Expedition!


Expedition! is an American travel documentary television series that was broadcast in the United States on ABC Tuesday nights in the 1960–61 [United States network television schedule#Tuesday|1960–61 television season] and Monday nights in the 1961–62 television season.

Summary

Producer John D. Craig hosted episodes that documented journeys to various remote regions of the world, looking for such unusual things as Abominable Snowmen, African bushmen, unfriendly jungle tribes in Brazil, ruined cities of antiquity, and strange animals in their natural habitat. Episodes varied, but all focused on geological, geophysical, biological, anthropological, or archaeological themes.

Production details

The show was sponsored by Ralston Purina, and was broadcast on the ABC television network 7-7:30 pm on Tuesday nights in its first season and on Monday nights in its second season. The first program was broadcast September 20, 1960; the last show was broadcast April 27, 1962. Every third week was devoted to local affiliate versions of the show. The show received a Thomas Alva Edison award for science education, an Ohio State award for broadcast journalism, and a 1961 Peabody Award for Television Excellence.
Fred Steiner, a well-known composer of music for television shows from the 1950s through the 1990s, composed the background music for many of the episodes.

First season

Twenty-seven episodes were produced and broadcast in the 1960-61 television season.
The Frozen Continent
Operation Noah's Ark
Journey to the Roof of the World
Men Against the Mountains
3000 Years Under the Sea
Weavers of Death
Land of the Dying Ghosts
Lost Kingdoms of Arabia
Survivors of the Ice Age
Last of the Arctic Nomads
War Clubs of the Amazon
Vanishing Muskox
Lost World of the Kalahari
Last of the Bushmen
Saga of the Triton
Man's First Winter at the South Pole
Death Rites of the Camayura
Russian Whale Hunt
Moon Temple of Sheba
Invisible World of the Deep
Orinoco Quest
Cliff Dwellers of the Arctic
World of the Penguins
Return to the Stone Age
Flight to the Giants
Conquest of Dhaulagiri Part I
'''Conquest of Dhaulagiri Part II'''

Second season

Twenty-two episodes were produced and broadcast in the 1961-62 television season.
Africa's Animal Kingdom
Water People of Burma
Sacred Well of Sacrifice
Treasure of the Sacred Well
Russian Assault On the Antarctic
Rivers of Fire and Ice
Valley of Shangri-La
Menace of the Moving Glacier
Insect Safari
Black Jungle Trial
Valley of the Shadow of Death
Weavers of Death
Shark Island
Journey to the Lost World
Saga of Sea Dragon / Under the Ice
Land Divers of Pentecost
Challenge of the Pamirs, or Challenge of the Seven Peaks
Behind the Walls of Kano
Firewalkers of Fiji
Socotra: Forgotten Island
Cliffs of the Dead
'''Cargo Cult'''