Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV ShowReturning Series

Hallmark Hall of Fame

8.8 / 10 · 8 votes
1951
~2h / ep
61 seasons
364 episodes
Drama

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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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Amahl and the Night Visitors

    24-12-19512h

    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.

  • Ep 2

    2.Doctor Serocold

    06-01-19522h

    A Hollywood press agent is assigned to promote a starlet with whom he was once in love.

  • Ep 3

    3.Love Story

    13-01-19522h

    Adaptation of the novel by Helen Ashton.

  • Ep 4

    4.The Big Build-Up

    20-01-19522h

    Dramatization of the love affair between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.

  • Ep 5

    5.The Story of Roger Williams

    27-01-19522h

    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 an...

  • Ep 6

    6.Florence Nightingale

    03-02-19522h

    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 W...

  • Ep 7

    7.Woman with a Sword

    10-02-19522h

    Story 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

    17-02-19522h

    Irish-American tailor Hercules Mulligan's contribution to the American Revolution.

  • Ep 9

    9.Mistress of the White House

    24-02-19522h

    The story of Dolley Madison.

  • Ep 10

    10.Prelude

    02-03-19522h

    The meeting of George Sand and Frederic Chopin.

  • Ep 11

    11.Juliette Low and the Girl Scouts

    09-03-19522h

    The founding of the Girl Scouts, presented on the occasion of their 40th anniversary.

  • Ep 12

    12.Constitution Island

    16-03-19522h

    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.

  • Ep 13

    13.Harriet Quimby

    23-03-19522h

    The story of America's first woman aviator.

  • Ep 14

    14.The Vision of Father Flanagan

    30-03-19522h

    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...

  • Ep 15

    15.Ordeal by White House

    06-04-19522h

    Little-known incidents in the life of Grover Cleveland.

  • Ep 16

    16.Anne Bradstreet, Puritan Poetess

    20-04-19522h

    Story of America's first woman author.

  • Ep 17

    17.Miracle in May

    27-04-19522h

    Dr. Edward Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccination.

  • Ep 18

    18.The Face of Spain

    04-05-19522h

    The life of Francisco Goya; set in Spain, 1786.

  • Ep 19

    19.A Woman for the Ages

    11-05-19522h

    The story of Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams.

  • Ep 20

    20.Reign of Terror

    18-05-19522h

    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.

  • Ep 21

    21.The Magnificent Failure

    25-05-19522h

    A biography of Louisa May Alcott, ending with her writing of ""Little Women"" in 1860.

  • Ep 22

    22.The King's Author

    01-06-19522h

    Biography of Ben Jonson, covering the writing of Eastward ho; set in London, 1606.

  • Ep 23

    23.Nefretiti, Queen of Egypt

    08-06-19522h

    Biography of Nefretiti, illustrating her life with the Pharoah and her influence on Egyptian history and culture.

  • Ep 24

    24.Mr. and Mrs. Freedom

    15-06-19522h

    The story of Anna and John Peter Zenger and their fight for freedom of the press.

  • Ep 25

    25.Forgotten Children

    22-06-19522h

    A dramatization honouring American educator Martha Berry, founder of Mt. Berry, a Georgia home for mountain people.

  • Ep 26

    26.Our Sister Emily

    29-06-19522h

    The story of the Bronte sisters.

  • Ep 27

    27.The Legend of Josiah Blow

    06-07-19522h

    An infantryman in the American Revolution lights a firecracker and gets blown into another generation.

  • Ep 28

    28.The Real Glory

    13-07-19522h

    Story of a town in U.S. taken over by corrupt men due to the neglect of the citizenry.

  • Ep 29

    29.Salvage

    20-07-19522h

    An aging man thinks his usefulness to society is at an end.

  • Ep 30

    30.21-Plus

    27-07-19522h

    Story of the importance of one vote in an election.

  • Ep 31

    31.The Carlson Legend

    03-08-19522h

    A 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

    17-08-19522h

    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.

  • Ep 34

    34.Crabapple Saint

    24-08-19522h

    Story of Johnny Appleseed, the wanderer who planted trees as he traveled.

  • Ep 35

    35.Refresher Course

    31-08-19522h

    Story 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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