Season 1

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.

A Hollywood press agent is assigned to promote a starlet with whom he was once in love.

Adaptation of the novel by Helen Ashton.

Dramatization of the love affair between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.

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.

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.

Story of Anna Ella Carroll, prominent member of a Maryland family who served as unofficial but close advisor and special representative to President Lincoln.

Irish-American tailor Hercules Mulligan's contribution to the American Revolution.

The story of Dolley Madison.

The meeting of George Sand and Frederic Chopin.

The founding of the Girl Scouts, presented on the occasion of their 40th anniversary.

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.

The story of America's first woman aviator.

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.

Little-known incidents in the life of Grover Cleveland.

Story of America's first woman author.

Dr. Edward Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccination.

The life of Francisco Goya; set in Spain, 1786.

The story of Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams.

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.

A biography of Louisa May Alcott, ending with her writing of ""Little Women"" in 1860.

Biography of Ben Jonson, covering the writing of Eastward ho; set in London, 1606.

Biography of Nefretiti, illustrating her life with the Pharoah and her influence on Egyptian history and culture.

The story of Anna and John Peter Zenger and their fight for freedom of the press.

A dramatization honouring American educator Martha Berry, founder of Mt. Berry, a Georgia home for mountain people.

The story of the Bronte sisters.

An infantryman in the American Revolution lights a firecracker and gets blown into another generation.

Story of a town in U.S. taken over by corrupt men due to the neglect of the citizenry.

An aging man thinks his usefulness to society is at an end.

Story of the importance of one vote in an election.

A young state senator runs into a moral problem while conducting a cleanup campaign.

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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.

Story of Johnny Appleseed, the wanderer who planted trees as he traveled.

Story of a wealthy middle-aged married couple who retrace their honeymoon, and in so doing, regain their love for each other.