42 episodes

Hallmark Hall of Fame - Season 4

First aired Sep 5, 1954Season 4

Browse all 42 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Dynamite

NR
Sep 5, 1954120 min

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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Episode 2

Do Not Cry For Me

NR
Sep 12, 1954120 min

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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Episode 3

A Man of Many Ideas

NR
Sep 19, 1954120 min

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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Episode 4

The Reluctant Redeemer

NR
Sep 26, 1954120 min

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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Episode 5

The Story of Johann Sebastian Bach

NR
Oct 3, 1954120 min

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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Episode 6

The Immortal Oath

NR
Oct 10, 1954120 min

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

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Episode 7

The Yankee Roadblocks

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Oct 17, 1954120 min

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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Episode 8

The Lady in the Wings

NR
Oct 24, 1954120 min

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.

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Episode 9

The Path to Peace

NR
Oct 31, 1954120 min

Horace Greeley's fight for peace is dramatized.

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Episode 10

A Matter of Principal

NR
Nov 14, 1954120 min

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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Episode 11

President for a Day

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Nov 21, 1954120 min

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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Episode 12

Macbeth

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Nov 28, 1954120 min1 votes

A dramatization of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

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Episode 13

Deadlock

NR
Dec 5, 1954120 min

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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Episode 14

The Province of Man

NR
Dec 12, 1954120 min

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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Episode 15

Amahl and the Night Visitors

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Dec 19, 1954120 min

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

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Episode 16

The Joyful Tydings

NR
Dec 26, 1954120 min

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

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Episode 17

William Tell

NR
Jan 2, 1955120 min

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

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Episode 18

The First Mintmaster

NR
Jan 9, 1955120 min

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.

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Episode 19

Crusade for Freedom

NR
Jan 16, 1955120 min

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

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Episode 20

Dr. Harvey W. Wiley

NR
Jan 23, 1955120 min

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.

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Episode 21

A Story About Henry Ford

NR
Jan 30, 1955120 min

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.

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Episode 22

Patrick Henry

NR
Feb 6, 1955120 min

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.

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Episode 23

The Shining Beacon

NR
Feb 13, 1955120 min

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

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Episode 24

Martha Custis Washington

NR
Feb 20, 1955120 min

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

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Episode 25

The Talking Wire

NR
Feb 27, 1955120 min

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

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Episode 26

The Adventures of Lt. Contee

NR
Mar 6, 1955120 min

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

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Episode 27

The Pirate and the Lawyer

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Mar 13, 1955120 min

Adventures of pirate Jean Laffite and lawyer Edward Livingston.

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Episode 28

Soldier's Bride

NR
Mar 20, 1955120 min

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

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Episode 29

The Finest Gift

NR
Mar 27, 1955120 min

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

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Episode 30

The Green Mountain Boys

NR
Apr 3, 1955120 min

The story of Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain boys.

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Episode 31

Lydia

NR
Apr 10, 1955120 min

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

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Episode 32

The Man Who Tore Down the Wall

NR
Apr 17, 1955120 min

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.

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Episode 33

Aimee de Rivery

NR
Apr 25, 1954120 min

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

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Episode 34

The Touch of Steel

NR
May 1, 1955120 min

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

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Episode 35

Cradle Song

NR
May 8, 1955120 min

Story of Ernestine Schumann-Heink.

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Episode 36

The Promise

NR
May 15, 1955120 min

A dramatization of the legend of Damon and Pythias.

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Episode 37

The Man With a Camera

NR
May 22, 1955120 min

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

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Episode 38

The Story of Paul Harris and the Founding of Rotary International

NR
May 29, 1955120 min

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

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Episode 39

The Tempering of the Sword

NR
Jun 5, 1955120 min

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

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Episode 40

Cadet Poe

NR
Jun 12, 1955120 min

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

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Episode 41

The Father Who Had No Sons

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Jun 19, 1955120 min

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

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Episode 42

The Farmer From Monticello

NR
Jun 26, 1955120 min

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