"The Great Adventure" (1963) TV series 1963-1964

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

27 September 1963 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A filmed series of one-hour dramatizations of the lives of famous historical persons, as well as important historical events.

Plot Keywords:

Anthology

Cast

Eddie Little Sky	...	Chief Blackfish / ... (4 episodes, 1963-1964)
Kent Smith	...	General Nelson Miles / ... (4 episodes, 1963-1964)
Ricardo Montalban	...	Philip Crow / ... (3 episodes, 1963-1964)
John Anderson	...	Andrew Jackson / ... (2 episodes, 1963-1964)
Arthur Batanides	...	Gomez / ... (2 episodes, 1963-1964)
Walter Brooke	...	James Townsend / ... (2 episodes, 1963-1964)
Russell Collins	...	Tobacconist / ... (2 episodes, 1963-1964)
Leif Erickson	...	Abel Parrish / ... (2 episodes, 1963-1964)
Ken Lynch	...	Brown / ... (2 episodes, 1963-1964)
Gene Lyons	...	Dr. Aspenwall / ... (2 episodes, 1963-1964)
James MacArthur	...	Lieutenant Alexander / ... (2 episodes, 1963-1964)
John McGiver	...	General Claiborne / ... (2 episodes, 1963-1964)
Carroll O'Connor	...	Johann Sutter / ... (2 episodes, 1963-1964)
Maxwell Reed	...	Captain Lockyer / ... (2 episodes, 1963-1964)
Marion Ross	...	Etta Wheeler / ... (2 episodes, 1963-1964)
Barry Sullivan	...	E.J. Edwards / ... (2 episodes, 1963-1964)
Torin Thatcher	...	Colonel Lewis Washington / ... (2 episodes, 1963-1964)
Harry Townes	...	Dr. O'Reilly / ... (2 episodes, 1963-1964)
Bill Walker	...	Charlie (2 episodes, 1963-1964)
Ian Wolfe	...	Brewer / ... (2 episodes, 1963-1964)
Rodolfo Acosta	...	Lieutenant Bullhead (2 episodes, 1963)
Claude Akins	...	Father Kranz (2 episodes, 1963)
Noah Beery Jr.	...	Jervis (2 episodes, 1963)
Anthony Caruso	...	Sitting Bull (2 episodes, 1963)
Miriam Colon	...	Sarah Crow (2 episodes, 1963)
Joseph Cotten	...	Captain Meehan (2 episodes, 1963)
James Dunn	...	Indian Agent McLean (2 episodes, 1963)
Byron Morrow	...	General Beauregard / ... (2 episodes, 1963)
Lloyd Nolan	...	Colonel Fraser (2 episodes, 1963)
Stuart Cooper	...	Flanders Callaway (2 episodes, 1964)
Ken Drake	...	Boatman (2 episodes, 1964)
Andrew Duggan	...	Colonel Callaway (2 episodes, 1964)
Ted Eccles	...	James Boone (2 episodes, 1964)
Peter Graves	...	Daniel Boone (2 episodes, 1964)
Van Heflin	...	Narrator (2 episodes, 1964)
Arthur Hunnicutt	...	Simon Kenton (2 episodes, 1964)
Frances Karath	...	Elizabeth Callaway (2 episodes, 1964)
Richard Lupino	...	Lieutenant Brown (2 episodes, 1964)
John Marley	...	Callum / ... (2 episodes, 1964)
David McCallum	...	Captain Hanning (2 episodes, 1964)
Peggy McCay	...	Mrs. Callaway (2 episodes, 1964)
Laurie Mock	...	Frances Callaway (2 episodes, 1964)
Judee Morton	...	Jemina Boone (2 episodes, 1964)
James Westerfield	...	Fletcher / ... (2 episodes, 1964)
David White	...	John C. Calhoun (2 episodes, 1964)
H.M. Wynant	...	District Attorney / ... (2 episodes, 1964)

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)

A Forgotten Television Gem

It had a theme song by Richard Rogers, and was narrated by Van Heflin. It told stories with performers of quality: Bob Cummings as "Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse" a pioneer in inoculation for smallpox fighting prejudice in Thomas Jefferson's day; Jackie Cooper as the commander of the Confederate submarine " C.S.S.Hunley" on it's fateful cruise to sink the "U.S.S. Housatonic"; Barry Sullivan as "Holland" the reporter who discovered that President Grover Cleveland (Leif Ericsson) had a secret operation for cancer; Sullivan again, taken in by prospectors John McGiver and John Fiedler, in buying the land of their great diamond field sight unseen - only to have J.D.Cannon (as Clarence King)show that everyone has been fooled by them; Lee Marvin as a California raisin grower fighting the railroads there in 1905. These episodes have not been seen in decades, and deserve to be seen again. Like PROFILES IN COURAGE it has been relegated to the obscurity bin of (ironically enough) history.