• Air date: 05 Sep '54 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. Dynamite

      05 Sep '54
    • 2. Do Not Cry For Me

      12 Sep '54
    • 3. A Man of Many Ideas

      19 Sep '54
    • 4. The Reluctant Redeemer

      26 Sep '54
    • 5. The Lady in the Wings

      24 Oct '54
    • 6. The Path to Peace

      31 Oct '54
    • 7. President for a Day

      21 Nov '54
    • 8. Macbeth

      28 Nov '54
    • 9. Deadlock

      05 Dec '54
    • 10. Amahl and the Night Visitors

      19 Dec '54
    • 11. The Joyful Tydings

      26 Dec '54
    • 12. The First Mintmaster

      09 Jan '55
      Story of John Hull, first mintmaster of Massachusetts Bay Colony, who was appointed to the post in 1650 as the culmination of his efforts to abolish barter and foreign coinage in favor of a stabilized currency.
    • 13. Crusade for Freedom

      16 Jan '55
      In the name of his brother, the editor of a Boston newspaper, Benjamin Franklin launches a crusade against Cotton Mather.
    • 14. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley

      23 Jan '55
    • 15. A Story About Henry Ford

      30 Jan '55
    • 16. Patrick Henry

      06 Feb '55
      Silver-tongued Patrick Henry studied law for only six weeks, but so impressed the board that they passed him. He was a successful Southern backwoods lawyer and reluctant to enter the Virginia House of Burgesses until the British introduced the Stamp Act.
    • 17. The Shining Beacon

      13 Feb '55
      Tale of Alcuin, the great educator who taught Charlemagne to read and write.
    • 18. Martha Custis Washington

      20 Feb '55
      The courtship of George Washington and Martha Custis, a widowed mother of two.
    • 19. The Talking Wire

      27 Feb '55
      The story of Alexander Graham Bell and experiments that led to the electric hearing aid, and then the telephone.
    • 20. The Adventures of Lt. Contee

      06 Mar '55
      Tribute to one of Commodore Perry's officers, whose personal efforts helped open Japan to foreign trade.
    • 21. The Pirate and the Lawyer

      13 Mar '55
    • 22. Soldier's Bride

      20 Mar '55
      Story of the love between Knox Taylor (daughter of Colonel Zachary Taylor) and Jefferson Davis.
    • 23. The Finest Gift

      27 Mar '55
      The story of Lord Byron's efforts to liberate Greece.
    • 24. The Green Mountain Boys

      03 Apr '55
      The story of Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain boys.
    • 25. Lydia

      07 Feb '55
      Story of the pagan Greek Lydia, who lived in ancient Rome and saved the life of the Apostle Paul.