Liberty's Kids, The Complete Series Season 1 Episode 1 The Boston Tea Party (Pilot, Part One)
- TV-Y7
- September 2, 2002
- 23 min
In Liberty's Kids, The Complete Series season 1 episode 1, titled "The Boston Tea Party (Pilot, Part One)," viewers are transported back to colonial America in the year 1773. The episode begins with the arrival of the ship carrying tea from England into the Boston harbor. The people of Boston are angry that the British are continuing to tax them without their consent, and they do not want to pay taxes on tea. However, the British government is determined to enforce the tax and sell the tea despite the colonists' protests.
The episode follows the lives of three main characters: Sarah, James, and Henri. Sarah is a young girl who has moved from England to America with her father, who is a loyalist to the British crown. James is an apprentice journalist who is working for Benjamin Franklin, and Henri is an African-American who works as a valet for Lafayette, a French nobleman who is visiting America to help fight against the British.
The three characters all have different perspectives on the events that are unfolding in Boston. Sarah believes that the British are in the right and that the colonists are being too unruly. James is a journalist and wants to report on the events as impartially as possible, while Henri is sympathetic to the colonists' cause and wants to help them in any way he can.
As the episode progresses, tensions rise in Boston, and the colonists become more and more determined to prevent the tea from being sold. They hold meetings and protests, and when the British refuse to move the ship carrying the tea out of the harbor, the colonists take matters into their own hands.
The episode climaxes with the Boston Tea Party, where the colonists dressed up as Native Americans and threw all the crates of tea into the harbor, defying the British government's authority and sending a message that they would not be taxed without their consent.
Overall, "The Boston Tea Party (Pilot, Part One)" is an exciting and engaging episode that sets the stage for the rest of the series. It does an excellent job of introducing the main characters and the historical context of the time. The episode also does an excellent job of showing the perspectives of different people who lived in the colonies and their beliefs about what was happening. This first episode is a fantastic introduction to the series and leaves viewers curious and wanting to see what happens next.