Dear jeffilm80: Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! I have been searching, writing, emailing CBS for years to find and release these cinematic treasures of history. The Night Raiders is the first I have seen since 1963. Daniel Meyer is looking for the diamond of this collection: The CSS Hunley. Thank You again.
I'm looking for the CSS Hunley episode too. This program began a lifelong fascination with naval history and the civil war, when I was 14. I wish we would produce more inspiring reality programming nowadays. The theme music by Richard Rodgers still gives me the goosebumps. Thank you so much!
I also have done a lot of searching for the Hunley episode. There are some pictures on the Jackie Cooper site. Saw it when I was 11 and remember it well.
I watched these shows when I was new. Now, if someone has all the episodes of "The Great Adventure", either put them on DVD, or put them on a site, so kids and adults alike, may enjoy allof them, as much as I did.Please don't do what the people who own the DVD rights to the t.v. series "The F.B.I." They had the complete series available for around $99.00, then the offer disappeared, and you have to buy them season by season. Not the full season, but like Season 1 Disc 1. I think to hold great T.V. back, ought to be a crime.
One of the most wonderful shows ever put on television. It was canceled by orders from the original "mad programmer", the "Smiling Cobra" James T. Aubrey, Jr.
I have been researching the modern myth of the Hunley's blue lantern, and would kill to know whether a blue lantern was depicted in the first episode. Lord, let me know if you ever find the Hunley episode.
What stands out about this....Jack klugman could of played a good Moses.....AND the MUSIC is the F Troop theme without the bugle charge......The F Troop theme is much more focused and powerful.......
John Houseman originally produced this for the network- and he went up against James T. Aubrey, CBS' ruthless president, who was determined to end this series as soon as possible, because he had no patience for "historical drama" or "educational programming" in prime-time...or anything that would drag the network's ratings down- as more people watched NBC's "INTERNATIONAL SHOWTIME" with Don Ameche on Fridays at 7:30pm(et) during the 1963-'64 season....and that was enough for Aubrey, who cancelled the series after one season, moving "RAWHIDE" back to Fridays in the fall of 1964. That was one reason why Houseman referred to Aubrey as "The Smiling Cobra"...and that became his nickname in the TV industry.
A very biased and inaccurate episode dealing with John Brown. It portrays John Brown in a very negative light but does nothing to condemn the evils of slavery that Brown attempted to eradicate.
Great series. However...the commentary had the beginnings of anti-christian sentiment...and the hint of Socialism...all under the guise of "wise" debate....(one sided that is). The influence of the two Atheistic Socialist professors who rewrote the History of the US as "Economic", dumping much of the narrative that people used to discuss....had finally taken hold...and America's Teachers would teach from a new perspective- America without Reference to God. I am glad this documents such a beginning - I remember.
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The absolute pinnacle of programming.Nothing like it since.
The Great Adventure is not only educational but entertaining as well.
One of my favorites from the 60s.
i loved this series as a child It may me love history.
Very entertaining. I would like to see more episodes of this show.
Dear jeffilm80: Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! I have been searching, writing, emailing CBS for years to find and release these cinematic treasures of history. The Night Raiders is the first I have seen since 1963. Daniel Meyer is looking for the diamond of this collection: The CSS Hunley. Thank You again.
I'm looking for the CSS Hunley episode too. This program began a lifelong fascination with naval history and the civil war, when I was 14. I wish we would produce more inspiring reality programming nowadays. The theme music by Richard Rodgers still gives me the goosebumps. Thank you so much!
Bill Wright You too! The theme music is so American.
Never forgot the episode about Korean war hero Roger Young and Edwin Drake's first oil well in America. That's 56 years ago!
The pilot episode was about the hunley. That was a good one too. I explained to my big brother about that Confederate sub.
A hard story to tell in one hour - but they did a hell of job - good story of old Brown.
Very good overall. Klugman superb as Brown.
please post more episodes love this show
I also have done a lot of searching for the Hunley episode. There are some pictures on the Jackie Cooper site. Saw it when I was 11 and remember it well.
I watched these shows when I was new. Now, if someone has all the episodes of "The Great Adventure", either put them on DVD, or put them on a site, so kids and adults alike, may enjoy allof them, as much as I did.Please don't do what the people who own the DVD rights to the t.v. series "The F.B.I." They had the complete series available for around $99.00, then the offer disappeared, and you have to buy them season by season. Not the full season, but like Season 1 Disc 1. I think to hold great T.V. back, ought to be a crime.
One of the most wonderful shows ever put on television. It was canceled by orders from the original "mad programmer", the "Smiling Cobra" James T. Aubrey, Jr.
54:30- Next Week: "The Plague", featuring Robert Cummings as "Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse" (and Ronnie Howard as "Daniel Waterhouse").
Looking for the first episode : " The Hunley"
I have been researching the modern myth of the Hunley's blue lantern, and would kill to know whether a blue lantern was depicted in the first episode. Lord, let me know if you ever find the Hunley episode.
At 55:30, the first commercial to air after the first bulletin on JFK's assassination.
It's slightly different from the one telecast on November 22, 1963.
24:44- **insert 30 second station break here**
What stands out about this....Jack klugman could of played a good Moses.....AND the MUSIC is the F Troop theme without the bugle charge......The F Troop theme is much more focused and powerful.......
John Houseman originally produced this for the network- and he went up against James T. Aubrey, CBS' ruthless president, who was determined to end this series as soon as possible, because he had no patience for "historical drama" or "educational programming" in prime-time...or anything that would drag the network's ratings down- as more people watched NBC's "INTERNATIONAL SHOWTIME" with Don Ameche on Fridays at 7:30pm(et) during the 1963-'64 season....and that was enough for Aubrey, who cancelled the series after one season, moving "RAWHIDE" back to Fridays in the fall of 1964. That was one reason why Houseman referred to Aubrey as "The Smiling Cobra"...and that became his nickname in the TV industry.
Aubrey did the same thing to East Side/West Side and Slattery's People.
A very biased and inaccurate episode dealing with John Brown. It portrays John Brown in a very negative light but does nothing to condemn the evils of slavery that Brown attempted to eradicate.
the entire series was revisionist history
Bull,it was better than anything on TV before or after.
Great series. However...the commentary had the beginnings of anti-christian sentiment...and the hint of Socialism...all under the guise of "wise" debate....(one sided that is). The influence of the two Atheistic Socialist professors who rewrote the History of the US as "Economic", dumping much of the narrative that people used to discuss....had finally taken hold...and America's Teachers would teach from a new perspective- America without Reference to God. I am glad this documents such a beginning - I remember.
The United States is much less about the ancient desert deity Yahweh than it is about money.