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.
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Episode 1
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.
Episode 2
A Hollywood press agent is assigned to promote a starlet with whom he was once in love.
Episode 3
Adaptation of the novel by Helen Ashton.
Episode 4
Dramatization of the love affair between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
Episode 5
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.
Episode 6
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.
Episode 7
Story of Anna Ella Carroll, prominent member of a Maryland family who served as unofficial but close advisor and special representative to President Lincoln.
Episode 8
Irish-American tailor Hercules Mulligan's contribution to the American Revolution.
Episode 9
The story of Dolley Madison.
Episode 10
The meeting of George Sand and Frederic Chopin.
Episode 11
The founding of the Girl Scouts, presented on the occasion of their 40th anniversary.
Episode 12
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.
Episode 13
The story of America's first woman aviator.
Episode 14
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.
Episode 15
Little-known incidents in the life of Grover Cleveland.
Episode 16
Story of America's first woman author.
Episode 17
Dr. Edward Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccination.
Episode 18
The life of Francisco Goya; set in Spain, 1786.
Episode 19
The story of Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams.
Episode 20
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.
Episode 21
A biography of Louisa May Alcott, ending with her writing of ""Little Women"" in 1860.
Episode 22
Biography of Ben Jonson, covering the writing of Eastward ho; set in London, 1606.
Episode 23
Biography of Nefretiti, illustrating her life with the Pharoah and her influence on Egyptian history and culture.
Episode 24
The story of Anna and John Peter Zenger and their fight for freedom of the press.
Episode 25
A dramatization honouring American educator Martha Berry, founder of Mt. Berry, a Georgia home for mountain people.
Episode 26
The story of the Bronte sisters.
Episode 27
An infantryman in the American Revolution lights a firecracker and gets blown into another generation.
Episode 28
Story of a town in U.S. taken over by corrupt men due to the neglect of the citizenry.
Episode 29
An aging man thinks his usefulness to society is at an end.
Episode 30
Story of the importance of one vote in an election.
Episode 31
A young state senator runs into a moral problem while conducting a cleanup campaign.
Episode 32
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Episode 33
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.
Episode 34
Story of Johnny Appleseed, the wanderer who planted trees as he traveled.
Episode 35
Story of a wealthy middle-aged married couple who retrace their honeymoon, and in so doing, regain their love for each other.
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