Maurice Evans
Hallmark Hall Of Fame (1951)
Season 1
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 broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Released Dec. 24, 1951
Episode 65 min
10+
Keywords: tmdb.anthology, imdb.anthology, imdb.company-sponsor-name-in-title, awards.emmy-award-winner, awards.emmy-award-nominated
Network: Hallmark Channel
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Amahl and the Night Visitors
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.
Dec. 24, 1951, midnight
S1E2 - Doctor Serocold
A Hollywood press agent is assigned to promote a starlet with whom he was once in love.
Jan. 6, 1952, midnight
S1E3 - Love Story
Adaptation of the novel by Helen Ashton.
Jan. 13, 1952, midnight
S1E4 - The Big Build-Up
Dramatization of the love affair between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
Jan. 20, 1952, midnight
S1E5 - The Story of Roger Williams
In 1631 Roger Williams landed in Boston. He had come to America to find freedom of belief and worship; instead, he found the church here still connected to the church in England and just as oppressive. He refused to join the church in Boston because it still held communion
with the Church of England, from which he had just fled. He thought it his duty to renounce
all connection with any church that would stain its hands in the blood of the Lord's people.
Jan. 27, 1952, midnight
S1E6 - Florence Nightingale
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.
Feb. 3, 1952, midnight
S1E7 - Woman with a Sword
Story of Anna Ella Carroll, prominent member of a Maryland family who served as unofficial but close advisor and special representative to President Lincoln.
Feb. 10, 1952, midnight
S1E8 - The Plot to Kidnap General Washington
Irish-American tailor Hercules Mulligan's contribution to the American Revolution.
Feb. 17, 1952, midnight
S1E9 - Mistress of the White House
The story of Dolley Madison.
Feb. 24, 1952, midnight
S1E10 - Prelude
The meeting of George Sand and Frederic Chopin.
March 2, 1952, midnight
S1E11 - Juliette Low and the Girl Scouts
The founding of the Girl Scouts, presented on the occasion of their 40th anniversary.
March 9, 1952, midnight
S1E12 - Constitution Island
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.
March 16, 1952, midnight
S1E13 - Harriet Quimby
The story of America's first woman aviator.
March 23, 1952, midnight
S1E14 - The Vision of Father Flanagan
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.
March 30, 1952, midnight
S1E15 - Ordeal by White House
Little-known incidents in the life of Grover Cleveland.
April 6, 1952, midnight
S1E16 - Anne Bradstreet, Puritan Poetess
Story of America's first woman author.
April 20, 1952, midnight
S1E17 - Miracle in May
Dr. Edward Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccination.
April 27, 1952, midnight
S1E18 - The Face of Spain
The life of Francisco Goya; set in Spain, 1786.
May 4, 1952, midnight
S1E19 - A Woman for the Ages
The story of Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams.
May 11, 1952, midnight
S1E20 - Reign of Terror
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.
May 18, 1952, midnight
S1E21 - The Magnificent Failure
A biography of Louisa May Alcott, ending with her writing of ""Little Women"" in 1860.
May 25, 1952, midnight
S1E22 - The King's Author
Biography of Ben Jonson, covering the writing of Eastward ho; set in London, 1606.
June 1, 1952, midnight
S1E23 - Nefretiti, Queen of Egypt
Biography of Nefretiti, illustrating her life with the Pharoah and her influence on Egyptian history and culture.
June 8, 1952, midnight
S1E24 - Mr. and Mrs. Freedom
The story of Anna and John Peter Zenger and their fight for freedom of the press.
June 15, 1952, midnight
S1E25 - Forgotten Children
A dramatization honouring American educator Martha Berry, founder of Mt. Berry, a Georgia home for mountain people.
June 22, 1952, midnight
S1E26 - Our Sister Emily
The story of the Bronte sisters.
June 29, 1952, midnight
S1E27 - The Legend of Josiah Blow
An infantryman in the American Revolution lights a firecracker and gets blown into another generation.
July 6, 1952, midnight
S1E28 - The Real Glory
Story of a town in U.S. taken over by corrupt men due to the neglect of the citizenry.
July 13, 1952, midnight
S1E29 - Salvage
An aging man thinks his usefulness to society is at an end.
July 20, 1952, midnight
S1E30 - 21-Plus
Story of the importance of one vote in an election.
July 27, 1952, midnight
S1E31 - The Carlson Legend
A young state senator runs into a moral problem while conducting a cleanup campaign.
Aug. 3, 1952, midnight
S1E32 - The Last Command
Aug. 10, 1952, midnight
S1E33 - I Lift Up My Lamp
A young Czech girl in the U.S. is faced with the choice of returning to her family behind the Iron Curtain or remaining free in the U.S.
Aug. 17, 1952, midnight
S1E34 - Crabapple Saint
Story of Johnny Appleseed, the wanderer who planted trees as he traveled.
Aug. 24, 1952, midnight
S1E35 - Refresher Course
Story of a wealthy middle-aged married couple who retrace their honeymoon, and in so doing, regain their love for each other.
Aug. 31, 1952, midnight
Network: Hallmark Channel
Episode Runtime: 65 min.
Season Runtime: 65 min.
Released: Dec. 24, 1951
Last Air Date: Nov. 27, 2011, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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