Liberty's Kids
The American Revolutionary War is seen through the eyes of an American teenaged lad, a young English lady, and a French boy, all three of whom work as reporters for Benjamin Franklin.
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Cast:Walter Cronkite , Kathleen Barr , Reo Jones , Chris Lundquist , D. Kevin Williams , Ben Beck , Carl Beck , Billy Crystal , Nils Haaland , Annette Bening , Jill Anderson , Vincent Lee Alston , Terry Berner , Robert Berry , Pam Carter , Susan Baer Collins , Jason Connery , Chip Cronkite
S1.E1 ∙ The Boston Tea Party
When Moses, James and Henri come to Boston pick up Sarah, they find themselves involved in the famous tax protest.
S1.E2 ∙ The Intolerable Acts
Needing to escape occupied Boston, the kids can't stay out of trouble during the British crackdown imposed after the Boston Tea Party.
S1.E3 ∙ United We Stand
Sarah and Henri deliver a letter to Abigal Adams, while James learns some hard lessons about patriotic sounding mob brutality while covering the first Continental Congress.
S1.E4 ∙ Liberty or Death
While on a business trip to Virginia, the gang find Moses' brother enslaved and Moses resolves to free him.
S1.E5 ∙ Midnight Ride
Paul Revere and William Dawes spread the word that the "British are coming!" on the eve of "the shot heard 'round the world."
S1.E6 ∙ The Shot Heard Round the World
The Revolutionary War begins with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
S1.E7 ∙ Green Mountain Boys
Trouble erupts in the New Hampshire Grants when settlers are forced from their homes (1770-1775).
S1.E8 ∙ The Second Continental Congress
The colonies decide they need a national army.
S1.E10 ∙ Postmaster General Franklin
Ben Franklin is named the first Postmaster General of the colonies (7/26/75).
S1.E11 ∙ Washington Takes Command
George Washington arrives in Boston to take command of the army (7/3/75).
S1.E12 ∙ Common Sense
The kids meet the hot headed idealist, Tom Paine, whose popular anti-monarchist pamphlet, "Common Sense," popularizes the idea of colonial independence.
S1.E13 ∙ The First Fourth of July
James learns about the power of political rhetoric as the motion to declare independence comes to a vote in the Continental Congress.
S1.E14 ∙ New York, New York
At the Battle of Long Island, Washington fights the British in open field battles -- with catastrophic results (8/27-29/76).
S1.E15 ∙ The Turtle
The first attempt to sink a ship with a submarine fails (9/6/76).
S1.E16 ∙ One Life to Lose
A failed peace conference between the British Admiral Howe and John Adams and Ben Franklin convinces the American leaders that the British have no interest in making peace (9/11/76).
S1.E17 ∙ Captain Molly
Ben Franklin, appointed to a commission to negotiate a treaty with the French, sails for France aboard the Reprisal (10/24/76).
S1.E18 ∙ American Crisis
The low point of the war for the Americans has arrived and General Washington calls upon Thomas Paine to put the times in perspective.
S1.E19 ∙ Across the Delaware
To prevent ultimate defeat, Washington and his forces cross the Delaware River for a daring attack on Christmas Day.
S1.E20 ∙ An American in Paris
Ben Franklin sets up residence in Paris and begins his uphill battle to enlist France in the American cause (12/28/76).
S1.E21 ∙ Sybil Ludington
Sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington makes her own "midnight ride" in Westchester County, New York (4/26/77).
S1.E22 ∙ Lafayette Arrives
The 19-year-old Marquis de Lafayette arrives after an eventful journey from France and offers his services to Congress (7/27/77).
S1.E23 ∙ The Hessians Are Coming
While General Horatio Gates battles Burgoyne at the Battle of Saratoga, James is captured by British and Hessian forces as a spy.
S1.E24 ∙ Valley Forge
James, Sarah and Henri are there as George Washington and his Continental Army endure a horrible winter at Valley Forge while Baron von Steuben arrives to train Washington's men into a proper fighting force.
S1.E25 ∙ Allies at Last
News of the American victory at Saratoga helps pave the way for Ben Franklin to negotiate a treaty with France.
S1.E26 ∙ Honor and Compromise
The States struggle to unite politically before the arrival of the French Ambassador (5/9/78-7/8/78).
S1.E27 ∙ The New Frontier
In the Ohio territory, Shawnee Chief Cornstalk and his people are caught between the Americans and the British, with tragic results (11/77).
S1.E28 ∙ Not Yet Begun to Fight
In a long, desperate battle, John Paul Jones and his wildly outgunned Bonhomme Richard defeat the British Serapis off the coast of England (9/23/79).
S1.E29 ∙ The Great Galvez
Spanish Governor Bernardo de Galvez aides the American cause by capturing Baton Rouge (9/21/79), Natchez (10/5/79) and Mobile (3/13/80) from the British.
S1.E30 ∙ In Praise of Ben
Sarah returns to Philadelphia and is reunited with her friends just in time to help them explain to a boy the character and accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin.
S1.E31 ∙ Bostonians
Sarah and Henri join the Adams family in Massachusetts just as John and his son John Quincy return from France and are reunited with Abigail (8/2/79).
S1.E32 ∙ Benedict Arnold
James, Sarah and Henri are there when Arnold tries to hand West Point over to British (9/21/80).
S1.E33 ∙ Conflict in the South
General Nathanael Greene replaces Horatio Gates as the American commander in the south (10/16/80).
S1.E34 ∙ Deborah Samson: Soldier of the Revolution
Deborah Samson masquerades as a man so she can enlist in the Continental army (5/20/1782-10/23/83).
S1.E35 ∙ James Armistead
Virginia slave James Armistead joins Lafayette and spies on Benedict Arnold (3/81).
S1.E37 ∙ Born Free and Equal
Massachusetts slave "Mum Bett" sues for her freedom (5/28/1781).
S1.E38 ∙ The Man Who Wouldn't Be King
Ben Franklin and John Adams sign the peace treaty with England, ending the Revolutionary War, but General Washington must thwart a potential uprising by his frustrated officers.
S1.E39 ∙ Going Home
With the signing of the Treaty of Paris, loyalists are forced to leave their homes.
S1.E40 ∙ We the People
With the new nation falling apart under the Articles of Confederation, America's leaders meet at a convention in Philadelphia and decide to write a radical new Constitution.
