Episodes 4

1 The Patriots

November 15, 1963

2h

Adaptation of Kingsley's Broadway play. During the post-Revolutionary War period of the 1790s, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson clash over the precarious economic and military positions of the new republic.

2 A Cry of Angels

December 15, 1963

2h

The story of the writing of Handel's Messiah.

3 Abe Lincoln in Illinois

February 5, 1964

2h

Adaptation of the play by Robert E. Sherwood. Dramatization of Lincoln's romance with Ann Rutledge and his relations with Mary Todd Lincoln.

4 Little Moon of Alban

March 18, 1964

2h

A re-staging of the 1958 play, with Julie Harris reprising her role as an Irish religious nurse whose faith is tested by the deaths of her loved ones in the Irish rebellion.

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