The story of Alexander Graham Bell and experiments that led to the electric hearing aid, and then the telephone.

The Talking Wire

Albert McCleery

George Bruce

The Adventures of Lt. Contee

Martha Custis Washington

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.

Dynamite

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.

Do Not Cry For Me

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.

A Man of Many Ideas

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.

The Reluctant Redeemer

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.

The Story of Johann Sebastian Bach

The tale of Hippocrates, the father of medicine is dramatized.

The Immortal Oath

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.

The Yankee Roadblocks

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.

The Lady in the Wings

Horace Greeley's fight for peace is dramatized.

The Path to Peace

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.

A Matter of Principal

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.

President for a Day

A dramatization of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Macbeth

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.

Deadlock

The story of how William Harvey used King John of England as a guinea pig to test his theory of the circulatory system.

The Province of Man

The tale of a poor boy and his mother who journey to visit Christ's birth in Bethlehem.

Amahl and the Night Visitors

The story of the stormy controversy during the reign of Henry the Eighth is dramatized.

The Joyful Tydings

The story of the legendary Swiss marksman William Tell is dramatized.

William Tell

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.

The First Mintmaster

In the name of his brother, the editor of a Boston newspaper, Benjamin Franklin launches a crusade against Cotton Mather.

Crusade for Freedom

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.

Dr. Harvey W. Wiley

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.

A Story About Henry Ford

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.

Patrick Henry

Tale of Alcuin, the great educator who taught Charlemagne to read and write.

The Shining Beacon

The courtship of George Washington and Martha Custis, a widowed mother of two.

Tribute to one of Commodore Perry's officers, whose personal efforts helped open Japan to foreign trade.

Adventures of pirate Jean Laffite and lawyer Edward Livingston.

The Pirate and the Lawyer

Story of the love between Knox Taylor (daughter of Colonel Zachary Taylor) and Jefferson Davis.

Soldier's Bride

The story of Lord Byron's efforts to liberate Greece.

The Finest Gift

The story of Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain boys.

The Green Mountain Boys

Story of the pagan Greek Lydia, who lived in ancient Rome and saved the life of the Apostle Paul.

Lydia

Story from 1910 of Dr. James Ewing, who fought to break down the barriers erected against the investigation and treatment of cancer, and who almost single-handedly founded the Memorial Cancer Center in New York City.

The Man Who Tore Down the Wall

Story of Aimée de Rivery, who brought reforms to Turkey.

Aimee de Rivery

The story of young army officer and law student Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 60th justice of the United States Supreme Court.

The Touch of Steel

Cradle Song

A dramatization of the legend of Damon and Pythias.

The Promise

Story of George Eastman, and his development of the first camera to use film.

The Man With a Camera

Tribute to Rotary International in commemoration of its golden anniversary. Includes speech by then Rotary president Herbert J. Taylor.

The Story of Paul Harris and the Founding of Rotary International

The story of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Von Steuben, founder of the American military system, who trained troops in the American Revolution.

The Tempering of the Sword

Recounts a "little-known incident" in the life of Edgar Allan Poe.

Cadet Poe

The inspiring story of Milton S. Hershey, who worked so hard to bring happiness to thousands of orphans.

The Father Who Had No Sons

The story of Thomas Jefferson's return to politics in 1773.

The Farmer From Monticello

Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.

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