All Episodes of The Great Adventure
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Season 1
N/A/100 votesThe Death of Sitting Bull
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1963
The first of a two part episode, the US Government believes that Sitting Bull has joined the Ghost Dancers, a Sioux religious movement the government believes will lead to another Indian War, and take action that ends in a double tragedy.
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Writer: Unknown
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The Massacre at Wounded Knee
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1963
The second of a two part episode. Days after Sitting Bull's death, the US Army's bungled attempt to disarm a party of Sioux results in the unnecessary deaths of over 300 men, women and children.
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Writer: Unknown
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Six Wagons to the Sea
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1963
The attempt in 1894 by farmers from California's Central Valley to get their produce to market by wagon despite attempts by the Southern Pacific Railroad to foil their efforts and preserve their monopoly of transporting produce.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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Go Down, Moses
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1963
Ruby Dee plays the escaped slave Harriet Tubman and her attempts to rescue enslaved family members and friends through the pre-Civil War Underground Railroad.
Director: Paul Stanley
Writer: Unknown
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Wild Bill Hickok - the Legend and the Man
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/3/1964
Down on his luck and in decline, Wild Bill Hickok arrives at the end of his trail in Deadwood in 1876.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: Unknown
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Rodger Young
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/24/1964
James MacArthur plays Rodger Young. The story of a young man that enlists in the Army despite having poor eyesight and hearing and ends up earning the Medal of Honor for his deeds fighting the Japanese during WWII.
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: Unknown
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The Testing of Sam Houston
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/31/1964
In 1817, Andrew Jackson appoints a young Sam Houston to oversee the forced relocation of the Cherokee from Tennessee. He soon clashes with both Jackson and the US Government over his fair and humane treatment of the Cherokee.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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The Special Courage of Captain Pratt
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/1964
Richard Pratt's now controversial efforts to assimilate Native Americans into "white" society by education and rejection of tribal traditions. He advocated for Native Americans and founded the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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The Night Raiders
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/21/1964
A recounting of the events leading to John Brown's disastrous raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859.
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: Unknown
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The President Vanishes
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/13/1964
In 1893 President Grover Cleveland embarks on a mysterious voyage into Long Island Sound aboard a friend's yacht pursued by a suspicious reporter. It was twenty four years later that it was revealed that he had surgery to remove a tumor.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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Kentucky's Bloody Ground
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 4/3/1964
The first of a two part episode recalling Daniel Boone's attempt to settle Kentucky and the events leading to the siege of Boonesborough by the Shawnee in 1778.
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: Unknown
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The Siege of Boonesborough
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 4/10/1964
This two part episode recounts the story of Daniel Boone and the 1778 Siege of Boonesborough by the Shawnee.
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: Unknown
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Escape
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/17/1964
The true Civil War story of an escape by Union POWs from the Confederate Libby Prison in 1864. The POWs tunneled under the walls and into an adjoining building which gave them access to the street. While some were recaptured, a few got away, including Colonel Streight [Michael Constantine] who had organized the escape.
Director: Robert Gist
Writer: Unknown
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The Pirate and the Patriot
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 5/1/1964
Thirty four years later, General Andrew Jackson, commanding the US Army defending New Orleans, is about to get revenge for his treatment by the British during the American Revolution with a little help from a local buccaneer.
Director: Philip Leacock
Writer: Unknown