NaN/100 votes#1 - A Time for Courage
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1955
The story of ""Nancy Merki and the swimming coach who led her to victory over polio and to Olympic stardom.
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#2 - The Texas Rangers
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1955
A phase of the work of the Texas Rangers in the late nineteenth century is described in a dramatization about J. L. Armstrong, the ranger who captured John Wesley Hardin on a train in Florida and thwarted the prisoner's efforts to escape during the long train journey from Florida to Texas.
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#3 - Toward Tomorrow
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1955
A tribute to Dr. Ralph Bunche, undersecretary of the United Nations. The drama is based on the early life of the statesman, who was orphaned at the age of 8 and was guided from then on by his aged grandmother.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: N/A
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#4 - Disaster Patrol
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1955
The work, organization, and purpose of the Civil Air Patrol is described in a dramatization about a CAP pilot in California who risks his life to fly doctors and emergency supplies into a canyon community seriously damaged by an earthquake.
Director: Charles Bennett
Writer: Charles Bennett
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#5 - The Swamp Mutiny
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1955
A historical drama showing how General Francis Marion, a colonial officer during the American Revolution, won the admiration and eventually the support of a young British officer who witnessed the general's tactical suppression of a mutiny among colonial volunteer soldiers. Setting: Georgetown South Carolina, in 1780.
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- 7.8/1013 votes
#6 - Chain of Hearts
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1955
The story of John Staniszewski, a Polish seaman who tried to gain American citizenship after World War 2.
Director: László Benedek
Writer: N/A
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#7 - One Day at a Time
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1955
This is the true story of the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. The principals in the organization were two alcoholics, one a financial genius, the other a doctor. Both men's lives and careers were threatened by their drinking problem, until they found that by working together they could cure each other and other victims.
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#8 - Crisis in Paris
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/29/1955
A drama showing how Benjamin Franklin, an inexperienced diplomat and member of the American Commission to France, negotiated a treaty providing for French aid to the Colonies in their war with England. Setting: Paris, during the American Revolution.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jack Laird
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#9 - Doctor on Wheels
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 12/13/1955
A true story of a Saskatchewan farm boy who finished medical school in a wheel chair after he became paralyzed by polio.
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#10 - Barbed Wire Christmas
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/20/1955
A documentary drama about life in a German prison camp. When a group of GIs in a German prison camp in 1944 pool their resources in order to hold a Christmas Mass, the prison commandant not only permits the service to continue but, with the guards, joins the prisoners in their worship.
Director: Robert Stevenson
Writer: N/A
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#11 - Postmark: Danger
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/27/1955
The work of a postal inspector is described in a dramatization about two postal inspectors who expose the civilian supervisor of a prison mail room as an extortioner who has been using the mails to defraud the parents of servicemen reported missing during the Korean War.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jack Laird
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#12 - The Boy Who Walked to America
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/3/1956
Based on a true story of a Korean youngster who to give up his dream. With the assistance of sympathetic soldiers and a Catholic priest, the boy managed to achieve his dream of going to America.
Director: N/A
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- 8.2/1016 votes
#13 - The Prison Within
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/17/1956
A girl is overcome with remorse when the soldier she refused to marry is killed in Korea. Her unusual guilt complex leads her to commit a series of crimes, for which she is imprisoned. Convicted forgery when she is paroled, her parole officer is troubled by her inexplicable behavior.
Director: John Meredyth Lucas
Writer: John Meredyth Lucas
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#14 - Star and Shield
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/24/1956
The true story about a warmhearted police officer in Union City, N. J., who attempts to secure an apartment in a low-cost housing project for an embittered old woman and her five-year-old grand-daughter.
Director: N/A
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#15 - The Secret Life of Joe Swedie
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/7/1956
The story about a child-therapist who helps bedridden children in hospitals to retain an interest in life.
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#16 - Call Home the Heart
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/21/1956
The true story of the Japanese gardener who, under the sponsorship of a pioneer civic leader, beautified Miami Beach area with his imaginative planting of lush greenery. He eventually became one of the city?s honored citizens.
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#17 - The Listening Hand
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 3/6/1956
The Hathaways are a deaf and blind couple who fight for their right to keep and care for their newborn baby.
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#18 - A Life to Live By
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 3/20/1956
The story of a California schoolboy who, in spite of the knowledge that he has an inaccurate disease, sets the world?s record for the high school shot-put and leads a full life before death overtakes him.
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#19 - The Doll Who Found a Mother
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 4/3/1956
A judge introduces the parents of an unhappy child to a toy loan library.
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#20 - The Jackie Jensen Story
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 4/17/1956
True story of Red Sox star outfielder Jackie Jensen and Ralph Kerchum, the high school teacher whose guidance and friendship made the difference between greatness or oblivion.
Director: N/A
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#21 - Diplomatic Outpost
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 5/1/1956
In the Far East, a young American diplomat and his wife cope with a polio epidemic and the threat of civil war.
Director: N/A
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- 7.3/109 votes
#22 - Danger on Clover Ridge
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 5/8/1956
Drifter winds up on the plains of the West.
Director: N/A
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#23 - Who is Byington?
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 5/22/1956
Dramatized incidents portray the activities of newspaper correspondents in covering the battles of the Civil War, the rivalry which spurred them on, and the efforts of Homer Byington of the New York Tribune to follow the Battle of Gettysburg and telegraph the news to his paper.
Director: Charles Bennett
Writer: Charles Bennett
- 8.3/1014 votes
#24 - The Boy Nobody Wanted
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 5/29/1956
Billy Brandon's father is a good man, but also a professional gambler who doesn't have much time for his son. Left alone one day, he gets into a fight with a neighbor's boy who taunts him about his father being a gambler. The boy is accidently killed when he falls and hits his head. The boy's father, editor of the local newspaper, takes revenge by smearing Billy's dad in his paper. As a result, Nick Brandon is soon imprisoned and Billy is sent to an adoption agency. Luckily, he is adopted by an older couple and his life becomes filled with love. He grows to be an A student and a war hero. When his father is finally released from prison, Billy must make a hard decision.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/109 votes
#25 - The Major of St. Louis
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 6/5/1956
Major Thomas D. Howie of the 3rd Battallion, 116th Infantry, 29th Division. He lies at rest between a Private and a General in the American Cemetery in Normandy, overlooking Omaha Beach. He was loved by his men, though an enigma to some, and loved reading verses from Edgar Lee Masters ""Spoon River Anthology"", ""These are the ghosts from the desolate coasts...would you go to them...only pursue them...whatever enshrined is within you ..is you.""
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Cavalcade of America Season 4
Every episode of Cavalcade of America Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Cavalcade of America Season 4!
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 4 Ratings Summary
"A Time for Courage" is the best rated episode of "Cavalcade of America" season 4. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/13/1955. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "The Texas Rangers".
