The Great Adventure — Season 1, Episode 13: The Colonel from Connecticut
Drama • 60 min • 1 season, 26 episodes • ★ 10.0/10
Episode synopsis
The story of Col. Edwin Drake, the first man to drill for oil in the U.S.
About The Great Adventure
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.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1The Hunley
- E2The Death of Sitting Bull
- E3The Massacre at Wounded Knee
- E4Six Wagons to the Sea
- E5The Story of Nathan Hale
- E6Go Down, Moses
- E7The Great Diamond Mountain
- E8The Treasure Train of Jefferson Davis
- E9The Outlaw and the Nun
- E10The Man Who Stole New York City
- E11A Boy at War
- E12Wild Bill Hickok - the Legend and the Man