• Air date: 24 Oct '60 6 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 (6)
    • 1. Shangri-La

      24 Oct '60
      A musical adaptation of James Hilton's novel ""Lost Horizon,"" in which a plane crash in the Himalayas leads a group of survivors to the hidden society of Shangri-La and its closely guarded secret of longevity.
    • 2. Macbeth

      20 Nov '60
      Adaptation of the stage tragedy by William Shakespeare.
    • 3. Golden Child

      16 Dec '60
      An original comic opera for Christmas. Libretto by Paul Engle; music by Philip Bezanson.
    • 4. Time Remembered

      07 Feb '61
      Adaptation of the stage play by Anouilh: A flighty duchess plays matchmaker in the drawing rooms of the aristocracy.
    • 5. Give Us Barabbas!

      24 Mar '61
      An Easter biblical production of the story of the Crucifixion.
    • 6. The Joke and the Valley

      05 May '61
      ""Premiere performance of a winner in the Hallmark teleplay writing competition, selected from over 1500 entries from 19 countries."" A drifter who discovers the body of a murder victim in an isolated farm community is appalled by the town's casual acceptance of the crime.