7 episodes

Hallmark Hall of Fame - Season 5

First aired Oct 23, 1955Season 5

Browse all 7 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Alice in Wonderland

NR
Oct 23, 1955120 min

Adaptation of the stage version devised by Le Gallienne and Friebus of the children's classic by Lewis Carroll.

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Episode 2

The Devil's Disciple

NR
Nov 20, 1955120 min

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.

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Episode 3

Dream Girl

NR
Dec 11, 1955120 min

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.

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Episode 4

The Corn is Green

NR
Jan 8, 1956120 min

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.

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Episode 5

The Good Fairy

NR
Feb 5, 1956120 min

Theatre usherette Lu thinks of herself as a ""good fairy"" attempting to bring happiness to all she meets.

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Episode 6

The Taming of the Shrew

NR
Mar 18, 1956120 min

Adaptation of the Shakespeare play.

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Episode 7

The Cradle Song

NR
May 6, 1956120 min

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.