Season 1

1951-12-24 · 120m

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.

1952-01-06 · 120m

A Hollywood press agent is assigned to promote a starlet with whom he was once in love.

1952-01-13 · 120m

Adaptation of the novel by Helen Ashton.

1952-01-20 · 120m

Dramatization of the love affair between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.

1952-01-27 · 120m

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.

1952-02-03 · 120m

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.

1952-02-10 · 120m

Story of Anna Ella Carroll, prominent member of a Maryland family who served as unofficial but close advisor and special representative to President Lincoln.

1952-02-17 · 120m

Irish-American tailor Hercules Mulligan's contribution to the American Revolution.

1952-02-24 · 120m

The story of Dolley Madison.

1952-03-02 · 120m

The meeting of George Sand and Frederic Chopin.

1952-03-09 · 120m

The founding of the Girl Scouts, presented on the occasion of their 40th anniversary.

1952-03-16 · 120m

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.

1952-03-23 · 120m

The story of America's first woman aviator.

1952-03-30 · 120m

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.

1952-04-06 · 120m

Little-known incidents in the life of Grover Cleveland.

1952-04-20 · 120m

Story of America's first woman author.

1952-04-27 · 120m

Dr. Edward Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccination.

1952-05-04 · 120m

The life of Francisco Goya; set in Spain, 1786.

1952-05-11 · 120m

The story of Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams.

1952-05-18 · 120m

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.

1952-05-25 · 120m

A biography of Louisa May Alcott, ending with her writing of ""Little Women"" in 1860.

1952-06-01 · 120m

Biography of Ben Jonson, covering the writing of Eastward ho; set in London, 1606.

1952-06-08 · 120m

Biography of Nefretiti, illustrating her life with the Pharoah and her influence on Egyptian history and culture.

1952-06-15 · 120m

The story of Anna and John Peter Zenger and their fight for freedom of the press.

1952-06-22 · 120m

A dramatization honouring American educator Martha Berry, founder of Mt. Berry, a Georgia home for mountain people.

1952-06-29 · 120m

The story of the Bronte sisters.

1952-07-06 · 120m

An infantryman in the American Revolution lights a firecracker and gets blown into another generation.

1952-07-13 · 120m

Story of a town in U.S. taken over by corrupt men due to the neglect of the citizenry.

1952-07-20 · 120m

An aging man thinks his usefulness to society is at an end.

1952-07-27 · 120m

Story of the importance of one vote in an election.

1952-08-03 · 120m

A young state senator runs into a moral problem while conducting a cleanup campaign.

1952-08-10 · 120m

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1952-08-17 · 120m

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.

1952-08-24 · 120m

Story of Johnny Appleseed, the wanderer who planted trees as he traveled.

1952-08-31 · 120m

Story of a wealthy middle-aged married couple who retrace their honeymoon, and in so doing, regain their love for each other.