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The Great Adventure was a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964 television season. The series, hosted each week by Van Heflin, presented each week a one-hour dramatization of the lives of famous Americans and important historical events in American History. The series lasted for only 26 episodes, and showed, among others, stories on the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the trial and hanging of Nathan Hale, the life of "Boss" Tweed, the death of Sitting Bull, the siege of Boonesborough, the capture of Jefferson Davis, the life and death of Wild Bill Hickok and the Battle of New Orleans. Among those who appeared in the series were Ricardo Montalbán, James MacArthur, Carroll O'Connor, Marion Ross, Claude Akins, Peter Graves, Peggy McCay, H.M. Wynant, Jackie Cooper, Wayne Rogers, Lee Marvin, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Bernard Fox, Lloyd Bridges, Howard Caine, Whit Bissell, Robert Culp, Ivan Dixon, Denver Pyle, Jack Klugman, Russell Johnson, Ron Howard, John Dehner, Rip Torn, Jack Warden and Michael Constantine.
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