• Air date: 24 Dec '51 35 episodes
      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...
  • List of Episodes (35)
    • 1. Amahl and the Night Visitors

      24 Dec '51
      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.
    • 2. Doctor Serocold

      06 Jan '52
      A Hollywood press agent is assigned to promote a starlet with whom he was once in love.
    • 3. Love Story

      13 Jan '52
      Adaptation of the novel by Helen Ashton.
    • 4. The Big Build-Up

      20 Jan '52
      Dramatization of the love affair between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
    • 5. The Story of Roger Williams

      27 Jan '52
    • 6. Florence Nightingale

      03 Feb '52
      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.
    • 7. Woman with a Sword

      10 Feb '52
      Story of Anna Ella Carroll, prominent member of a Maryland family who served as unofficial but close advisor and special representative to President Lincoln.
    • 8. The Plot to Kidnap General Washington

      17 Feb '52
      Irish-American tailor Hercules Mulligan's contribution to the American Revolution.
    • 9. Mistress of the White House

      24 Feb '52
      The story of Dolley Madison.
    • 10. Prelude

      02 Mar '52
      The meeting of George Sand and Frederic Chopin.
    • 11. Juliette Low and the Girl Scouts

      09 Mar '52
      The founding of the Girl Scouts, presented on the occasion of their 40th anniversary.
    • 12. Constitution Island

      16 Mar '52
      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.
    • 13. Harriet Quimby

      23 Mar '52
      The story of America's first woman aviator.
    • 14. The Vision of Father Flanagan

      30 Mar '52
      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.
    • 15. Ordeal by White House

      06 Apr '52
      Little-known incidents in the life of Grover Cleveland.
    • 16. Anne Bradstreet, Puritan Poetess

      20 Apr '52
      Story of America's first woman author.
    • 17. Miracle in May

      27 Apr '52
      Dr. Edward Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccination.
    • 18. The Face of Spain

      04 May '52
      The life of Francisco Goya; set in Spain, 1786.
    • 19. A Woman for the Ages

      11 May '52
      The story of Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams.
    • 20. Reign of Terror

      18 May '52
      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.
    • 21. The Magnificent Failure

      25 May '52
      A biography of Louisa May Alcott, ending with her writing of ""Little Women"" in 1860.
    • 22. The King's Author

      01 Jun '52
      Biography of Ben Jonson, covering the writing of Eastward ho; set in London, 1606.
    • 23. Nefretiti, Queen of Egypt

      08 Jun '52
      Biography of Nefretiti, illustrating her life with the Pharoah and her influence on Egyptian history and culture.
    • 24. Mr. and Mrs. Freedom

      15 Jun '52
      The story of Anna and John Peter Zenger and their fight for freedom of the press.
    • 25. Forgotten Children

      22 Jun '52
      A dramatization honouring American educator Martha Berry, founder of Mt. Berry, a Georgia home for mountain people.