The Great Adventure — Season 1, Episode 25: Escape
Drama • 60 min • 1 season, 26 episodes • ★ 10.0/10
Episode synopsis
The true Civil War story of an escape by Union POWs from the Confederate Libby Prison in 1864. The POWs tunneled under the walls and into an adjoining building which gave them access to the street. While some were recaptured, a few got away, including Colonel Streight [Michael Constantine] who had organized the escape.
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