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Season 1
N/A/100 votesPoor Richard
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1952
Dramatized 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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
No Greater Love
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/10/1952
A 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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 9.3/1019 votes
In This Crisis
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/24/1952
John Honeyman, American patriot, pretends to be a Tory in order to gain information that will mean Washington?s victory over the Hessians.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
A Matter of Honor
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/18/1953
A 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?
Director: Arthur Hilton
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Mightier Than the Sword
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 3/18/1953
A 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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Indomitable Blacksmith
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/1/1953
A 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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Gingerbread Man
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/15/1953
A 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.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Night Strike
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 4/29/1953
Dramatizes 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.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Slater's Dream
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 5/13/1953
Dramatizes 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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
John Yankee
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 6/10/1953
Dramatizes John Adams' difficult and unpopular decision to defend eight English soldiers who participated in a Boston riot prior to the Revolution.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Charles Larson