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The Best Episodes of Hallmark Hall of Fame

Every episode of Hallmark Hall of Fame ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Hallmark Hall of Fame!

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Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 1 Episode 2 - Doctor Serocold
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    S1:E2

    A Hollywood press agent is assigned to promote a starlet with whom he was once in love.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 14 Episode 4 - The Magnificent Yankee
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    S14:E4

    The Magnificent Yankee is a 1965 biographical film in the Hallmark Hall of Fame television anthology series. The film was adapted by Robert Hartung from the Emmet Lavery play of the same title, which was in-turn adapted from the book Mr. Justice Holmes by Francis Biddle. The story examines the life of United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne won Emmy Awards for their performances. Noel Taylor received an Emmy Award nomination for his costume design, and Warren Clymer received an Emmy for scenic design.

    Director:George Schaefer
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 20 Episode 2 - The Price
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    S20:E2

    Two brothers, Victor and Walter, one was a doctor, one was a policeman, and they confront one another about the choices they made that have brought them to where they are. Men in middle age taking stock and facing life-long illusions, they speak intensely and finally, with honesty, about their motivations.

    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 27 Episode 1 - The Last Hurrah
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    S27:E1

    The Last Hurrah is a 1977 TV film from the Hallmark Hall of Fame, based on the novel The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor. It was directed by Vincent Sherman. The novel was previously adapted for a 1958 film of the same name, starring Spencer Tracy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 1 Episode 1 - Amahl and the Night Visitors
    8.7/10(89 votes)

    S1:E1

    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.

    Director:Kirk Browning
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 26 Episode 2 - Beauty and the Beast
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S26:E2

    A beautiful girl agrees to marry a hideous, deformed beast and live in his castle in order to save her father's life.

    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Sherman Yellen

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  7. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 27 Episode 2 - The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    S27:E2

    An suggestive take on the battle of Little Big Horn and General George Armstrong Custer's part in it, this is a combination of the known facts of the battle with fiction as to what if General Custer had survived the massacre.

    Director:Glenn Jordan
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 53 Episode 2 - The Blackwater Lightship
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S53:E2

    The Blackwater Lightship is a 2004 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie adaptation of the novel The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín. It aired on CBS on February 4, 2004. The movie stars Angela Lansbury, Gina McKee, Sam Robards, Dianne Weist, and Keith McErlean. Lansbury received an Emmy nomination for it in 2004.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 1 Episode 25 - Forgotten Children
    7.6/10(33 votes)

    S1:E25

    A dramatization honouring American educator Martha Berry, founder of Mt. Berry, a Georgia home for mountain people.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 18 Episode 2 - Pinocchio
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    S18:E2

    Pinocchio is a 90-minute musical adaptation of Carlo Collodi's classic story. It aired on NBC on December 8, 1968 as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame series. Peter Noone, lead singer of Herman's Hermits, played Pinocchio and Burl Ives was cast as Mister Geppetto. Walter Marks wrote the songs, and the script was adapted by Ernest Kinoy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ernest Kinoy

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  11. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 22 Episode 1 - The Hands of Cormac Joyce
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    S22:E1

    The Hands of Cormac Joyce is a 1972 telemovie.

    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 45 Episode 1 - Journey
    7.3/10(4 votes)

    S45:E1

    Journey is a 1995 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie that aired on CBS on December 10, 1995. The film starred Jason Robards, Brenda Fricker, and Meg Tilly.

    Director:Tom McLoughlin
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 58 Episode 3 - The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S58:E3

    The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler is a 2009 television film directed by John Kent Harrison. The film is a co-production between United States and Poland companies. The teleplay by Harrison and Lawrence John Spagnola, based on the 2005 biography The Mother of the Holocaust Children by Anna Mieszkowska, focuses on Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children to safety during World War II. The Hallmark Hall of Fame production, which was filmed on location in Riga, Latvia, was broadcast by CBS on April 19, 2009, and released to DVD in Hallmark Gold Crown stores in early June of that year.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 40 Episode 1 - Decoration Day
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S40:E1

    Decoration Day is a 1990 film based on a novel by John William Corrington of the same title. The award-winning made-for-TV movie was directed by Robert Markowitz and filmed on location in Georgia.

    Director:Robert Markowitz
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 46 Episode 2 - The Summer of Ben Tyler
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S46:E2

    The Summer of Ben Tyler is a 1996 television film directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman.

    Director:Arthur Allan Seidelman
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 56 Episode 1 - Candles on Bay Street
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    S56:E1

    Candles on Bay Street is a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie starring Alicia Silverstone as a single mother who returns to her hometown after a lengthy absence.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 1 Episode 7 - Woman with a Sword
    5.4/10(9 votes)

    S1:E7

    Story of Anna Ella Carroll, prominent member of a Maryland family who served as unofficial but close advisor and special representative to President Lincoln.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 48 Episode 2 - Grace & Glorie
    5.3/10(3 votes)

    S48:E2

    Adaptation of the stage play by Tom Ziegler. Down-to-earth widow Grace reluctantly agrees to share her country home with a hospice caregiver, a sophisticated ex-New Yorker whom Grace calls Glorie. Initially the relationship between the two women is strained, but as the drama unfolds, Grace and Glorie share reminiscences and regrets that bond them into a friendship based on mutual comforting and respect.

    Director:Arthur Allan Seidelman
    Writer:Grace McKeaney

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  19. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 4 Episode 12 - Macbeth
    3.0/10(1 votes)

    S4:E12

    A dramatization of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

    Director:George Schaefer
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 1 Episode 3 - Love Story
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E3

    Adaptation of the novel by Helen Ashton.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 1 Episode 4 - The Big Build-Up
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E4

    Dramatization of the love affair between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 1 Episode 5 - The Story of Roger Williams
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E5

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 1 Episode 6 - Florence Nightingale
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E6

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 1 Episode 8 - The Plot to Kidnap General Washington
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E8

    Irish-American tailor Hercules Mulligan's contribution to the American Revolution.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 1 Episode 9 - Mistress of the White House
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E9

    The story of Dolley Madison.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Doctor Serocold" is the best rated episode of "Hallmark Hall of Fame". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/6/1952. This episode scored 1.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Magnificent Yankee".