Maurice Evans
Hallmark Hall Of Fame (1951)
Season 4
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
S4E1 - Dynamite
The Swedish-American inventor of dynamite, established before his death the Nobel Prize to be awarded annually for the best work in the field of physics, medicine and chemistry.
Sept. 5, 1954, midnight
S4E2 - Do Not Cry For Me
Tells the story of the early life of the American composer Stephen Foster. Relates the difficulties Foster encountered when he tried to have his first song performed.
Sept. 12, 1954, midnight
S4E3 - A Man of Many Ideas
The story of John Nelson Wanamaker the 35th United States Postmaster General who was known for buying an abandoned railroad depot and converting it into a department story called "The Grand Depot" which was considered the first department store in Philadelphia.
Sept. 19, 1954, midnight
S4E4 - The Reluctant Redeemer
The story tells of Moses' upbringing by an Egyptian pharaoh, his killing of a cruel overseer and the flight to Media where he marries. When the voice of God comes from the burning bush he returns to Egypt to free his people. Natalie Wood will be featured as the beloved ot Moses when he was a young man.
Sept. 26, 1954, midnight
S4E5 - The Story of Johann Sebastian Bach
From court appointed organist to his triumphant position as Kantor at the Thomasschule his story unfolds as his music was given to the world almost a century after he died after being rediscovered by Felix Mendelssohn.
Oct. 3, 1954, midnight
S4E6 - The Immortal Oath
The tale of Hippocrates, the father of medicine is dramatized.
Oct. 10, 1954, midnight
S4E7 - The Yankee Roadblocks
An all-male cast set in the Revolutionary War days, the story tells how a hero exposed the plot of Benedict Arnold and save General Washington from being captured by the British.
Oct. 17, 1954, midnight
S4E8 - The Lady in the Wings
The widow of the great composer, Edward MacDowell, remembering her happy past, wishes to create a place where artists from all quarters can work in solitude.
Oct. 24, 1954, midnight
S4E9 - The Path to Peace
Horace Greeley's fight for peace is dramatized.
Oct. 31, 1954, midnight
S4E10 - A Matter of Principal
An incident in the life of John Adams, second President of the United States and his defense of an English Officer who was charged with the deaths of five American patriots in Boston.
Nov. 14, 1954, midnight
S4E11 - President for a Day
The story of the man who was President of the United States for one day is told. David Rice Atchison as President of the Senate automatically became President for 24 hours when Zachary Taylor refused to be inaugurated on a Sunday.
Nov. 21, 1954, midnight
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S4E12 - Macbeth
A dramatization of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Nov. 28, 1954, midnight
S4E13 - Deadlock
The story of the Burr–Hamilton duel arose from a long-standing political and personal rivalry that had developed between both men over a course of several years.
Dec. 5, 1954, midnight
S4E14 - The Province of Man
The story of how William Harvey used King John of England as a guinea pig to test his theory of the circulatory system.
Dec. 12, 1954, midnight
S4E15 - Amahl and the Night Visitors
The tale of a poor boy and his mother who journey to visit Christ's birth in Bethlehem.
Dec. 19, 1954, midnight
S4E16 - The Joyful Tydings
The story of the stormy controversy during the reign of Henry the Eighth is dramatized.
Dec. 26, 1954, midnight
S4E17 - William Tell
The story of the legendary Swiss marksman William Tell is dramatized.
Jan. 2, 1955, midnight
S4E18 - The First Mintmaster
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.
Jan. 9, 1955, midnight
S4E19 - Crusade for Freedom
In the name of his brother, the editor of a Boston newspaper, Benjamin Franklin launches a crusade against Cotton Mather.
Jan. 16, 1955, midnight
S4E20 - Dr. Harvey W. Wiley
Struggle of chemist Wiley to expose frauds in food and drug trade and in patent medicine. His efforts to prove the harmful effects of adulterated and falsely labeled food ultimately led to passage of the Food and Drug Act.
Jan. 23, 1955, midnight
S4E21 - A Story About Henry Ford
Ford, unhappy with farm life, moves to Detroit where he begins to experiment with the gas engine, certain that it could be made to propel a vehicle.
Jan. 30, 1955, midnight
S4E22 - Patrick Henry
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.
Feb. 6, 1955, midnight
S4E23 - The Shining Beacon
Tale of Alcuin, the great educator who taught Charlemagne to read and write.
Feb. 13, 1955, midnight
S4E24 - Martha Custis Washington
The courtship of George Washington and Martha Custis, a widowed mother of two.
Feb. 20, 1955, midnight
S4E25 - The Talking Wire
The story of Alexander Graham Bell and experiments that led to the electric hearing aid, and then the telephone.
Feb. 27, 1955, midnight
S4E26 - The Adventures of Lt. Contee
Tribute to one of Commodore Perry's officers, whose personal efforts helped open Japan to foreign trade.
March 6, 1955, midnight
S4E27 - The Pirate and the Lawyer
Adventures of pirate Jean Laffite and lawyer Edward Livingston.
March 13, 1955, midnight
S4E28 - Soldier's Bride
Story of the love between Knox Taylor (daughter of Colonel Zachary Taylor) and Jefferson Davis.
March 20, 1955, midnight
S4E29 - The Finest Gift
The story of Lord Byron's efforts to liberate Greece.
March 27, 1955, midnight
S4E30 - The Green Mountain Boys
The story of Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain boys.
April 3, 1955, midnight
S4E31 - Lydia
Story of the pagan Greek Lydia, who lived in ancient Rome and saved the life of the Apostle Paul.
April 10, 1955, midnight
S4E32 - The Man Who Tore Down the Wall
Story from 1910 of Dr. James Ewing, who fought to break down the barriers erected against the investigation and treatment of cancer, and who almost single-handedly founded the Memorial Cancer Center in New York City.
April 17, 1955, midnight
S4E33 - Aimee de Rivery
Story of Aimée de Rivery, who brought reforms to Turkey.
April 25, 1954, midnight
S4E34 - The Touch of Steel
The story of young army officer and law student Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 60th justice of the United States Supreme Court.
May 1, 1955, midnight
S4E35 - Cradle Song
Story of Ernestine Schumann-Heink.
May 8, 1955, midnight
S4E36 - The Promise
A dramatization of the legend of Damon and Pythias.
May 15, 1955, midnight
S4E37 - The Man With a Camera
Story of George Eastman, and his development of the first camera to use film.
May 22, 1955, midnight
S4E38 - The Story of Paul Harris and the Founding of Rotary International
Tribute to Rotary International in commemoration of its golden anniversary. Includes speech by then Rotary president Herbert J. Taylor.
May 29, 1955, midnight
S4E39 - The Tempering of the Sword
The story of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Von Steuben, founder of the American military system, who trained troops in the American Revolution.
June 5, 1955, midnight
S4E40 - Cadet Poe
Recounts a "little-known incident" in the life of Edgar Allan Poe.
June 12, 1955, midnight
S4E41 - The Father Who Had No Sons
The inspiring story of Milton S. Hershey, who worked so hard to bring happiness to thousands of orphans.
June 19, 1955, midnight
S4E42 - The Farmer From Monticello
The story of Thomas Jefferson's return to politics in 1773.
June 26, 1955, 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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