Profiles in Courage (TV series)
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Profiles in Courage | |
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Michael Ritchie (film director) Alexander Singer | |
Theme music composer | Nelson Riddle |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producer | Robert Saudek |
Producer | Gordon Oliver |
Camera setup | Single-camera |
Running time | 44 mins. |
Production company | Robert Saudek Associates |
Original release | |
Network | NBC |
Release | November 8, 1964 May 9, 1965 | –
Profiles in Courage is an American
Overview
The series lasted for 26 episodes, each of which would feature a figure from
Historical background
Episode # | Episode era and historical detail behind the individual profile in courage | Episode title (names in bold are subjects of chapters in Kennedy's book) |
Year of birth | Year of death | Actor portrayal | Original airdate |
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1-1 | 1924 Democratic National Convention#Ku Klux Klan presence — Alabama Senator Oscar Underwood opposes the Ku Klux Klan | Oscar W. Underwood |
1862 | 1929 | Sidney Blackmer | November 8, 1964 |
1-2 | 1918 Brooklyn high school teacher Liberty bonds |
Mary S. McDowell |
1876 | 1955 | Rosemary Harris | November 15, 1964 |
1-3 | 1850 Compromise — Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton#Later Senate career and tension |
Thomas Hart Benton | 1782 | 1858 | Brian Keith | November 29, 1964 |
1-4 | 1894 University of Wisconsin professor Richard T. Ely#Education and career in defense of academic freedom | Richard T. Ely | 1854 | 1943 | Dan O'Herlihy | December 6, 1964 |
1-5 | 1861 Texas in the American Civil War#Governor Sam Houston refuses to sanction Texas' secession from the Union | Sam Houston | 1793 | 1863 | J. D. Cannon | December 13, 1964 |
1-6 | 1915 John Slaton |
John M. Slaton | 1866 | 1955 | Walter Matthau | December 20, 1964 |
1-7 | 1770 defense attorney and future President John Adams#Counsel for the British: Boston Massacre | John Adams | 1735 | 1826 | David McCallum | December 27, 1964 |
1-8 | 1946 Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft#Condemnation of Nuremberg Trials | Robert A. Taft | 1889 | 1953 | Lee Tracy | January 3, 1965 |
1-9 | 1637 Massachusetts Bay Colony Antinomian Controversy — Boston midwife and Puritan religious reformer Anne Hutchinson | Anne Hutchinson | 1591 | 1643 | Wendy Hiller | January 10, 1965 |
1-10 | 1838 Missouri Militia Brigadier General Alexander William Doniphan#The 1838 Mormon War | Alexander William Doniphan | 1808 | 1887 | Peter Lawford | January 17, 1965 |
1-11 | 1893 Haymarket affair#Pardon and historical characterization — Illinois Governor John Peter Altgeld | John Peter Altgeld | 1847 | 1902 | Burgess Meredith | January 24, 1965 |
1-12 | 1843 escaped slave Frederick Douglass#Abolitionist and preacher risks recapture into slavery | Frederick Douglass | 1817 | 1895 | Robert Hooks | January 31, 1965 |
1-13 | 1850 Compromise — Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster#Taylor administration, 1849–1850 |
Daniel Webster | 1782 | 1852 | Martin Gabel | February 7, 1965 |
1-14 | 1916 President Woodrow Wilson Supreme Court candidates#Louis Brandeis nomination | Woodrow Wilson | 1856 | 1924 | Whit Bissell | February 14, 1965 |
1-15 | 1832 Canterbury Female Boarding School#Trials of Prudence Crandall, Connecticut schoolteacher and activist for education of black girls | Prudence Crandall | 1803 | 1890 | Janice Rule | February 21, 1965 |
1-16 | 1860 Tennessee Senator and future President Andrew Johnson#Secession crisis | Andrew Johnson | 1808 | 1875 | Walter Matthau | February 28, 1965 |
1-17 | 1869 President Ulysses S. Grant's Secretary of State Hamilton Fish#Cuban belligerency and insurrection 1869–1870 |
Hamilton Fish | 1808 | 1893 | Henry Jones | March 7, 1965 |
1-18 | 1920 Socialist Party of America#Expulsion of Socialists from the New York Assembly — Charles Evans Hughes#Presidential candidate | Charles Evans Hughes | 1862 | 1948 | Kent Smith | March 14, 1965 |
1-19 | 1868 Kansas Senator Edmund G. Ross#Andrew Johnson impeachment deciding vote | Edmund G. Ross | 1826 | 1907 | Bradford Dillman | March 21, 1965 |
1-20 | 1917 American entry into World War I#Declaration of war — Nebraska Senator George W. Norris#Senator leads filibuster against Armed Ships Bill | George W. Norris | 1861 | 1944 | Tom Bosley | March 28, 1965 |
1-21 | 1887 Grover Cleveland#Vetoes pension bills — Grand Army of the Republic#History | Grover Cleveland | 1837 | 1908 | Carroll O'Connor | April 4, 1965 |
1-22 | 1807 John Quincy Adams#U.S. Senator from Massachusetts — support for Embargo Act of 1807 | John Quincy Adams | 1767 | 1848 | Douglas Campbell | April 11, 1965 |
1-23 | 1807 Burr conspiracy#Trial — Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall#Burr conspiracy trial | John Marshall | 1755 | 1835 | Gary Merrill | April 18, 1965 |
1-24 | 1906 Denver judge and social reformer Ben B. Lindsey#Juvenile court advocacy | Benjamin Barr Lindsey |
1869 | 1943 | George Grizzard | April 25, 1965 |
1-25 | 1787 Founding Father from Virginia George Mason#Road to dissent and refusal to sign the Constitution until it contained a Bill of Rights | George Mason | 1725 | 1792 | Laurence Naismith | May 2, 1965 |
1-26 | 1847 Ohio Senator Thomas Corwin#Political career delivers a speech in opposition to the Mexican War | Thomas Corwin | 1794 | 1865 | George Rose | May 9, 1965 |
Episodes
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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1 | 1 | "OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD" | Lamont Johnson | David Karp | November 8, 1964 | |
Opening narration: "...contender for the presidency. Another contender — Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama — was so convinced the Klan was contrary to all principles of democracy that he wanted the Convention to denounce the Klan in no uncertain terms. His political courage would be tested during that fateful summer of nineteen-twenty-four."
" WALDORF–ASTORIA HOTEL 1924" October, 1924""BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA Closing narration: "Oscar Wilder Underwood, United States Senator from Alabama, paid a high price for his act of courage — he not only lost the Democratic presidential nomination... but he also lost his renomination for the Senate. He forfeited his political career in fighting the bigotry of the Ku Klux Klan."
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2 | 2 | "Mary S. McDowell" | Peter S. Feibleman | November 15, 1964 | ||
Starring Rosemary Harris | ||||||
3 | 3 | "Thomas Hart Benton" | Lamont Johnson | A. J. Russell | November 29, 1964 | |
Starring Brian Keith | ||||||
4 | 4 | "Richard T. Ely" | Michael O'Herlihy | Walter Bernstein | December 6, 1964 | |
starring Dan O'Herlihy | ||||||
5 | 5 | "Sam Houston" | Sherman Marks | A. J. Russell | December 13, 1964 | |
starring J. D. Cannon | ||||||
6 | 6 | "Governor John M. Slaton" | Robert Gist | Don Mankiewicz | December 20, 1964 | |
Starring Walter Matthau | ||||||
7 | 7 | "JOHN ADAMS" | Robert Stevens | Walter Bernstein | December 27, 1964 | |
Opening narration: "The British sentry was startled by the alarm of a fire that did not exist. Whoever had instigated this prank, confusion it caused was a prolog to other events that same night... events later to be known as the Boston Massacre."
"In the early months of seventeen-seventy, British soldiers were stationed in Boston for the first time. Their purpose — to enforce the English revenue laws in the colony. The colonials considered military occupation one of many grievances. Some colonials banded together in rebellious groups, such as the Sons of Liberty. The colonials were further angered by this sign, posted on the night of March fifth, which purported to announce the Redcoats' determination to repulse any opposition. Sometimes this opposition took the form of children's pranks and sometimes it was the harassment of individuals." second President of the United States ."
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8 | 8 | "ROBERT A. TAFT" | Jose Quintero | William Hanley | January 3, 1965 | |
Opening narration: "Not all men were joyful, however... not all were capable of celebration.... nor had remaining to them the capacity for joy. Those who survived the charnel pit that was Nazi Germany, survived a new kind of war — a war of enslavement, murder, extermination, genocide... and the victims of that war fell on this battlefield — death from controlled gas warfare... in numbers beyond the ability of the mind to grasp. But who can truly imagine six million dead? The brain becomes useless and it remains to the heart and the soul to contend with such a truth. And what of the men responsible for twenty-seventh President of the United States and with the dream that was almost a conviction... that he himself would one day have the honor of holding that office. But he was soon to risk the loss of his place of eminence in American domestic politics. And, he was to risk, too, the condemnation of the American people. Both, because he was a man who refused to make any slightest compromise with what he believed to be the truth.""WASHINGTON May 1946"
Closing narration: "The storm raised by Senator Taft's speech eventually died down. It did not, after all the uproar, appear to affect the Republican sweep in nineteen-forty-six nor was it, at least openly, an issue in Taft's drive for the presidential nomination in nineteen-forty-eight. Taft's action was characteristic of the man who was labeled a reactionary and who was proud to be a conservative and who showed unhesitating courage in standing against the flow of public opinion for a cause that he believed to be right."
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9 | 9 | "Anne Hutchinson" | Cyril Ritchard | Jonathan Miller | January 10, 1965 | |
Starring Wendy Hiller | ||||||
10 | 10 | "General Alexander William Doniphan" | Unknown | Don Mankiewicz | January 17, 1965 | |
Starring Peter Lawford | ||||||
11 | 11 | "John Peter Altgeld" | Daniel Petrie | Philip S. Goodman | January 24, 1965 | |
Starring Burgess Meredith | ||||||
12 | 12 | "FREDERICK DOUGLASS" | Sherman Marks | Don M. Mankiewicz | January 31, 1965 | |
" NEW BEDFORD MASSACHUSETTS 1838" . Certain things are second nature, even in a strange town — such as stepping down to let a white man pass... perhaps such deference is unnecessary, but Douglass is unsure of Northern ways."Opening narration: "This is Frederick Douglass, age twenty-one, newly arrived from Baltimore "This man, Frederick Douglass, on his way home with a bundle of wood, will soon bring distinction to a name not his own. He would find himself with greater opportunities than he had ever imagined, but first he would have to face great risks, public and personal, as well as the greatest risk — doing damage to the cause he serves.
" NEW BEDFORD MASSACHUSETTS 1841"Closing narration: "Frederick Douglass had to flee to England to escape recapture as a fugitive slave. There, he made speeches for his cause and, eventually, friends in England bought Douglass from his master, Captain Auld of Baltimore. As a freed man, he returned to the United States and served his country in many ways. He recruited Negro soldiers for the Union Army. He was an advisor to President Lincoln and, in eighteen-eighty-nine, he was appointed the United States minister to Haiti."
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13 | 13 | "DANIEL WEBSTER" | Robert Gist | A. J. Russell | February 7, 1965 | |
" slave trade in the District of Columbia , he served as Secretary of State and returned to his seat in the Senate to face the crisis of impending Civil War. When the moment came to test his greatness, Daniel Webster had to risk everything that he held dear.""WASHINGTON, D.C. 1850"
Closing narration: "Daniel Webster suffered many abuses for his stand for the Union and his own political ambitions were thwarted. But, the fact that Henry Clay's Compromise ."
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14 | 14 | "WOODROW WILSON (episode title does not appear on-screen)" | Alexander Singer | David Karp | February 14, 1965 | |
"January 4, 1916" Edith Galt. On his return to the White House, he not only had to face the problems of the foreign crisis, but he was to create a domestic crisis that was to last for months." and, for the preceding three years, President of the United States — must fill a vacancy in the Supreme Court. His choice would indeed produce a shockwave throughout the nation."
"Woodrow Wilson — former economist, former president of Princeton University "The White House kitchen"
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15 | 15 | "Prudence Crandall" | Andrew Singer | Andy Lewis | February 21, 1965 | |
Starring Janice Rule | ||||||
16 | 16 | "Andrew Johnson" | Alexander Singer | Philip S. Goodman | February 28, 1965 | |
Starring Walter Matthau | ||||||
17 | 17 | "Hamilton Fish" | Unknown | Unknown | March 7, 1965 | |
Starring Henry Jones | ||||||
18 | 18 | "Charles Evans Hughes" | Unknown | David Karp | March 14, 1965 | |
Starring Kent Smith | ||||||
19 | 19 | "Edmund G. Ross" | Gerald Mayer | Andy Lewis | March 21, 1965 | |
Starring Bradford Dillman | ||||||
20 | 20 | "George W. Norris" | Unknown | Don Mankiewicz | March 28, 1965 | |
Starring Tom Bosley | ||||||
21 | 21 | "Grover Cleveland" | Lamont Johnson | Philip S. Goodman | April 4, 1965 | |
Starring Carroll O'Connor | ||||||
22 | 22 | "John Quincy Adams" | Michael Ritchie | Andy Lewis | April 11, 1965 | |
Starring Douglas Campbell | ||||||
23 | 23 | "John Marshall" | Unknown | David Karp | April 18, 1965 | |
Starring Gary Merrill | ||||||
24 | 24 | "Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey" | Robert Gist | Don Mankiewicz | April 25, 1965 | |
Starring George Grizzard | ||||||
25 | 25 | "George Mason" | Joseph Anthony | A. J. Russell | May 2, 1965 | |
Starring Laurence Naismith | ||||||
26 | 26 | "Thomas Corwin" | Michael Ritchie | Don Mankiewicz | May 9, 1965 | |
Starring George Rose |
Awards
The series won two awards; a
External links
Episodes of Profiles in Courage on the Internet Archive
- Episode 6, John Slaton
- Episode 11, John Peter Altgeld
- Episode 13, Daniel Webster
- Episode 21, Grover Cleveland
- Episode 22, John Quincy Adams
- Episode 24, Ben B. Lindsay"
- Episode 25, George Mason