Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
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.
- Kenneth Blackwell
- Tennyson Flowers
- Richard Friedenberg
Stars:
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Episode 1 - Dutch Treat
Release Date: 1952-09-07Traces New York City's crooked Broadway Street back to its origins in 1720, when the street plan was changed to avoid cutting down a cherry tree.
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Episode 2 - Horns of a Dilemma
Release Date: 1952-09-14A girl unearths a paper making her the recipient of an unusual tribute.
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Episode 3 - The Bride's Teapot
Release Date: 1952-09-21In 1874, citizens of Sympathy Ridge, Virginia wish to build a war monument, but the federal government wants them to replace a bridge destroyed in the war.
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Episode 4 - Sometimes She's Sunday
Release Date: 1952-09-28An elder daughter working in the city brings her fiancé back to the country.
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Episode 5 - The Bachelor and the Ballot
Release Date: 1952-10-12A young suffragist tries to gain the support of a lawyer in charge of the polls, while he tries on a bet to romance her.
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Episode 6 - Faith Is a Nine-Letter Word
Release Date: 1952-10-19Distressed by the state of world affairs and fearing her boyfriend will be sent off to war, a young woman refuses to marry until a friend convinces her to have faith in democracy.
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Episode 7 - The Secret Vote
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Episode 8 - The Line of Duty
Release Date: 1952-11-02False arrest of a man in a totalitarian country.
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Episode 9 - Bread of Freedom
Release Date: 1952-11-09The story of Christopher Ludwick, philanthropist and superintendent of bakers in the Continental Army.
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Episode 10 - The Blue and White Lamp
Release Date: 1952-11-16Traces the origins of the Travelers Aid Society to a cholera epidemic in mid-19th century St. Louis.
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Episode 11 - Mrs. Thanksgiving
Release Date: 1952-11-23Story of a woman's fight to make Thanksgiving a national holiday.
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Episode 12 - Ten Thousand Words
Release Date: 1952-11-30Recounts an incident from the life of Nathaniel Currier.
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Episode 13 - Joan of Arc
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Episode 14 - Green Hills of Vermont
Release Date: 1952-12-14Kate Smith narrates a Christmas story about an unwanted donkey.
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Episode 15 - The Small One
Release Date: 1952-12-21A whimsical tale of Norman Rockwell's tribulations upon his move to a small town in Vermont. At the end of the program, Sarah Churchill, on behalf of Hallmark, presents a medallion to Mr. Rockwell.
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Episode 16 - Father Time
Release Date: 1952-12-28The story of blacksmith Daniel Jean Richard, founder of the watch industry in the Neuch|catel district of Switzerland.
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Episode 17 - Home is the Sailor
Release Date: 1953-01-04The story of Fanny Stevenson, wife of Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Episode 18 - Span Through Time
Release Date: 1953-01-11The story of John and Washington Roebling, designers of the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Episode 19 - The General's Bible
Release Date: 1953-01-18A tale concerning the Bible used by General George Washington at his first inauguration in New York City.
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Episode 20 - Socrates' Wife
Release Date: 1953-01-25When Socrates is imprisoned because of his teachings, his wife pleads for his release and helps to plan his escape.
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Episode 21 - To My Valentine
Release Date: 1953-02-01A musical celebration of the traditions of Valentine's Day.
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Episode 22 - Lincoln's Little Correspondent
Release Date: 1953-02-08Adapted from the book by Hertha Pauli. The story surrounding 11-year-old Grace Bedell's letter to Abraham Lincoln suggesting that he grow a beard.
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Episode 23 - Crown of Wings
Release Date: 1953-02-15Incident from the life of General George Washington, in which Phoebe Fraunces, daughter of Fraunces Tavern's proprietor, showed her loyalty to Washington and his cause. Phoebe was in love with a member of Washington's personal staff who was involved in a plot to kill him.
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Episode 24 - Dinner for the General
Release Date: 1953-02-22Mercy Disborough's efforts to end American witchhunts; set in Fairfield County, Connecticut in 1692.
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Episode 25 - The Accused
Release Date: 1953-03-01Mann's work towards education for all regardless of race, creed, or color.
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Episode 26 - Horace Mann's Miracle
Release Date: 1953-03-08The story of poet Thomas Moore (1779-1852).
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Episode 27 - The Harp of Erin
Release Date: 1953-03-15Mathew Brady's Civil War photography.
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Episode 28 - Photograph by Brady
Release Date: 1953-03-22The story of Queen Elizabeth I's ascendance to the throne.
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Episode 29 - A Queen Is Born
Release Date: 1953-03-29The story of Queen Elizabeth I's ascendance to the throne.
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Episode 30 - The Other Wise Man
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Episode 31 - Skipper of the Skies
Release Date: 1953-04-12The story of Samuel Morse and the use of the telegraph.
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Episode 32 - The World on a Wire
Release Date: 1953-04-19The story of Samuel Morse and the use of the telegraph.
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Episode 33 - Hamlet
Release Date: 1953-04-26The story of poet and minister John Donne, and his relationship with his wife and her father, Sir George Moore.
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Episode 34 - No Man Is an Island
Release Date: 1953-05-03Story of Frederick Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty, from the time the sculptor received the commission in 1774 until Pulitzer provided funding for the base ten years later.
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Episode 35 - The Lady of Liberty
Release Date: 1953-05-10Life of General Robert E. Lee after the Civil War.
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Episode 36 - Soldier of Peace
Release Date: 1953-05-17Sarah Bernhardt gives up her love to continue her acting career.
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Episode 37 - Proudly I Love
Release Date: 1953-05-24Sarah Bernhardt gives up her love to continue her acting career.
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Episode 38 - Spark of Genius
Release Date: 1953-05-31Story of Josiah Wedgwood.
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Episode 39 - The Clay of Kings
Release Date: 1953-06-07The story of Boston dentist William Thomas Green Morton, who developed the use of ether as an anesthetic.
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Episode 40 - Scott's Castle
Release Date: 1953-06-14The life of Sir Walter Scott, including family, literary career, bankruptcy, and the death of his wife.
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Episode 41 - Man Against Pain
Release Date: 1953-06-21The story of Boston dentist William Thomas Green Morton, who developed the use of ether as an anesthetic.
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Episode 42 - The Mercer Girls
Release Date: 1953-06-28An incident in the life of naturalist artist John James Audubon; set in New Orleans in 1824.