Season 1
8.7/1089 votesAmahl and the Night Visitors
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/24/1951
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.
Director: Kirk Browning
Writer: Unknown
- 10.0/101 votes
Doctor Serocold
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/6/1952
A Hollywood press agent is assigned to promote a starlet with whom he was once in love.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Love Story
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/13/1952
Adaptation of the novel by Helen Ashton.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Big Build-Up
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/20/1952
Dramatization of the love affair between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Story of Roger Williams
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/27/1952
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Florence Nightingale
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/3/1952
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 5.4/109 votes
Woman with a Sword
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/10/1952
Story of Anna Ella Carroll, prominent member of a Maryland family who served as unofficial but close advisor and special representative to President Lincoln.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Plot to Kidnap General Washington
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/17/1952
Irish-American tailor Hercules Mulligan's contribution to the American Revolution.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Mistress of the White House
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/24/1952
The story of Dolley Madison.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Juliette Low and the Girl Scouts
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/9/1952
The founding of the Girl Scouts, presented on the occasion of their 40th anniversary.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Constitution Island
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/16/1952
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Harriet Quimby
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 3/23/1952
The story of America's first woman aviator.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Nelson Gidding
- N/A/100 votes
The Vision of Father Flanagan
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 3/30/1952
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Ordeal by White House
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/6/1952
Little-known incidents in the life of Grover Cleveland.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Anne Bradstreet, Puritan Poetess
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 4/20/1952
Story of America's first woman author.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Miracle in May
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/27/1952
Dr. Edward Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccination.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Face of Spain
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/4/1952
The life of Francisco Goya; set in Spain, 1786.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
A Woman for the Ages
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/11/1952
The story of Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Reign of Terror
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/18/1952
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Magnificent Failure
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/25/1952
A biography of Louisa May Alcott, ending with her writing of ""Little Women"" in 1860.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The King's Author
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 6/1/1952
Biography of Ben Jonson, covering the writing of Eastward ho; set in London, 1606.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Nefretiti, Queen of Egypt
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 6/8/1952
Biography of Nefretiti, illustrating her life with the Pharoah and her influence on Egyptian history and culture.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Mr. and Mrs. Freedom
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 6/15/1952
The story of Anna and John Peter Zenger and their fight for freedom of the press.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.6/1033 votes
Forgotten Children
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 6/22/1952
A dramatization honouring American educator Martha Berry, founder of Mt. Berry, a Georgia home for mountain people.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Our Sister Emily
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 6/29/1952
The story of the Bronte sisters.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Legend of Josiah Blow
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 7/6/1952
An infantryman in the American Revolution lights a firecracker and gets blown into another generation.
Director: Albert McCleery
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Real Glory
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 7/13/1952
Story of a town in U.S. taken over by corrupt men due to the neglect of the citizenry.
Director: Albert McCleery
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Salvage
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 7/20/1952
An aging man thinks his usefulness to society is at an end.
Director: Albert McCleery
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
21-Plus
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 7/27/1952
Story of the importance of one vote in an election.
Director: Albert McCleery
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Carlson Legend
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 8/3/1952
A young state senator runs into a moral problem while conducting a cleanup campaign.
Director: Albert McCleery
Writer: Rod Serling
- N/A/100 votes
The Last Command
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 8/10/1952
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Director: Albert McCleery
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
I Lift Up My Lamp
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 8/17/1952
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.
Director: Albert McCleery
Writer: Rod Serling
- N/A/100 votes
Crabapple Saint
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 8/24/1952
Story of Johnny Appleseed, the wanderer who planted trees as he traveled.
Director: Albert McCleery
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Refresher Course
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 8/31/1952
Story of a wealthy middle-aged married couple who retrace their honeymoon, and in so doing, regain their love for each other.
Director: Albert McCleery
Writer: Unknown