Season 4 (1954)
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Episodes 42
Do Not Cry For Me
Tells the story of the early life of the American composer Stephen Foster. Relates the difficulties Foster encountered when he tried to have his first song performed.
Read MoreA Man of Many Ideas
The story of John Nelson Wanamaker the 35th United States Postmaster General who was known for buying an abandoned railroad depot and converting it into a department story called "The Grand Depot" which was considered the first department store in Philadelphia.
Read MoreThe Reluctant Redeemer
The story tells of Moses' upbringing by an Egyptian pharaoh, his killing of a cruel overseer and the flight to Media where he marries. When the voice of God comes from the burning bush he returns to Egypt to free his people. Natalie Wood will be featured as the beloved ot Moses when he was a young man.
Read MoreThe Story of Johann Sebastian Bach
From court appointed organist to his triumphant position as Kantor at the Thomasschule his story unfolds as his music was given to the world almost a century after he died after being rediscovered by Felix Mendelssohn.
Read MoreThe Immortal Oath
The tale of Hippocrates, the father of medicine is dramatized.
Read MoreThe Yankee Roadblocks
An all-male cast set in the Revolutionary War days, the story tells how a hero exposed the plot of Benedict Arnold and save General Washington from being captured by the British.
Read MoreThe Lady in the Wings
The widow of the great composer, Edward MacDowell, remembering her happy past, wishes to create a place where artists from all quarters can work in solitude.
Read MoreThe Path to Peace
Horace Greeley's fight for peace is dramatized.
Read MoreA Matter of Principal
An incident in the life of John Adams, second President of the United States and his defense of an English Officer who was charged with the deaths of five American patriots in Boston.
Read MorePresident for a Day
The story of the man who was President of the United States for one day is told. David Rice Atchison as President of the Senate automatically became President for 24 hours when Zachary Taylor refused to be inaugurated on a Sunday.
Read MoreThe Province of Man
The story of how William Harvey used King John of England as a guinea pig to test his theory of the circulatory system.
Read MoreAmahl and the Night Visitors
The tale of a poor boy and his mother who journey to visit Christ's birth in Bethlehem.
Read MoreThe Joyful Tydings
The story of the stormy controversy during the reign of Henry the Eighth is dramatized.
Read MoreWilliam Tell
The story of the legendary Swiss marksman William Tell is dramatized.
Read MoreThe First Mintmaster
Story of John Hull, first mintmaster of Massachusetts Bay Colony, who was appointed to the post in 1650 as the culmination of his efforts to abolish barter and foreign coinage in favor of a stabilized currency.
Read MoreCrusade for Freedom
In the name of his brother, the editor of a Boston newspaper, Benjamin Franklin launches a crusade against Cotton Mather.
Read MoreDr. Harvey W. Wiley
Struggle of chemist Wiley to expose frauds in food and drug trade and in patent medicine. His efforts to prove the harmful effects of adulterated and falsely labeled food ultimately led to passage of the Food and Drug Act.
Read MoreA Story About Henry Ford
Ford, unhappy with farm life, moves to Detroit where he begins to experiment with the gas engine, certain that it could be made to propel a vehicle.
Read MorePatrick Henry
Silver-tongued Patrick Henry studied law for only six weeks, but so impressed the board that they passed him. He was a successful Southern backwoods lawyer and reluctant to enter the Virginia House of Burgesses until the British introduced the Stamp Act.
Read MoreThe Shining Beacon
Tale of Alcuin, the great educator who taught Charlemagne to read and write.
Read MoreMartha Custis Washington
The courtship of George Washington and Martha Custis, a widowed mother of two.
Read MoreThe Talking Wire
The story of Alexander Graham Bell and experiments that led to the electric hearing aid, and then the telephone.
Read MoreThe Adventures of Lt. Contee
Tribute to one of Commodore Perry's officers, whose personal efforts helped open Japan to foreign trade.
Read MoreThe Pirate and the Lawyer
Adventures of pirate Jean Laffite and lawyer Edward Livingston.
Read MoreSoldier's Bride
Story of the love between Knox Taylor (daughter of Colonel Zachary Taylor) and Jefferson Davis.
Read MoreThe Finest Gift
The story of Lord Byron's efforts to liberate Greece.
Read MoreThe Green Mountain Boys
The story of Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain boys.
Read MoreThe Man Who Tore Down the Wall
Story from 1910 of Dr. James Ewing, who fought to break down the barriers erected against the investigation and treatment of cancer, and who almost single-handedly founded the Memorial Cancer Center in New York City.
Read MoreAimee de Rivery
Story of Aimée de Rivery, who brought reforms to Turkey.
Read MoreThe Touch of Steel
The story of young army officer and law student Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 60th justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Read MoreCradle Song
Story of Ernestine Schumann-Heink.
Read MoreThe Promise
A dramatization of the legend of Damon and Pythias.
Read MoreThe Man With a Camera
Story of George Eastman, and his development of the first camera to use film.
Read MoreThe Story of Paul Harris and the Founding of Rotary International
Tribute to Rotary International in commemoration of its golden anniversary. Includes speech by then Rotary president Herbert J. Taylor.
Read MoreThe Tempering of the Sword
The story of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Von Steuben, founder of the American military system, who trained troops in the American Revolution.
Read MoreThe Father Who Had No Sons
The inspiring story of Milton S. Hershey, who worked so hard to bring happiness to thousands of orphans.
Read MoreThe Farmer From Monticello
The story of Thomas Jefferson's return to politics in 1773.
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