• Air date: 04 Oct '53 34 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 (34)
    • 1. Of Time and the River

      04 Oct '53
    • 2. A Queen's Way

      11 Oct '53
    • 3. McCoy of Abilene

      18 Oct '53
      The story of Joseph Geiting McCoy, American pioneer cattleman.
    • 4. Title Unknown

      25 Oct '53
    • 5. The Imaginary Invalid

      01 Nov '53
    • 6. The Lonely Way

      08 Nov '53
    • 7. The Courtship of Miles Standish

      22 Nov '53
    • 8. John Marshall and the Burr Case

      03 Jan '54
    • 9. Title Unknown

      29 Nov '53
    • 10. Crusade to Liberty

      10 Jan '54
    • 11. Title Unknown

      06 Dec '53
    • 12. The St. Cloud Storm

      17 Jan '54
    • 13. Miss Tracy of Mt. Vernon

      21 Feb '54
    • 14. Aesop and Rhodope

      13 Dec '53
    • 15. Aesop and Rhodope

      13 Dec '53
    • 16. King Richard II

      24 Jan '54
    • 17. Blaze of Darkness

      27 Dec '53
    • 18. A Reckless Youth

      31 Jan '54
    • 19. The Hands of Clara Schumann

      07 Feb '54
    • 20. Crusader Against Cruelty

      14 Feb '54
    • 21. Serra and San Francisco

      28 Feb '54
    • 22. The Good Samaritan

      07 Mar '54
    • 23. The Road to Tara

      14 Mar '54
    • 24. Portrait by Whistler

      21 Mar '54
    • 25. The Ordeal of Thomas Jefferson

      28 Mar '54