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Hallmark Playhouse

78 episodes · 1948–1952 · CBS · Drama

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James Hilton, author of Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips, hosted and chose the stories for Hallmark Playhouse on CBS from June 10, 1948, to February 1, 1953, with stars such as Ronald Colman and Gregory Peck. Hallmark Cards sponsored it, and it then became The Hallmark Hall of Fame.

Sources: Hallmark Playhouse, Wikipedia

Episodes

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194825 episodes
  • The Devil and Daniel Webster June 10, 1948 · CBS · 28 min
    The first show: Stephen Vincent Benet's New Hampshire lawyer argues a man's soul back from the Devil.
  • Mrs. Union Station June 17, 1948 · CBS · 28 min
    A comedy about a new bride who finds she has married a railroad nut.
  • Unless Love Is Music June 24, 1948 · CBS · 29 min
    A woman admits she was once a concert pianist but refuses to play a note.
  • Penny Serenade July 1, 1948 · CBS · 29 min
    A condensed version of the tearjerker film.
  • Pride and Prejudice July 8, 1948 · CBS · 29 min
    Jane Austen's novel in half an hour.
  • Girls Are Like Boats July 15, 1948 · CBS · 28 min
    A comedy about a man, a boat and a wife.
  • The Citadel July 22, 1948 · CBS · 28 min
    A doctor in the coal mines of Wales.
  • The Old Nest August 12, 1948 · CBS · 28 min
    Parents and their grown children.
  • Drums Along the Mohawk August 19, 1948 · CBS · 28 min
    Pioneers on the New York frontier in 1776.
  • Cimarron September 9, 1948 · CBS · 30 min
    A love story of the Oklahoma Territory.
  • Goodbye, Mr. Chips September 16, 1948 · CBS · 28 min
    A shy schoolmaster and his one great love.
  • Captain January September 23, 1948 · CBS · 29 min
    A crusty old lighthouse keeper and the little girl shipwrecked on his island.
  • Elmer the Great October 7, 1948 · CBS · 29 min
    A comic baseball story.
  • Arrowsmith October 14, 1948 · CBS · 31 min
    A research doctor, his love of science and the woman he marries.
  • Mrs. Parkington October 21, 1948 · CBS · 27 min
    A woman rises from poverty in Nevada to wealth and power in New York.
  • O'Halloran's Luck October 28, 1948 · CBS · 28 min
    A railroad laborer meets a real leprechaun.
  • My Friend Flicka November 4, 1948 · CBS · 29 min
    A boy and his horse.
  • The Wild Swans November 11, 1948 · CBS · 30 min
    The fairy tale of eleven brothers turned into swans and the sister who saves them.
  • My Financial Career November 18, 1948 · CBS · 29 min
    A man who can't stand banks.
  • Free Land November 25, 1948 · CBS · 31 min
    A pioneer couple's hard times in the Dakota Territory.
  • Old Man Minick December 2, 1948 · CBS · 26 min
    An old widower living with his grown children.
  • Woman with a Sword December 9, 1948 · CBS · 30 min
    How a woman helped Lincoln win the Civil War.
  • The Desert Shall Rejoice December 16, 1948 · CBS · 30 min
    A Christmas story at a desert tourist court.
  • The Story of Silent Night (1948) December 23, 1948 · CBS · 29 min
    Christmas week: how a carol from a small church in the Alps traveled around the world.
  • Lost Horizon December 30, 1948 · CBS · 30 min
    James Hilton presents his own novel of Shangri-La, with Herbert Marshall.
194933 episodes
  • Mc Clouds Folly-Cut Closing January 6, 1949 · 23 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • Clay-Shuttered Doors January 13, 1949 · CBS · 31 min
    A woman hurt in a traffic accident and her domineering husband, with a touch of the supernatural.
  • Parnassus on Wheels January 20, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    A strange traveling bookshop on wheels.
  • The Failure January 27, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    A small-town doctor passes up fame and fortune to stay with his neighbors.
  • Abe Lincoln: The Prairie Years February 3, 1949 · CBS · 26 min
    Gregory Peck as young Abraham Lincoln.
  • Smilin' Through February 10, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    An Irish love story.
  • Random Harvest February 17, 1949 · CBS · 28 min
    A love story about a man who has lost his memory.
  • So Big February 24, 1949 · CBS · 29 min
    A woman's life on a Midwestern farm in the last century.
  • Berkeley Square March 3, 1949 · CBS · 29 min
    A love that crosses the centuries.
  • And There I Stood with My Piccolo March 10, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    Meredith Willson's early years in Mason City, Iowa.
  • Our Own Kind March 17, 1949 · CBS · 29 min
    An old Irishman who cannot read and his adopted grandson.
  • Wyatt Earp March 24, 1949 · 26 min
    Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
  • Immortal Wife March 31, 1949 · CBS · 31 min
    The story of John and Jessie Frémont.
  • Morning Glory April 7, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    A girl from Vermont comes to Broadway to be a star, with Elizabeth Taylor.
  • One Foot in Heaven April 14, 1949 · CBS · 28 min
    A minister takes over a rural parish full of dissent.
  • Kitty Foyle April 21, 1949 · CBS · 31 min
    A girl from the wrong side of the tracks in Philadelphia succeeds in business.
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn April 28, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    A girl growing up in Brooklyn and her father.
  • Mother May 5, 1949 · CBS · 26 min
    Motherhood and a wayward daughter.
  • You Could Look It Up May 12, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    Baseball's secret weapon: a man three feet tall.
  • Enchanted Cottage May 19, 1949 · CBS · 29 min
    Two scarred people find beauty in each other.
  • The Barker May 26, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    A love story on a carnival midway.
  • I Like It Here June 2, 1949 · CBS · 30 min
    A naturalized citizen, part-time butler and cook, full-time American. The last show of the season.
  • The Prairie Years September 3, 1949 · 26 min
  • August Heat September 29, 1949 · CBS · 28 min
    In a New York heat wave, an artist finds a tombstone carved with his own name.
  • National Velvet October 6, 1949 · CBS · 28 min
    A girl and her horse take on England's Grand National.
  • The Virginian October 13, 1949 · CBS · 29 min
    A love story on the frontier.
  • Dr. Seracold October 27, 1949 · CBS · 28 min
    An old small-town doctor and his own fears.
  • Colonel Effingham's Raid November 3, 1949 · CBS · 29 min
    A retired Army colonel takes on City Hall.
  • Bride of Fortune November 10, 1949 · CBS · 29 min
    The wife of Jefferson Davis.
  • A Letter to Mr. Priest November 17, 1949 · CBS · 29 min
    The man voted most likely to succeed becomes a country lawyer. A wasted life or a promise kept?
  • The Courtship of Miles Standish November 24, 1949 · CBS · 28 min
    Love and rivalry in the Plymouth Colony.
  • Cheers for Miss Bishop December 1, 1949 · CBS · 29 min
    A schoolteacher through the years.
  • The Story of Silent Night (1949) December 22, 1949 · CBS · 29 min
    How Silent Night was written. Music director Lyn Murray is honored.
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195113 episodes
19521 episode
  • A Man Called Peter December 28, 1952 · CBS · 30 min
    Peter Marshall, the minister who became chaplain of the Senate.