Episode 1
The Swedish-American inventor of dynamite, established before his death the Nobel Prize to be awarded annually for the best work in the field of physics, medicine and chemistry.
Episode 2
Tells the story of the early life of the American composer Stephen Foster. Relates the difficulties Foster encountered when he tried to have his first song performed.
Episode 3
The story of John Nelson Wanamaker the 35th United States Postmaster General who was known for buying an abandoned railroad depot and converting it into a department story called "The Grand Depot" which was considered the first department store in Philadelphia.
Episode 4
The story tells of Moses' upbringing by an Egyptian pharaoh, his killing of a cruel overseer and the flight to Media where he marries. When the voice of God comes from the burning bush he returns to Egypt to free his people. Natalie Wood will be featured as the beloved ot Moses when he was a young man.
Episode 5
From court appointed organist to his triumphant position as Kantor at the Thomasschule his story unfolds as his music was given to the world almost a century after he died after being rediscovered by Felix Mendelssohn.
Episode 6
The tale of Hippocrates, the father of medicine is dramatized.
Episode 7
An all-male cast set in the Revolutionary War days, the story tells how a hero exposed the plot of Benedict Arnold and save General Washington from being captured by the British.
Episode 8
The widow of the great composer, Edward MacDowell, remembering her happy past, wishes to create a place where artists from all quarters can work in solitude.
Episode 9
Horace Greeley's fight for peace is dramatized.
Episode 10
An incident in the life of John Adams, second President of the United States and his defense of an English Officer who was charged with the deaths of five American patriots in Boston.
Episode 11
The story of the man who was President of the United States for one day is told. David Rice Atchison as President of the Senate automatically became President for 24 hours when Zachary Taylor refused to be inaugurated on a Sunday.
Episode 12
A dramatization of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Episode 13
The story of the Burr–Hamilton duel arose from a long-standing political and personal rivalry that had developed between both men over a course of several years.
Episode 14
The story of how William Harvey used King John of England as a guinea pig to test his theory of the circulatory system.
Episode 15
The tale of a poor boy and his mother who journey to visit Christ's birth in Bethlehem.
Episode 16
The story of the stormy controversy during the reign of Henry the Eighth is dramatized.
Episode 17
The story of the legendary Swiss marksman William Tell is dramatized.
Episode 18
Story of John Hull, first mintmaster of Massachusetts Bay Colony, who was appointed to the post in 1650 as the culmination of his efforts to abolish barter and foreign coinage in favor of a stabilized currency.
Episode 19
In the name of his brother, the editor of a Boston newspaper, Benjamin Franklin launches a crusade against Cotton Mather.
Episode 20
Struggle of chemist Wiley to expose frauds in food and drug trade and in patent medicine. His efforts to prove the harmful effects of adulterated and falsely labeled food ultimately led to passage of the Food and Drug Act.
Episode 21
Ford, unhappy with farm life, moves to Detroit where he begins to experiment with the gas engine, certain that it could be made to propel a vehicle.
Episode 22
Silver-tongued Patrick Henry studied law for only six weeks, but so impressed the board that they passed him. He was a successful Southern backwoods lawyer and reluctant to enter the Virginia House of Burgesses until the British introduced the Stamp Act.
Episode 23
Tale of Alcuin, the great educator who taught Charlemagne to read and write.
Episode 24
The courtship of George Washington and Martha Custis, a widowed mother of two.
Episode 25
The story of Alexander Graham Bell and experiments that led to the electric hearing aid, and then the telephone.
Episode 26
Tribute to one of Commodore Perry's officers, whose personal efforts helped open Japan to foreign trade.
Episode 27
Adventures of pirate Jean Laffite and lawyer Edward Livingston.
Episode 28
Story of the love between Knox Taylor (daughter of Colonel Zachary Taylor) and Jefferson Davis.
Episode 29
The story of Lord Byron's efforts to liberate Greece.
Episode 30
The story of Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain boys.
Episode 31
Story of the pagan Greek Lydia, who lived in ancient Rome and saved the life of the Apostle Paul.
Episode 32
Story from 1910 of Dr. James Ewing, who fought to break down the barriers erected against the investigation and treatment of cancer, and who almost single-handedly founded the Memorial Cancer Center in New York City.
Episode 33
Story of Aimée de Rivery, who brought reforms to Turkey.
Episode 34
The story of young army officer and law student Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 60th justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Episode 35
Story of Ernestine Schumann-Heink.
Episode 36
A dramatization of the legend of Damon and Pythias.
Episode 37
Story of George Eastman, and his development of the first camera to use film.
Episode 38
Tribute to Rotary International in commemoration of its golden anniversary. Includes speech by then Rotary president Herbert J. Taylor.
Episode 39
The story of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Von Steuben, founder of the American military system, who trained troops in the American Revolution.
Episode 40
Recounts a "little-known incident" in the life of Edgar Allan Poe.
Episode 41
The inspiring story of Milton S. Hershey, who worked so hard to bring happiness to thousands of orphans.
Episode 42
The story of Thomas Jefferson's return to politics in 1773.
