Episode 1
Adaptation of Kingsley's Broadway play. During the post-Revolutionary War period of the 1790s, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson clash over the precarious economic and military positions of the new republic.
Episode 2
The story of the writing of Handel's Messiah.
Episode 3
Adaptation of the play by Robert E. Sherwood. Dramatization of Lincoln's romance with Ann Rutledge and his relations with Mary Todd Lincoln.
Episode 4
A re-staging of the 1958 play, with Julie Harris reprising her role as an Irish religious nurse whose faith is tested by the deaths of her loved ones in the Irish rebellion.
