1x1 - Amahl and the Night Visitors

December 24, 1951

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.

1x2 - Doctor Serocold

January 6, 1952

A Hollywood press agent is assigned to promote a starlet with whom he was once in love.

1x3 - Love Story

January 13, 1952

Adaptation of the novel by Helen Ashton.

1x4 - The Big Build-Up

January 20, 1952

Dramatization of the love affair between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.

1x5 - The Story of Roger Williams

January 27, 1952

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.

1x6 - Florence Nightingale

February 3, 1952

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.

1x7 - Woman with a Sword

February 10, 1952

Story of Anna Ella Carroll, prominent member of a Maryland family who served as unofficial but close advisor and special representative to President Lincoln.

1x8 - The Plot to Kidnap General Washington

February 17, 1952

Irish-American tailor Hercules Mulligan's contribution to the American Revolution.

1x9 - Mistress of the White House

February 24, 1952

The story of Dolley Madison.

1x10 - Prelude

March 2, 1952

The meeting of George Sand and Frederic Chopin.

1x11 - Juliette Low and the Girl Scouts

March 9, 1952

The founding of the Girl Scouts, presented on the occasion of their 40th anniversary.

1x12 - Constitution Island

March 16, 1952

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.

1x13 - Harriet Quimby

March 23, 1952

The story of America's first woman aviator.

1x14 - The Vision of Father Flanagan

March 30, 1952

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.

1x15 - Ordeal by White House

April 6, 1952

Little-known incidents in the life of Grover Cleveland.

1x16 - Anne Bradstreet, Puritan Poetess

April 20, 1952

Story of America's first woman author.

1x17 - Miracle in May

April 27, 1952

Dr. Edward Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccination.

1x18 - The Face of Spain

May 4, 1952

The life of Francisco Goya; set in Spain, 1786.

1x19 - A Woman for the Ages

May 11, 1952

The story of Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams.

1x21 - The Magnificent Failure

May 25, 1952

A biography of Louisa May Alcott, ending with her writing of ""Little Women"" in 1860.

1x22 - The King's Author

June 1, 1952

Biography of Ben Jonson, covering the writing of Eastward ho; set in London, 1606.

1x23 - Nefretiti, Queen of Egypt

June 8, 1952

Biography of Nefretiti, illustrating her life with the Pharoah and her influence on Egyptian history and culture.

1x24 - Mr. and Mrs. Freedom

June 15, 1952

The story of Anna and John Peter Zenger and their fight for freedom of the press.

1x25 - Forgotten Children

June 22, 1952

A dramatization honouring American educator Martha Berry, founder of Mt. Berry, a Georgia home for mountain people.

1x26 - Our Sister Emily

June 29, 1952

The story of the Bronte sisters.

1x27 - The Legend of Josiah Blow

July 6, 1952

An infantryman in the American Revolution lights a firecracker and gets blown into another generation.

1x28 - The Real Glory

July 13, 1952

Story of a town in U.S. taken over by corrupt men due to the neglect of the citizenry.

1x29 - Salvage

July 20, 1952

An aging man thinks his usefulness to society is at an end.

1x30 - 21-Plus

July 27, 1952

Story of the importance of one vote in an election.

1x31 - The Carlson Legend

August 3, 1952

A young state senator runs into a moral problem while conducting a cleanup campaign.

1x32 - The Last Command

August 10, 1952

1x33 - I Lift Up My Lamp

August 17, 1952

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.

1x34 - Crabapple Saint

August 24, 1952

Story of Johnny Appleseed, the wanderer who planted trees as he traveled.

1x35 - Refresher Course

August 31, 1952

Story of a wealthy middle-aged married couple who retrace their honeymoon, and in so doing, regain their love for each other.