THE GREAT ADVENTURE - THE SECRET - CBS 1963

Episode Number 5. Original Airdate October 25,1963. Referred to as
"The Story of Nathan Hale" Includes Next Weeks Preview of "Go Down Moses" and the Commentary from the NEA.

[@lynngregory393]

Thank you for posting! I was 10 and JFK was President. This show made me love American history.

[@davidmiller6076]

Jeff; I love Your collections of The Great Adventure!!! My favorite Friday night when I was about 8-9 year old... thanks!

[@jimmyowens1654]

I remember this great series on American history and a powerful theme music, it's a pity it only had a short run. They don't make tv series like that anymore.

[@frdjr2527]

Just watched this episode today for the first time since it originally aired in 1963. I was in 6th grade at the time. Really enjoyed watching this show back in the day. It only lasted one season but "The Great Adventure" was an excellent series. It aired on Friday night at 7:30 on CBS. This particular episode, "The Secret" is the one I remember the most. It's a shame that a quality series like this would never be done today. Thanks for posting!

[@fred5399]

Even now over 50 years later the theme still moves me. It's so American: what we are ,what we have been and what we shall become.

[@huskydogg7536]

I watched this when it originally aired, age 10. I then portrayed Nathan Hale for my cub scout troop that year. I loved this series and remember this episode and the one about the CSS Hunley as well.

[@ralphgeigner5497]

A great show from youth, The soundtrack was excellent also, it was used by a drum & Bugle Corps also

[@danielcruz8347]

Great theme intro by Richard Rodgers soon to partly become theme of F TROOP.with lyrics and Bugle charge. thank you for posting

[@tomh6183]

So glad that I am able to watch some of these episodes,thank you so much

[@mountainmanws]

Many, Many Blessings to you, jeffilm80! In my humble opinion, the very best television series ever broadcast. Thank you for unearthing another gem. Merry Christmas.

[@fred5399]

Me too and I have always loved the theme. it's so American.

[@paulkatz258]

Thanks for uploading this episode

[@joselopezmoya9786]

First time I seen this episode. Never knew this series existed.

[@peterhildebrandt2827]

I happened upon a compilation of shows from 1964 and heard that theme song which has been stuck in my brain since I watched this show back in the early 60s. So glad I learned its source and now it is letting me see this show. I watched it alone when it was on as I don't think anyone else was as interested in history as I was and am. It remains one of the best shows to ever air, not perfect, but history in 1964 -- our version and understanding of things before us -- was vastly different than now. I can't believe the makeover Andrew Johnson received, thank God. Back in the 60s and before, historians, especially those from the South protrayed him as someone who unified the country, survived impeachment and in the end strengthening the office of the president. We know now that he undid so many of the forward-looking advancements of civil rights put forth during Reconstruction, took all of that away and pushed us in the direction of Jim Crow.

[@stevengrotte2987]

I would really like to see all the episodes of this program, :The Great Adventure, in numerical order so that I do not miss any of the ones THAT STILL EXIST. THANK YOU!!!!

[@mnfowler1]

I miss the episode about Wild Bill Hickok and the one about the founder of the ASPCA. I am sure the first is not in this collection, and I don't think the other is here, either.

[@johnnyman2268]

I remember the show and in particular the episode on Pvt. Roger Young

[@GeneHamm2]

This was a great series. The episode I remember the most was the one about President Grover Cleveland (Leif Erickson) secretly being operated on a train car removing a cancer from the roof of his mouth.

[@billhuber2964]

I remember when this series premiered in '63. The pilot show was about the hunley.

[@stevengrotte2987]

I may have seen it, I remember seeing something about the Hunley in the early 60's. I hope to see it/this one again soon.

[@chloecrypto3291]

We live, and our countries live, by the vitality of our ideas.

[@Paladin1873]

I wish all the episodes of "The Great Adventure" could be located and posted on KZbin. I only regret that some events are highly fictionalized, such as the multiple killings during his short time as a spy and the implication he succeeded in collecting and disseminating vital information for Washington. In reality, it was another spy, Hercules Mulligan, who proved to be indispensable to Washington and remained a successful spy throughout the war.

[@Paladin1873]

@@Clipgatherer Yep. It was beneath their usual standards.

[@mnfowler1]

Yeah, Abraham Woodhull from Long Island, NY was a more effective spy for Washington. Nathan Hale is more the exemplar of stoicism, who died for his country.

[@bentleyrigg9278]

Clean and informed

[@helmsleyera1]

Do you have access to episode 5, The Outlaw and the Nun? Thanks!!

[@Juliaflo]

Theme music by the greatest half of an ampersand--Richard Rodgers.

[@jjj1951]

I wish the story of Rodger Young could be found.

[@johnlopez8520]

Amen!

[@mnfowler1]

Great soundtrack on this episode, but I am afraid I cannot tell the difference between Handel and Bach or between either of them and Mozart. Some of the music used here sounds familiar, though.

[@Mindswamp]

This episode is a lot like the old classic comics. Highly fictionalized.

[@tomh6183]

So what it’s a hell of a lot better than the crap on tv now,

[@teastrainer3604]

Can't fool you, can they?

[@joezink4689]

I've tried off and on for over 10 years to find the full set of this program. I agree that it is maybe highly fictionalized and there might be some revisionist history being written now. And the revisions might be needed. But. Here I am remembering it (e.g., The Hunley), and I'm 68. Maybe it was a combination of the age I was then, and the music, and maybe the scripts were well-written. I DO know that 60 years on, I STILL remember it.

[@josephcollins5759]

Looking for episode 1. The hunley. And roger young with James MacArthur. Anyone?

[@rogertemple7193]

"a very good anthology series."-🤔📺🌐..

[@SOffenbach]

BLM and Antifa need to watch this channel and remember we are all Yanks.

[@tomh6183]

They don’t have the brains to even understand this show or anything like it

[@joeyc923]

@Tom H I’m a card-carrying member of the east coast Antifa Senior Leadership Council (ASLC) and one of their largest public fundraisers, and I can tell you, I enjoyed this episode quote a bit. There’s more that unites us than divides us.

[@williamsweeney7954]

@@joeyc923 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHbChp2YhriZaNk

[@huskydogg7536]

Must everything be political with some people?