The Great Adventure — Season 1, Episode 7: The Great Diamond Mountain
Drama • 60 min • 1 season, 26 episodes • ★ 10.0/10
Episode synopsis
In this humorous episode, two con men perpetrate the Diamond Hoax of 1872 in an attempt to swindle San Francisco banker William Ralston, played by Barry Sullivan.
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
- 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
- E13The Colonel from Connecticut