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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, and featuring theme music by Richard Rodgers, presented a weekly one-hour dramatization of the lives of famous Americans and important historical events in American History.
Original Release
09/27/1963 on CBS
US Release
09/27/1963
Cast
Name | Character |
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Russell Johnson | Self - Narrator / Narrator |
Van Heflin | Self - Narrator / Self - Announcer |
Eddie Little Sky | Left Hand / Chief Blackfish / Lean Bear |
Kent Smith | Gen. Nelson Miles / General Nelson Miles / Grymes / William Carroll |
Jacque Shelton | Captain Gibson / Officer on the Bridge / Second Reporter |
Sandy Kenyon | Captain James / Fletcher / Lieutenant Gators |
Leonard P. Geer | Man Outside Fort / Second Voice / Wagon Driver |
Noel Drayton | Buchanan / Johnson / Officer |
Richard Lupino | Lt. Brown / Corporal |
Ricardo Montalban | Philip Crow / Jean Lafitte |
# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | The Hunley | Friday, 27 September 1963 |
2 | The Death of Sitting Bull | Friday, 04 October 1963 |
3 | The Massacre at Wounded Knee | Friday, 11 October 1963 |
4 | Six Wagons to the Sea | Friday, 18 October 1963 |
5 | The Story of Nathan Hale | Friday, 25 October 1963 |
6 | Go Down, Moses | Friday, 01 November 1963 |
7 | The Great Diamond Mountain | Friday, 08 November 1963 |
8 | The Treasure Train of Jefferson Davis | Friday, 15 November 1963 |
9 | The Outlaw and the Nun | Friday, 06 December 1963 |
10 | The Man Who Stole New York City | Friday, 13 December 1963 |
11 | A Boy at War | Friday, 20 December 1963 |
12 | Wild Bill Hickok - the Legend and the Man | Friday, 03 January 1964 |
13 | The Colonel from Connecticut | Friday, 10 January 1964 |
14 | Teeth of the Lion | Friday, 17 January 1964 |
15 | Rodger Young | Friday, 24 January 1964 |
16 | The Testing of Sam Houston | Friday, 31 January 1964 |
17 | The Special Courage of Captain Pratt | Friday, 14 February 1964 |
18 | The Night Raiders | Friday, 21 February 1964 |
19 | Plague | Friday, 28 February 1964 |
20 | The Pathfinder | Friday, 06 March 1964 |
21 | The President Vanishes | Friday, 13 March 1964 |
22 | The Henry Bergh Story | Friday, 20 March 1964 |
23 | Kentucky's Bloody Ground | Friday, 03 April 1964 |
24 | The Siege of Boonesborough | Friday, 10 April 1964 |
25 | Escape | Friday, 17 April 1964 |
26 | The Pirate and the Patriot | Friday, 01 May 1964 |
Directors
Philip Leacock, Bernard Girard, Buzz Kulik, Joseph Sargent, Paul Stanley, Joseph M. Newman, Arthur H. Nadel, James Sheldon, Alan Crosland Jr., Richard C. Sarafian, Robert Florey, Robert Stevens, Lamont Johnson, Christian Nyby, Denis Sanders, Robert Gist
Writers
Raphael Hayes, John Mantley, Clyde Ware, Otis Carney, Joseph Hoffman, Sheldon Osborn, Robert Hilliard, Malvin Wald, Francis M. Cockrell, Calvin Clements Sr., Alvin Sapinsley, Henry F. Greenberg, Calvin Clements Jr., James Bridges
Cast
Name | Character |
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Russell Johnson | Self - Narrator / Narrator |
Van Heflin | Self - Narrator / Self - Announcer |
Eddie Little Sky | Left Hand / Chief Blackfish / Lean Bear |
Kent Smith | Gen. Nelson Miles / General Nelson Miles / Grymes / William Carroll |
Jacque Shelton | Captain Gibson / Officer on the Bridge / Second Reporter |
Sandy Kenyon | Captain James / Fletcher / Lieutenant Gators |
Leonard P. Geer | Man Outside Fort / Second Voice / Wagon Driver |
Noel Drayton | Buchanan / Johnson / Officer |
Richard Lupino | Lt. Brown / Corporal |
Ricardo Montalban | Philip Crow / Jean Lafitte |
Torin Thatcher | Colonel Lewis Washington / General Howe |
Walter Brooke | James Townsend / Taylor |
Ian Wolfe | Brewer / Townsend |
Davis Roberts | Paul / Trooper |
Naomi Perry | Screaming Woman / Woman |
Gene Lyons | Dr. Aspenwall / Mercer |
Carroll O'Connor | Johann Sutter / O'Rourke |
John Anderson | Andrew Jackson / Colonel Knowlton |
Arthur Batanides | Lieutenant Gomez / Pouliades |
Russell Collins | Tobacconist / Watson |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Bert Granet | Executive Producer |
Ethel Winant | Producer |
John Houseman | Producer |
Editors
Stanley E. Johnson, Otto Ludwig, Howard A. Smith, Philip W. Anderson