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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.
- Kenneth Blackwell
- Tennyson Flowers
- Richard Friedenberg
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Episode 1 - Shangri-La
Release Date: 1960-10-24A musical adaptation of James Hilton's novel ""Lost Horizon,"" in which a plane crash in the Himalayas leads a group of survivors to the hidden society of Shangri-La and its closely guarded secret of longevity.
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Episode 2 - Macbeth
Release Date: 1960-11-20Adaptation of the stage tragedy by William Shakespeare.
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Episode 3 - Golden Child
Release Date: 1960-12-16An original comic opera for Christmas. Libretto by Paul Engle; music by Philip Bezanson.
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Episode 4 - Time Remembered
Release Date: 1961-02-07Adaptation of the stage play by Anouilh: A flighty duchess plays matchmaker in the drawing rooms of the aristocracy.
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Episode 5 - Give Us Barabbas!
Release Date: 1961-03-24An Easter biblical production of the story of the Crucifixion.
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Episode 6 - The Joke and the Valley
Release Date: 1961-05-05""Premiere performance of a winner in the Hallmark teleplay writing competition, selected from over 1500 entries from 19 countries."" A drifter who discovers the body of a murder victim in an isolated farm community is appalled by the town's casual acceptance of the crime.