NaN/100 votes#1 - Poor 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.
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#2 - All's Well with Lydia
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/15/1952
The Revolutionary War story of Lydia Darragh, American patriot and Philadelphia widow, who by her cleverness gained information instrumental in an American victory.
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#3 - The Man Who Took a Chance
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/29/1952
The story of an 19th century genius who adapted 20th century methods to solve an American problem, Eli Whitney first begins to manufacture muskets.
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#4 - A Romance to Remember
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/12/1952
The tale of the two beautiful Peabody Sisters who become rivals for the love of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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#5 - What Hath God Wrought
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/26/1952
The story of how Samuel Morse, after many hardships, gained recognition for the first telegraph.
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#6 - 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.
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#7 - 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
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#8 - The Arrow and the Bow
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/7/1953
The career of Andrew Johnson, who, starting as a tailor, became the 17th President.
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#9 - What Might Have Been
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/21/1953
The story of the tragic romance and marriage of Jefferson Davis and Sarah Knox Taylor.
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#10 - New Salem Story
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 2/4/1953
The legendary tale of Abe Lincoln and his great love for Ann Rutledge.
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#11 - 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
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#12 - Experiment at Monticello
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/4/1953
Thomas 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.
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#13 - 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.
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#14 - 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.
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#15 - 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
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#16 - 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
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#17 - 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.
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#18 - The Pirate's Choice
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/27/1953
Dramtizes 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.
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#19 - 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.
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Writer: Charles Larson
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#20 - The Tenderfoot
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 6/24/1953
A historical drama showing how young Theodore Roosevelt, undaunted by a blizzard, pursues and captures three outlaws in the Dakota Bad Lands. Time: 1886.
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The Best Episodes of Cavalcade of America Season 1
Every episode of Cavalcade of America Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Cavalcade of America Season 1!
Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation...
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Poor Richard" is the best rated episode of "Cavalcade of America" season 1. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/1/1952. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "All's Well with Lydia".
