Cavalcade of America

- Season 5

(1956)

The factual story of the efforts of a Los Angeles police detective, school principal, and star athlete to help a juvenile delinquent.

An engaged girl disagrees with her parents about the kind of wedding ceremony she should have. She wants an elaborate church wedding; her parents insist on a simple home ceremony.

The story of how Gwinnett County, GA got its first hospital.

A portrayal of events in the later life of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, showing his influence on the pioneers who lived in a small community in the Ohio River Valley.

The story of the daughter of migratory farm workers. Her parents don't believe in "schooling", so Billie has to fight stubbornly to get her education.

Man and woman meet in Philadelphia and share a love for early American History. Everything is going well until one day when the man doesn't show up for their date.

Innocent bystander is hit in the head with a rock. Being a newspaper reporter, he decides to investigate why he was hit in the head and uncovers a whole series of innocent bystanders.

Old man Link Morley believes women should wait on men like menial servants. Bound to show his son how it's done, he orders around his son's new bride like a housemaid. But once the new couple is paying for their keep, Rowena makes a stand.

During his imprisonment in a Japanese POW camp, an American flier finds that religion gives him the strength he needs to withstand hardship. He vows to return to Japan to preach the word of God if he is ever released.

Two onetime friends are rivals in the unusual pursuit of collecting nineteenth century hand carved cigar store Indians. The rarest and most desirable were made by a long-dead Connecticut craftsman, whose aged daughter is found to be oblivious to her father's legacy, and is using his leftover works as firewood. The pair compete for her last remaining statue.

Harvey Kendall is a former rodeo star who is now a cattle inspector. When current rodeo star Cal Bennett comes to town, both Harvey and his son Tim begin to yearn for Harvey's former stardom.

When a boy steals a cake for his beloved aunt on Christmas Eve, his young friend tries to set things straight.

Three young boys are given the responsibility of carrying Christmas gifts to the mission church in the costumes of the Three Wise Men. When they ride through the poorest section of the village, the boys decide to give the presents to the ragged children instead, causing a crisis in conscience in the community.

A teenage Italian boy comes to this country to attend high school as an exchange student. He is thrilled and happy with everything about his visit, until he learns his family in Italy is in trouble.

Aging woman's son and DIL abandon her and move to Florida, leaving her alone in a large house. A TV preacher gives her the idea of helping people using the things in her house.

Story of Christian Minister and pole vaulting champion Bob Richards.

Family rivalry over size of wedding dowery for new bride.

Principal John Norton befriends a youngster who is accused of robbery, and obtains a parole for the boy. He even gets him a job as cashier in the school lunchroom. When money is stolen from the lunchroom, the boy becomes the number-one suspect, and Norton again comes to his assistance.

Widow living with daughter in the suburbs longs for her old life in the city. On one of her frequent visits to the old neighborhood, she finds 3 orphan boys living in her old flat. She wants to adopt them, but CPS won't allow it.

A scrawny, bespectacled college student exerts himself too much and he dies. Another student, the school's star athlete, is advised the boy's grieving mother has been led to believe, by his letters home, the boy was his best friend, though they never met.

Leaving his shop,a butcher witnesses a car run down a man on the street, but before he can give the police a description, he's threatened by a gangster.The victim was a crime investigator, and the "accident" was a hit. The butcher and his family is stalked and terrorized by the crooks from then on.

A drought-stricken small town rejects its new preacher because he refuses to pray for rain.

Young Trudy Marshall is an 11-year old who dreams of ending the feud between her parents and maternal grandfather. When she saves the life of an elderly Mexican bandit, the Calaveras Kid, he decides to help her.

Widow is determined to catch herself a struggling author.

Working man and recent immigrant Jake Bartosh defaces the Declaration of Independence by signing his own name to it. Why did he do this and how will he be punished?

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When young Brian Beck sees a man murdered, he tells his best friend, Noah. But the old man thinks it's another of Brian's tall tales and ignores him. When the killer gets closer, Brian decides to go after the criminal himself.

A Chicago fire investigator attempts to apprehend the arsonist who has set a series of blazes in run-down buildings near the river. He suspects that the perpetrator might be part of the throng of on-lookers that gawk at the firefighters battling the blazes. When a deaf woman is seriously injured in one of the torched buildings, the inspector redoubles his efforts to arrest the firebug before one of his blazes results in death.