Hello Americans — 1942

The opener. Welles takes up Brazil -- the roots of the samba, the country's mix of peoples, the reach of the Amazon -- and shares the microphone with Carmen Miranda. The debut later resurfaced as a bonus on the 2013 restoration of Welles's film The Stranger.

The mountains as a way into South American history, carried through Simon Bolivar and the conquistador Pizarro, with Edmond O'Brien voicing the Liberator and a score drawn from the Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Gomes.

The Caribbean and the making of Haiti -- the road from slavery to independence through the liberator Toussaint Louverture and the emperors who followed.

First of three programs that survey Latin-American culture letter by letter, from A to C -- touching on Bolivar and circling back to Haiti's early-19th-century king Henri Christophe, with guest singer Miguelito Valdes.

The middle stretch of the alphabetical survey, carrying the letters from C to S through the cultures of the Americas.

The last of the alphabet trilogy, running from "Slavery" to the end of the letters, from a script by Welles and John Tucker Battle.

A dramatized cautionary tale from a Richard Brooks story -- the bad-will ambassador, the very opposite of the neighborliness the series set out to promote.