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- John Honeyman, American patriot, pretends to be a Tory in order to gain information that will mean Washingtons victory over the Hessians.
- A young boy accidentally kills a playmate.
- An actress, whose boyfriend is killed in Korea, suffers a breakdown and is sent to prison for writing bad checks. After she's released from prison, her parole officer tries to help her get life back together.
- Old man Link Morley believes women should wait on men like menial servants. Bound to show his son how it's done, he orders around his son's new bride like a housemaid. But once the new couple is paying for their keep, Rowena makes a stand.
- A Polish seaman seeks US citizenship.
- Mountain man is liked by the forest ranger but not so much by the townsmen. So when a forest fire breaks out, the town is eager to blame the mountain man. It will up to the ranger to prove his friend's innocence.
- Young Trudy Marshall is an 11-year old who dreams of ending the feud between her parents and maternal grandfather. When she saves the life of an elderly Mexican bandit, the Calaveras Kid, he decides to help her.
- Leaving his shop,a butcher witnesses a car run down a man on the street, but before he can give the police a description, he's threatened by a gangster.The victim was a crime investigator, and the "accident" was a hit. The butcher and his family is stalked and terrorized by the crooks from then on.
- A Chicago fire investigator attempts to apprehend the arsonist who has set a series of blazes in run-down buildings near the river. He suspects that the perpetrator might be part of the throng of on-lookers that gawk at the firefighters battling the blazes. When a deaf woman is seriously injured in one of the torched buildings, the inspector redoubles his efforts to arrest the firebug before one of his blazes results in death.
- Just after D-Day, the Americans are hemmed in by German forces and hedgerow-choked fields outside of St. Lo. Setting up for a breakout, Major Howie has promised his company will be first in the town, though orders from his superiors and death complicate things.
- When a boy steals a cake for his beloved aunt on Christmas Eve, his young friend tries to set things straight.
- Working man and recent immigrant Jake Bartosh defaces the Declaration of Independence by signing his own name to it. Why did he do this and how will he be punished?
- An engaged girl disagrees with her parents about the kind of wedding ceremony she should have. She wants an elaborate church wedding; her parents insist on a simple home ceremony.
- A California high school athlete with an incurable disease is determined to set the world's record for the shot-put.
- Otis, a Boston lawyer serving as advocate-general to the British crown just prior to the Revolution, resigns his post in protest against illegal invasion of American homes.
- A historical drama portraying the misunderstanding between Sam Houston and his wife, Eliza, which resulted in Houston's resignation of the governorship of Tennessee.
- A biographical account of Dr. Mary Walker, who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for her courageous work as a civilian surgeon among Federal troops during the Civil War.
- An account of the heroic mission of Lt. Andrew Rowan, who braved the Cuban jungles and risked capture and execution by Spanish troops in order to obtain information to aid the United States in the Spanish-American War.
- Young Nathaniel Hawthorne is prodded to greater literary efforts by an ambitious woman.
- The Nancy Merki story tells of how she prevailed over polio to become an Olympic swimmer.
- An historical drama about the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803
- The Revolutionary War story of Lydia Darragh, American patriot and Philadelphia widow, who by her cleverness gained information instrumental in an American victory.
- Widow living with daughter in the suburbs longs for her old life in the city. On one of her frequent visits to the old neighborhood, she finds 3 orphan boys living in her old flat. She wants to adopt them, but CPS won't allow it.
- A docudrama about life in a German prison camp. In 1944, when GIs pool their resources in order to hold a Christmas Mass, the prison commandant not only permits the service but, with the guards, joins the prisoners in their worship.
- During the Revolutionary War, messengers vital to the cause of the Colonies are hidden by Nancy Hart beneath the floor of her cabin in Georgia. When the safety of one messenger is threatened, she uses cunning and force to protect him.
- Kotaro Suto, a Japanese immigrant, goes to work for Carl Fisher, father of Miami Beach, as his gardener. Together, they become legends in Miami Beach.
- The struggles for liberty and human dignity in pre-Revolutionary America.
- A dramatization of Theodore Judah's attempts to unify the country with a transcontinental railroad system.
- In Paris Benjamin Franklin must negotiate a treaty.
- Man and woman meet in Philadelphia and share a love for early American History. Everything is going well until one day when the man doesn't show up for their date.
- The story of John Marshall, first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and his influence on the American judicial system.
- A scrawny, bespectacled college student exerts himself too much and he dies. Another student, the school's star athlete, is advised the boy's grieving mother has been led to believe, by his letters home, the boy was his best friend, though they never met.
- In a primitive country in southeastern Asia, the American consul nervously awaits an upcoming election that may be disrupted by a local strongman/war lord type. A plane carrying two U.S. businessmen makes an emergency landing nearby, and awaits simple repairs. Some village children appear to be on the verge of a polio outbreak, so the consul appropriates the plane to take the kids to a hospital.
- A Civil Air Patrol pilot in California risks his life to fly doctors and emergency supplies into a canyon community seriously damaged by an earthquake.
- A med student stricken with polio battles his way through medical school and overcomes the obstacles of practicing medicine despite his handicaps.
- Family rivalry over size of wedding dowery for new bride.
- A dramatization of the efforts of Wyatt Earp to free the West of dangerous armed gunmen, in particular in Dodge City, Kansas; Deadwood, South Dakota; and Tombstone, Arizona.
- Carl Shurz escapes a Prussian firing squad in 1848 and comes to America to continue his fight for freedom.
- Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, uses himself as a guinea pig and is inoculated with the germs of small pox in a heroic effort to establish control of the disease.
- Dr. Joseph Goldberger fights disbelief and prejudice to conquer the dreaded disease, pellagra.
- An embittered teenage orphan from the city is regenerated by his visit to a mid-Western farm.
- Innocent bystander is hit in the head with a rock. Being a newspaper reporter, he decides to investigate why he was hit in the head and uncovers a whole series of innocent bystanders.
- Dramatizes John Adams' difficult and unpopular decision to defend eight English soldiers who participated in a Boston riot prior to the Revolution.
- Story of Christian Minister and pole vaulting champion Bob Richards.
- A beautiful, gifted actress serves as a spy for the Union during the Civil War.
- 1952–1957Not RatedTV EpisodeDramatizes 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.
- Typical incidents in the daily life of a city patrolman illuminate the role of the police force in protecting citizens and maintaining order in the community.
- The Culpers, famous spies, enable reinforcements to land in Rhode Island during the American Revolution.
- A pre-Revolutionary War drama. The freedom of the press is upheld through the trial and acquittal of John Peter Zenger, a New York newspaper publisher imprisoned for printing the truth about corruption of the British administration.
- The factual story of the efforts of a Los Angeles police detective, school principal, and star athlete to help a juvenile delinquent.
- In 1911, Cora Wilson Stewart, a county superintendent and a teacher in a one-room school succeeds in establishing a night class for adults in a backward section of Kentucky.
- Abraham Lincoln interrupts his campaign for the U.S. Senate to defend the son of a boyhood friend who has been charged with murder.
- The story of James Ohio Pattie, the first American to write an account of a visit to California, re-enacted in his arrival in San Diego in 1828, and his role in averting a smallpox epidemic, thus winning the friendship of the Mexicans.
- Painter Charles Wilson Peale risks his career and possessions to excavate and reconstruct a fossilized mastodon, the greatest skeleton ever seen in his day.
- Story of Abe Lincoln and his love for Ann Rutledge.
- A dramatization of a typical twenty-four-hour period in a doctor's life -- from night calls, work at a hospital, office appointments, and his efforts to save the life of a young stranger who is the victim of a rare disease.
- John Paul Jones undertakes the first hostile invasion of England since 1066 as he endeavors to prove to all the world that the American Navy and the American government are to be reckoned with.
- Nurse Clara Louis Maas volunteers to be bitten by a dreaded mosquito so that the research on yellow fever can go on.
- Harvey Kendall is a former rodeo star who is now a cattle inspector. When current rodeo star Cal Bennett comes to town, both Harvey and his son Tim begin to yearn for Harvey's former stardom.
- Accurate account of early friendship between Alcoholics Anonymous Co-Founders Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith in June 1935.
- Horace Greeley, America's Titan of the Press, keeps a vow to Abraham Lincoln for leniency toward Jefferson Davis and the South.
- The story of Ann and Adoniram Judson, American missionaries whose determination to return love and understanding for hatred not only saved their own lives but also helped end the war between Great Britain and Burma in 1824.
- Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the nation's first woman doctor, is befriended by New York newspaperman Horace Greeley in her struggle to obtain recognition and respect for professional women.
- 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.
- A dramatization of how Benjamin Franklin delayed a conference between Lord Howe and John Adams until the spring rainy season commenced, allowing General Washington to extricate his troops from Long Island under the cover of a storm.
- Two postal inspectors expose the civilian supervisor of a prison mail room as an extortionist who has been using the mails to defraud the parents of servicemen reported missing during the Korean War.
- Two onetime friends are rivals in the unusual pursuit of collecting nineteenth century hand carved cigar store Indians. The rarest and most desirable were made by a long-dead Connecticut craftsman, whose aged daughter is found to be oblivious to her father's legacy, and is using his leftover works as firewood. The pair compete for her last remaining statue.
- During his imprisonment in a Japanese POW camp, an American flier finds that religion gives him the strength he needs to withstand hardship. He vows to return to Japan to preach the word of God if he is ever released.
- In the mid-nineteenth century, Matthew Fontaine Maury suggests the scientific charting of ocean and wind currents.
- Story of the rise and fall of the Pony Express.
- The famous American whale hunter, Sam Mulford, goes to England in 1712 and takes his complaint about the English tax on whales off the Long Island coast to the royal court.
- When young Brian Beck sees a man murdered, he tells his best friend, Noah. But the old man thinks it's another of Brian's tall tales and ignores him. When the killer gets closer, Brian decides to go after the criminal himself.
- A drama about a newspaper editor's reluctant decision to print a story which will bring sorrow to a man he deeply respects.
- English law in 1790 forbade taking written information on the cotton spinning machine from the country. Samuel Slater, however, memorized the plans and went to America to try to build a machine from memory.
- The captain of an American ship, anchored in the Turkish port of Smyrna, risks a battle with three Austrian ships when he demands the release of an Austrian-born prisoner, who has applied for American citizenship.
- 1952–1957Not RatedTV EpisodeDrama about the historic gusher that opened one of Texas' biggest oil fields in 1901.
- The true story of a Union City, N.J., policeman who comes to the rescue of an old woman and her young granddaughter who are being evicted.
- Alice Lloyd relocates from Boston to Caney Creek KY to begin schooling the local children, despite opposition from Zeke Wells.
- A dramatization of the campaign waged by James E. West and Theodore Dreiser to establish the first juvenile court in the District of Columbia.
- A dramatization of the 1865 meeting of General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, and the surrender of Lee's army to Grant's army, ending the four years of war between the Union and the Confederacy.
- The story of the Navy's first plane to take off vertically and of the man, Lt. Col. "Skeets" Coleman, who made the first take-off.
- A biographical drama about Doctor Abraham Jacobi and his wife, Doctor Mary Putnam Jacobi, whose theories about prenatal and child care brought about the recognition of pediatrics as a separate branch of medicine.
- British forces raid Monticello in an attempt to capture Thomas Jefferson.
- 1952–1957Not RatedTV EpisodeThe history of Thanksgiving Day is presented by dramatizations of the holiday as it was in Washington's time and Lincoln's time.
- The career of Andrew Johnson, who, starting as a tailor, became the 17th President of the United States.
- The neurotic and brilliant Benedict Arnold, General in the Revolutionary Army, attempts to deliver West Point to His Majesty's Forces.
- A Korean youngster dreams of becoming an American citizen.
- A judge introduces the parents of an unhappy child to a toy loan library.
- The events in the life of Eliphalet Remington, leading to the development of his famous rifle which played an important part in American history, because it gave to the pioneers a cheap and superior substitute for European-made weapons.
- The story of a Boston physician who neglected his own health in an effort to find a cure for the dreaded pernicious anemia.
- A comedy-drama about an elderly German baker who persuades 123 Hessian soldiers to desert the British Army during the American Revolution.
- A dramatization about Cyrus Field, who after several unsuccessful attempts, realized his dream of laying a cable across the Atlantic from Newfoundland to Ireland.
- The story of the daughter of migratory farm workers. Her parents don't believe in "schooling", so Billie has to fight stubbornly to get her education.
- Captain Richard Stobo, of the Virginia Militia, is given as a hostage in the surrender of Fort Necessity during the French and Indian War.
- Aging woman's son and DIL abandon her and move to Florida, leaving her alone in a large house. A TV preacher gives her the idea of helping people using the things in her house.
- A story about Thomas Davenport, a blacksmith, and his long struggle to invent and perfect the electric motor. Setting: Brandon, Vt., in the 1830's.
- Junior High Coach Ralph Kerchum takes troubled teen Jackie Jensen under his wing.
- 1952–195730mNot RatedTV EpisodeDaniel Webster, tormented by memories of selfish deeds near the end of his life, is comforted by friends who point out that his constructive acts will be remembered.
- A couple who are both blind and deaf have a baby. They take the baby home and all seems good and well until CPS takes an interest in the case.
- A drought-stricken small town rejects its new preacher because he refuses to pray for rain.
- The story cotton gin inventor Eli Whitney and the beginning of interchangeable parts for rifles.
- Principal John Norton befriends a youngster who is accused of robbery, and obtains a parole for the boy. He even gets him a job as cashier in the school lunchroom. When money is stolen from the lunchroom, the boy becomes the number-one suspect, and Norton again comes to his assistance.
- 1952–195730mNot RatedTV EpisodeA story about Lou Diamond, a marine gunnery sergeant who refused to let old age and sickness keep him from his post with the Fifth Marine Regiment during World War II.
- Detective Allan Pinkerton thwarts a plot to kill President-elect Abraham Lincoln in 1861.
- Newspaper editor James King crusades for clean government during San Francisco's lawless days in the 1850s.
- 1952–195730mNot RatedTV EpisodeThe story of how Gwinnett County, GA got its first hospital.
- Dramatizes the events which led to the decision of the pirate Jean Lafitte to join Andrew Jackson in the defense of New Orleans against the English forces in 1814.
- Life of Francis Scott Key leading to writing Star Spangled Banner.
- 1952–195730mNot RatedTV EpisodeThe story of Joe Swedie, a child-therapist who helps bedridden children in hospitals retain an interest in life.
- 1952–195730mNot RatedTV EpisodeA dramatization of events leading to the construction of the Monitor, the ironclad ship built by the Federal Government during the Civil War to oppose the Merrimac.
- A woman in command of a ship races with it to California in an effort to prevent an Indian uprising.
- Dramatizes the life of William Penn in the 17th century, from his early interest in the Society of Friends, to his ultimate success in founding a New World colony where religious freedom became a reality.
- During the Revolutionary War, 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.
- General Francis Marion must hold back the British Army and at the same time fight mutiny in his own Revolutionary troops.
- In 1866, Teddy Roosevelt goes west to begin anew after great personal tragedies and, undaunted by a blizzard, pursues and captures three outlaws in the Dakota Bad Lands.
- Late nineteenth century Texas ranger, J. L. Armstrong, captures John Wesley Hardin on a train in Florida and thwarts his efforts to escape during the long train journey from Florida to Texas.
- In 1870s New York, Thomas Nast, known for his drawings of Santa Claus, creates a series of cartoons about the corrupt politician, Boss Tweed.
- A teenage Italian boy comes to this country to attend high school as an exchange student. He is thrilled and happy with everything about his visit, until he learns his family in Italy is in trouble.
- Widow is determined to catch herself a struggling author.
- Three young boys are given the responsibility of carrying Christmas gifts to the mission church in the costumes of the Three Wise Men. When they ride through the poorest section of the village, the boys decide to give the presents to the ragged children instead, causing a crisis in conscience in the community.
- Biographical story of Ralph Bunche, first African American appointed as Ambassador to the United Nations, was awarded Nobel Peace Prize for his work on the negotiations that led to the cease fire in the Arab Israeli war of 1948. I was cast as the 12 year old Ralph Bunche. At the time this series was recorded in 1954 I was 13 years old.
- The story of how Samuel Morse, after many hardships, gained recognition for the first telegraph.
- The story of Jefferson Davis, future president of the Confederacy, and Sarah Taylor, daughter of the future president of the United States. Their love was fated to end in tragedy.
- A quick-thinking reporter becomes an important factor in the rescue of hundreds of Union troops during the Civil War.
- A portrayal of events in the later life of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, showing his influence on the pioneers who lived in a small community in the Ohio River Valley.
- Young Andrew Jackson in South Carolina at the time of the American Revolution joins the militia and engages in guerrilla fighting against the British.
- A high school science teacher helps develop a better America for younger generations through his efforts in the field of science education.