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The Best Episodes of The Great Adventure Season 1

Every episode of The Great Adventure Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Great Adventure Season 1!

The Best Episodes of The Great Adventure Season 1

The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964 television season. The series, narrated each week by Van Heflin,...
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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 1 - The Hunley
    8.8/10(16 votes)

    #1 - The Hunley

    S1:E1

    During the Civil War, an engineer working for the Confederacy develops a primitive submarine that can evade the Union ships blockading Southern ports.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 2 - The Death of Sitting Bull
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    #2 - The Death of Sitting Bull

    S1:E2

    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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  3. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 3 - The Massacre at Wounded Knee
    7.6/10(7 votes)

    #3 - The Massacre at Wounded Knee

    S1:E3

    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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  4. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 4 - Six Wagons to the Sea
    7.5/10(8 votes)

    #4 - Six Wagons to the Sea

    S1:E4

    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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  5. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 5 - The Story of Nathan Hale
    8.0/10(9 votes)

    #5 - The Story of Nathan Hale

    S1:E5

    American Continental soldier turns spy against the British and gives all for a concept called Democracy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 6 - Go Down, Moses
    8.7/10(14 votes)

    #6 - Go Down, Moses

    S1:E6

    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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  7. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 7 - The Great Diamond Mountain
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    #7 - The Great Diamond Mountain

    S1:E7

    In this humorous episode, two con men perpetrate the Diamond Hoax of 1872 in an attempt to swindle San Francisco banker William Ralston, played by Barry Sullivan.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 8 - The Treasure Train of Jefferson Davis
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    #8 - The Treasure Train of Jefferson Davis

    S1:E8

    The Confederate Government of Jefferson Davis makes a futile attempt to escape Richmond and capture by the Union Army.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 9 - The Outlaw and the Nun
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    #9 - The Outlaw and the Nun

    S1:E9

    A nun comes to a town to teach school and finds that education is so undervalued by the community that she has only two pupils. She sets out to change that.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 10 - The Man Who Stole New York City
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    #10 - The Man Who Stole New York City

    S1:E10

    The rise and fall of Boss Tweed and his Tammany Hall political machine in 1860s New York City.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 11 - A Boy at War
    7.8/10(8 votes)

    #11 - A Boy at War

    S1:E11

    The future seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, is a 13 year old boy soldier struggling to survive the American Revolution.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 12 - Wild Bill Hickok - the Legend and the Man
    8.2/10(11 votes)

    #12 - Wild Bill Hickok - the Legend and the Man

    S1:E12

    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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  13. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 13 - The Colonel from Connecticut
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    #13 - The Colonel from Connecticut

    S1:E13

    The story of Col. Edwin Drake, the first man to drill for oil in the U.S.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 14 - Teeth of the Lion
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    #14 - Teeth of the Lion

    S1:E14

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 15 - Rodger Young
    8.2/10(14 votes)

    #15 - Rodger Young

    S1:E15

    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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  16. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 16 - The Testing of Sam Houston
    7.6/10(11 votes)

    #16 - The Testing of Sam Houston

    S1:E16

    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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  17. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 17 - The Special Courage of Captain Pratt
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    #17 - The Special Courage of Captain Pratt

    S1:E17

    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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  18. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 18 - The Night Raiders
    7.2/10(8 votes)

    #18 - The Night Raiders

    S1:E18

    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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  19. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 19 - Plague
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    #19 - Plague

    S1:E19

    Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse attempts to convince the US Government and the public of the value of vaccinations against small pox. One of his first patients - the President of the United States Thomas Jefferson.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 20 - The Pathfinder
    6.8/10(7 votes)

    #20 - The Pathfinder

    S1:E20

    The meeting of two great American Legends in 1846 California - Colonel John C. Fremont and John Sutter - on the eve of war with Mexico.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 21 - The President Vanishes
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    #21 - The President Vanishes

    S1:E21

    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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  22. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 22 - The Henry Bergh Story
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    #22 - The Henry Bergh Story

    S1:E22

    A man crusades for better treatment of animals and forms the ASPCA in 1866. He later crusades for better treatment of children.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 23 - Kentucky's Bloody Ground
    7.9/10(10 votes)

    #23 - Kentucky's Bloody Ground

    S1:E23

    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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  24. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 24 - The Siege of Boonesborough
    7.2/10(12 votes)

    #24 - The Siege of Boonesborough

    S1:E24

    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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  25. The Great Adventure Season 1 Episode 25 - Escape
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    #25 - Escape

    S1:E25

    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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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Hunley" is the best rated episode of "The Great Adventure" season 1. It scored 8.8/10 based on 16 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/27/1963. This episode is rated 8.8 points higher than the second-best, "The Death of Sitting Bull".