NaN/100 votes#1 - Sam and the Whale
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1953
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.
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#2 - The Stolen General
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/1953
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: N/A
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#3 - Breakfast at Nancy's
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/1953
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: N/A
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#4 - Sunset at Appomattox
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1953
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: N/A
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#5 - And to Fame Unknown
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/27/1953
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.
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#6 - A Time to Grow
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/1953
A historical drama showing the events which led to the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803.
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#7 - Tiger's Tail
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/1953
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: N/A
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#8 - The Last Will of Daniel Webster
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/1953
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: N/A
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#9 - Major Pauline
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/1953
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: N/A
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#10 - Betrayal
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/1953
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.
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#11 - Riders of the Pony Express
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1953
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: N/A
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#12 - One Nation Indivisible
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/22/1953
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: N/A
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#13 - Mr. Peale's Dinosaur
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/29/1953
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.
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#14 - G for Goldberger
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1954
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.
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#15 - Smyrna Incident
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/1954
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: N/A
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#16 - Man of Glass
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/26/1954
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. 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: N/A
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#17 - The Plume of Honor
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/9/1954
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.
Director: George Archainbaud
Writer: N/A
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#18 - Margin of Victory
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/16/1954
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.
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#19 - The Absent Host
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/2/1954
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: N/A
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#20 - Duel at the OK Corral
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/9/1954
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.
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#21 - The Splendid Dream
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/16/1954
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: N/A
Writer: Charles Larson
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#22 - Young Andy Jackson
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/23/1954
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: N/A
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#23 - Escape
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/30/1954
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: N/A
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#24 - Riddle of the Seas
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 4/6/1954
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.
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#25 - Crazy Judah
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 4/13/1954
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
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The Best Episodes of Cavalcade of America Season 2
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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 N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/29/1953. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "The Stolen General".
