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#1 - Amahl and the Night Visitors
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/24/1951
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: N/A
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#2 - Beauty and the Beast
Season 26 Episode 2 - Aired 12/3/1976
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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#3 - Forgotten Children
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 6/22/1952
A dramatization honouring American educator Martha Berry, founder of Mt. Berry, a Georgia home for mountain people.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#4 - The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
Season 27 Episode 2 - Aired 12/1/1977
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: N/A
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#5 - Journey
Season 45 Episode 1 - Aired 12/10/1995
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: N/A
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#6 - Woman with a Sword
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/10/1952
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#7 - Pinocchio
Season 18 Episode 2 - Aired 12/8/1968
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: N/A
Writer: Ernest Kinoy
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#8 - Grace & Glorie
Season 48 Episode 2 - Aired 12/13/1998
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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#9 - Macbeth
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/1954
A dramatization of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Director: George Schaefer
Writer: N/A
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#10 - Doctor Serocold
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/6/1952
A Hollywood press agent is assigned to promote a starlet with whom he was once in love.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#11 - Love Story
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/13/1952
Adaptation of the novel by Helen Ashton.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#12 - The Big Build-Up
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/20/1952
Dramatization of the love affair between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#13 - The Story of Roger Williams
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/27/1952
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#14 - Florence Nightingale
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/3/1952
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#15 - The Plot to Kidnap General Washington
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/17/1952
Irish-American tailor Hercules Mulligan's contribution to the American Revolution.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#16 - Mistress of the White House
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/24/1952
The story of Dolley Madison.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#17 - Prelude
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/2/1952
The meeting of George Sand and Frederic Chopin.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#18 - Juliette Low and the Girl Scouts
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/9/1952
The founding of the Girl Scouts, presented on the occasion of their 40th anniversary.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#19 - Constitution Island
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/16/1952
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#20 - Harriet Quimby
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 3/23/1952
The story of America's first woman aviator.
Director: N/A
Writer: Nelson Gidding
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#21 - The Vision of Father Flanagan
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 3/30/1952
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#22 - Ordeal by White House
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/6/1952
Little-known incidents in the life of Grover Cleveland.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#23 - Anne Bradstreet, Puritan Poetess
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 4/20/1952
Story of America's first woman author.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#24 - Miracle in May
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/27/1952
Dr. Edward Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccination.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#25 - The Face of Spain
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/4/1952
The life of Francisco Goya; set in Spain, 1786.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Hallmark Hall of Fame
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Top Episode Ratings Summary
"Amahl and the Night Visitors" is the best rated episode of "Hallmark Hall of Fame". It scored 8.7/10 based on 90 votes. Directed by Kirk Browning and written by N/A, it aired on 12/24/1951. This episode scored 0.7 points higher than the second highest rated, "Beauty and the Beast".