December 24, 1951 • 2h
Broadcast live from New York, Gian Carlo Menotti's Christmas story was the first opera commissioned for television, and was repeat...Read more
January 6, 1952 • 2h
A Hollywood press agent is assigned to promote a starlet with whom he was once in love.
January 13, 1952 • 2h
Adaptation of the novel by Helen Ashton.
January 20, 1952 • 2h
Dramatization of the love affair between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
January 27, 1952 • 2h
In 1631 Roger Williams landed in Boston. He had come to America to find freedom of belief and worship; instead, he found the churc...Read more
February 3, 1952 • 2h
Biography of Florence Nightingale: her determination to build hospitals and train nurses for the sick and disabled during the Crim...Read more
February 10, 1952 • 2h
Story of Anna Ella Carroll, prominent member of a Maryland family who served as unofficial but close advisor and special represent...Read more
February 17, 1952 • 2h
Irish-American tailor Hercules Mulligan's contribution to the American Revolution.
February 24, 1952 • 2h
The story of Dolley Madison.
March 2, 1952 • 2h
The meeting of George Sand and Frederic Chopin.
March 9, 1952 • 2h
The founding of the Girl Scouts, presented on the occasion of their 40th anniversary.
March 16, 1952 • 2h
A salute to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on its 150th anniversary, focusing on Anna Warner's historic gift of Contituti...Read more
March 23, 1952 • 2h
The story of America's first woman aviator.
March 30, 1952 • 2h
The story of Reverend Edward Joseph Flanagan who, as a young priest from Ireland, founded Boys Town, Nebraska, where outcast boys ...Read more
April 6, 1952 • 2h
Little-known incidents in the life of Grover Cleveland.
April 20, 1952 • 2h
Story of America's first woman author.
April 27, 1952 • 2h
Dr. Edward Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccination.
May 4, 1952 • 2h
The life of Francisco Goya; set in Spain, 1786.
May 11, 1952 • 2h
The story of Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams.
May 18, 1952 • 2h
Eliza Monroe, in Paris as the wife of the U.S. Foreign Minister toFrance, obtains Madame Lafayette's release from prison and sente...Read more
May 25, 1952 • 2h
A biography of Louisa May Alcott, ending with her writing of ""Little Women"" in 1860.
June 1, 1952 • 2h
Biography of Ben Jonson, covering the writing of Eastward ho; set in London, 1606.
June 8, 1952 • 2h
Biography of Nefretiti, illustrating her life with the Pharoah and her influence on Egyptian history and culture.
June 15, 1952 • 2h
The story of Anna and John Peter Zenger and their fight for freedom of the press.
June 22, 1952 • 2h
A dramatization honouring American educator Martha Berry, founder of Mt. Berry, a Georgia home for mountain people.
June 29, 1952 • 2h
The story of the Bronte sisters.
July 6, 1952 • 2h
An infantryman in the American Revolution lights a firecracker and gets blown into another generation.
July 13, 1952 • 2h
Story of a town in U.S. taken over by corrupt men due to the neglect of the citizenry.
July 20, 1952 • 2h
An aging man thinks his usefulness to society is at an end.
July 27, 1952 • 2h
Story of the importance of one vote in an election.
August 3, 1952 • 2h
A young state senator runs into a moral problem while conducting a cleanup campaign.
August 10, 1952 • 2h
Episode 32 of Season 1 premiered on August 10, 1952
August 17, 1952 • 2h
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.
August 24, 1952 • 2h
Story of Johnny Appleseed, the wanderer who planted trees as he traveled.
August 31, 1952 • 2h
Story of a wealthy middle-aged married couple who retrace their honeymoon, and in so doing, regain their love for each other.