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 - The Green Pastures
Release Date: 1957-10-17African-American tales of spirituality and oral black storytelling through a collection of vignettes on various Biblical stories and figures.
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Episode 2 - On Borrowed Time
Release Date: 1957-11-17Suggested by Roark Bradford's ""Ol' Man Adam an' his chillun,"" based on the novel of the same name by Lawrence Edward Watkin.
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Episode 3 - Twelfth Night
Release Date: 1957-12-15A shipwreck separates Viola from her twin brother Sebastian. Disguised as a boy, Viola becomes a page to Duke Orsino. Orsino is sighing over his unrequited love for the fair Olivia; but Olivia becomes infatuated with Viola, believing her a boy.
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Episode 4 - Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
Release Date: 1958-02-09The children's story of the boy who wants to win a skating cotest in order to pay for an operation for his blind father.
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Episode 5 - Little Moon of Alban
Release Date: 1958-03-24t is 1919 in Ireland. Brigid Mary and her mother fiercely oppose her fiance's rebel activities, for Brigid Mary's father and brother both died at the hands of the British, and the two women want no more grief. But before long, in her desperation, Brigid Mary is drawn into a religious order.
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Episode 6 - Dial M for Murder
Release Date: 1958-04-25A woman who slowly comes to realize that her husband is trying to murder her for her money.