Hallmark Hall of Fame
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.
- Created By
- First Aired on
Dec 24, 1951
- Popularity: 6.1947
- 6 votes
- Networks
- (US)
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- Status: Returning Series
In Production
61 seaons till Nov 27, 2011
Last episode: Have a Little Faith
Seasons & episodes
Total 61 seasons, 364 episodes
Season 1
Aired
Episode 1Amahl and the Night Visitors120 min
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 2Doctor Serocold120 min
A Hollywood press agent is assigned to promote a starlet with whom he was once in love.
Episode 3Love Story120 min
Adaptation of the novel by Helen Ashton.
Episode 4The Big Build-Up120 min
Dramatization of the love affair between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
Episode 5The Story of Roger Williams120 min
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.
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