Hallmark Hall of Fame (1954) Season 4
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
01 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.
9/5/1954
02 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.
9/12/1954
03 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.
9/19/1954
04 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.
9/26/1954
The Story of Johann Sebastian Bach 05 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.
10/3/1954
06 The tale of Hippocrates, the father of medicine is dramatized.
10/10/1954
07 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.
10/17/1954
08 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.
10/24/1954
09 Horace Greeley's fight for peace is dramatized.
10/31/1954
10 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.
11/14/1954
11 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.
11/21/1954
12 A dramatization of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
11/28/1954
13 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.
12/5/1954
14 The story of how William Harvey used King John of England as a guinea pig to test his theory of the circulatory system.
12/12/1954
Amahl and the Night Visitors 15 The tale of a poor boy and his mother who journey to visit Christ's birth in Bethlehem.
12/19/1954
16 The story of the stormy controversy during the reign of Henry the Eighth is dramatized.
12/26/1954
17 The story of the legendary Swiss marksman William Tell is dramatized.
1/2/1955
18 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.
1/9/1955
19 In the name of his brother, the editor of a Boston newspaper, Benjamin Franklin launches a crusade against Cotton Mather.
1/16/1955
20 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.
1/23/1955
21 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.
1/30/1955
22 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.
2/6/1955
23 Tale of Alcuin, the great educator who taught Charlemagne to read and write.
2/13/1955
24 The courtship of George Washington and Martha Custis, a widowed mother of two.
2/20/1955
25 The story of Alexander Graham Bell and experiments that led to the electric hearing aid, and then the telephone.
2/27/1955
The Adventures of Lt. Contee 26 Tribute to one of Commodore Perry's officers, whose personal efforts helped open Japan to foreign trade.
3/6/1955
The Pirate and the Lawyer 27 Adventures of pirate Jean Laffite and lawyer Edward Livingston.
3/13/1955
28 Story of the love between Knox Taylor (daughter of Colonel Zachary Taylor) and Jefferson Davis.
3/20/1955
29 The story of Lord Byron's efforts to liberate Greece.
3/27/1955
30 The story of Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain boys.
4/3/1955
31 Story of the pagan Greek Lydia, who lived in ancient Rome and saved the life of the Apostle Paul.
4/10/1955
The Man Who Tore Down the Wall 32 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.
4/17/1955
33 Story of Aimée de Rivery, who brought reforms to Turkey.
4/25/1954
34 The story of young army officer and law student Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 60th justice of the United States Supreme Court.
5/1/1955
35 Story of Ernestine Schumann-Heink.
5/8/1955
36 A dramatization of the legend of Damon and Pythias.
5/15/1955
37 Story of George Eastman, and his development of the first camera to use film.
5/22/1955
The Story of Paul Harris and the Founding of Rotary International 38 Tribute to Rotary International in commemoration of its golden anniversary. Includes speech by then Rotary president Herbert J. Taylor.
5/29/1955
The Tempering of the Sword 39 The story of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Von Steuben, founder of the American military system, who trained troops in the American Revolution.
6/5/1955
40 Recounts a "little-known incident" in the life of Edgar Allan Poe.
6/12/1955
The Father Who Had No Sons 41 The inspiring story of Milton S. Hershey, who worked so hard to bring happiness to thousands of orphans.
6/19/1955
The Farmer From Monticello 42 The story of Thomas Jefferson's return to politics in 1773.
6/26/1955
