The Great Adventure (1963)
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.
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Seasons & Episode
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Episode 6 - Go Down, Moses
November. 01,1963
Ruby Dee plays the escaped slave Harriet Tubman and her attempts to rescue enslaved family members and friends through the pre-Civil War Underground Railroad.
Episode 13 - The Colonel from Connecticut
January. 10,1964
The story of Col. Edwin Drake, the first man to drill for oil in the U.S.