid, and then the telephone.
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The Adventures of Lt. Contee
Mar 6, 1955120mTribute to one of Commodore Perry's officers, whose personal efforts helped open Japan to foreign trade.
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The Pirate and the Lawyer
Mar 13, 1955120mAdventures of pirate Jean Laffite and lawyer Edward Livingston.
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Soldier's Bride
Mar 20, 1955120mStory of the love between Knox Taylor (daughter of Colonel Zachary Taylor) and Jefferson Davis.
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The Green Mountain Boys
Apr 3, 1955120mThe story of Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain boys.
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Lydia
Apr 10, 1955120mStory of the pagan Greek Lydia, who lived in ancient Rome and saved the life of the Apostle Paul.
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The Man Who Tore Down the Wall
Apr 17, 1955120mStory from 1910 of Dr. James Ewing, who fought to break down the barriers erected against the investigation and treatment of cancer, and who almost single-handedly founded the Memorial Cancer Center in New York City.
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The Touch of Steel
May 1, 1955120mThe story of young army officer and law student Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 60th justice of the United States Supreme Court.
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The Man With a Camera
May 22, 1955120mStory of George Eastman, and his development of the first camera to use film.
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The Story of Paul Harris and the Founding of Rotary International
May 29, 1955120mTribute to Rotary International in commemoration of its golden anniversary. Includes speech by then Rotary president Herbert J. Taylor.
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The Tempering of the Sword
Jun 5, 1955120mThe story of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Von Steuben, founder of the American military system, who trained troops in the American Revolution.
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Cadet Poe
Jun 12, 1955120mRecounts a "little-known incident" in the life of Edgar Allan Poe.
- S4E41
The Father Who Had No Sons
Jun 19, 1955120mThe inspiring story of Milton S. Hershey, who worked so hard to bring happiness to thousands of orphans.
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The Farmer From Monticello
Jun 26, 1955120mThe story of Thomas Jefferson's return to politics in 1773.