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- A series of six talks about the history of Britain.
- NBC, assisted by the New York Board of Education, presented its first educational television series based on factual historic events, narrated and performed by actors and actresses.
- The first season, beginning in March 1949, featured Robert L. Ripley sitting in a "living room" recounting tales of strange stories. Ripley died on 27 May and was replaced by Robert St. John who continued to November 1949. The second season, beginning in January 1950, was a dramatic anthology series based on Ripley's stories and featured guest players every week.
- The Pacific was a key battle ground during World War II. Combat here changed the tides of the war.
- An NBC network live broadcast from their studios at Rockefeller Center, New York City, dramatizing non-denominational stories of faith.
- Omnibus was a television program that sought to provide the best of what television could provide as the highest common denominator of intellectual curiosity and interest. This level of programing excellence has not been achieved again.
- Witness the story of Jesus, beginning with his birth in Bethlehem, to his crucifixion, death, and triumphant resurrection. Filmed mostly on location in the Holy Land.
- Walter Cronkite hosted the reenactments of historical events. Shows included "The Landing of the Hindenburg", "The Salem Witchcraft Trials", "The Gettysburg Address", "The Fall of Troy", and "The Scuttling of the Graf Spee".
- "Wrangler Steve" was a hosted children's show with Steve Cannon as "Wrangler Steve".
- Showed featured dramatic reenactments of true Naval events taken from the files of the Defense Department. The episodes generally featured little known actors although better known performers sometimes hosted.
- The adventures of the French explorer and fur trader, Pierre Esprit Radisson.
- During the turbulent days of the French Revolution, Frenchwoman Lucie Manette falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay who's hiding his true identity and purpose.
- The award winning bing play of Mary Chase came to television in 1958. It tells the story of Elwood P. Dowd (Art Carney), a personable chap who drinks a little, and befriends a "pookah", a six foot rabbit he calls "Harvey". Unfortunately, his sister and main caregiver Veta Louise Simmons formation Lorne, and her spinster daughter Myrtle Mae, have had Elwood's condition negatively affect their social lives. Elwood's engaging personality with its one flaw creates problems for those around him. So his sister, thinking it is in his best interests, seeks a cure for her brother's problem. But nothing is ever that simple.
- A long-running documentary series concerning the news and cultural events which shaped the 20th century. It also offered interpretations of the meaning of certain events, and placed wars and assassinations within the wider context of their era. The host was Walter Cronkite. In 1967, the series was renamed to "The 21st Century". Its new focus was predictions about future events.
- The adventures of Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a noble knight and champion of justice during the rule of the evil Prince John.
- Depicts the legend of William Tell, who, as the stories say, shot an apple off of his son's head and lead the rebellion to free Switzerland.
- A series of memorable dramatizations from the Holy Bible, complete with gorgeous costumes, compelling performances, and the Word of God.
- Vers 1755, la Nouvelle-France connaît une période trouble. Le gouverneur Vaudreuil est assisté dans ses fonctions par l'intendant Bigot, un homme malhonnête. La colonie est mal administrée, les paysans écrasés par les impôts, l'armée mal payée, bref, tout le monde est mécontent. La division règne entre Français et Canadiens, et entre soldats et fermiers. Des commerçants exploitent les Indiens en leur vendant de l'eau-de-vie et en attisant la haine entre tribus rivales. Durant ces moments critiques, alors que l'Anglais est aux portes du territoire, le courrier du roy, Michel LeNeuf, sillonne la campagne, porteur des messages du gouverneur. Ce métier fait de lui un témoin privilégié de la vie difficile des premiers colons, des coutumes indiennes et des luttes qui déchirent le peuple.
- -In 1719, multiple difficulties arose when France, through De Bienville, tried to make New Orleans the gateway to the south of New France. Supply problems, the revolt of the colonists, the desertion of soldiers and famine among the new arrivals were all obstacles to this ambition. The confusion and misery that prevailed made everyone want to return to France. But the unbelievable happens when Canadians gather around De Bienville and support him, desperately clinging to their new land. With their will, they bring crops, villages and, with their hands, they shape one of the most beautiful regions in the world. The colony grew and, in 1763, 48 Acadian families joined the Canadians.
- Narrators recall their personal observations and memories with the help of the Pathe Archive.
- A 13-part television series that presents the history of the Civil War using authentic Mathew Brady photographs.
- Famous people read favorite literary selections aloud to a small group of children, often relatives of the reader. In 1960, Virginia Winslow Hopper Mathews created the children's TV series Reading Out Loud with Westinghouse Broadcasting executive Mike Santangelo. Produced by Westinghouse for syndication, the show featured notable figures reading aloud their favorite books, speeches and literature to children, including Jacking Robinson discussing and reading The Gettysburg Address to his family, broadcast May 1, 1960 . It debuted February 7, 1960 on the five TV stations owned by Westinghouse in Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. READING OUT LOUD also opened on WNTA-TV, prior it becoming a Public Television Station (WNET-TV) in New York City and 46 educational TV stations around the U.S. It ran as a half-hour show for 15 episodes.
- A linking together of Shakespeare's history plays chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over the eighty-six years between Richard II and Richard III.
- The story of Mutiny On The Bounty's William Bligh.
- A look at the historic part the Royal Navy played in winning World War II.
- Murder mystery interwoven with the historical events of England's Gordon riots of 1780, based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
- The story of St. Paul, and of the spread of Christianity.
- The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
- Eight years earlier, Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, was persuaded to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young seaman, who, though promising, had poor family connections. When her father rents out the family estate to Admiral Croft, Anne is thrown into company with Frederick, because his sister is Mrs. Croft. Frederick is now a rich and successful Captain, and a highly eligible bachelor. Whom will he marry? One of Anne's sister's husband's sisters? Or will he and Anne rekindle the old flame?
- A show that tells someone's life story every interesting episode at a time.