Cavalcade of America

Episode 1

Sam and the Whale

Tue, Sep 29, 1953

The famous American whale hunter, Sam Mulford, goes to England in 1712 and takes his complaint about the English tax on whales off the Long Island coast to the royal court.

Episode 2

The Stolen General

Tue, Oct 6, 1953

During the Revolutionary War, romance-seeking British General Prescott arranges to meet Dorothea Meadows in an unprotected house in Rhode Island. He is captured by Miss Meadows' co-conspirator, Colonel Barton.

Episode 3

Breakfast at Nancy's

Tue, Oct 13, 1953

During the Revolutionary War, messengers vital to the cause of the Colonies are hidden by Nancy Hart beneath the floor of her cabin in Georgia. When the safety of one messenger is threatened, she uses cunning and force to protect him.

Episode 4

Sunset at Appomattox

Tue, Oct 20, 1953

A dramatization of the 1865 meeting of General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, and the surrender of Lee's army to Grant's army, ending the four years of war between the Union and the Confederacy.

Episode 5

And to Fame Unknown

Tue, Oct 27, 1953

A high school science teacher helps develop a better America for younger generations through his efforts in the field of science education.

Episode 6

A Time to Grow

Tue, Nov 3, 1953

An historical drama about the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803.

Episode 7

The Tiger's Tail

Tue, Nov 17, 1953 30 mins

In 1870s New York, Thomas Nast, known for his drawings of Santa Claus, creates a series of cartoons about the corrupt politician, Boss Tweed.

Episode 8

The Last Will of Daniel Webster

Tue, Nov 24, 1953 30 mins

Daniel Webster, tormented by memories of selfish deeds near the end of his life, is comforted by friends who point out that his constructive acts will be remembered.

Episode 9

Major Pauline

Tue, Dec 1, 1953

A beautiful, gifted actress serves as a spy for the Union during the Civil War.

Episode 10

The Betrayal

Tue, Dec 8, 1953

The neurotic and brilliant Benedict Arnold, General in the Revolutionary Army, attempts to deliver West Point to His Majesty's Forces.

Episode 11

Riders of the Pony Express

Tue, Dec 15, 1953 30 mins

Story of the rise and fall of the Pony Express.

Episode 12

One Nation Indivisible

Tue, Dec 22, 1953

Horace Greeley, America's Titan of the Press, keeps a vow to Abraham Lincoln for leniency toward Jefferson Davis and the South.

Episode 13

Mr. Peale's Dinosaur

Tue, Dec 29, 1953 30 mins

Painter Charles Wilson Peale risks his career and possessions to excavate and reconstruct a fossilized mastodon, the greatest skeleton ever seen in his day.

Episode 14

G for Goldberger

Tue, Jan 12, 1954 30 mins

Dr. Joseph Goldberger fights disbelief and prejudice to conquer the dreaded disease, pellagra.

Episode 15

Smyrna Incident

Tue, Jan 19, 1954

The captain of an American ship, anchored in the Turkish port of Smyrna, risks a battle with three Austrian ships when he demands the release of an Austrian-born prisoner, who has applied for American citizenship.

Episode 16

Man of Glass: The Story of a Glassmaker

Tue, Jan 26, 1954

Dramatizes the life of Henry William Stiegel, who came to America from Germany and rose from a worker in an iron foundry to be head of a large glass factory.

Episode 17

Plume of Honor

Tue, Feb 9, 1954

A historical drama about Francis Huger, an American medical student, and Erich Bollman, a young German physician, who attempt to rescue Lafayette from an Austrian prison in 1794.

Episode 18

Margin of Victory

Tue, Feb 16, 1954

The Culpers, famous spies, enable reinforcements to land in Rhode Island during the American Revolution.

Episode 19

The Absent Host

Tue, Mar 2, 1954

British forces raid Monticello in an attempt to capture Thomas Jefferson.

Episode 20

Duel at the O.K. Corral

Tue, Mar 9, 1954

A dramatization of the efforts of Wyatt Earp to free the West of dangerous armed gunmen, in particular in Dodge City, Kansas; Deadwood, South Dakota; and Tombstone, Arizona.

Episode 21

The Splendid Dream

Tue, Mar 16, 1954

Dramatizes the life of William Penn in the 17th century, from his early interest in the Society of Friends, to his ultimate success in founding a New World colony where religious freedom became a reality.

Episode 22

Young Andy Jackson

Tue, Mar 23, 1954

Young Andrew Jackson in South Carolina at the time of the American Revolution joins the militia and engages in guerrilla fighting against the British.

Episode 23

Escape: The Story of Carl Schurz

Tue, Mar 30, 1954

Carl Shurz escapes a Prussian firing squad in 1848 and comes to America to continue his fight for freedom.

Episode 24

Riddle of the Seas

Tue, Apr 6, 1954

In the mid-nineteenth century, Matthew Fontaine Maury suggests the scientific charting of ocean and wind currents.

Episode 25

Crazy Judah

Tue, Apr 13, 1954

A dramatization of Theodore Judah's attempts to unify the country with a transcontinental railroad system.

Episode 26

A Strange Journey

Tue, Apr 20, 1954

Episode 27

The Paper Sword

Tue, Apr 27, 1954

Newspaper editor James King crusades for clean government during San Francisco's lawless days in the 1850s.

Episode 28

Gentle Conqueror

Tue, May 4, 1954

Episode 29

Spindletop: Texas' First Oil Gushers

Tue, May 11, 1954

Drama about the historic gusher that opened one of Texas' biggest oil fields in 1901.

Episode 30

Moonlight School

Tue, May 18, 1954

In 1911, Cora Wilson Stewart, a county superintendent and a teacher in a one-room school succeeds in establishing a night class for adults in a backward section of Kentucky.

Episode 31

Cat with the Crimson Eyes

Tue, May 25, 1954

Episode 32

The Skipper's Lady

Tue, Jun 8, 1954

A woman in command of a ship races with it to California in an effort to prevent an Indian uprising.

Episode 34

Courage in Connecticut

Tue, Jun 22, 1954

The struggles for liberty and human dignity in pre-Revolutionary America.