December 24, 1951 · 120 min
Broadcast live from New York, Gian Carlo Menotti's Christmas story was the first opera commissioned for television, and was repeated in several subsequent telecasts.
January 6, 1952 · 120 min
A Hollywood press agent is assigned to promote a starlet with whom he was once in love.
January 13, 1952 · 120 min
Adaptation of the novel by Helen Ashton.
January 20, 1952 · 120 min
Dramatization of the love affair between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
January 27, 1952 · 120 min
In 1631 Roger Williams landed in Boston. He had come to America to find freedom of belief and worship; instead, he found the church here still connected to the church in England and just as oppressive. He refused to join the church in Boston because it still held communion with the Church of England, from which he had just fled. He thought it his duty to renounce all connection with any church that would stain its hands in the blood of the Lord's people.
February 3, 1952 · 120 min
Biography of Florence Nightingale: her determination to build hospitals and train nurses for the sick and disabled during the Crimean War, her correspondence with the Minister of War, and the letter of appreciation she received from Queen Victoria.
February 10, 1952 · 120 min
Story of Anna Ella Carroll, prominent member of a Maryland family who served as unofficial but close advisor and special representative to President Lincoln.
February 17, 1952 · 120 min
Irish-American tailor Hercules Mulligan's contribution to the American Revolution.
February 24, 1952 · 120 min
The story of Dolley Madison.
March 2, 1952 · 120 min
The meeting of George Sand and Frederic Chopin.
March 9, 1952 · 120 min
The founding of the Girl Scouts, presented on the occasion of their 40th anniversary.
March 16, 1952 · 120 min
A salute to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on its 150th anniversary, focusing on Anna Warner's historic gift of Contitution Island to the institution; set in 1907.
March 23, 1952 · 120 min
The story of America's first woman aviator.
March 30, 1952 · 120 min
The story of Reverend Edward Joseph Flanagan who, as a young priest from Ireland, founded Boys Town, Nebraska, where outcast boys could find the love and care denied them in their own homes.
April 6, 1952 · 120 min
Little-known incidents in the life of Grover Cleveland.
April 20, 1952 · 120 min
Story of America's first woman author.
April 27, 1952 · 120 min
Dr. Edward Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccination.
May 4, 1952 · 120 min
The life of Francisco Goya; set in Spain, 1786.
May 11, 1952 · 120 min
The story of Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams.
May 18, 1952 · 120 min
Eliza Monroe, in Paris as the wife of the U.S. Foreign Minister toFrance, obtains Madame Lafayette's release from prison and sentence of death by guillotine.
May 25, 1952 · 120 min
A biography of Louisa May Alcott, ending with her writing of ""Little Women"" in 1860.
June 1, 1952 · 120 min
Biography of Ben Jonson, covering the writing of Eastward ho; set in London, 1606.
June 8, 1952 · 120 min
Biography of Nefretiti, illustrating her life with the Pharoah and her influence on Egyptian history and culture.
June 15, 1952 · 120 min
The story of Anna and John Peter Zenger and their fight for freedom of the press.
June 22, 1952 · 120 min
A dramatization honouring American educator Martha Berry, founder of Mt. Berry, a Georgia home for mountain people.
June 29, 1952 · 120 min
The story of the Bronte sisters.
July 6, 1952 · 120 min
An infantryman in the American Revolution lights a firecracker and gets blown into another generation.
July 13, 1952 · 120 min
Story of a town in U.S. taken over by corrupt men due to the neglect of the citizenry.
July 20, 1952 · 120 min
An aging man thinks his usefulness to society is at an end.
July 27, 1952 · 120 min
Story of the importance of one vote in an election.
August 3, 1952 · 120 min
A young state senator runs into a moral problem while conducting a cleanup campaign.
August 10, 1952 · 120 min
August 17, 1952 · 120 min
A young Czech girl in the U.S. is faced with the choice of returning to her family behind the Iron Curtain or remaining free in the U.S.
August 24, 1952 · 120 min
Story of Johnny Appleseed, the wanderer who planted trees as he traveled.
August 31, 1952 · 120 min
Story of a wealthy middle-aged married couple who retrace their honeymoon, and in so doing, regain their love for each other.
