September 5, 1954 • 2h
The Swedish-American inventor of dynamite, established before his death the Nobel Prize to be awarded annually for the best work i...Read more
September 12, 1954 • 2h
Tells the story of the early life of the American composer Stephen Foster. Relates the difficulties Foster encountered when he tri...Read more
September 19, 1954 • 2h
The story of John Nelson Wanamaker the 35th United States Postmaster General who was known for buying an abandoned railroad depot ...Read more
September 26, 1954 • 2h
The story tells of Moses' upbringing by an Egyptian pharaoh, his killing of a cruel overseer and the flight to Media where he marr...Read more
October 3, 1954 • 2h
From court appointed organist to his triumphant position as Kantor at the Thomasschule his story unfolds as his music was given to...Read more
October 10, 1954 • 2h
The tale of Hippocrates, the father of medicine is dramatized.
October 17, 1954 • 2h
An all-male cast set in the Revolutionary War days, the story tells how a hero exposed the plot of Benedict Arnold and save Genera...Read more
October 24, 1954 • 2h
The widow of the great composer, Edward MacDowell, remembering her happy past, wishes to create a place where artists from all qua...Read more
October 31, 1954 • 2h
Horace Greeley's fight for peace is dramatized.
November 14, 1954 • 2h
An incident in the life of John Adams, second President of the United States and his defense of an English Officer who was charged...Read more
November 21, 1954 • 2h
The story of the man who was President of the United States for one day is told. David Rice Atchison as President of the Senate au...Read more
November 28, 1954 • 2h
A dramatization of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
December 5, 1954 • 2h
The story of the Burr–Hamilton duel arose from a long-standing political and personal rivalry that had developed between both men ...Read more
December 12, 1954 • 2h
The story of how William Harvey used King John of England as a guinea pig to test his theory of the circulatory system.
December 19, 1954 • 2h
The tale of a poor boy and his mother who journey to visit Christ's birth in Bethlehem.
December 26, 1954 • 2h
The story of the stormy controversy during the reign of Henry the Eighth is dramatized.
January 2, 1955 • 2h
The story of the legendary Swiss marksman William Tell is dramatized.
January 9, 1955 • 2h
Story of John Hull, first mintmaster of Massachusetts Bay Colony, who was appointed to the post in 1650 as the culmination of his ...Read more
January 16, 1955 • 2h
In the name of his brother, the editor of a Boston newspaper, Benjamin Franklin launches a crusade against Cotton Mather.
January 23, 1955 • 2h
Struggle of chemist Wiley to expose frauds in food and drug trade and in patent medicine. His efforts to prove the harmful effects...Read more
January 30, 1955 • 2h
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.
February 6, 1955 • 2h
Silver-tongued Patrick Henry studied law for only six weeks, but so impressed the board that they passed him. He was a successful ...Read more
February 13, 1955 • 2h
Tale of Alcuin, the great educator who taught Charlemagne to read and write.
February 20, 1955 • 2h
The courtship of George Washington and Martha Custis, a widowed mother of two.
February 27, 1955 • 2h
The story of Alexander Graham Bell and experiments that led to the electric hearing aid, and then the telephone.
March 6, 1955 • 2h
Tribute to one of Commodore Perry's officers, whose personal efforts helped open Japan to foreign trade.
March 13, 1955 • 2h
Adventures of pirate Jean Laffite and lawyer Edward Livingston.
March 20, 1955 • 2h
Story of the love between Knox Taylor (daughter of Colonel Zachary Taylor) and Jefferson Davis.
March 27, 1955 • 2h
The story of Lord Byron's efforts to liberate Greece.
April 3, 1955 • 2h
The story of Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain boys.
April 10, 1955 • 2h
Story of the pagan Greek Lydia, who lived in ancient Rome and saved the life of the Apostle Paul.
April 17, 1955 • 2h
Story from 1910 of Dr. James Ewing, who fought to break down the barriers erected against the investigation and treatment of cance...Read more
April 25, 1954 • 2h
Story of Aimée de Rivery, who brought reforms to Turkey.
May 1, 1955 • 2h
The story of young army officer and law student Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 60th justice of the United States Supreme Court.
May 8, 1955 • 2h
Story of Ernestine Schumann-Heink.
May 15, 1955 • 2h
A dramatization of the legend of Damon and Pythias.
May 22, 1955 • 2h
Story of George Eastman, and his development of the first camera to use film.
May 29, 1955 • 2h
Tribute to Rotary International in commemoration of its golden anniversary. Includes speech by then Rotary president Herbert J. Taylor.
June 5, 1955 • 2h
The story of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Von Steuben, founder of the American military system, who trained troops in the American Revolution.
June 12, 1955 • 2h
Recounts a "little-known incident" in the life of Edgar Allan Poe.
June 19, 1955 • 2h
The inspiring story of Milton S. Hershey, who worked so hard to bring happiness to thousands of orphans.
June 26, 1955 • 2h
The story of Thomas Jefferson's return to politics in 1773.