8.7/1090 votes#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
- NaN/100 votes
#2 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#3 - Love Story
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/13/1952
Adaptation of the novel by Helen Ashton.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#4 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#5 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#6 - 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
- 5.4/109 votes
#7 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#8 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#9 - Mistress of the White House
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/24/1952
The story of Dolley Madison.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#10 - Prelude
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/2/1952
The meeting of George Sand and Frederic Chopin.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#11 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#12 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#13 - Harriet Quimby
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 3/23/1952
The story of America's first woman aviator.
Director: N/A
Writer: Nelson Gidding
- NaN/100 votes
#14 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#15 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#16 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#17 - Miracle in May
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/27/1952
Dr. Edward Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccination.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#18 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#19 - A Woman for the Ages
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/11/1952
The story of Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#20 - Reign of Terror
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/18/1952
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#21 - The Magnificent Failure
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/25/1952
A biography of Louisa May Alcott, ending with her writing of ""Little Women"" in 1860.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#22 - The King's Author
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 6/1/1952
Biography of Ben Jonson, covering the writing of Eastward ho; set in London, 1606.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#23 - Nefretiti, Queen of Egypt
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 6/8/1952
Biography of Nefretiti, illustrating her life with the Pharoah and her influence on Egyptian history and culture.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#24 - Mr. and Mrs. Freedom
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 6/15/1952
The story of Anna and John Peter Zenger and their fight for freedom of the press.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1031 votes
#25 - 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
The Best Episodes of Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 1
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Amahl and the Night Visitors" is the best rated episode of "Hallmark Hall of Fame" season 1. 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 is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Doctor Serocold".