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The Best Episodes of Cavalcade of America Season 2

Every episode of Cavalcade of America Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Cavalcade of America Season 2!

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    Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 1 - Sam and the Whale
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    #1 - Sam and the Whale

    S2:E1

    Sam Mulford, a famous American whale hunter who resents the English tax on whales and the methods employed by the King's tax collectors along the coast of Long Island goes to England, where, with the help of Lady Montagu, he takes his complaint to the royal court. Time: 1712.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 2 - The Stolen General
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    #2 - The Stolen General

    S2:E2

    A Revolutionary War drama. When 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.

    Director:Robert Stevenson
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 3 - Breakfast at Nancy's
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    #3 - Breakfast at Nancy's

    S2:E3

    In Georgia during the American Revolution, a beautiful girl and a gleaming rifle bring aid to the cause of freedom. Messengers vital to the cause of the Colonies are hidden by Nancy Hart beneath the floor of her cabin in the Georgia hills. When the safety of one messenger is threatened, she uses cunning and force to protect him.

    Director:Sidney Salkow
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 4 - Sunset at Appomattox
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    #4 - Sunset at Appomattox

    S2:E4

    A dramatization of the meeting of General Lee and General Grant at Appomattox based on detailed accounts of fourteen eye-witnesses to the surrender. The surrender of Robert E. Lee's army to the Union Army headed by U.S. Grant in 1865 ends the four years of war between the Union and the Confederacy.

    Director:Robert Stevenson
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 5 - And to Fame Unknown
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    #5 - And to Fame Unknown

    S2:E5

    Shows how a high school science teacher is helping to develop a better America for younger generations through his efforts in the field of science education. Explains that educators can alleviate the manpower shortage in scientific fields by stimulating the interest of exceptional high school students and encouraging them to pursue scientific careers.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 6 - A Time to Grow
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    #6 - A Time to Grow

    S2:E6

    A historical drama showing the events which led to the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 7 - Tiger's Tail
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    #7 - Tiger's Tail

    S2:E7

    Becoming aware of corruption in politics in New York, Thomas Nast, known for his drawings of Santa Claus, initiates a series of cartoons in which Boss Tweed is symbolized as a snarling tiger. In spite of threats and slander the cartoonist continues his work and inflames the public to the overthrow of the corrupt Tweed political machine. Time: 1870's.

    Director:Robert Stevenson
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 8 - The Last Will of Daniel Webster
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    #8 - The Last Will of Daniel Webster

    S2:E8

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

    Director:Robert Stevenson
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 9 - Major Pauline
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    #9 - Major Pauline

    S2:E9

    A historical drama. Distressed by the outbreak of war between the States, Pauline Cushman, famous actress, offers her services as a Union espionage agent behind the Confederate lines.

    Director:Robert Stevenson
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 10 - Betrayal
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    #10 - Betrayal

    S2:E10

    A drama depicting the evolution of Benedict Arnold's plan to surrender West Point to the British and his subsequent flight to England when papers incriminating him were intercepted. Time: 1777-1780.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 11 - Riders of the Pony Express
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    #11 - Riders of the Pony Express

    S2:E11

    A historical drama. The pony express era is initiated by Alexander Majors, one of the owners of a transport firm, who, in searching for methods of transporting mail and packages across the West, delves into history and adapts the relay courier system as used by Genghis Khan.

    Director:Robert Stevenson
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 12 - One Nation Indivisible
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    #12 - One Nation Indivisible

    S2:E12

    The editor of the Tribune, Horace Greeley,(America's Titan of the Press) influenced by a conversation with President Lincoln, changes his views regarding Jefferson Davis and proceeds, with some risk to his career, to conduct a successful crusade to free the ex-Confederate president from prison. Time: latter half of nineteenth century.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 13 - Mr. Peale's Dinosaur
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    #13 - Mr. Peale's Dinosaur

    S2:E13

    A drama relating the events which led to Charles Willson Peale's conception of the idea of establishing in Philadelphia a national museum of natural history and his efforts to provide the museum with noteworthy exhibits. Time: 1794. Painter Charles Wilson Peale risks his career and possessions to excavate and reconstruct a fossilized mastadon, the greatest skeleton ever seen in his day.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 14 - G for Goldberger
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    #14 - G for Goldberger

    S2:E14

    Dr. Joseph Goldberger fights disbelief and prejudice, after touring stricken areas in the South, he conceives and attempts to prove his theory that pellagra is the result of a dietary deficiency. Time: 1915.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 15 - Smyrna Incident
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    #15 - Smyrna Incident

    S2:E15

    A historical drama. The captain of an American ship, anchored in the Turkish port of Smyrna, risks of a battle with three Austrian ships when he demands the release of an Austrian-born prisoner who has applied for American citizenship. U.S. Naval Commander Ingraham defies the Austrian Navy to protect an American subject.

    Director:Robert Stevenson
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 16 - Man of Glass
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    #16 - Man of Glass

    S2:E16

    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. Describes Stiegel's realization, following his financial ruin, that material success did not make him superior to other men, but that his greatness lay in the beauty of the glassware which he created. He built a church and received as rent, one red rose.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 17 - The Plume of Honor
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    #17 - The Plume of Honor

    S2:E17

    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.

    Director:George Archainbaud
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 18 - Margin of Victory
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    #18 - Margin of Victory

    S2:E18

    A historical drama about an American spy, posing as a loyal Tory, who is responsible for the strategic landing of French troops in America while British forces are being concentrated in New York City to withstand a supposed attack by General Washington. The Culpers, famous spies, enable reinforcements to land in Rhode Island during the American Revolution.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 19 - The Absent Host
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    #19 - The Absent Host

    S2:E19

    A historical drama about Jack Jouett, a patriotic Virginian who risks his life to warn Thomas Jefferson that British soldiers are planning to capture him in a surprise attack on Monticello. (Year 1781)

    Director:Sidney Salkow
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 20 - Duel at the OK Corral
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    #20 - Duel at the OK Corral

    S2:E20

    A dramatization of the efforts of Wyatt Earp to free the West of dangerous armed gunmen. Earp's activities in Dodge City, Kansas, in Deadwood, South Dakota and in Tombstone, Arizona, are highlighted.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 21 - The Splendid Dream
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    #21 - The Splendid Dream

    S2:E21

    Dramatizes the life of William Penn from his early interest in the Society of Friends, which led to his imprisonment under the Conventicle act, to his ultimate success in founding in the New World a colony where religious freedom became a reality. Time: 1701

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Charles Larson

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  22. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 22 - Young Andy Jackson
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    #22 - Young Andy Jackson

    S2:E22

    A historical drama about thirteen-year-old Andrew Jackson, who, with his older brother Robert, joins the militia and engages in guerrilla fighting against the British.

    Director:Robert Stevenson
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 23 - Escape
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    #23 - Escape

    S2:E23

    A historical drama. After taking part in an unsuccessful revolt against the King of Prussia and his army, Carl Schurz and two compatriots, refusing to surrender to the army, escape from soldiers guarding the town of Rastatt, Germany, in 1849.

    Director:George Archainbaud
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 24 - Riddle of the Seas
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    #24 - Riddle of the Seas

    S2:E24

    Relates the story of the life work of Matthew Fontaine Maury, founder of the United States Weather Bureau, who advanced and proved his revolutionary theory that the paths of the sea--winds, currents, and temperature--could be accurately predicted and charted. Time: mid-nineteenth century.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Cavalcade of America Season 2 Episode 25 - Crazy Judah
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    #25 - Crazy Judah

    S2:E25

    The life of Theodore Judah portray his attempts to realize his dream of unifying the country with a railroad system. Portrays his trips from California to Washington by boat and burro, his initial failure in 1859 to secure help from Congress and from California businessmen, his work in surveying a route through the Sierra Mountains, the encouragement of Leland Stanford and Charles Crocker, the formation of a company to start work, and Judah's death before the fulfillment of his dream. ""Crazy Judah"" is the name Theodore Judah gets when he tries to sell his idea of a transcontinental railroad to the politicians of 19th century Americans.

    Director:Lewis R. Foster
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Sam and the Whale" is the best rated episode of "Cavalcade of America" season 2. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/29/1953. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Stolen General".