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The story of the legendary Swiss marksman William Tell is dramatized. Stars James Arness.
Story of John Hull, first mintmaster of Massachusetts Bay Colony, who was appointed to the post in 1650 as the culmination of his efforts to abolish barter and foreign coinage in favor of a stabilized currency. Stars Lamont Johnson.
In the name of his brother, the editor of a Boston newspaper, Benjamin Franklin launches a crusade against Cotton Mather. Stars Ben Cooper.
Story of John Hull, first mintmaster of Massachusetts Bay Colony, who was appointed to the post in 1650 as the culmination of his efforts to abolish barter and foreign coinage in favor of a stabilized currency.
Ford, unhappy with farm life, moves to Detroit where he begins to experiment with the gas engine, certain that it could be made to propel a vehicle. Stars Arthur Franz.
Silver-tongued Patrick Henry studied law for only six weeks, but so impressed the board that they passed him. He was a successful Southern backwoods lawyer and reluctant to enter the Virginia House of Burgesses until the British introduced the Stamp Act. Stars Jack Kelly.
Tale of Alcuin, the great educator who taught Charlemagne to read and write. Stars Whitfield Connor.
The courtship of George Washington and Martha Custis, a widowed mother of two. Stars Karen Sharpe.
The story of Alexander Graham Bell and experiments that led to the electric hearing aid, and then the telephone. Stars Peter Hanson.
Tribute to one of Commodore Perry's officers, whose personal efforts helped open Japan to foreign trade. Stars John Barrymore Jr.
Adventures of pirate Jean Laffite and lawyer Edward Livingston. Stars Ray Danton.
Story of the love between Knox Taylor (daughter of Colonel Zachary Taylor) and Jefferson Davis. Stars Sarah Churchill.
The story of Lord Byron's efforts to liberate Greece. Stars Tod Andrews.
The story of Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain boys. Stars William Bishop.
Story of the pagan Greek Lydia, who lived in ancient Rome and saved the life of the Apostle Paul. Stars Sarah Churchill.
Story from 1910 of Dr. James Ewing, who fought to break down the barriers erected against the investigation and treatment of cancer, and who almost single-handedly founded the Memorial Cancer Center in New York City. Stars Peter Graves.
Story of Aimee Rivery, who brought reforms to Turkey. Stars Sarah Churchill.
The story of young army officer and law student Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 60th justice of the United States Supreme Court. Stars Jan Merlin.
Story of Ernestine Schumann-Heink. Stars Alf Kjellin.
A dramatization of the legend of Damon and Pythias. Stars Lamont Johnson.
Story of George Eastman, and his development of the first camera to use film. Stars Gene Reynolds.
Tribute to Rotary International in commemoration of its golden anniversary. Includes speech by then Rotary president Herbert J. Taylor. Stars Edward Arnold.
The story of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Von Steuben, founder of the American military system, who trained troops in the American Revolution. Stars Joseph Schildkraut.
Recounts a "little-known incident" in the life of Edgar Allan Poe. Stars John Carlyle.
The inspiring story of Milton S. Hershey, who worked so hard to bring happiness to thousands of orphans. Stars Gene Lockhart.
The story of Thomas Jefferson's return to politics in 1773. Stars Rhodes Reason.
Adaptation of the stage version devised by Le Gallienne and Friebus of the children's classic by Lewis Carroll. Stars Gillian Barber.
An Americanization of the play by George Bernard Shaw:
Dick Dudgeon is the local scapegrace in the New Hampshire community of Yankees where he lives. Even his own mother becomes fed up with the way he flouts the cardinal rules of good sense, good manners and good religion, and throws him out of the house. Judith, Parson Anderson's pretty wife, also has a low opinion of Dick. But Shaw proves Dick's heart is in the right place for he's kind to a poor, belabored servant girl, and, it being the time of the American Revolution, he shortly becomes a Yankee hero. Stars Maurice Evans.
Adaptation of the Broadway play by Elmer Rice.
A fashionable young woman escapes her dull life and demanding mother by dwelling in a world of outrageous daydreams. Stars Vivian Blaine.
