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Cavalcade of America: Season 1
October 1, 1952
20 Episodes
~60 min per episode
Overview
No overview available for this season.
Episodes
20
1
Poor Richard
Oct 1, 1952
60 min
Dramatized incidents are used to show how Benjamin Franklin delayed a conference between Lord Howe and John Adams until the spring rainy season commenced, thereby allowing General Washington to extricate his troops from Long Island under the cover of a storm. This drama sent the ""old and obstinate"" Franklin to delay American surrender talks with the British, thereby allowing General George Washington to escape capture to fight another day.
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2
All's Well with Lydia
Oct 15, 1952
60 min
The Revolutionary War story of Lydia Darragh, American patriot and Philadelphia widow, who by her cleverness gained information instrumental in an American victory.
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3
The Man Who Took a Chance
Oct 29, 1952
60 min
The story of an 19th century genius who adapted 20th century methods to solve an American problem, Eli Whitney first begins to manufacture muskets.
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4
A Romance to Remember
Nov 12, 1952
60 min
The tale of the two beautiful Peabody Sisters who become rivals for the love of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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5
What Hath God Wrought
Nov 26, 1952
60 min
The story of how Samuel Morse, after many hardships, gained recognition for the first telegraph.
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6
No Greater Love
Dec 10, 1952
60 min
A story about Clara Louise Maas, a Spanish-American War nurse who allowed herself to be bitten by a Stegomyia mosquito in order to further the experiments which were being conducted in the Las Animas Hospital in Havana under the direction of Dr. William C. Gorgas during a yellow fever epidemic at the turn of the century.
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7
In This Crisis
Dec 24, 1952
60 min
John Honeyman, American patriot, pretends to be a Tory in order to gain information that will mean Washington?s victory over the Hessians.
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8
The Arrow and the Bow
Jan 7, 1953
60 min
The career of Andrew Johnson, who, starting as a tailor, became the 17th President.
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9
What Might Have Been
Jan 21, 1953
60 min
The story of the tragic romance and marriage of Jefferson Davis and Sarah Knox Taylor.
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10
New Salem Story
Feb 4, 1953
60 min
The legendary tale of Abe Lincoln and his great love for Ann Rutledge.
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11
A Matter of Honor
Feb 18, 1953
60 min
A historical drama portraying the misunderstanding between Sam Houston and his wife, Eliza, which resulted in Houston's resignation of the governorship of Tennessee. The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Alamo, who gave the woman he loved a locket engraved with one word, ""integrity"" but had she earned the right to wear it?
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12
Experiment at Monticello
Mar 4, 1953
60 min
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.
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13
Mightier Than the Sword
Mar 18, 1953
60 min
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 who was imprisoned for printing the truth about corruption of the British administration. Story of John Peter Zenger in the famous trial that established American freedom of the press.
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14
The Indomitable Blacksmith
Apr 1, 1953
60 min
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. The story of how Thomas Davenport neglected his blacksmith trade and failed in business, but won immortality in science by inventing the first electric motor.
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15
The Gingerbread Man
Apr 15, 1953
60 min
A true story about Christopher Ludwick, the baker, who came to America in 1776 from Germany. He made a most unusual gingerbread man which later became famous in America. He lived with his wife in Philadelphia. A comedy-drama about an elderly German baker who persuades 123 Hessian soldiers to desert the British Army during the American Revolution.
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16
Night Strike
Apr 29, 1953
60 min
Dramatizes an incident in the career of Captain John Paul Jones. Describes a raid made by Americans under Jones' leadership on the English coast at Whitehaven in 1778 and the unexpected outcome of the action.
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17
Slater's Dream
May 13, 1953
60 min
Dramatizes the story of Samuel Slater, a young Englishman, who came to America in 1790 and struggled to construct from memory the cotton spinner, the plan of which England jealously guarded to insure a monopoly on the machine.
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18
The Pirate's Choice
May 27, 1953
60 min
Dramtizes 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.
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19
John Yankee
Jun 10, 1953
60 min
Dramatizes John Adams' difficult and unpopular decision to defend eight English soldiers who participated in a Boston riot prior to the Revolution.
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20
The Tenderfoot
Jun 24, 1953
60 min
A historical drama showing how young Theodore Roosevelt, undaunted by a blizzard, pursues and captures three outlaws in the Dakota Bad Lands. Time: 1886.
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