Hallmark Hall of Fame

Season 3 (34 Episodes)

61 Seasons 1953 NR 8.2

Probably the longest-running anthology series on television, the "Hallmark Hall of Fame" has been presenting television dramatizations of famous plays and books, as well as original programs especially written for the series, since 1951.

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Season 3 Episodes:

Episode 2 Doctor Serocold

2. Doctor Serocold

Aired: Oct 4, 1953

Adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's "Of Time and the River", the deathbed scene.

Episode 3 Love Story

3. Love Story

Aired: Oct 11, 1953

This is the biographical drama of Catherine Parr, one of the wives of Henry V...

Episode 4 The Big Build Up

4. The Big Build Up

Aired: Oct 18, 1953

A Hollywood press agent is assigned to promote a starlet with whom he was onc...

Episode 6 Florence Nightingale

6. Florence Nightingale

Aired: Nov 1, 1953

Biography of Florence Nightingale: her determination to build hospitals and t...

Episode 7 Woman with a Sword

7. Woman with a Sword

Aired: Nov 8, 1953

Based on the true story of Anna Ella Carroll, a Maryland native, who freed he...

Episode 10 Prelude

10. Prelude

Aired: Nov 29, 1953

The story of Benjamin Franklin's famous trip to Paris during the Revolutionar...

Episode 12 Constitution Island

12. Constitution Island

Aired: Dec 20, 1953

Amahl, a crippled boy, and his poor mother are visited by the Three Wise Men,...

Episode 13 Harriet Quimby

13. Harriet Quimby

Aired: Dec 27, 1953

About the mid-seventeenth century John Milton used his fiery pen to espouse t...

Episode 17 Miracle in May

17. Miracle in May

Aired: Jan 24, 1954

The story of the King who believed he ruled by divine right and was completel...

Episode 18 The Face of Spain

18. The Face of Spain

Aired: Jan 31, 1954

Houston goes to Mexican Territory at the suggestion of his friend, President ...

Episode 19 A Woman for the Ages

19. A Woman for the Ages

Aired: Feb 7, 1954

Clara Weick's father strongly objected to her marrying a penniless young comp...

Episode 20 Reign of Terror

20. Reign of Terror

Aired: Feb 14, 1954

The true story of Henry Bergh and his fight against cruelty to children and a...

Episode 24 Mr. and Mrs. Freedom

24. Mr. and Mrs. Freedom

Aired: Mar 14, 1954

Christian Patricius escapes from pagen Eire and returns in story of St. Patrick.

Episode 25 Forgotten Children

25. Forgotten Children

Aired: Mar 21, 1954

The story of Martha Berry, who brought education to the impoverished children...

Episode 26 Our Sister Emily

26. Our Sister Emily

Aired: Mar 28, 1954

A period of history when Jefferson's enemies branded him as a traitor, spy an...

Episode 28 The Real Glory

28. The Real Glory

Aired: Apr 11, 1954

The story of Simon Bolivar who freed Venezuela from the tyranny of Spain.

Episode 29 Salvage

29. Salvage

Aired: Apr 18, 1954

Ruth a childless widow and foreigner was helped by an older woman Naomi to ov...

Episode 32 The Last Command

32. The Last Command

Aired: May 9, 1954

The drama describes the struggle of the famed artist to gain recognition and ...

Episode 33 I Lift Up My Lamp

33. I Lift Up My Lamp

Aired: May 16, 1954

A young Czech girl in the U.S. is faced with the choice of returning to her f...

Episode 34 Crabapple Saint

34. Crabapple Saint

Aired: May 23, 1954

The story of the Catholic missionary Father Junipera Serra, who founded over ...


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Network: ABC

Genres: Comedy, Drama