Hallmark Hall of Fame

Dutch Treat

Traces New York City's crooked Broadway Street back to its origins in 1720, when the street plan was changed to avoid cu

Horns of a Dilemma

A girl unearths a paper making her the recipient of an unusual tribute.

The Bride's Teapot

In 1874, citizens of Sympathy Ridge, Virginia wish to build a war monument, but the federal government wants them to rep

Sometimes She's Sunday

An elder daughter working in the city brings her fiancé back to the country.

The Bachelor and the Ballot

A young suffragist tries to gain the support of a lawyer in charge of the polls, while he tries on a bet to romance her.

Faith Is a Nine-Letter Word

Distressed by the state of world affairs and fearing her boyfriend will be sent off to war, a young woman refuses to mar

The Secret Vote

The Line of Duty

False arrest of a man in a totalitarian country.

Bread of Freedom

The story of Christopher Ludwick, philanthropist and superintendent of bakers in the Continental Army.

The Blue and White Lamp

Traces the origins of the Travelers Aid Society to a cholera epidemic in mid-19th century St. Louis.

Mrs. Thanksgiving

Story of a woman's fight to make Thanksgiving a national holiday.

Ten Thousand Words

Recounts an incident from the life of Nathaniel Currier.

Joan of Arc

Green Hills of Vermont

Kate Smith narrates a Christmas story about an unwanted donkey.

The Small One

A whimsical tale of Norman Rockwell's tribulations upon his move to a small town in Vermont. At the end of the program,

Father Time

The story of blacksmith Daniel Jean Richard, founder of the watch industry in the Neuch|catel district of Switzerland.

Home is the Sailor

The story of Fanny Stevenson, wife of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Span Through Time

The story of John and Washington Roebling, designers of the Brooklyn Bridge.

The General's Bible

A tale concerning the Bible used by General George Washington at his first inauguration in New York City.

Socrates' Wife

When Socrates is imprisoned because of his teachings, his wife pleads for his release and helps to plan his escape.

To My Valentine

A musical celebration of the traditions of Valentine's Day.

Lincoln's Little Correspondent

Adapted from the book by Hertha Pauli. The story surrounding 11-year-old Grace Bedell's letter to Abraham Lincoln sugge

Crown of Wings

Incident from the life of General George Washington, in which Phoebe Fraunces, daughter of Fraunces Tavern's proprietor,

Dinner for the General

Mercy Disborough's efforts to end American witchhunts; set in Fairfield County, Connecticut in 1692.

The Accused

Mann's work towards education for all regardless of race, creed, or color.

Horace Mann's Miracle

The story of poet Thomas Moore (1779-1852).

The Harp of Erin

Mathew Brady's Civil War photography.

Photograph by Brady

The story of Queen Elizabeth I's ascendance to the throne.

A Queen Is Born

The story of Queen Elizabeth I's ascendance to the throne.

The Other Wise Man

Skipper of the Skies

The story of Samuel Morse and the use of the telegraph.

The World on a Wire

The story of Samuel Morse and the use of the telegraph.

Hamlet

The story of poet and minister John Donne, and his relationship with his wife and her father, Sir George Moore.

No Man Is an Island

Story of Frederick Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty, from the time the sculptor received the commission in 1774 until Pulit

The Lady of Liberty

Life of General Robert E. Lee after the Civil War.

Soldier of Peace

Sarah Bernhardt gives up her love to continue her acting career.

Proudly I Love

Sarah Bernhardt gives up her love to continue her acting career.

Spark of Genius

Story of Josiah Wedgwood.

The Clay of Kings

The story of Boston dentist William Thomas Green Morton, who developed the use of ether as an anesthetic.

Scott's Castle

The life of Sir Walter Scott, including family, literary career, bankruptcy, and the death of his wife.

Man Against Pain

The story of Boston dentist William Thomas Green Morton, who developed the use of ether as an anesthetic.

The Mercer Girls

An incident in the life of naturalist artist John James Audubon; set in New Orleans in 1824.

A Smile for Damger

A woman poses as an agent in the East.

Of Time and the River

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

A Queen's Way

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

McCoy of Abilene

The story of Joseph Geiting McCoy, American pioneer cattleman.

Never kick a man upstairs

The story highlights the early career of "T.R." until the time he became President. It shows how, during those years, Ro

The Imaginary Invalid

Moliere's rollicking satire tells the story of a wealthy fop, Argan, who fancies himself the victim of dozens of ailment

The Lonely Way

The moving story of John C. Fremont, one of the great American explorers of the last century is dramatized. Fremont whos

Of Time and the River (II)

The story takes place during the hours just before Gant's demise. The remarkable man and his family are the long sufferi

The Courtship of Miles Standish

The struggles of the early Pilgrims at Plymouth rock is dramatized. Beset by illness, food shortage and Indian marauders

The Last Voyage

The story of Benjamin Franklin's famous trip to Paris during the Revolutionary War and its importance for the American c

Asop and Rhodope

Slave and story teller Aesop is smitten with slave girl Rhodope.

Amahl and the Night Visitors

Amahl, a crippled boy, and his poor mother are visited by the Three Wise Men, who stay the night, and are entertained by

Blaze of Darkness

About the mid-seventeenth century John Milton used his fiery pen to espouse the cause of Oliver Cromwell against the thr

John Marshall and the Burr Case

The story of Chief Justice John Marshall and his dignity and impartiality during the trial of Aaron Burr, the man who ki

Crusade to Liberty

James Edward Oglethorpe fought a single-handed battle against the debtor prisons of England. In 1732, Oglethorpe fights

The St. Cloud Storm

Jane Grey Swisshelm, pioneer newspaper woman, who in 1857 heeded her boss Horace Greeley's advice and headed Westward to

King Richard II

The story of the King who believed he ruled by divine right and was completely heedless of his personal responsibility t

Lone Star

Houston goes to Mexican Territory at the suggestion of his friend, President Andrew Jackson. He soon becomes involved in

The Hands of Clara Schumann

Clara Weick's father strongly objected to her marrying a penniless young composer named Schumann. The law in Vienna then

Crusader Against Cruelty

The true story of Henry Bergh and his fight against cruelty to children and animals is dramatized.

Miss Tracy of Mt. Vernon

Miss Tracy's story is told in order to preserve Washington's home as a national shrine in Mt. Vernon, neutral during the

The Turbulent Air

he story of the co-discoverer of oxygen Lavoisier is dramatized.

The Good Samaritan

Story about a man who lives for almost 2,000 years in many nations at many times, attempting to imbue civilization with

The Road to Tara

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

Out of Jules Verne

The program salutes the achievement of the father of science fiction. Despite his ardent desire to become a successful w

The Ordeal of Thomas Jefferson

A period of history when Jefferson's enemies branded him as a traitor, spy and believer in "government by rabble". Alien

Young William Penn

The story of a young privileged son who was greatly affected by the preaching of Quaker minister Thomas Loe.

The Liberator

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

The Story of Ruth

Ruth a childless widow and foreigner was helped by an older woman Naomi to overcome the many difficulties she faced.

Lafayette for Freedom

Petticoat Revolution

Story of Aimee Rivery, who brought reforms to Turkey.

Portrait by Whistler

The drama describes the struggle of the famed artist to gain recognition and depicts the time that the sheriff almost ta

Moby Dick

A sea captain seeks vengeance upon a whale.

Serra and San Francisco

The story of the Catholic missionary Father Junipera Serra, who founded over 18 missions along the West Coast in the 177

The Armour-Bearer

The moving story behind the founding of temple University in Philadelphia is told. The drama will relate how Russell Con

A Reckless Youth

The little known and humorous story of how Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) won his wife Olivia Langdon. Clemens manages to w

Come to the Window

Completely exhausted after a concert tour of the United Slates under the driving managership of P.T. Barnum, Jenny Lind

Flight from Cathay

Chinese princess, Kukachin, is befriended by the adventurous Marco Polo. Young Polo, his father and uncle, although resp

Wife unto Caesar

The story unfolds as Calpurnia visits her husband on the battlefield and is ordered back to Rome and there learns of a p

John Paul Jones

Historic drama about America's first naval hero. The historical drama reveals that John Paul, (his actual name) came to

Dynamite

The Swedish-American inventor of dynamite, established before his death the Nobel Prize to be awarded annually for the b

Do Not Cry For Me

Tells the story of the early life of the American composer Stephen Foster. Relates the difficulties Foster encountered w

A Man of Many Ideas

The story of John Nelson Wanamaker the 35th United States Postmaster General who was known for buying an abandoned railr

The Reluctant Redeemer

The story tells of Moses' upbringing by an Egyptian pharaoh, his killing of a cruel overseer and the flight to Media whe

The Story of Johann Sebastian Bach

From court appointed organist to his triumphant position as Kantor at the Thomasschule his story unfolds as his music wa

The Immortal Oath

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

The Yankee Roadblocks

An all-male cast set in the Revolutionary War days, the story tells how a hero exposed the plot of Benedict Arnold and s

The Lady in the Wings

The widow of the great composer, Edward MacDowell, remembering her happy past, wishes to create a place where artists fr

The Path to Peace

Horace Greeley's fight for peace is dramatized.

A Matter of Principal

An incident in the life of John Adams, second President of the United States and his defense of an English Officer who w

President for a Day

The story of the man who was President of the United States for one day is told. David Rice Atchison as President of the

Macbeth

A dramatization of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Deadlock

The story of the Burr–Hamilton duel arose from a long-standing political and personal rivalry that had developed betwe

The Province of Man

The story of how William Harvey used King John of England as a guinea pig to test his theory of the circulatory system.

Amahl and the Night Visitors

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

The Joyful Tydings

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

William Tell

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

The First Mintmaster

Story of John Hull, first mintmaster of Massachusetts Bay Colony, who was appointed to the post in 1650 as the culminati

Crusade for Freedom

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

Dr. Harvey W. Wiley

Struggle of chemist Wiley to expose frauds in food and drug trade and in patent medicine. His efforts to prove the harmf

A Story About Henry Ford

Ford, unhappy with farm life, moves to Detroit where he begins to experiment with the gas engine, certain that it could

Patrick Henry

Silver-tongued Patrick Henry studied law for only six weeks, but so impressed the board that they passed him. He was a s

The Shining Beacon

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

Martha Custis Washington

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

The Talking Wire

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

The Adventures of Lt. Contee

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

The Pirate and the Lawyer

Adventures of pirate Jean Laffite and lawyer Edward Livingston.

Soldier's Bride

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

The Finest Gift

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

The Green Mountain Boys

The story of Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain boys.

Lydia

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

The Man Who Tore Down the Wall

Story from 1910 of Dr. James Ewing, who fought to break down the barriers erected against the investigation and treatmen

Aimee de Rivery

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

The Touch of Steel

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

Cradle Song

Story of Ernestine Schumann-Heink.

The Promise

A dramatization of the legend of Damon and Pythias.

The Man With a Camera

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

The Story of Paul Harris and the Founding of Rotary International

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

The Tempering of the Sword

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

Cadet Poe

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

The Father Who Had No Sons

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

The Farmer From Monticello

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

Alice in Wonderland

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

The Devil's Disciple

An Americanization of the play by George Bernard Shaw: Dick Dudgeon is the local scapegrace in the New Hampshire commun

Dream Girl

Adaptation of the Broadway play by Elmer Rice. A fashionable young woman escapes her dull life and demanding mother by

The Corn is Green

Adaptation of the play by Emlyn Williams. A strong-willed teacher, determined to educate the poor and illiterate youth

The Good Fairy

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

The Taming of the Shrew

Adaptation of the Shakespeare play.

The Cradle Song

In a Spanish monastery, a baby left on the doorstep is raised by the strict head mother and the young nuns. At age 18, s

Born Yesterday

Adaptation of Kanin's Broadway comedy.

Man and Superman

A 90-minute condensation of George Bernard Shaw's epic play.

The Little Foxes

Adaptation of Hellmann's Broadway melodrama.

The Lark

Adaptation of the Anouilh play, as adapted for Broadway by Lillian Hellmann.

There Shall Be No Night

The Yeoman of the Guard

Adaptation of the Gilbert & Sullivan musical comedy.

The Green Pastures

African-American tales of spirituality and oral black storytelling through a collection of vignettes on various Biblical

On Borrowed Time

Suggested by Roark Bradford's ""Ol' Man Adam an' his chillun,"" based on the novel of the same name by Lawrence Edward W

Twelfth Night

A shipwreck separates Viola from her twin brother Sebastian. Disguised as a boy, Viola becomes a page to Duke Orsino. Or

Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates

The children's story of the boy who wants to win a skating cotest in order to pay for an operation for his blind father.

Little Moon of Alban

t is 1919 in Ireland. Brigid Mary and her mother fiercely oppose her fiance's rebel activities, for Brigid Mary's father

Dial M for Murder

A woman who slowly comes to realize that her husband is trying to murder her for her money.

Johnny Belinda

Kiss Me, Kate

Backstager musical loosely based on Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew,"" music and lyrics by Cole Porter.

The Gift of the Magi

A musical adaptation (with songs by Richard Adler) of O. Henry's familiar Christmas story. A devoted young married coupl

The Christmas Tree

Berkeley Square

His new surroundings have stimulated the imagination of Peter Standish, a young American who has moved into a mansion in

Ah, Wilderness!

Adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill stage comedy.

Winterset

Hallowe'en adaptation of the stage play by Maxwell Anderson; includes a tribute to Maxwell Anderson by Helen Hayes.

A Doll's House

Adaptation of the play by Henrik Ibsen.

The Hallmark Christmas Festival

Four Christmas-themed segements: an ice-sakting version of the ballet ""The Ice Princess""; a performance of Christmas s

The Tempest

A Valentine's Day production of the Shakespeare play.

Captain Brassbound's Conversion

An Englishman, a former judge, arrives in the Near East, where a man he had sentenced to jail many years before plans re

The Cradle Song

Shangri-La

A musical adaptation of James Hilton's novel ""Lost Horizon,"" in which a plane crash in the Himalayas leads a group of

Macbeth

Adaptation of the stage tragedy by William Shakespeare.

Golden Child

An original comic opera for Christmas. Libretto by Paul Engle; music by Philip Bezanson.

Time Remembered

Adaptation of the stage play by Anouilh: A flighty duchess plays matchmaker in the drawing rooms of the aristocracy.

Give Us Barabbas!

An Easter biblical production of the story of the Crucifixion.

The Joke and the Valley

""Premiere performance of a winner in the Hallmark teleplay writing competition, selected from over 1500 entries from 19

Victoria Regina

Adaptation of the Broadway play by Housman, chronicling Queen Victoria's 50 years on the English throne.

Arsenic and Old Lace

Comedy revolving around murder, insanity, and two charming old ladies.

Teahouse of the August Moon

Adaptation of the Putlizer Prize-winning comedy by John Patrick, based on the novel by Vern Sneider. A US Army captain

Cyrano de Bergerac

An adaptation of Rostand's classic play in which a man who believes himself disfigured by a large nose instructs another

Pygmalion

This production of Bernard Shaw's play came close on the heels of its triumphant Broadwas musical incarnation as ""My Fa

The Invincible Mr. Disraeli

Vignettes cover a 30-year span in the life of the famous British novelist, philosopher, and Prime Minister.

The Patriots

Adaptation of Kingsley's Broadway play. During the post-Revolutionary War period of the 1790s, Alexander Hamilton and T

A Cry of Angels

The story of the writing of Handel's Messiah.

Abe Lincoln in Illinois

Adaptation of the play by Robert E. Sherwood. Dramatization of Lincoln's romance with Ann Rutledge and his relations wi

Little Moon of Alban

A re-staging of the 1958 play, with Julie Harris reprising her role as an Irish religious nurse whose faith is tested by

The Fantasticks

Television adaptation of the remarkably long-running off-Broadway musical.

The Other World of Winston Churchill

""Based on the book Painting as a pastime by Winston S. Churchill.""

Amahl and the Night Visitors

First segment is the play of Amahl and the Three Kings who come to visit the newborn child in Bethlehem. Roddy McDowall

The Magnificent Yankee

The Magnificent Yankee is a 1965 biographical film in the Hallmark Hall of Fame television anthology series. The film wa

The Holy Terror

Biography of the pioneering nurse Florence Nightingale.

Eagle in a Cage

Napoleon's last days of exile on the barren island of St. Helena.

Inherit the Wind

Adaptation of the Broadway play by Lawrence and Lee. A young man, Bert Cates, is arrested in a small Bible Belt town fo

Amahl and the Night Visitors

Amahl, a crippled boy, and his poor mother are visited by the Three Wise Men, who stay the night, and are entertained by

Lamp at Midnight

""The 68th major production, and the 15th continuous Hallmark Hall of Fame season."" A depiction of Galileo's clash wit

Barefoot in Athens

Adaptation of Anderson's Broadway play about the philosopher Socrates' clash with authority.

Blithe Spirit

Noel Coward's classic comedy about a playwright researching the supernatural who inadvertently summons the ghost of his

Anastasia

In Berlin during 1926, a group of monarchist conspirators persuades an amnesiac girl to impersonate Anastasia, daughter

Soldier in Love

Historical drama about the troubled relationship between Queen Anne and the ambitious couple General John Churchill and

A Bell for Adano

Based on the novel by John Hersey and the play by Paul Osborn. ""Gratefully dedicated to all veterans of all wars""

St. Joan

Adaptation of the George Bernard Shaw play which introduced Québec actress Genevieve Bujold to American television.

Elizabeth the Queen

Adaptation of the Broadway play by Maxwell Anderson about the stormy relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and the Earl

The Admirable Crichton

A Punt, a Pass, and a Prayer

Despite a severe on-the-field injury, an aging quarterback refuses to give up his dream of returning to professional foo

Pinocchio

Pinocchio is a 90-minute musical adaptation of Carlo Collodi's classic story. It aired on NBC on December 8, 1968 as par

Teacher, Teacher

A recovering alcoholic former schoolteacher is hired to tutor a retarded boy.

The File on Devlin

Adaptation of the Cold War thriller by Catherine Gaskin. Sally Devlin struggles to locate her father, an eminent author

The Littlest Angel

A Storm in Summer

A Storm in Summer is a 1970 tv fim directed by Buzz Kulik.

Neither Are We Enemies

The Hebrew judge Joseph of Arimathea and his son Jonathan are troubled by the Roman occupation of their land, Judea. Bot

Hamlet

In 1969, Richard Chamberlain became the first American to play Hamlet in England since John Barrymore. This production i

The Price

Two brothers, Victor and Walter, one was a doctor, one was a policeman, and they confront one another about the choices

Gideon

An irreverent Biblical retelling wherein the Gideon spends most of his time kvetching with the Angel of the Lord.

The Snow Goose

On the coast of North England, a shot, wounded snow goose creates a close relationship between a lonely man and a young

All The Way Home

Love! Love! Love!

A Valentine's Day special interweaving sequences of young couples with concert footage of Bread, Helen Reddy, and Mac Da

Harvey

Adaptation of the classic Broadway comedy about a gentle alchoholic who is accompanied everywhere by an invisible 6-foot

The Hands of Cormac Joyce

The Hands of Cormac Joyce is a 1972 telemovie.

The Man Who Came to Dinner

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

A live comedy revue in which "Charles Schulz's little people philosophize on everything from Charlie Brown's disastrous

The Small Miracle

Lisa, Bright and Dark

Adaptation of the novel by John Neufeld. Popular and intelligent teeenager Lisa Schilling succumbs to inexplicable and

The Borrowers

The Country Girl

Adaptation of the Odets stage play. Story of a washed-up middle-aged actor who gets a big break to star in a play, and

Crown Matrimonial

Crown Matrimonia is a 1974 film written by Audrey Maas and Royce Ryton and directed by Alan Bridges.

The Small Miracle

The setting is a small Italian village - the story is of a small boy and his sick donkey. The boy believes that God can

Brief Encounter

A middle-aged man and a married woman meet by chance and have a brief affair.

The Gathering Storm

Based on Winston Churchill's memoirs, this historical drama documents the British leader's efforts to oppose the rising

All Creatures Great and Small

Dramatization of an English veterinarian's autobiography; set in Yorkshire in the 1930s.

A Salute to the 25th Anniversary of the Hallmark Hall of Fame

Documents a tribute to Mr. Joyce C. Hall, Chairman, Hallmark Cards, Inc., and to the Hallmark hall of fame on the occasi

Eric

A dramatization of the last years of a young man dying of leukemia.

Valley Forge

Adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's stage play about the plight of the Continental Army in the winter of 1776-77.

The Rivalry

Adaptation of the stage play by Norman Corwin which dramatizes the 1858 debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Doug

Caesar and Cleopatra

Julius Caesar (Alec Guinness) arrives in Egypt and attempts to settle the dispute over who should rule Egypt, Cleopatra

Truman at Potsdam

Documentary-style dramatization of the Potsdam Conference, based on the book Meeting at Potsdam by Charles L. Mee, Jr.

The Disappearance of Aimee

The story of famed evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, who in 1926 vanished from a California beach, setting off an exten

Beauty and the Beast

A beautiful girl agrees to marry a hideous, deformed beast and live in his castle in order to save her father's life.

Peter Pan

Musical adaptation of the story of the boy who refuses to grow up.

Emily, Emily, Emily, Emily

The Last Hurrah

The Last Hurrah is a 1977 TV film from the Hallmark Hall of Fame, based on the novel The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor.

The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer

An suggestive take on the battle of Little Big Horn and General George Armstrong Custer's part in it, this is a combinat

Have I Got A Christmas For You

A light-hearted Christmas special, based on fact, showing how members of a midwestern city's Jewish community help their

Taxi!

A Brooklyn cab driver and his sophisticated female Manhattan passenger learn a surprising amount about each other.

Return Engagement

Two loners on campus, an ancient history professor and her student, help each other emerge from their shells.

Fame

Stubby Pringle's Christmas

All Quiet on the Western Front

Aunt Mary

A disabled woman living in Baltimore who set up a baseball team of street kids to save them from juvenile delinquency.

Gideon's Trumpet

Clarence Earl Gideon, a semi-literate drifter, is arrested for breaking into a pool room and for petty theft. When he as

Mister Lincoln

A one-man show spanning the lifetime of Abraham Lincoln, from his turning against slavery as a young man through his rea

Dear Liar

Adaptation of the two-person stage play based on the correspondence between George Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbel

Casey Stengel

Casey Stengel earned a niche in baseball's Hall of Fame by managing the Yankees to 10 pennants and seven world series tr

The Marva Collins Story

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1982 British-American TV movie, based on the Victor Hugo novel. It was directed by Mich

Witness for the Prosecution

A television version of the screenplay by Wilder and Kurnitz, adapted by Marcus, based on Agatha Christie's stage play.

Thurday's Child

The movie follows the medical charts of Sam Alden, a spunky, personable 17-year-old from a close-knit family who is sudd

The Winter of Our Discontent

Adaptation of the novel by John Steinbeck.

The Master of Ballantrae

The Master of Ballantrae is a 1984 tv movie written by William Bast and directed by Douglas Hickox.

Camille

Adaptation of La dame aux camelias by Alexandre Dumas fils. The story of the ill-fated love affair between the famous P

The Corsican Brothers

Adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas. In 19th-century Corsica, the da Franchi twins are caught up in a centuries-

Love is Never Silent

Love Is Never Silent is a 1985 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie aired on CBS December 9, 1985 and stars Mare Winningham an

Resting Place

Racial discrimination and a Vietnam War cover-up are at the center of an absorbing drama that plays as a mystery. Maj. K

Promise

Promise is a 1986 made-for-television movie directed by Glenn Jordan. PLOT: Promise represented the first of several mom

Room Upstairs

Adaptation of the novel by Norma Levinson. After the death of her parents, Leah Lazenby, a Boston teacher of learning-i

Pack of Lies

Adaptation of the stage play by Hugh Whitemore. A middle-class homemaker becomes involved in a 1961 espionage investiga

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden is the 1987 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV film adaptation of the novel The Secret Garden, aired on CBS Nove

Foxfire

Foxfire is a 1987 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie starring Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, and John Denver, based on the play

Stones for Ibarra

Adaptation of the novel by Harriet Doerr. A young American couple struggles to reopen the family copper mine in Mexico,

April Morning

April Morning is a 1988 drama, history and war film written by Howard Fast and James Lee Barrett and directed by Delbert

The Tenth Man

Adaptation of the novel by Graham Greene. Jean Louis Chavel, a well-to-do lawyer in Nazi-occupied France, is arbitraril

Home Fires Burning

A series of seriocomic vignettes linked to the impact of World War II on a proud family and its town. Set in a southern

My Name is Bill W.

The story of the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. Bill Wilson, a good-time Charlie who returns home from World War I wi

The Shell Seekers

The Shell Seekers is a 1989 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie based on the 1987 novel The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilche

Face to Face

A female American paleontologist and a British miner, mistakenly issued permits for the same Kenya digging site, almost

Caroline?

Caroline? is a 1990 American drama film that aired on CBS on April 29, 1990. It's from the Hallmark Hall of Fame antholo

Decoration Day

Decoration Day is a 1990 film based on a novel by John William Corrington of the same title. The award-winning made-for-

Sarah, Plain and Tall

Sarah, Plain and Tall is an American television film in the Hallmark Hall of Fame anthology series. It first aired in Fe

Shadow of a Doubt

A small-town naif suspects that her visiting uncle is a notorious murderer.

One Against the Wind

Mary Lindell, an enobled Englishwoman estranged from her French husband but still living in Paris, maintains a regal lif

O Pioneers!

O Pioneers! is a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie based on the novel of the same title by Willa Cather. It origina

Miss Rose White

Miss Rose White is a television film adaptation of the 1985 Barbara Lebow play, A Shayna Maidel, starring Kyra Sedgwick.

An American Story

World War II veterans unite against a corrupt mayor and his cronies as they fight to take back their Texas hometown.

Skylark

Sequel to ""Sarah, Plain and Tall"": In 1912 Kansas, drought plagues Jacob and Sarah Witting and Jacob's children by his

Blind Spot

A take-charge U.S. Representative undertakes the rehabilitation of her daughter, who is a young widow, a new mother, and

To Dance with the White Dog

A story about marital love, old age and death. Robert Samuel ('Mr. Sam') Peek, a sagacious and seasoned pecan tree growe

Breathing Lessons

ACADEMY AWARD WINNER! According to Mark O'Brien, ""The two mythologies about disabled people break down to one: we can't

A Place for Annie

A Place for Annie is a 1994 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie that stars Sissy Spacek, Mary-Louise Parker and Joan Plowrigh

Return of the Native

Adaptation of the classic novel by Thomas Hardy. Eustacia Vye is a willful, passionate enchantress whose desire to esca

The Piano Lesson

Adaptation of the stage play by August Wilson. Set in 1936 Pittsburgh, the story centers on an ornately carved 80-year-

Redwood Curtain

Adaptation of Wilson's stage play. Geri Riordan is a teenage concert pianist of Vietnamese-American heritage who has be

Journey

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Harvest of Fire

A close-knit Amish farming community in Iowa is plagued by a series of barn burnings. These crimes come under the invest

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The Summer of Ben Tyler

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Old Man

Adaptation of the short story by William Faulkner. When the flooded Mississippi River leaves a pregnant woman stranded,

Rose Hill

Adaptation of the novel ""For the Roses"" by Julie Garwood. A group of New York orphans adopt an abandoned baby and go

What the Deaf Man Heard

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The Love Letter

Adaptation of the science fiction short story by Jack Finney: Scotty Corrigan, an engaged thirty-something, purchases a

The Echo of Thunder

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Saint Maybe

An adaptation of the novel by Anne Tyler: A family saga centering on the Bedloe family, newlyweds Danny and Lucy, and D

Grace & Glorie

Adaptation of the stage play by Tom Ziegler. Down-to-earth widow Grace reluctantly agrees to share her country home wit

Night Ride Home

An adaptation of the novel by Barbara Esstman: Nora Mahler has a strong bond with her son Simon, but is not as close to

Durango

An adaptation of the novel by John B. Keane: In 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a 40-mile cattle drive rather

Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End

Sarah and Jacob Witting are a hardy couple raising a family on a Kansas farm in 1918. Unexpectedly, they're visited by J

A Season for Miracles

Adaptation of the novel by Marilyn Pappano: When a young woman's niece and nephew are threatened with foster care after

Missing Pieces

Adaptation of the novel ""Atticus"" by Ron Hansen. Atticus Cody is a rancher and widower on a sad mission in Mexico to

Cupid & Cate

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The Lost Child

Based on the book ""Looking for Lost Bird"" by Yvette Melanson with Claire Safran: After the death of her adoptive pare

The Runaway

An adaptation of the novel by Terry Kay: Two teenagers, one black, one white, are destined to bring change to their raci

The Flamingo Rising

1960s dreamer Hubert T. Lee moves his wife Edna and two children to Florida, where he builds the world's largest drive-i

Follow the Stars Home

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In Love and War

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The Seventh Stream

An Irish fisherman mourning his dead wife falls in love with a woman who turns out to be a silkie, a supernatural being

My Sister's Keeper

The poignant real-life story of two sisters, Christine and Judy, and their journey of discovery and understanding. Chris

Little John

As a family court judge, Natalie Britain hears evidence, searches for the truth, and makes life-altering decisions affec

The Locket

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A Painted House

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Fallen Angel

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Back When We Were Grownups

Adaptation of the novel by Anne Tyler. Since her husband's death after only six years of marriage, Rebecca has single-h

The Magic of Ordinary Days

Livy Dunne, who becomes pregnant during World War II. Her stern father sends her away, into a marriage of convenience wi

Riding the Bus with My Sister

The story of two sisters – Beth and Rachel – who live very different lives. Rachel is a successful, driven fashion p

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A World War II veteran returns home at the end of the war to find his parents have died, his brother is in prison and th

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