Cavalcade of America: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Cavalcade of America Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
A Time for Courage
Sep 13, 1955 · 60 min
The story of ""Nancy Merki and the swimming coach who led her to victory over polio and to Olympic stardom.
The Texas Rangers
Sep 27, 1955 · 60 min
A phase of the work of the Texas Rangers in the late nineteenth century is described in a dramatization about J. L. Armstrong, the ranger who captured John Wesley Hardin on a train
Toward Tomorrow
Oct 4, 1955 · 60 min
A tribute to Dr. Ralph Bunche, undersecretary of the United Nations. The drama is based on the early life of the statesman, who was orphaned at the age of 8 and was guided from t
Disaster Patrol
Oct 18, 1955 · 60 min
The work, organization, and purpose of the Civil Air Patrol is described in a dramatization about a CAP pilot in California who risks his life to fly doctors and emergency supplies
The Swamp Mutiny
Oct 25, 1955 · 60 min
A historical drama showing how General Francis Marion, a colonial officer during the American Revolution, won the admiration and eventually the support of a young British officer w
Chain of Hearts
Nov 1, 1955 · 60 min
The story of John Staniszewski, a Polish seaman who tried to gain American citizenship after World War 2.
One Day at a Time
Nov 15, 1955 · 60 min
This is the true story of the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. The principals in the organization were two alcoholics, one a financial genius, the other a doctor. Both men's liv
Crisis in Paris
Nov 29, 1955 · 60 min
A drama showing how Benjamin Franklin, an inexperienced diplomat and member of the American Commission to France, negotiated a treaty providing for French aid to the Colonies in t
Doctor on Wheels
Dec 13, 1955 · 60 min
A true story of a Saskatchewan farm boy who finished medical school in a wheel chair after he became paralyzed by polio.
Barbed Wire Christmas
Dec 20, 1955 · 60 min
A documentary drama about life in a German prison camp. When a group of GIs in a German prison camp in 1944 pool their resources in order to hold a Christmas Mass, the prison comm
Postmark: Danger
Dec 27, 1955 · 60 min
The work of a postal inspector is described in a dramatization about two postal inspectors who expose the civilian supervisor of a prison mail room as an extortioner who has been u
The Boy Who Walked to America
Jan 3, 1956 · 60 min
Based on a true story of a Korean youngster who to give up his dream. With the assistance of sympathetic soldiers and a Catholic priest, the boy managed to achieve his dream of go
The Prison Within
Jan 17, 1956 · 60 min
A girl is overcome with remorse when the soldier she refused to marry is killed in Korea. Her unusual guilt complex leads her to commit a series of crimes, for which she is impris
Star and Shield
Jan 24, 1956 · 60 min
The true story about a warmhearted police officer in Union City, N. J., who attempts to secure an apartment in a low-cost housing project for an embittered old woman and her five-y
The Secret Life of Joe Swedie
Feb 7, 1956 · 60 min
The story about a child-therapist who helps bedridden children in hospitals to retain an interest in life.
Call Home the Heart
Feb 21, 1956 · 60 min
The true story of the Japanese gardener who, under the sponsorship of a pioneer civic leader, beautified Miami Beach area with his imaginative planting of lush greenery. He eventu
The Listening Hand
Mar 6, 1956 · 60 min
The Hathaways are a deaf and blind couple who fight for their right to keep and care for their newborn baby.
A Life to Live By
Mar 20, 1956 · 60 min
The story of a California schoolboy who, in spite of the knowledge that he has an inaccurate disease, sets the world?s record for the high school shot-put and leads a full life bef
The Doll Who Found a Mother
Apr 3, 1956 · 60 min
A judge introduces the parents of an unhappy child to a toy loan library.
The Jackie Jensen Story
Apr 17, 1956 · 60 min
True story of Red Sox star outfielder Jackie Jensen and Ralph Kerchum, the high school teacher whose guidance and friendship made the difference between greatness or oblivion.
Diplomatic Outpost
May 1, 1956 · 60 min
In the Far East, a young American diplomat and his wife cope with a polio epidemic and the threat of civil war.
Who is Byington?
May 22, 1956 · 60 min
Dramatized incidents portray the activities of newspaper correspondents in covering the battles of the Civil War, the rivalry which spurred them on, and the efforts of Homer Byingt
The Boy Nobody Wanted
May 29, 1956 · 60 min
Billy Brandon's father is a good man, but also a professional gambler who doesn't have much time for his son. Left alone one day, he gets into a fight with a neighbor's boy who tau
The Major of St. Louis
Jun 5, 1956 · 60 min
Major Thomas D. Howie of the 3rd Battallion, 116th Infantry, 29th Division. He lies at rest between a Private and a General in the American Cemetery in Normandy, overlooking Omaha