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Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
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Cast
Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Amahl and the Night Visitors
24-12-19512hBroadcast live from New York, Gian Carlo Menotti's Christmas story was the first opera commissioned for television, and was repeated in several subsequent telecasts.
- Ep 2
2.Doctor Serocold
06-01-19522hA Hollywood press agent is assigned to promote a starlet with whom he was once in love.
- Ep 3
3.Love Story
13-01-19522hAdaptation of the novel by Helen Ashton.
- Ep 4
4.The Big Build-Up
20-01-19522hDramatization of the love affair between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
- Ep 5
5.The Story of Roger Williams
27-01-19522hIn 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 an...
- Ep 6
6.Florence Nightingale
03-02-19522hBiography 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 W...
- Ep 7
7.Woman with a Sword
10-02-19522hStory of Anna Ella Carroll, prominent member of a Maryland family who served as unofficial but close advisor and special representative to President Lincoln.
- Ep 8
8.The Plot to Kidnap General Washington
17-02-19522hIrish-American tailor Hercules Mulligan's contribution to the American Revolution.
- Ep 9
9.Mistress of the White House
24-02-19522hThe story of Dolley Madison.
- Ep 10
10.Prelude
02-03-19522hThe meeting of George Sand and Frederic Chopin.
- Ep 11
11.Juliette Low and the Girl Scouts
09-03-19522hThe founding of the Girl Scouts, presented on the occasion of their 40th anniversary.
- Ep 12
12.Constitution Island
16-03-19522hA 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.
- Ep 13
13.Harriet Quimby
23-03-19522hThe story of America's first woman aviator.
- Ep 14
14.The Vision of Father Flanagan
30-03-19522hThe 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...
- Ep 15
15.Ordeal by White House
06-04-19522hLittle-known incidents in the life of Grover Cleveland.
- Ep 16
16.Anne Bradstreet, Puritan Poetess
20-04-19522hStory of America's first woman author.
- Ep 17
17.Miracle in May
27-04-19522hDr. Edward Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccination.
- Ep 18
18.The Face of Spain
04-05-19522hThe life of Francisco Goya; set in Spain, 1786.
- Ep 19
19.A Woman for the Ages
11-05-19522hThe story of Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams.
- Ep 20
20.Reign of Terror
18-05-19522hEliza 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.
- Ep 21
21.The Magnificent Failure
25-05-19522hA biography of Louisa May Alcott, ending with her writing of ""Little Women"" in 1860.
- Ep 22
22.The King's Author
01-06-19522hBiography of Ben Jonson, covering the writing of Eastward ho; set in London, 1606.
- Ep 23
23.Nefretiti, Queen of Egypt
08-06-19522hBiography of Nefretiti, illustrating her life with the Pharoah and her influence on Egyptian history and culture.
- Ep 24
24.Mr. and Mrs. Freedom
15-06-19522hThe story of Anna and John Peter Zenger and their fight for freedom of the press.
- Ep 25
25.Forgotten Children
22-06-19522hA dramatization honouring American educator Martha Berry, founder of Mt. Berry, a Georgia home for mountain people.
- Ep 26
26.Our Sister Emily
29-06-19522hThe story of the Bronte sisters.
- Ep 27
27.The Legend of Josiah Blow
06-07-19522hAn infantryman in the American Revolution lights a firecracker and gets blown into another generation.
- Ep 28
28.The Real Glory
13-07-19522hStory of a town in U.S. taken over by corrupt men due to the neglect of the citizenry.
- Ep 29
29.Salvage
20-07-19522hAn aging man thinks his usefulness to society is at an end.
- Ep 30
30.21-Plus
27-07-19522hStory of the importance of one vote in an election.
- Ep 31
31.The Carlson Legend
03-08-19522hA young state senator runs into a moral problem while conducting a cleanup campaign.
- Ep 32
32.The Last Command
10-08-19522h - Ep 33
33.I Lift Up My Lamp
17-08-19522hA 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.
- Ep 34
34.Crabapple Saint
24-08-19522hStory of Johnny Appleseed, the wanderer who planted trees as he traveled.
- Ep 35
35.Refresher Course
31-08-19522hStory of a wealthy middle-aged married couple who retrace their honeymoon, and in so doing, regain their love for each other.
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