The Great Adventure (1963)
The Great Adventure (1963)
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
John Houseman
Producer
Russell Johnson
Self - Narrator / Narrator
Bert Granet
Producer
Van Heflin
Self - Narrator / Self - Announcer / Narrator
Eddie Little Sky
Chief Blackfish / Left Hand / Lean Bear
Kent Smith
Gen. Nelson Miles / General Nelson Miles / Grymes
Sandy Kenyon
Captain James / Fletcher / Lieutenant Gators
Leonard P. Geer
Man / Second Voice / Wagon Driver
Noel Drayton
Buchanan / Johnson / Officer
Richard Lupino
Lt. Brown / Corporal
Ricardo Montalban
Philip Crow / Jean Lafitte
Kay Shea
Hairstylist
Philip Leacock
Director
Joseph M. Newman
Director
Paul Stanley
Director
Buzz Kulik
Director
Robert Gist
Director
James Dunn
Indian Agent McLean
Richard X. Slattery
Tucker
Ruby Dee
Harriet Tubman
Carl Benton Reid
Trenholm
Flip Mark
Andrew Jackson
Sheree North
Agnes Lake
Wallace Ford
Uncle Billy Smith
Earl Holliman
Will Cross
Hampton Fancher
Fleming
Ivan Dixon
Sgt. Willis
George Mitchell
Dr. Drury
Frank Aletter
James Welton
Jack Warden
Latham
Noah Beery Jr.
Jervis
Andrew Duggan
Col. Callaway
Wayne Rogers
Tombs
Lee Marvin
Misok Bedrozian
Maxwell Reed
Major Hardwick
Rupert Crosse
William Still
Philip Abbott
Janin
Joan Hackett
Sister Blandina
Richard Eyer
Robert Jackson
William Fawcett
Brink
Julie Sommars
Meg Jethro
Geoffrey Horne
Wales
James Westerfield
Attorney Thomas Green
Gina Gillespie
Ellen Howard
Don Dubbins
Jason Chiles
George Macready
Dr. Keen
Fritz Weaver
Colonel Thomas Rose
Frank Silvera
Gambi
Walter Brooke
Taylor
David McCallum
Capt. Hanning
Gene Evans
Sgt. Winn
Nancy Malone
Jenny
Ossie Davis
John Ross
J.D. Cannon
Clarence King
Michael Rennie
President Jefferson Davis
Bernard Fox
Redcoat Lieutenant
Lloyd Bridges
Wild Bill Hickok
Collin Wilcox Paxton
Elizabeth Cross
Ted Bessell
Davies
Robert Culp
Sam Houston
Denver Pyle
Gen. Mills
Alan Baxter
Judge
Robert Cummings
Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse
Frank Cady
Drover
Sorrell Booke
E.W. Ross
Rodolfo Acosta
Lt. Bullhead
Peggy McCay
Mrs. Callaway
Jackie Cooper
Lt. Dickson
Sean McClory
Major Carlton
Ethel Waters
Rit
John Fiedler
Philip Arnold
Andrew Prine
Billy the Kid
Vito Scotti
Ticket Seller
Maggie McNamara
Laura Drake
Steven Marlo
Red Deer
Diane Ladd
Annie Thompson
Dick Wilson
Mr. Metcalf
James MacArthur
Lt. Alexander / Rodger Young
Paul Burke
Capt. Richard Pratt
Jack Klugman
John Brown
John Dehner
President Thomas Jefferson
Torin Thatcher
General Howe / Colonel Lewis Washington
Rip Torn
Lieutenant John C. Freemont
Carroll O'Connor
O'Rourke / Johann Sutter
Brian Keith
Henry Bergh
Barry Sullivan
E.J. Edwards / William Ralston
Leif Erickson
President Grover Cleveland / Abel Parrish
Michael Constantine
Colonel Streight
Lloyd Nolan
Col. Fraser
Peter Graves
Daniel Boone
Byron Morrow
Gen. Beauregard / Mayor Hall
George Lindsey
Hampton
Dorothy Adams
Mrs. Woodhaven
Ian Wolfe
Townsend / Brewer
Roy Barcroft
Dr. Anthony Thompson
Dick Foran
Colton
David White
John C. Calhoun / Benton
Tim O'Connor
Gen. Breckinridge
Frank Faylen
O'Brien
James Griffith
Harry Young
John Marley
Callum / Grey Beard
Whit Bissell
Benjamin Silliman
Victor Jory
Andrew Jackson
Antoinette Bower
Anna Pratt
Ron Howard
Daniel Waterhouse
Joe De Santis
General Vallejo
Bernie Hamilton
Wilbur Jones
Arthur Batanides
Pouliades / Lieutenant Gomez
Joseph Cotten
Captain Meehan
Arthur Hunnicutt
Simon Kenton
Jeremy Slate
Captain Nathan Hale
Brock Peters
Joe Bailey
Marion Ross
Sister Marcella / Etta Wheeler
Richard Bull
Landlord
Edward Andrews
Mayor William March 'Boss' Tweed
Len Lesser
Varnes
James T. Callahan
Josh
George Kennedy
Sergeant Muldaney
Mario Alcalde
Too-Chee-La
Valentin de Vargas
Okahatan
Parley Baer
Major Beckham
Jacqueline Scott
Eliza Waterhouse
Harry Townes
Dr. O'Reilly / Judah P. Benjamin
Stuart Nisbet
Businessman
Ted Eccles
James Boone
Isabel Cooley
Lydia
Ken Mayer
Harrison
Don Keefer
Copeland
Leo Gordon
McCanles
Barry Kelley
Hughes (uncredited)
Hal Needham
Recruiting Officer
Walter Burke
Higgins
David Lewis
Dr. Bartlett
Channing Pollock
Kit Carson
Miriam Colon
Sarah Crow
John Anderson
Colonel Knowlton
Frank Maxwell
Connolly
Tom Reese
Mike Williams
Richard Kiley
Col. Edwin L. Drake
Henry Beckman
Guard Sergeant
Joel Fluellen
Newby
Stuart Cooper
Flanders Callaway
Anthony Caruso
Sitting Bull
Douglas Henderson
Captain Hull
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The Great Adventure is an American historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963–64 television season. The initial 13 episodes were narrated by Van Heflin, with the second grouping of 13 episodes narrated by Russell Johnson. 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.