1951 • 35 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1 • Dec 24, 1951
Broadcast live from New York, Gian Carlo Menotti's Christmas story was the first opera commissioned for television, and was repeated in several subsequent telecasts.
Episode 2 • Jan 06, 1952
A Hollywood press agent is assigned to promote a starlet with whom he was once in love.
Episode 3 • Jan 13, 1952
Adaptation of the novel by Helen Ashton.
Episode 4 • Jan 20, 1952
Dramatization of the love affair between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
Episode 5 • Jan 27, 1952
In 1631 Roger Williams landed in Boston. He had come to America to find freedom of belief and worship; instead, he found the church here still connected to the church in England and just as oppressive. He refused to join the church in Boston because it still held communion with the Church of England, from which he had just fled. He thought it his duty to renounce all connection with any church that would stain its hands in the blood of the Lord's people.
Episode 6 • Feb 03, 1952
Biography of Florence Nightingale: her determination to build hospitals and train nurses for the sick and disabled during the Crimean War, her correspondence with the Minister of War, and the letter of appreciation she received from Queen Victoria.
Episode 7 • Feb 10, 1952
Story of Anna Ella Carroll, prominent member of a Maryland family who served as unofficial but close advisor and special representative to President Lincoln.
Episode 8 • Feb 17, 1952
Irish-American tailor Hercules Mulligan's contribution to the American Revolution.
Episode 9 • Feb 24, 1952
The story of Dolley Madison.
Episode 10 • Mar 02, 1952
The meeting of George Sand and Frederic Chopin.
Episode 11 • Mar 09, 1952
The founding of the Girl Scouts, presented on the occasion of their 40th anniversary.
Episode 12 • Mar 16, 1952
A salute to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on its 150th anniversary, focusing on Anna Warner's historic gift of Contitution Island to the institution; set in 1907.
Episode 13 • Mar 23, 1952
The story of America's first woman aviator.
Episode 14 • Mar 30, 1952
The story of Reverend Edward Joseph Flanagan who, as a young priest from Ireland, founded Boys Town, Nebraska, where outcast boys could find the love and care denied them in their own homes.
Episode 15 • Apr 06, 1952
Little-known incidents in the life of Grover Cleveland.
Episode 16 • Apr 20, 1952
Story of America's first woman author.
Episode 17 • Apr 27, 1952
Dr. Edward Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccination.
Episode 18 • May 04, 1952
The life of Francisco Goya; set in Spain, 1786.
Episode 19 • May 11, 1952
The story of Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams.
Episode 20 • May 18, 1952
Eliza Monroe, in Paris as the wife of the U.S. Foreign Minister toFrance, obtains Madame Lafayette's release from prison and sentence of death by guillotine.
Episode 21 • May 25, 1952
A biography of Louisa May Alcott, ending with her writing of ""Little Women"" in 1860.
Episode 22 • Jun 01, 1952
Biography of Ben Jonson, covering the writing of Eastward ho; set in London, 1606.
Episode 23 • Jun 08, 1952
Biography of Nefretiti, illustrating her life with the Pharoah and her influence on Egyptian history and culture.
Episode 24 • Jun 15, 1952
The story of Anna and John Peter Zenger and their fight for freedom of the press.
Episode 25 • Jun 22, 1952
A dramatization honouring American educator Martha Berry, founder of Mt. Berry, a Georgia home for mountain people.
Episode 26 • Jun 29, 1952
The story of the Bronte sisters.
Episode 27 • Jul 06, 1952
An infantryman in the American Revolution lights a firecracker and gets blown into another generation.
Episode 28 • Jul 13, 1952
Story of a town in U.S. taken over by corrupt men due to the neglect of the citizenry.
Episode 29 • Jul 20, 1952
An aging man thinks his usefulness to society is at an end.
Episode 30 • Jul 27, 1952
Story of the importance of one vote in an election.
Episode 31 • Aug 03, 1952
A young state senator runs into a moral problem while conducting a cleanup campaign.
Episode 32 • Aug 10, 1952
Episode 33 • Aug 17, 1952
A young Czech girl in the U.S. is faced with the choice of returning to her family behind the Iron Curtain or remaining free in the U.S.
Episode 34 • Aug 24, 1952
Story of Johnny Appleseed, the wanderer who planted trees as he traveled.
Episode 35 • Aug 31, 1952
Story of a wealthy middle-aged married couple who retrace their honeymoon, and in so doing, regain their love for each other.