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.
Guest Stars:
Isobel Elsom, Wright King
Adaptation of the novel by Helen Ashton.
Guest Stars:
Beatrice Straight
Dramatization of the love affair between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
Guest Stars:
Richard Derr, Vinton Hayworth
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.
Guest Stars:
Salem Ludwig, John Beal, Gavin Gordon
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.
Guest Stars:
Mary Barclay, Richard Fraser, Isobel Elsom
Story of Anna Ella Carroll, prominent member of a Maryland family who served as unofficial but close advisor and special representative to President Lincoln.
Guest Stars:
Sandy Kenyon, Douglass Montgomery, Casey Walters, Jayne Meadows
Irish-American tailor Hercules Mulligan's contribution to the American Revolution.
Guest Stars:
Joshua Shelley, Moultrie Patten
The story of Dolley Madison.
Guest Stars:
June Lockhart
The founding of the Girl Scouts, presented on the occasion of their 40th anniversary.
Guest Stars:
Betty Lou Keim
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.
Guest Stars:
Juanita Hall, Dennis Cross, Margery Maude, John Marriott
The story of America's first woman aviator.
Guest Stars:
Rusty Lane, Kem Dibbs
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.
Guest Stars:
David White, Sal Mineo
Little-known incidents in the life of Grover Cleveland.
Guest Stars:
E.G. Marshall
Story of America's first woman author.
Guest Stars:
Scott Forbes, Bill Podmore
Dr. Edward Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccination.
Guest Stars:
Richard Waring
The life of Francisco Goya; set in Spain, 1786.
Guest Stars:
Ronald Long, Berry Kroeger, Ruth Ford
The story of Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams.
Guest Stars:
Sal Mineo, William Daniels, Michael Mann
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.
Guest Stars:
Wesley Addy, Jonathan Harris, Ruth White, Bill Podmore
A biography of Louisa May Alcott, ending with her writing of ""Little Women"" in 1860.
Guest Stars:
Val Dufour, Don McHenry, Beatrice Straight
Biography of Ben Jonson, covering the writing of Eastward ho; set in London, 1606.
Guest Stars:
Anthony Dawson, J. Pat O'Malley, Bill Podmore, Ross Martin
Biography of Nefretiti, illustrating her life with the Pharoah and her influence on Egyptian history and culture.
Guest Stars:
Betty Lou Keim, Kem Dibbs, Gavin Gordon
The story of Anna and John Peter Zenger and their fight for freedom of the press.
Guest Stars:
Moultrie Patten, John McGovern
A dramatization honouring American educator Martha Berry, founder of Mt. Berry, a Georgia home for mountain people.
Guest Stars:
Nancy Malone, James Dean, Cloris Leachman, Don McHenry
The story of the Bronte sisters.
Guest Stars:
Lenka Peterson, Marian Seldes, Liam Sullivan, Scott Forbes, Richard Derr
An infantryman in the American Revolution lights a firecracker and gets blown into another generation.
Guest Stars:
Biff McGuire, Don Kennedy
Story of a town in U.S. taken over by corrupt men due to the neglect of the citizenry.
Guest Stars:
Edward Binns
Story of the importance of one vote in an election.
Guest Stars:
Martin Huston, Isobel Elsom
A young state senator runs into a moral problem while conducting a cleanup campaign.
Guest Stars:
Tod Andrews, Howard Smith, Calvin Thomas
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.
Guest Stars:
Martin Kosleck, Abby Lewis
Story of Johnny Appleseed, the wanderer who planted trees as he traveled.
Guest Stars:
Jeff Morrow, Helen Wagner

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