The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, through his meeting with and subsequent marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. The plot concentrates on the later scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties.

It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.

Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.

At a desolate relay station in the west, a stagecoach attendant and a stranded woman traveller are held captive by a band of escaped convicts.

The life of peaceful rancher John Benedict is torn apart when his family is massacred by a gang of marauding outlaws and his farm is destroyed. He assembles a team of mean, lawless convicts to act as his posse as he pursues the gang responsible for the deaths of his loved ones.

A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.

King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.

故事説蘇珊希活的丈夫在中國因被懷疑是間諜而被扣留，蘇珊希活來港希望營救丈夫，但過程中遇到騙子，丈夫不但救不了，反而身陷險境，奇勒基寶是個浪子，但看見蘇珊希活的情況甚為不忍、遂出手相助，最後幾經波折，幫蘇珊希活救出丈夫，過程中兩人墮入愛河，蘇珊希活的丈夫明白感情不能勉強，惟有黯然回美國，留下蘇珊希活和奇勒基寶有情人終成眷屬.

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.