The Best Episodes of Hallmark Hall of Fame

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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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.

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Writer: Ernest Kinoy

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

A dramatization of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Director: George Schaefer

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

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Adaptation of the novel by Helen Ashton.

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

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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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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.

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

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The story of Dolley Madison.

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The meeting of George Sand and Frederic Chopin.

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The founding of the Girl Scouts, presented on the occasion of their 40th anniversary.

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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.

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The story of America's first woman aviator.

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Writer: Nelson Gidding

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.

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Little-known incidents in the life of Grover Cleveland.

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Story of America's first woman author.

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Dr. Edward Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccination.

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The life of Francisco Goya; set in Spain, 1786.

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