Hallmark TV Shows, a list by James Dooley

6.5

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64

/59/

85

/2/

Talented Saville Row textile pattern designer Kate lives in the quaint village of Blexford, England. Unbeknownst to Kate, her best friend Laura signs her up for The 12 Dates of Christmas – a holiday-themed matchmaking program in the days leading up to the holiday featuring carefully curated, yuletide dating experiences, in an attempt to get Kate out of her rut. Lovingly coerced by Laura and longtime best friend Callum, a reluctant Kate ultimately gets into the spirit of the program and is caught off guard when she meets someone who reinvigorates her zest for life.

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7.0

/40/

80

/4/

55

/2/

10 talented pairs of home bakers face off in a warm-hearted, family- recipe bake-off. They will infuse their heritage, personal stories, and cherished family recipes into classic bakes with a holiday twist and serve their dishes to a panel of expert judges.

73

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6.9

/867/

62

/17/

88

/6/

3.3

/794/

age 13+

In 1844 Ireland, thief Liam falls for aristocrat Cora. When their love disrupts destiny, angels send him to present-day Oregon to ensure Cora marries another man. As her police partner, Liam struggles with his enduring feelings.

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5.3

/89/

60

/1/

100

/1/

Hallmark superfans celebrate the holidays aboard a Christmas cruise to the tropics, filled with festive fun and celebrity surprises.

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5.0

/66/

32

/4/

10

/1/

Connie Britton, herself a single mother, helps another mom balance work, parenting, and self-care. With expert coaches, they transform the mom's living space, parenting approach, and wardrobe over a week, fostering a supportive community.

62

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6.7

/300/

58

/26/

10 men compete in a series of festive challenges that will showcase their acting chops and their holiday spirit. Jonathan Bennett hosts while these lovable guys vie to become the next Hallmark leading man.

72

32

7.6

/2575/

73

/74/

68

/12/

age 13+

Emily Lane is a good-natured Christmas shop owner with a secret past. When local murders begin to pop up in Fletcher’s Grove, Emily can’t help but to use her unique talents from her past life to help solve murders that affect people in her new life. She crosses paths with Detective Sam Wilner who she starts to make a connection with, until he comes to learn there is more to Emily than meets the eye.

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6.8

/45/

30

/3/

100

/1/

The show follows Chabert as she surprises deserving individuals who are making a positive impact in their communities with the celebration of a lifetime. With the help of professional party planners, celebrity friends and a team of volunteers, Chabert will have just three days to create an unforgettable event, blending heartwarming stories with dazzling celebrations.

62

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6.3

/584/

55

/27/

70

/4/

60

/5/

age 13+

Set in the fictional town of Merinac, a generations-old rift between dueling fried chicken restaurants — Mimi’s and Frannie’s — has left the founders’ families fractured and the locals taking sides. When popular cooking competition show Kitchen Clash comes to town, this could be the recipe for ending this feud once and for all. But things are fixing to heat up both inside and outside of the kitchen as the reality show spotlight causes sparks to fly as secrets are spilled and feathers get ruffled.

79

58

8.2

/5933/

80

/199/

75

/21/

age 13+

When three generations of women reunite after being estranged for more than two decades, they embark on an enlightening – and surprising – journey toward healing none of them could have imagined as they learn how to find their way back to each other.

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8.2

/78/

53

/3/

100

/2/

America’s most talented home bakers alongside the cast of When Calls the Heart face off in a cookie baking challenge.

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55

/2/

TMDb

“Cat Bowl” will showcase adorable and adoptable adult ‘cat-letes’ as they compete on the gridiron for a special place in viewers' hearts. Inspirational stories of senior and special needs cats will highlight the special event. With Hallmark Channel's partner North Shore Animal League America, “Cat Bowl” and companion program “Kitten Bowl” will be a part of the biggest pet adoption event in the country.

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58

/11/

TMDb

A news reporter named Ruby Herring teams up with detective to solve murders.

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6.9

/81/

40

/6/

100

/1/

Follow Holly and Rodney Peete’s hectic lives as they attempt to balance raising four kids, including one with autism, running their HollyRod charity and spending time with Holly’s 81-year-old mother Dolores, who moved in with them after retiring from her career as a talent manager.

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57

/4/

TMDb

Brilliant, dedicated, and driven, archaeologist Emma Fielding finds things that have been lost for hundreds of years -- and she's very, very good at it. But she seems to be encountering murder and mystery on more and more of her dig sites.

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10

/1/

TMDb

The Father Christmas film series is a trilogy, based on the novels of Robin Jones Gunn. The films follow the story of Miranda Chester, as she visits the town of Carlton Heath, Vermont, in search of the truth about her parentage. Whilst there she meets, and falls in love with, local lawyer/hotelier Ian McKendrick.

75

74

7.5

/10318/

74

/413/

78

/140/

age 10+

A divorced mom deals with an old romance and complicated family issues when she returns to her hometown with her twin daughters.

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74

/19/

Aurora/Roe, a librarian and amateur sleuth, investigates and solves murders with help from her friends in Real Murders Club.

74

7.3

/13669/

73

/870/

77

/271/

age 8+

Cassie Nightingale, Middleton’s favorite enchantress, and her young-teenage daughter Grace, who shares that same special intuition as her mom, welcome Dr. Sam Radford and his son to town. When the New York transplants move in next to the Grey House, they are immediately spellbound by the mother-daughter duo next door, but Sam and Cassie quickly find they may not see eye to eye. With her signature charm, Cassie attempts to bring everyone together, ensuring all of Middleton is in for new changes, big surprises and, of course, a little bit of magic! "Good Witch” is based on Bell’s beloved character Cassie, the raven-haired enchantress who kept audiences spellbound for seven installments of Hallmark Channel's longest-running and highest-rated original movie franchise of all time.

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4.6

/68/

17

/5/

The Adventures of 8 Year old girl Rainbow Brite. It is a reboot of the series of the same name, with updated character designs.

73

49

7.8

/3317/

73

/120/

70

/29/

age 8+

A group of postal detectives work to solve the mysteries behind undeliverable letters and packages from the past, delivering them when they are needed most.

79

7.9

/16379/

77

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82

/155/

age 7+

Elizabeth Thatcher, a young school teacher from a wealthy Eastern family, migrates from the big city to teach school in a small coal mining town in the west.

66

47

7.0

/2850/

67

/73/

68

/33/

Metacritic

62

/10/

age 13+

Judge Olivia Lockhart is considered the community's guiding light in the picturesque, coastal town of Cedar Cove, Washington. But like everyone else, Olivia fights the uphill battle of balancing career with family and finding love, all the while doing her best to care for the township she calls home. Based on best-selling author Debbie Macomber’s beloved book series.

52

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5.3

/546/

23

/3/

82

/5/

Host Debbie Matenopoulos & her expert guests present the best in cooking, crafting, decorating & more.

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7.0

/17/

10

/1/

TMDb

Who Let the Dogs Out is a reality TV series featuring Tillman, a skateboarding bulldog recognized as the most charismatic, versatile and popular dog in the United States. This brilliant bulldog and his owner Ron burst on the scene in 2008, as Tillman's skateboarding, surfing and snowboarding antics became an instant Internet sensation. Now, Tillman has recruited a colorful cast of canines... and humans... to travel the country in search of the most talented pooches. It's a quest to find the most spectacular... high-flying... incredible dogs. At the end of their journey, Tillman and the gang will select one lucky mutt to become the most talented dog in America.

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8.1

/10/

10

/2/

TMDb

World-renowned chef and restaurateur Emeril Lagasse invites five guests to his chef's table as he prepares a meal for the quintet in each episode of this series. The chef provides a cooking lesson as only he can for the guests -- including newlyweds, busy mothers and firefighters -- and viewers in the intimate half-hour program. Lagasse inspires and engages his guests as he answers their culinary questions and helps with their food dilemmas. He also shares his fresh, fun recipes and provides tips and techniques people can employ in their own kitchens.

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10

/2/

TMDb

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8.1

/84/

61

/8/

75

/2/

Learn to create the finest desserts and goodies in your own home. Martha Stewart shares the best baking tips and techniques, giving you the confidence to create delectable baked goods, from scratch, in your own kitchen.

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7.9

/58/

10

/1/

Witty observations on 'Martha Stewart Living' by Martha's daughter.

44

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5.3

/555/

36

/8/

51

/9/

When the Royal Family decides to accept suitors for the hand of Princess Li Wei, a young thief who calls himself 'Devil Boy' decides to pose as a prince in order to swipe the crown jewels. To his surprise, he ends up genuinely falling in love with the young woman, placing himself and his faithful servant in the crosshairs of the dangerous Prince of the North.

51

25

5.4

/1745/

49

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52

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3.0

/207/

The bird flu virus spreads through Los Angeles as a doctor from the CDC races to find a vaccine.

50

11

5.9

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25

/5/

67

/3/

3.5

/731/

Assigned to accompany two priests on a mission to convert the court of Kublai Khan to Christianity, Marco Polo is abandoned in the mountains when the priests, doubting the very existence of China, turn back. Polo eventually pushes bravely forth alone toward the fabled country where he is accepted as an envoy into Khan's court. Marooned on the far side of the world, Polo, accompanied by his servant, Pedro, advances as a Mongol grandee for twenty extraordinary years. What he eventually brings back with him to the West is a chronicle that changed history forever.

37

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4.4

/1348/

30

/2/

N/A

51

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5.5

/1587/

49

/21/

53

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3.1

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Bristol, England, 1717. Lieutenant Robert Maynard of the Royal Navy scouts the seas in order to restore safe passage to the sea lanes. He meets his match when he's taken by a fearsome hulk of a menace in the West Indies—a pirate sailing off the Island of St. Vincent. Edward Teach has no plans for retirement. In fact, his goal-to find and lay claim to the fabled treasures of Captain Kidd.

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50

/8/

Dick Van Dyke stars as professor Dr. Jonathan Maxwell, an absent-minded and brilliant criminologist. His son Barry Van Dyke co-stars as a former cop who is working as a private investigator.

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5.2

/6/

10

/1/

50

/1/

N/A

42

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5.3

/225/

10

/2/

65

/2/

Martha, also known as The Martha Stewart Show, was an American, weekday one-hour how-to show hosted by Martha Stewart. The program debuted on September 11, 2005 in syndication, primarily on NBC stations. At the end of its fifth season, Martha moved to cable and began airing exclusively on Hallmark Channel on September 13, 2010. There it remained for two additional seasons, before it was cancelled in early 2012 with the final episode airing on May 11, 2012.

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43

/6/

32

/2/

An international science conference is held in Australia when Dr. Austin Shepard mysteriously disappears. Dr. Shepard's colleague, Christopher Richardson, and other people are soon faced with the reality of an impending crisis and an attempt to keep the information from the public. While a full-blown supernova does not occur, explosions on the sun cause massive damage in Australia and are shown often in Sydney and in various other cities and countries of the world.

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5.7

/1141/

16

/5/

During the 1999 Russian Presidential elections, the two leading candidates are Igor Komarov, a former Colonel of the KGB, and Nikolai Nikolayev, a retired General of the Russian Army. When a car bomb explodes outside one of Komarov's pharmaceutical companies, and a virus is stolen from inside, an investigation by the FSB ensues headed by FSB agents Sonia Astrova and Andrei Kasanov. Their investigation is obstructed by the Director of the FSB, Anatoly Grishin.

56

31

6.3

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48

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58

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3.1

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Adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel about a scientist who brings life to a creature fashioned from corpses and various body parts.

47

15

5.6

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35

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52

/16/

When the bride-to-be of King Louis XIV is kidnapped, the sons of the original three musketeers rally to rescue her. Much to their surprise, a fourth musketeer joins the fray. And this brilliant swordsman—the most gifted of the lot—turns out to be D'Artagnan's daughter.

60

42

6.0

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58

/45/

62

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3.0

/682/

Renowned safari hunter Allan Quatermain is lured back into the unknown recesses of the African jungles to find a man who disappeared while searching for the fabled King Solomon's Mines--a destination of legendary riches from which no soul has ever returned alive.

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65

/20/

Brought up on a steady diet of mystery fiction by her Uncle Bob, Samantha Kinsey inherits his bookstore, complete with its live-in expert, retired former CIA agent Ian Philby. Now, in her new position, mysterious murders seem to occur all around her. Fortunately, she is the perfect person to solve them, because of all her years of reading about every possible fictional crime. She gets assistance from her friend Cassie, an aspiring district attorney, and from police chief Connors.

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54

/7/

TMDb

A woman's dream to forge a new life for herself on the great American plains becomes a test of her pioneering spirit, her inner strength, and her undying faith. It was Marty Claridge's dream to build her new life on the frontier with her husband. But when the courageous pioneer woman is suddenly widowed, she's offered a new opportunity - to marry a widower in a marriage of convenience that leads to unexpected love.

42

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6.5

/3605/

20

/3/

3.3

/1078/

A young woman must journey through the seasons to rescue her boyfriend who has been kidnapped by the evil Snow Queen.

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6.9

/592/

10

/1/

72

/6/

The only child in a wretchedly poor family in the Danish village of Odense, Hans Christian Andersen lives in a fantasy world. His hand carved dolls and puppets, his father's bedtime stories, and his own natural flair for fantastic tales brings the child temporary escape. It takes him all the way to Copenhagen where, he's been told, dreams can really come true.

67

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7.5

/729/

58

/17/

70

/6/

On a night in London in 1946, newspaper reporter Ellen McGillivray arrives at the home of legendary literary figure, Herbert George Wells. Expecting to hear of the events and people who formed his prophetic imagination, she is informed of a world in which known scientific boundaries no longer exist. It begins a half-century earlier at London's Imperial College of Science where Wells meets Jane Robbins, a scientist equally fascinated by unnatural phenomenon, and a woman who immediately captures Wells' heart. Through midnight experiments and secret investigations into the paranormal, through the follies of chance and the miracles of fate, Wells and Robbins find themselves slipping into whirlpools of time, both past and present.

35

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6.2

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