Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones.
The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Hallmark Hall of Fame Episode Guide
Amahl and the Night Visitors
S1 Ep1
1.0
24th Dec 1951
Broadcast live from New York, Gian Carlo Menotti's Christmas story was the first opera commissioned for television, and was repeated in several subsequent telecasts.
Doctor Serocold
S1 Ep2
6th Jan 1952
A Hollywood press agent is assigned to promote a starlet with whom he was once in love.
Love Story
S1 Ep3
13th Jan 1952
Adaptation of the novel by Helen Ashton.
The Big Build-Up
S1 Ep4
20th Jan 1952
Dramatization of the love affair between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
The Story of Roger Williams
S1 Ep5
27th Jan 1952
In 1631 Roger Williams landed in Boston. He had come to America to find freedom of belief and worship; instead, he found the church here still connected to the church in England and just as oppressive. He refused to join the church in Boston because it still held communion
with the Church of England, from which he had just fled. He thought it his duty to renounce
all connection with any church that would stain its hands in the blood of the Lord's people.
Florence Nightingale
S1 Ep6
3rd Feb 1952
Biography of Florence Nightingale: her determination to build hospitals and train nurses for the sick and disabled during the Crimean War, her correspondence with the Minister of War, and the letter of appreciation she received from Queen Victoria.
Woman with a Sword
S1 Ep7
9.0
10th Feb 1952
Story of Anna Ella Carroll, prominent member of a Maryland family who served as unofficial but close advisor and special representative to President Lincoln.
The Plot to Kidnap General Washington
S1 Ep8
17th Feb 1952
Irish-American tailor Hercules Mulligan's contribution to the American Revolution.
Mistress of the White House
S1 Ep9
24th Feb 1952
The story of Dolley Madison.
Prelude
S1 Ep10
2nd Mar 1952
The meeting of George Sand and Frederic Chopin.
Juliette Low and the Girl Scouts
S1 Ep11
9th Mar 1952
The founding of the Girl Scouts, presented on the occasion of their 40th anniversary.
Constitution Island
S1 Ep12
16th Mar 1952
A salute to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on its 150th anniversary, focusing on Anna Warner's historic gift of Contitution Island to the institution; set in 1907.
Harriet Quimby
S1 Ep13
23rd Mar 1952
The story of America's first woman aviator.
The Vision of Father Flanagan
S1 Ep14
30th Mar 1952
The story of Reverend Edward Joseph Flanagan who, as a young priest from Ireland, founded Boys Town, Nebraska, where outcast boys could find the love and care denied them in their own homes.
Ordeal by White House
S1 Ep15
6th Apr 1952
Little-known incidents in the life of Grover Cleveland.
Anne Bradstreet, Puritan Poetess
S1 Ep16
20th Apr 1952
Story of America's first woman author.
Miracle in May
S1 Ep17
27th Apr 1952
Dr. Edward Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccination.
The Face of Spain
S1 Ep18
4th May 1952
The life of Francisco Goya; set in Spain, 1786.
A Woman for the Ages
S1 Ep19
11th May 1952
The story of Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams.
Reign of Terror
S1 Ep20
18th May 1952
Eliza Monroe, in Paris as the wife of the U.S. Foreign Minister toFrance, obtains Madame Lafayette's release from prison and sentence of death by guillotine.
The Magnificent Failure
S1 Ep21
25th May 1952
A biography of Louisa May Alcott, ending with her writing of ""Little Women"" in 1860.
The King's Author
S1 Ep22
1st Jun 1952
Biography of Ben Jonson, covering the writing of Eastward ho; set in London, 1606.
Nefretiti, Queen of Egypt
S1 Ep23
8th Jun 1952
Biography of Nefretiti, illustrating her life with the Pharoah and her influence on Egyptian history and culture.
Mr. and Mrs. Freedom
S1 Ep24
15th Jun 1952
The story of Anna and John Peter Zenger and their fight for freedom of the press.
Forgotten Children
S1 Ep25
22nd Jun 1952
A dramatization honouring American educator Martha Berry, founder of Mt. Berry, a Georgia home for mountain people.
Our Sister Emily
S1 Ep26
29th Jun 1952
The story of the Bronte sisters.
The Legend of Josiah Blow
S1 Ep27
6th Jul 1952
An infantryman in the American Revolution lights a firecracker and gets blown into another generation.
The Real Glory
S1 Ep28
13th Jul 1952
Story of a town in U.S. taken over by corrupt men due to the neglect of the citizenry.
Salvage
S1 Ep29
20th Jul 1952
An aging man thinks his usefulness to society is at an end.
21-Plus
S1 Ep30
27th Jul 1952
Story of the importance of one vote in an election.
The Carlson Legend
S1 Ep31
3rd Aug 1952
A young state senator runs into a moral problem while conducting a cleanup campaign.
I Lift Up My Lamp
S1 Ep33
17th Aug 1952
A young Czech girl in the U.S. is faced with the choice of returning to her family behind the Iron Curtain or remaining free in the U.S.
Crabapple Saint
S1 Ep34
24th Aug 1952
Story of Johnny Appleseed, the wanderer who planted trees as he traveled.
Refresher Course
S1 Ep35
31st Aug 1952
Story of a wealthy middle-aged married couple who retrace their honeymoon, and in so doing, regain their love for each other.
