The Great Adventure (TV series)
| The Great Adventure | |
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Lee Marvin and Walter Koenig in "Six Wagons to Sea", 1963.
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| Genre | Historical Anthology |
| Directed by |
Buzz Kulik Philip Leacock Joseph M. Newman Denis Sanders Robert Stevens (director) |
| Presented by | Van Heflin |
| Theme music composer | Richard Rodgers |
| Composer(s) |
Fred Steiner Bernard Herrmann Wilbur Hatch Leon Klatzkin Nathan Scott David Buttolph Robert Drasnin Leigh Harline |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Bert Granet |
| Producer(s) |
John Houseman Ethel Winant |
| Running time | 44 mins. |
| Production company(s) | CBS |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Picture format | Black-and-white |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | September 27, 1963 – May 1, 1964 |
The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964 television season. The series, narrated each week by Van Heflin, and featuring theme music by Richard Rodgers, presented a weekly one-hour dramatization of the lives of famous Americans and important historical events in American History.
The series lasted for only 26 episodes, and showed, among others, stories on the Confederate submarine, the Hunley; the life of Harriet Tubman; the Battles of Lexington and Concord; the trial and hanging of Nathan Hale; the life of "Boss" Tweed; the death of Sitting Bull; the siege of Boonesborough; the capture of Jefferson Davis; the life and death of Wild Bill Hickok; and the Battle of New Orleans.
Among those who appeared in the series were:
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