Cavalcade of America - Season 4

Cavalcade of America - Season 4

Season 4

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DatesSep 13, 1955 - Jun 5, 1956
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Episodes

A Time For Courage
Season 4Episode 1

A Time For Courage

The story of ""Nancy Merki and the swimming coach who led her to victory over polio and to Olympic stardom.
Sep 13, 1955
The Texas Rangers
Season 4Episode 2

The Texas Rangers

A phase of the work of the Texas Rangers in the late nineteenth century is described in a dramatization about J. L. Armstrong, the ranger who captured John Wesley Hardin on a train in Florida and thwarted the prisoner's efforts to escape during the long train journey from Florida to Texas.
Sep 27, 1955
Toward Tomorrow
Season 4Episode 3

Toward Tomorrow

A tribute to Dr. Ralph Bunche, undersecretary of the United Nations. The drama is based on the early life of the statesman, who was orphaned at the age of 8 and was guided from then on by his aged grandmother.
Oct 4, 1955
Disaster Patrol
Season 4Episode 4

Disaster Patrol

The work, organization, and purpose of the Civil Air Patrol is described in a dramatization about a CAP pilot in California who risks his life to fly doctors and emergency supplies into a canyon community seriously damaged by an earthquake.
Oct 18, 1955
The Swamp Mutiny
Season 4Episode 5

The Swamp Mutiny

A historical drama showing how General Francis Marion, a colonial officer during the American Revolution, won the admiration and eventually the support of a young British officer who witnessed the general's tactical suppression of a mutiny among colonial volunteer soldiers. Setting: Georgetown South Carolina, in 1780.
Oct 25, 1955
Chain Of Hearts
Season 4Episode 6

Chain Of Hearts

The story of John Staniszewski, a Polish seaman who tried to gain American citizenship after World War 2.
Nov 1, 1955
One Day At A Time
Season 4Episode 7

One Day At A Time

This is the true story of the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. The principals in the organization were two alcoholics, one a financial genius, the other a doctor. Both men's lives and careers were threatened by their drinking problem, until they found that by working together they could cure each other and other victims.
Nov 15, 1955
Crisis In Paris
Season 4Episode 8

Crisis In Paris

A drama showing how Benjamin Franklin, an inexperienced diplomat and member of the American Commission to France, negotiated a treaty providing for French aid to the Colonies in their war with England. Setting: Paris, during the American Revolution.
Nov 29, 1955
Doctor On Wheels
Season 4Episode 9

Doctor On Wheels

A true story of a Saskatchewan farm boy who finished medical school in a wheel chair after he became paralyzed by polio.
Dec 13, 1955
Barbed Wire Christmas
Season 4Episode 10

Barbed Wire Christmas

A documentary drama about life in a German prison camp. When a group of GIs in a German prison camp in 1944 pool their resources in order to hold a Christmas Mass, the prison commandant not only permits the service to continue but, with the guards, joins the prisoners in their worship.
Dec 20, 1955
Postmark: Danger
Season 4Episode 11

Postmark: Danger

The work of a postal inspector is described in a dramatization about two postal inspectors who expose the civilian supervisor of a prison mail room as an extortioner who has been using the mails to defraud the parents of servicemen reported missing during the Korean War.
Dec 27, 1955
The Boy Who Walked to America
Season 4Episode 12

The Boy Who Walked to America

Based on a true story of a Korean youngster who to give up his dream. With the assistance of sympathetic soldiers and a Catholic priest, the boy managed to achieve his dream of going to America.
Jan 3, 1956
The Prison Within
Season 4Episode 13

The Prison Within

A girl is overcome with remorse when the soldier she refused to marry is killed in Korea. Her unusual guilt complex leads her to commit a series of crimes, for which she is imprisoned. Convicted forgery when she is paroled, her parole officer is troubled by her inexplicable behavior.
Jan 17, 1956
Star and Shield
Season 4Episode 14

Star and Shield

The true story about a warmhearted police officer in Union City, N. J., who attempts to secure an apartment in a low-cost housing project for an embittered old woman and her five-year-old grand-daughter.
Jan 24, 1956
The Secret Life of Joe Swedie
Season 4Episode 15

The Secret Life of Joe Swedie

The story about a child-therapist who helps bedridden children in hospitals to retain an interest in life.
Feb 7, 1956
Call Home the Heart
Season 4Episode 16

Call Home the Heart

The true story of the Japanese gardener who, under the sponsorship of a pioneer civic leader, beautified Miami Beach area with his imaginative planting of lush greenery. He eventually became one of the city?s honored citizens.
Feb 21, 1956
The Listening Hand
Season 4Episode 17

The Listening Hand

The Hathaways are a deaf and blind couple who fight for their right to keep and care for their newborn baby.
Mar 6, 1956
A Life To Live By
Season 4Episode 18

A Life To Live By

The story of a California schoolboy who, in spite of the knowledge that he has an inaccurate disease, sets the world?s record for the high school shot-put and leads a full life before death overtakes him.
Mar 20, 1956
The Doll Who Found A Mother
Season 4Episode 19

The Doll Who Found A Mother

A judge introduces the parents of an unhappy child to a toy loan library.
Apr 3, 1956
The Jackie Jensen Story
Season 4Episode 20

The Jackie Jensen Story

True story of Red Sox star outfielder Jackie Jensen and Ralph Kerchum, the high school teacher whose guidance and friendship made the difference between greatness or oblivion.
Apr 17, 1956
Diplomatic Outpost
Season 4Episode 21

Diplomatic Outpost

In the Far East, a young American diplomat and his wife cope with a polio epidemic and the threat of civil war.
May 1, 1956
Danger On Clover Ridge
Season 4Episode 22

Danger On Clover Ridge

Drifter winds up on the plains of the West.
May 8, 1956
Who Is Byington?
Season 4Episode 23

Who Is Byington?

Dramatized incidents portray the activities of newspaper correspondents in covering the battles of the Civil War, the rivalry which spurred them on, and the efforts of Homer Byington of the New York Tribune to follow the Battle of Gettysburg and telegraph the news to his paper.
May 15, 1956
The Boy Nobody Wanted
Season 4Episode 24

The Boy Nobody Wanted

Billy Brandon's father is a good man, but also a professional gambler who doesn't have much time for his son. Left alone one day, he gets into a fight with a neighbor's boy who taunts him about his father being a gambler. The boy is accidently killed when he falls and hits his head. The boy's father, editor of the local newspaper, takes revenge by smearing Billy's dad in his paper. As a result, Nick Brandon is soon imprisoned and Billy is sent to an adoption agency. Luckily, he is adopted by an older couple and his life becomes filled with love. He grows to be an A student and a war hero. When his father is finally released from prison, Billy must make a hard decision.
May 29, 1956
The Major of St. Louis
Season 4Episode 25

The Major of St. Louis

Major Thomas D. Howie of the 3rd Battallion, 116th Infantry, 29th Division. He lies at rest between a Private and a General in the American Cemetery in Normandy, overlooking Omaha Beach. He was loved by his men, though an enigma to some, and loved reading verses from Edgar Lee Masters ""Spoon River Anthology"", ""These are the ghosts from the desolate coasts...would you go to them...only pursue them...whatever enshrined is within you ..is you.""
Jun 5, 1956

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