The Best Episodes of Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 4
Every episode of Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Hallmark Hall of Fame Season 4!
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.
Season 4 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Hallmark Hall of Fame" season 4 is "Dynamite", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Dynamite" aired on 9/5/1954 and is rated NaN point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Do Not Cry For Me".
NaN/10 0 votes#1 - Dynamite
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/5/1954
The Swedish-American inventor of dynamite, established before his death the Nobel Prize to be awarded annually for the best work in the field of physics, medicine and chemistry.
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#2 - Do Not Cry For Me
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/1954
Tells the story of the early life of the American composer Stephen Foster. Relates the difficulties Foster encountered when he tried to have his first song performed.
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#3 - A Man of Many Ideas
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/1954
The story of John Nelson Wanamaker the 35th United States Postmaster General who was known for buying an abandoned railroad depot and converting it into a department story called "The Grand Depot" which was considered the first department store in Philadelphia.
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#4 - The Reluctant Redeemer
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 9/26/1954
The story tells of Moses' upbringing by an Egyptian pharaoh, his killing of a cruel overseer and the flight to Media where he marries. When the voice of God comes from the burning bush he returns to Egypt to free his people. Natalie Wood will be featured as the beloved ot Moses when he was a young man.
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#5 - The Story of Johann Sebastian Bach
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/1954
From court appointed organist to his triumphant position as Kantor at the Thomasschule his story unfolds as his music was given to the world almost a century after he died after being rediscovered by Felix Mendelssohn.
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#6 - The Immortal Oath
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/1954
The tale of Hippocrates, the father of medicine is dramatized.
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#7 - The Yankee Roadblocks
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 10/17/1954
An all-male cast set in the Revolutionary War days, the story tells how a hero exposed the plot of Benedict Arnold and save General Washington from being captured by the British.
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#8 - The Lady in the Wings
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 10/24/1954
The widow of the great composer, Edward MacDowell, remembering her happy past, wishes to create a place where artists from all quarters can work in solitude.
Director: Albert McCleery
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#9 - The Path to Peace
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 10/31/1954
Horace Greeley's fight for peace is dramatized.
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#10 - A Matter of Principal
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/14/1954
An incident in the life of John Adams, second President of the United States and his defense of an English Officer who was charged with the deaths of five American patriots in Boston.
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#11 - President for a Day
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 11/21/1954
The story of the man who was President of the United States for one day is told. David Rice Atchison as President of the Senate automatically became President for 24 hours when Zachary Taylor refused to be inaugurated on a Sunday.
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#12 - Macbeth
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/1954
A dramatization of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Director: George Schaefer
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#13 - Deadlock
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/5/1954
The story of the Burr–Hamilton duel arose from a long-standing political and personal rivalry that had developed between both men over a course of several years.
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#14 - The Province of Man
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 12/12/1954
The story of how William Harvey used King John of England as a guinea pig to test his theory of the circulatory system.
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#15 - Amahl and the Night Visitors
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 12/19/1954
The tale of a poor boy and his mother who journey to visit Christ's birth in Bethlehem.
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#16 - The Joyful Tydings
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 12/26/1954
The story of the stormy controversy during the reign of Henry the Eighth is dramatized.
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#17 - William Tell
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 1/2/1955
The story of the legendary Swiss marksman William Tell is dramatized.
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#18 - The First Mintmaster
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 1/9/1955
Story of John Hull, first mintmaster of Massachusetts Bay Colony, who was appointed to the post in 1650 as the culmination of his efforts to abolish barter and foreign coinage in favor of a stabilized currency.
Director: Albert McCleery
Writer: Meyer Dolinsky
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#19 - Crusade for Freedom
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 1/16/1955
In the name of his brother, the editor of a Boston newspaper, Benjamin Franklin launches a crusade against Cotton Mather.
Director: Albert McCleery
Writer: Peter Kortner
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#20 - Dr. Harvey W. Wiley
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 1/23/1955
Struggle of chemist Wiley to expose frauds in food and drug trade and in patent medicine. His efforts to prove the harmful effects of adulterated and falsely labeled food ultimately led to passage of the Food and Drug Act.
Director: Albert McCleery
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#21 - A Story About Henry Ford
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 1/30/1955
Ford, unhappy with farm life, moves to Detroit where he begins to experiment with the gas engine, certain that it could be made to propel a vehicle.
Director: Albert McCleery
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#22 - Patrick Henry
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 2/6/1955
Silver-tongued Patrick Henry studied law for only six weeks, but so impressed the board that they passed him. He was a successful Southern backwoods lawyer and reluctant to enter the Virginia House of Burgesses until the British introduced the Stamp Act.
Director: Albert McCleery
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#23 - The Shining Beacon
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 2/13/1955
Tale of Alcuin, the great educator who taught Charlemagne to read and write.
Director: Albert McCleery
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#24 - Martha Custis Washington
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 2/20/1955
The courtship of George Washington and Martha Custis, a widowed mother of two.
Director: Albert McCleery
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#25 - The Talking Wire
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 2/27/1955
The story of Alexander Graham Bell and experiments that led to the electric hearing aid, and then the telephone.
Director: Albert McCleery
Writer: George Bruce