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 5 is "Alice in Wonderland", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by George Schaefer and written by N/A. "Alice in Wonderland" aired on 10/23/1955 and is rated NaN point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Devil's Disciple".
Adaptation of the stage version devised by Le Gallienne and Friebus of the children's classic by Lewis Carroll.
Director: George Schaefer
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An Americanization of the play by George Bernard Shaw: Dick Dudgeon is the local scapegrace in the New Hampshire community of Yankees where he lives. Even his own mother becomes fed up with the way he flouts the cardinal rules of good sense, good manners and good religion, and throws him out of the house. Judith, Parson Anderson's pretty wife, also has a low opinion of Dick. But Shaw proves Dick's heart is in the right place for he's kind to a poor, belabored servant girl, and, it being the time of the American Revolution, he shortly becomes a Yankee hero.
Director: George Schaefer
Writer: N/A
Adaptation of the Broadway play by Elmer Rice. A fashionable young woman escapes her dull life and demanding mother by dwelling in a world of outrageous daydreams.
Director: George Schaefer
Writer: N/A
Adaptation of the play by Emlyn Williams. A strong-willed teacher, determined to educate the poor and illiterate youth of an impoverished Welsh village, discovers one student whom she believes to have the seeds of genius.
Director: George Schaefer
Writer: N/A
Theatre usherette Lu thinks of herself as a ""good fairy"" attempting to bring happiness to all she meets.
Director: George Schaefer
Writer: N/A
Adaptation of the Shakespeare play.
Director: George Schaefer
Writer: N/A
In a Spanish monastery, a baby left on the doorstep is raised by the strict head mother and the young nuns. At age 18, she is to be married and will leave the convent.
Director: George Schaefer
Writer: James Costigan