The Great Adventure (American TV series)
The Great Adventure is an American historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963–64 television season.[3] The series, which featured theme music by Richard Rodgers, presented a weekly one-hour dramatization of the lives of famous Americans and important events in American history.[4] 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.Starring Earl Holliman, Julie Sommars, Collin WilcoxNote: Nine years earlier, Jordan "Smoki" Whitfield, who plays a servant testifying at John Brown's trial, portrayed Dangerfield Newby (Joel Fluellen's role here) in the 1955 film about John Brown's raid, Seven Angry Men.