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.
The best episode of "Hallmark Hall of Fame" season 24 is "Brief Encounter", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by Alan Bridges and written by N/A. "Brief Encounter" aired on 11/12/1974 and is rated NaN point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Gathering Storm".
A middle-aged man and a married woman meet by chance and have a brief affair.
Director: Alan Bridges
Writer: N/A
Based on Winston Churchill's memoirs, this historical drama documents the British leader's efforts to oppose the rising forces of Nazi Germany.
Director: Herbert Wise
Writer: N/A
Dramatization of an English veterinarian's autobiography; set in Yorkshire in the 1930s.
Director: Claude Whatham
Writer: Hugh Whitemore