The Great Adventure (1963)

Name: The Great Adventure
Genre: Drama
Rating: 8.2

Drama

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.

IMDb rating: 8.2 (149 votes)
Episode average: 7.8 -0.4 vs IMDb
Seasons: 1
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 1 season indexed

Seasons

Season 1 (1963)

7.82 avg 13 episodes 8.8 → 7.4 60 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Hunley	8.8	16
3	The Massacre at Wounded Knee	7.6	7
4	Six Wagons to the Sea	7.5	8
5	The Story of Nathan Hale	8.0	9
6	Go Down, Moses	8.7	14
11	A Boy at War	7.8	8
12	Wild Bill Hickok - the Legend and the Man	8.2	11
15	Rodger Young	8.2	14
16	The Testing of Sam Houston	7.6	11
18	The Night Raiders	7.2	7
20	The Pathfinder	6.8	7
23	Kentucky's Bloody Ground	7.9	10
24	The Siege of Boonesborough	7.4	13