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.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | The Hunley | 1963-09-27 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | The Death of Sitting Bull | 1963-10-04 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | The Massacre at Wounded Knee | 1963-10-11 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | Six Wagons to the Sea | 1963-10-18 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | The Secret | 1963-10-25 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | Go Down Moses | 1963-11-01 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | The Great Diamond Mountain | 1963-11-08 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | The Treasure Train of Jefferson Davis | 1963-11-15 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | The Outlaw and the Nun | 1963-12-06 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | The Man Who Stole New York City | 1963-12-13 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | A Boy at War | 1963-12-20 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | Wild Bill Hickok – the Legend and the Man | 1964-01-03 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 13 | The Colonel from Connecticut | 1964-01-10 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 14 | Teeth of the Lion | 1964-01-17 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 15 | Rodger Young | 1964-01-24 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 16 | The Testing of Sam Houston | 1964-01-31 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 17 | The Special Courage of Captain Pratt | 1964-02-14 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 18 | The Night Raiders | 1964-02-21 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 19 | Plague | 1964-02-28 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 20 | The Pathfinder | 1964-03-06 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 21 | The President Vanishes | 1964-03-13 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 22 | The Henry Bergh Story | 1964-03-20 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 23 | Kentucky's Bloody Ground | 1964-04-03 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 24 | The Siege of Boonesborough | 1964-04-10 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 25 | Escape | 1964-04-17 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 26 | The Pirate and the Patriot | 1964-05-01 | 60 min |
| Production | Bert Granet | Producer |
| Production | John Houseman | Producer |
