T H E H A L L M A R K P L A Y H O U S E
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1948 - 1955

First Show: Jun 10, 1948 Last Show: Mar 27, 1955
Number Shows: 211 Audition Show: none known


Series Description:

THE HALLMARK PLAYHOUSE was heard over CBS stations Thursday evenings.
This drama anthology of 30-minute shows was sponsored by, of course,
Hallmark Greeting Cards. It was preceded by the RADIO READER'S
DIGEST, which ran from September 13, 1942 thorugh June 3, 1948.
Hallmark sponsored the RADIO READER'S DIGEST from January 13, 1946
to it's end.

On Feb. 8, 1953, the series name and format was changed. It was now
called THE HALLMARK HALL OF FAME and presented biographal sketches of
famous persons, past and present. The new format was used until the
end of the 1955 season. The exception to the new format was the
broadcast each Christmas season of "A Christmas Carol".

Like other dramatic series of this time, this one made use of major
screen actors in the productions. James Hilton, author of "Random
Harvest", "Lost Horizon" and "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" plus others, served
as host and Narrator. Dee Engelbach produced and directed the shows.
Jean Holloway was the writer. Sound Effects were by Harry Essman and
Gene Twombly. Musical conductor was Lyn Murray. The show's theme
was "Dream of Olwne" by Charles Williams.


Log Comments:

Various references disagree on this series. "The Big Broadcast" by
Frank Buxton and Bill Owen says the series began in 1948 and changed
names to THE HALLMARK RADIO HALL OF FAME in 1955. The AVPRO catalog
said the first broadcast was June 10, 1949. Jay Hickerson's Guide
and J. David Goldin's book both say the series ran June 10, 1948
through Feb. 1, 1953 after which the name was changed to HALLMARK HALL
OF FAME. Dates listed at the top are based on Jay Hickerson's guide
and J. David Goldin's book.

Some catalogs listed shows with no broadcast dates. These follow the
main list. I found two titles for Sep. 6, 1951. They are both
listed with a question mark before the titles.

For this log, I've broken the broadcast run into "seasons", either the
regular season of approximately 39 shows or a Summer season of
approximately 13 shows. The "Num" column is used to show number in
the season.

Where titles differed between catalogs, both are listed, with one
listed as an alternate ("Alt:").


Chronological Log:

Date Num Title Star Avail
------------ --- ----------------------------- ----------------- -----
.... 1948 Summer Season .....
...... airs Thursdays .......
Jun 10, 1948 1 "The Devil and Danial yes
Webster"
Jun 17, 1948 2 "Mrs. Union Station" yes
Jun 24, 1948 3 "Unless Love Is Music" yes
Jul 01, 1948 4 "Penny Serenade" yes
Jul 08, 1948 5 "Pride and Prejudice" yes
Jul 15, 1948 6 "Girls Are Like Boats" yes
Jul 22, 1948 7 "The Citadel" yes
Jul 29, 1948 8 "Phantom Filly" yes
Aug 05, 1948 9 "Afterward" Lurene Tuttle yes
Aug 12, 1948 10 "The Old Nest" yes
Aug 19, 1948 11 "Drums Long The Mohawk" yes
Aug 26, 1948 12 "State Fair" yes
Sep 02, 1948 13 "To Mary with Love" yes

...... 1948/1949 Season .....
....... airs Thursdays ......
Sep 09, 1948 1 "Cimarron" Irene Dunne yes
Gerald Mohr
Sep 16, 1948 2 "Goodbye Mr. Chips" Ronald Coleman yes
Sep 23, 1948 3 "Captain January" Lionel Barrymore yes
Sep 30, 1948 ... no program ...
Oct 07, 1948 4 "Elmer The Great" Bob Hope yes
Oct 14, 1948 5 "Arrowsmith" John Lund yes
Oct 21, 1948 6 "Mrs. Parkington" Rosalind Russell yes
Oct 28, 1948 7 "O'Halloran's Luck" Edmund O'Brien yes
Nov 04, 1948 8 "My Friend Flicka" Claude Jarmon yes
Nov 11, 1948 9 "The Wild Swan" Jean Hersholt yes
Nov 18, 1948 10 "My Financial Career" Jack Benny yes
Nov 25, 1948 11 "Free Land" Martha Scott yes
Dec 02, 1948 12 "Old Man Minnick" Victor Moore yes
Dec 09, 1948 13 "Woman with A Sword" Ida Lupino yes
Dec 16, 1948 14 "The Desert Shall Rejoice" John Holiak yes
Dec 23, 1948 15 "The Story of Silent Night" Gerald Mohr yes
Dec 30, 1948 16 "Lost Horizon" Herbert Marshall yes
Jan 06, 1949 17 "McCloud's Folly" Robert Young yes
Jan 13, 1949 18 "Clay Shuttered Doors" Jane Wyman yes
Jan 20, 1949 19 "Parnassus on Wheels" Ruth Hussey yes
Jan 27, 1949 20 "The Failure" Ward Bond yes
Feb 03, 1949 21 "Lincoln: The Prairie Years" Gregory Peck yes
Feb 10, 1949 22 "Smiling Through" Lew Ayres yes
Feb 17, 1949 23 "Random Harvest" Joan Fontaine yes
Feb 24, 1949 24 "So Big" Virginia Bruce yes
Mar 03, 1949 25 "Berkeley Square" David Niven yes
Mar 10, 1949 26 "And There I Stood With My Meredith Wilson yes
Piccolo"
Mar 17, 1949 27 "Our Own Kind" Barry Fitzgerald yes
Mar 24, 1949 28 "Wyatt Earp: Frontier Richard Conte yes
Marshall"
Mar 31, 1949 29 "Immortal Wife" Loretta Young yes
Apr 07, 1949 30 "Morning Glory" Elizabeth Taylor yes
Apr 14, 1949 31 "One Foot in Heaven" George Brent yes
Apr 21, 1949 32 "Kitty Foyle" June Allyson yes
Apr 28, 1949 33 "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" James Dunn yes
Claudia Marshall
May 05, 1949 34 "Mother" Linda Darnell yes
May 12, 1949 35 "You Could Look It Up" William Frawley yes
May 19, 1949 36 "The Enchanted Cottage" Richard Wiifmark yes
May 26, 1949 37 "The Barker" Charles Bickford yes
Jun 02, 1949 38 "I Like It Here" Paul Lucas yes

.... off for the Summer .....

..... 1949/1950 Season ......
...... airs Thursdays .......
Sep 08, 1949 1 "Yankee from Olympus" Robert Young yes
Sep 15, 1949 2 "Anna and the King of Siam" Deborah Kerr yes
Sep 22, 1949 3 "So Well Remembered" Van Heflin yes
Sep 29, 1949 4 "August Heat" Fred MacMurray yes
Oct 06, 1949 5 "National Velvet" Roddy McDowell yes
Oct 13, 1949 6 "The Virginian" MacDonald Carey yes
Oct 20, 1949 7 "Let The Hurricane Roar" Ann Blythe yes
Oct 27, 1949 8 "Dr. Seracold" Edmund Gwenn yes
Nov 03, 1949 9 "Colonel Effingham's Raid" Charles Coburn yes
Nov 10, 1949 10 "Bride of Fortune" Irene Dunne yes
Nov 17, 1949 11 "A Letter to Mr. Priest" Lew Ayres yes
Nov 24, 1949 12 "Courtship of Miles Standish" David Niven yes
Dec 01, 1949 13 "Cheers for Miss Bishop" Martha Scott yes
Dec 08, 1949 14 "Christopher and Columbus" Dorothy McGuire yes
Dec 15, 1949 15 "Wedding Morning" Robert Walker yes
Dec 22, 1949 16 "The Story of Silent Night" James Hilton yes
Dec 29, 1949 17 "Father Flanagan of Boy's Dana Andrews yes
Town"
Jan 05, 1950 18 "The Egg and I" Claudette Colbert yes
Jan 12, 1950 19 "The Way West" Joel McCrea
Jan 19, 1950 20 "Around the World in 80 Days" Ronald Colman yes
Jan 26, 1950 21 "Green Grass of Wyoming" Lin McCallister yes
Feb 02, 1950 22 "Wine of Youth" Ida Lupino yes
(Love Story of Elizabeth
Barret)
Feb 09, 1950 23 "Lincoln and the Baltimore Victor Jory yes
Plot"
Feb 16, 1950 24 "April 25th, As Usual" Ethel Barrymore yes
Feb 23, 1950 25 "Autobiography of Will Will Rogers, Jr. yes
Rogers"
Mar 02, 1950 26 "The Indestructible Julia" Katina Paxinou yes
Mar 09, 1950 27 "Home to the Hermitage" Burgess Meridith yes
Mar 16, 1950 28 "Three Wishes of Jamie Richard Todd yes
McBruin"
Mar 23, 1950 29 "Richard Carvel" D. Fairbanks, Jr. yes
Mar 30, 1950 30 "Pioneer Preacher" Charles Bickford yes
Apr 06, 1950 31 "The Arbutus of Bonnet" Ann Blythe yes
Apr 13, 1950 32 "Appassionata" Charles Boyer yes
Apr 20, 1950 33 "My Sister Eileen" Rosalind Russell yes
Apr 27, 1950 34 "They Came To A River" Jeanne Crain yes
May 04, 1950 35 "Victoria Regina" Joan Fontaine yes
May 11, 1950 36 "Marmee, Mother of Little Teresa Write yes
Women"
May 18, 1950 37 "The Wayfarers" Lloyd Nolan yes
May 25, 1950 38 "Knee Pants" Bobby Driscoll yes
Jun 01, 1950 39 "Story of Kansas City" yes

.... off for the Summer .....

..... 1950/1951 Season ......
...... airs Thursdays .......
Sep 07, 1950 1 "The Life of Tom Edison" Van Helfin yes
Sep 14, 1950 2 "The Big Build Up" Dana Andrews yes
Sep 21, 1950 3 "West of the Hill" Elizabeth Taylor yes
Sep 28, 1950 4 "The Barefoot Mailman" John Hodiak yes
Oct 05, 1950 5 "The Life of Florence Irene Dunn yes
Nightinggale"
Oct 12, 1950 6 "Final Tribute" Edward Gween yes
Oct 19, 1950 7 "Not Wanted" D. Blackwell yes
Oct 26, 1950 8 "The Legend of Sleepy Lionel Barrymore yes
Hollow"
Nov 02, 1950 9 "Mistress of the White House" Teresa Wright yes
Nov 09, 1950 10 "Great Expectations" Richard Todd yes
Nov 16, 1950 11 "Enchanted April" Joan Fontaine
Nov 23, 1950 12 "Home To Thanksgiving" Jane Wyman yes
Nov 30, 1950 13 "Decatur" Richard Widmark yes
Dec 07, 1950 14 "The Third Ingredient" Ann Blythe yes
Dec 14, 1950 15 "The Promise" Robert Young yes
Dec 21, 1950 16 "The Story of Silent Night" The Lynn Murrey
Chorus
Dec 28, 1950 17 "Patrick Calls Me Mother" Martha Scott yes
Jan 04, 1951 18 "The Life of Theodore Broderick Crawfordyes
Roosevelt"
Jan 11, 1951 19 "Farmer In The Dell" Charles Bickford yes
Jan 18, 1951 20 "Old Soldiers Never Die" Raymond Massey yes
Jan 25, 1951 21 "The Golden Horde" Brice Cabot yes
Feb 01, 1951 22 "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" Deborah Kerr yes
Feb 08, 1951 23 "Abraham Lincoln: A Man For Joseph Cotton yes
The Ages"
Feb 15, 1951 24 "Cinderella" Judy Garland yes
Feb 22, 1951 25 "Valley Forge" Van Heflin yes
Mar 01, 1951 26 "Monsieur Beaucaire" D. Fairbanks, Jr. yes
Mar 08, 1951 27 "Deep Wood" Rosalind Russell yes
Mar 15, 1951 28 "The Long Winter" Edward Arnold yes
Mar 22, 1951 29 "The Long Love" Van Johnson yes
Mar 29, 1951 30 "Waterloo Bridge" Veronica Lake,
Alt: "Elizabeth, Captive D. Fairbanks, Jr. yes
Princess"

Apr 05, 1951 31 "Rest And Be Thankful" Dorothy McGuire yes
Apr 12, 1951 32 "Joy Street" Irene Dunne yes
Apr 19, 1951 33 "F.O.B. America" Robert Cummings yes
Apr 26, 1951 34 "Two Years Before The Mast" Edmund O'Brian yes
May 03, 1951 35 "A Breath of Air" Sarah Churchill yes
May 10, 1951 36 "A Man's Mother" Ethel Barrymore yes
May 17, 1951 37 "Benjamin Franklin" Lionel Barrymore yes
May 24, 1951 38 "Scudda Ho, Scudda Hay" Lin McCallister yes
May 31, 1951 39 "The Quest of John Chapman" Lew Ayres yes
Alt: "The Story of Johney
Appleseed"

.... 1951 Summer Season .....
...... airs Thursdays .......
Jun 07, 1951 1 "Whistling In The Dark" Edward E. Horton
Jun 14, 1951 2 "True Confessions" Rosalind Russell
Jun 21, 1951 3 "Payment Deferred" Hume Cronyn,
Jessica Tandy
Jun 28, 1951 4 "Double Indemnity" Gloria Swanson
Jul 05, 1951 5 "Bachelor Mother" Paulette Goddard
Jul 12, 1951 6 "Front Page" Lee Tracy
Jul 19, 1951 7 "Night Must Fall" Dan Duryea
Jul 26, 1951 8 "No Time For Comedy" Rossalind Russell
Aug 02, 1951 9 "A Double Life" D. Fairbanks, Jr.
Aug 09, 1951 10 "Petrified Forest" Wendell Corey
Aug 16, 1951 11 "Ball Of Fire" Franchot Tone,
Wendy Barrie
Aug 23, 1951 12 "An Inspector Calls" Vanessa Brown
Aug 30, 1951 13 "Accent on Youth" Joan Caufield,
J. Lynn

..... 1951/1952 Season ......
...... airs Thursdays .......
Sep 06, 1951 1 "Quality Street" Debora Kerr yes
Sep 13, 1951 2 "Francis Scott Key" Robert Young yes
Sep 20, 1951 3 "The Prisoner of Zenda" yes
Sep 27, 1951 4 "The Web of Destiny" Jane Wyman yes
Oct 04, 1951 5 "Country Lawyer" Fred MacMurray yes
Oct 11, 1951 6 "The Wild Orchard" Ann Blythe yes
Oct 18, 1951 7 "Cashel Byron's Profession" yes
Oct 25, 1951 8 "John Adams and The American Van Heflin yes
Revolution"
Nov 01, 1951 9 "Evangeline" Joan Fontaine yes
Nov 08, 1951 10 "20,000 Leagues Under The yes
Sea"
Nov 15, 1951 11 "Mississippi Bubble" Ray Malland yes
Nov 22, 1951 12 "The Widened Heart" Ann Harding yes
Nov 29, 1951 13 "Salad Days" Ronald Reagan yes
Dec 06, 1951 14 "The Night of the Hayride" Loretta Young yes
Dec 13, 1951 15 "John Hancock" Dana Andrews yes
Dec 20, 1951 16 "The Story of Silent Night" yes
Dec 27, 1951 17 "Stephen Foster" MacDonald Carey yes
Jan 03, 1952 18 "The Tamerak Tree" Lon McAllister yes
Jan 10, 1952 19 "Horse and Buggy Doctor" Lionel Barrymore yes
Jan 17, 1952 20 "Madam Clair" Agnes Moorehead yes
Jan 24, 1952 21 "James Audubon" yes
Alt: "Singing In The
Wildernesss"
Jan 31, 1952 22 "Westward Ho!" Joseph Cotton yes
Feb 07, 1952 23 "Persuasion" Deborah Kerr yes
Feb 14, 1952 24 "The Story of Clair and Joan Fontaine yes
Robert Schumann"
Feb 21, 1952 25 "Powder Mission" Barry Sullivan yes
Feb 28, 1952 26 "The Mother of the Groom" Ruth Hussey yes
Mar 06, 1952 27 "Man Without A Home" Joseph Cotton yes
Mar 13, 1952 28 "This Pleasent Leave" Deborah Kerr yes
Mar 20, 1952 29 "Time Remembered" Jane Wyman yes
Mar 27, 1952 30 "Yankee Storekeeper" Lionel Barrymore yes
Apr 03, 1952 31 "Lisa Lilywhite" Angela Lansbury yes
Apr 10, 1952 32 "Ben Hur" Jeff Chandler yes
Apr 17, 1952 33 "Doubtful Valley" Richard Widmark yes
Apr 24, 1952 34 "Professor" Joan Fontain yes
May 01, 1952 35 "Lorna Doone" David Niven yes
May 08, 1952 36 "Whistler's Mother" Jane Wyman yes
May 15, 1952 37 "Marquis de Lafayette" Jean P. Aumont yes
May 22, 1952 38 "Marsha Byrnes" Barbara Stanwyck yes
May 29, 1952 39 "Lewis & Clark" Van Heflin yes
Alt: "Forward The Nation"

.... off for the Summer .....

..... 1952/1953 Season ......
....... airs Sundays ........
Sep 14, 1952 1 "The Pathfinder" Van Heflin yes
Sep 21, 1952 ... no program ...
Sep 28, 1952 2 "Nebraska Court" Fred MacMurry yes
Oct 05, 1952 3 "Mansfield Park" Angela Lansbury yes
Oct 12, 1952 4 "Young Mr. Disraeli" Joseph Cotton yes
Oct 19, 1952 5 "Lady of the Lake" Joan Fontaine yes
Oct 26, 1952 6 "Prebble's Boy" MacDonald Carey yes
Nov 02, 1952 7 "Daniel Webster" Lionel Barrymore yes
Nov 09, 1952 8 "The Covered Bridge" Anne Baxter yes
Nov 16, 1952 9 "Thunder Shower" Edward Arnold yes
Nov 23, 1952 10 "Standish of Standish" John Hodiak yes
Nov 30, 1952 ... no program ...
Dec 07, 1952 11 "Miracle on the Blotter" Joan Fontaine yes
Dec 14, 1952 12 "Home For Christmas" Ann Blythe yes
Dec 21, 1952 ... no program ...
Dec 28, 1952 13 "A Man Called Peter" Joseph Cotton yes
Jan 04, 1953 14 "Wave High The Banner" MacDonald Carey yes
Jan 11, 1953 15 "January Thaw" Irene Dunne yes
Jan 18, 1953 16 "Forty Odd" Ruth Hussey yes
Jan 25, 1953 17 "Big Family" Fred MacMurray yes
Feb 01, 1953 18 "Trenton '76" Jane Wyman yes

HALLMARK HALL OF FAME
....... name change ........
..... and new format .......
Feb 08, 1953 1 "Henry Miller Shreve" yes
Feb 15, 1953 2 "Ida Lewis: Woman Against yes
The Sea"
Feb 22, 1953 3 "Ann Pamela Cunningham" yes
Mar 01, 1953 4 "Captain Jack Jewett: yes
Rider of the Revolution"
Mar 08, 1953 5 "Princess Sacajawea" yes
Mar 15, 1953 6 "Omar Morgan Taylor" yes
Alt: "Ottmar Merganthaler"
Mar 22, 1953 7 "Nathaniel Ritt Langford: yes
The Father of Yellowstone"
Mar 29, 1953 8 "Cyrus W. Field" yes
Apr 05, 1953 9 "Katherine Booth: The yes
Salation Angel"
Apr 12, 1953 10 "Henry Chadwick: Father of yes
Baseball"
Apr 19, 1953 11 "William Dunlap" yes
Apr 26, 1953 12 "John McDonough" yes
May 03, 1953 13 "Mark A. Carlton: Wheat yes
Doctor"
May 10, 1953 14 "Mary: Mother of Washington" yes
May 17, 1953 15 "Frederick Tudor: Ice King" yes
May 24, 1953 16 "Rev. Hannibal Goodwin" yes
May 31, 1953 17 "W. Freelin Kendrick: The yes
Helping Hand"

.... off for the Summer .....

..... 1953/1954 Season ......
...... airs Thursdays .......
Sep 13, 1953 1 "Sam Houston" yes
Sep 20, 1953 2 "George Gershwin" yes
Sep 27, 1953 3 "Marcus Whitman: Frontier yes
Doctor"
Oct 04, 1953 4 "Major Gen. William F. Dean" yes
Oct 11, 1953 5 "Edwin Laurentine Drake" yes
Oct 18, 1953 6 "Joseph McCoy" yes
Oct 25, 1953 7 "Robert Liningston" yes
Nov 01, 1953 8 "Mary Ann Bickerdyke" yes
Nov 08, 1953 9 "Sheldon Jackson" yes
Nov 15, 1953 10 "William Byers: Two Gun yes
Journalist"
Nov 22, 1953 11 "Squanto and The Cockney yes
Indian"
Nov 29, 1953 12 "Benjamin Franklin: The yes
Misunderstood Man"
Dec 06, 1953 13 "Major Charles Yeager" yes
Dec 13, 1953 14 "Alfred Bernard Nobel" yes
Dec 20, 1953 15 "A Christmas Carol" yes
Dec 27, 1953 16 "Henry Bergh" Edward Arnold yes
Jan 03, 1954 17 "True Story Of Tom Mix" John Dehner yes
Jan 10, 1954 18 "William Allen White" yes
Jan 17, 1954 19 "Mark Twain" MacDonald Carey yes
Jan 24, 1954 20 "Lord Robert Baden-Powell" Herbert Marshall yes
Jan 31, 1954 21 "Madam Curie" yes
Feb 07, 1954 22 "Lee DeForest" yes
Feb 14, 1954 23 "Mary Todd Linclon" Jane Wyman yes
Feb 21, 1954 24 "Simon Bolivar" yes
Feb 28, 1954 25 "Bernard Baruch" yes
Mar 07, 1954 26 "Nurse Edith Cavell" Helen Hayes yes
Mar 14, 1954 27 "Nostradamus" yes
Mar 21, 1954 28 "Edmund Burke" Herbert Marshall yes
Mar 28, 1954 29 "Russell Conwell" Dick Powell yes
Apr 04, 1954 30 "Dr. William Mayo" yes
Apr 11, 1954 31 "Captain Thomas Catesby Van Heflin yes
Jones"
Apr 18, 1954 32 "Lydia" Helen Hayes yes
Apr 25, 1954 33 "Stradivarius" yes
May 02, 1954 34 "Miller Huggins" Joe DiMaggio yes
May 09, 1954 35 "Albert Schweitzer" yes
May 16, 1954 36 "Damon Runyon" Van Heflin yes
May 23, 1954 37 "Victoria Regina" Helen Hayes yes

.... off for the Summer .....

..... 1954/1955 Season ......
...... airs Thursdays .......
Oct 17, 1954 1 "Theodore Roosevelt" Edward Arnold yes
Oct 24, 1954 2 "Knute Rockne of Notre Dame" Frank Leahy yes
Oct 31, 1954 3 "Captain James Cook" yes
Nov 07, 1954 4 "William Harvey" Herbert Marshall yes
Nov 14, 1954 5 "Rebecca Lee Dorsey" Helen Hayes yes
Nov 21, 1954 6 "A Tribute to Lionel yes
Barrymore"
Nov 28, 1954 7 "The Story of Danial" F. Sheen yes
Dec 05, 1954 8 "Wyatt Earp" yes
Dec 12, 1954 9 "Sarah Siddons" Helen Hayes yes
Dec 19, 1954 10 "A Christmas Carol" Lionel Barrymore, yes
Lynn Bari
Dec 26, 1954 11 "J. Edgar Hoover" yes
Jan 02, 1955 12 "Lief Erickson" yes
Jan 09, 1955 13 "Andrew Johnson of Edward Arnold yes
Tennessee"
Jan 16, 1955 14 "Charlemagne" Cornel Wilde yes
Jan 23, 1955 15 "George Washington Carver" yes
Jan 30, 1955 16 "Winston Churchill" yes
Feb 06, 1955 17 "Sigmund Freud" Lew Ayres yes
Feb 13, 1955 18 "Alphonse Bertillon" Charles Boyer yes
Feb 20, 1955 19 "John Paul Jones" yes
Feb 27, 1955 20 "Jessie Benton Freemont" yes
Mar 06, 1955 21 "Jules Verne" yes
Mar 13, 1955 22 "Trygve Lie" yes
Mar 20, 1955 23 "Leo Kowalski" yes
Mar 27, 1955 24 "Christina Grenville" yes

Dec 22, 1955 "A Christmas Carol" yes
(airs Thursday)

.... Shows with unknown .....
........ dates below ........

not known "Chisolm Trail" Tex Ritter, yes
William Conrad
not known "Giuseppi and the Serpent" yes
not known "Spirit of '76" yes
not known "Light In The Window" yes
not known "Why Keep Your Heart In yes
Cold Storage"
not known "Story of John Erikson" Roger Pryor yes
not known "Lady For Ransom" Geraldine yes
Fitzgerald
not known "Woman Who Couldn't Come yes
Home"
not known "Hand On The Latch" Dorothy McGuire yes
not known "Song From Heaven" Raymond Massey yes
not known "Master Swindle" Paul Muni yes
not known "Room For A Stranger" yes
not known "A Piece of String" yes
not known "Death Across The Table" John Garfield yes


Alphabetical Listing:

Title Date
---------------------------------------------------- ---------
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea 51-11-08
Abraham Lincoln: A Man For The Ages 51-02-08
Accent on Youth 51-08-30
Afterward 48-08-05
Albert Schweitzer 54-05-09
Alfred Bernard Nobel 53-12-13
Alphonse Bertillon 55-02-13
And There I Stood With My Piccolo 49-03-10
Andrew Johnson of Tennessee 55-01-09
Ann Pamela Cunningham 53-02-22
Anna and the King of Siam 49-09-15
Appassionata 50-04-13
April 25th, As Usual 50-02-16
Arbutus of Bonnet, The 50-04-06
Around the World in 80 Days 50-01-19
Arrowsmith 48-10-14
August Heat 49-09-29
Autobiography of Will Rogers 50-02-23
Bachelor Mother 51-07-05
Ball Of Fire 51-08-16
Barefoot Mailman, The 50-09-28
Barker, The 49-05-26
Ben Hur 52-04-10
Benjamin Franklin 51-05-17
Benjamin Franklin: The Misunderstood Man 53-11-29
Berkeley Square 49-03-03
Bernard Baruch 54-02-28
Big Build Up, The 50-09-14
Big Family 53-01-25
Breath of Air, A 51-05-03
Bride of Fortune 49-11-10
Captain Jack Jewett: Rider of the Revolution 53-03-01
Captain James Cook 54-10-31
Captain January 48-09-23
Captain Thomas Catesby Jones 54-04-11
Cashel Byron's Profession 51-10-18
Charlemagne 55-01-16
Cheers for Miss Bishop 49-12-01
Chisolm Trail unknown
Christina Grenville 55-03-27
Christmas Carol, A 53-12-20
Christmas Carol, A 54-12-19
Christmas Carol, A 55-12-22
Christopher and Columbus 49-12-08
Cimarron 48-09-09
Cinderella 51-02-15
Citadel, The 48-07-22
Clay Shuttered Doors 49-01-13
Colonel Effingham's Raid 49-11-03
Country Lawyer 51-10-04
Courtship of Miles Standish 49-11-24
Covered Bridge, The 52-11-09
Cyrus W. Field 53-03-29
Damon Runyon 54-05-16
Daniel Webster 52-11-02
Death Across The Table unknown
Decatur 50-11-30
Deep Wood 51-03-08
Desert Shall Rejoice, The 48-12-16
Devil and Danial Webster, The 48-06-10
Double Indemnity 51-06-28
Double Life, A 51-08-02
Doubtful Valley 52-04-17
Dr. Seracold 49-10-27
Dr. William Mayo 54-04-04
Drums Long The Mohawk 48-08-19
Edmund Burke 54-03-21
Edwin Laurentine Drake 53-10-11
Egg and I, The 50-01-05
Elizabeth, Captive Princess 51-03-29
Elmer The Great 48-10-07
Enchanted April 50-11-16
Enchanted Cottage, The 49-05-19
Evangeline 51-11-01
F.O.B. America 51-04-19
Failure, The 49-01-27
Farmer In The Dell 51-01-11
Father Flanagan of Boy's Town 49-12-29
Final Tribute 50-10-12
Forty Odd 53-01-18
Forward The Nation 52-05-29
Francis Scott Key 51-09-13
Frederick Tudor: Ice King 53-05-17
Free Land 48-11-25
Front Page 51-07-12
George Gershwin 53-09-20
George Washington Carver 55-01-23
Girls Are Like Boats 48-07-15
Giuseppi and the Serpent unknown
Golden Horde, The 51-01-25
Goodbye Mr. Chips 48-09-16
Goodbye, Mr. Chips 51-02-01
Great Expectations 50-11-09
Green Grass of Wyoming 50-01-26
Hand On The Latch unknown
Henry Bergh 53-12-27
Henry Chadwick: Father of Baseball 53-04-12
Henry Miller Shreve 53-02-08
Home For Christmas 52-12-14
Home To Thanksgiving 50-11-23
Home to the Hermitage 50-03-09
Horse and Buggy Doctor 52-01-10
I Like It Here 49-06-02
Ida Lewis: Woman Against The Sea 53-02-15
Immortal Wife 49-03-31
Indestructible Julia, The 50-03-02
Inspector Calls, An 51-08-23
J. Edgar Hoover 54-12-26
James Audubon 52-01-24
January Thaw 53-01-11
Jessie Benton Freemont 55-02-27
John Adams and The American Revolution 51-10-25
John Hancock 51-12-13
John McDonough 53-04-26
John Paul Jones 55-02-20
Joseph McCoy 53-10-18
Joy Street 51-04-12
Jules Verne 55-03-06
Katherine Booth: The Salation Angel 53-04-05
Kitty Foyle 49-04-21
Knee Pants 50-05-25
Knute Rockne of Notre Dame 54-10-24
Lady For Ransom unknown
Lady of the Lake 52-10-19
Lee DeForest 54-02-07
Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The 50-10-26
Leo Kowalski 55-03-20
Let The Hurricane Roar 49-10-20
Letter to Mr. Priest, A 49-11-17
Lewis & Clark 52-05-29
Lief Erickson 55-01-02
Life of Florence Nightinggale, The 50-10-05
Life of Theodore Roosevelt, The 51-01-04
Life of Tom Edison, The 50-09-07
Light In The Window unknown
Lincoln and the Baltimore Plot 50-02-09
Lincoln: The Prairie Years 49-02-03
Lisa Lilywhite 52-04-03
Long Love, The 51-03-22
Long Winter, The 51-03-15
Lord Robert Baden-Powell 54-01-24
Lorna Doone 52-05-01
Lost Horizon 48-12-30
Lydia 54-04-18
Madam Clair 52-01-17
Madam Curie 54-01-31
Major Charles Yeager 53-12-06
Major Gen. William F. Dean 53-10-04
Man's Mother, A 51-05-10
Man Called Peter, A 52-12-28
Man Without A Home 52-03-06
Mansfield Park 52-10-05
Marcus Whitman: Frontier Doctor 53-09-27
Mark A. Carlton: Wheat Doctor 53-05-03
Mark Twain 54-01-17
Marmee, Mother of Little Women 50-05-11
Marquis de Lafayette 52-05-15
Marsha Byrnes 52-05-22
Mary Ann Bickerdyke 53-11-01
Mary Todd Linclon 54-02-14
Mary: Mother of Washington 53-05-10
Master Swindle unknown
McCloud's Folly 49-01-06
Miller Huggins 54-05-02
Miracle on the Blotter 52-12-07
Mississippi Bubble 51-11-15
Mistress of the White House 50-11-02
Monsieur Beaucaire 51-03-01
Morning Glory 49-04-07
Mother 49-05-05
Mother of the Groom, The 52-02-28
Mrs. Parkington 48-10-21
Mrs. Union Station 48-06-17
My Financial Career 48-11-18
My Friend Flicka 48-11-04
My Sister Eileen 50-04-20
Nathaniel Ritt Langford: The Father of Yellowstone 53-03-22
National Velvet 49-10-06
Nebraska Court 52-09-28
Night Must Fall 51-07-19
Night of the Hayride, The 51-12-06
No Time For Comedy 51-07-26
Nostradamus 54-03-14
Not Wanted 50-10-19
Nurse Edith Cavell 54-03-07
O'Halloran's Luck 48-10-28
Old Man Minnick 48-12-02
Old Nest, The 48-08-12
Old Soldiers Never Die 51-01-18
Omar Morgan Taylor 53-03-15
One Foot in Heaven 49-04-14
Ottmar Merganthaler 53-03-15
Our Own Kind 49-03-17
Parnassus on Wheels 49-01-20
Pathfinder, The 52-09-14
Patrick Calls Me Mother 50-12-28
Payment Deferred 51-06-21
Penny Serenade 48-07-01
Persuasion 52-02-07
Petrified Forest 51-08-09
Phantom Filly 48-07-29
Piece of String, A unknown
Pioneer Preacher 50-03-30
Powder Mission 52-02-21
Prebble's Boy 52-10-26
Pride and Prejudice 48-07-08
Princess Sacajawea 53-03-08
Prisoner of Zenda, The 51-09-20
Professor 52-04-24
Promise, The 50-12-14
Quality Street 51-09-06
Quest of John Chapman, The 51-05-31
Random Harvest 49-02-17
Rebecca Lee Dorsey 54-11-14
Rest And Be Thankful 51-04-05
Rev. Hannibal Goodwin 53-05-24
Richard Carvel 50-03-23
Robert Liningston 53-10-25
Room For A Stranger unknown
Russell Conwell 54-03-28
Salad Days 51-11-29
Sam Houston 53-09-13
Sarah Siddons 54-12-12
Scudda Ho, Scudda Hay 51-05-24
Sheldon Jackson 53-11-08
Sigmund Freud 55-02-06
Simon Bolivar 54-02-21
Singing In The Wildernesss 52-01-24
Smiling Through 49-02-10
So Big 49-02-24
So Well Remembered 49-09-22
Song From Heaven unknown
Spirit of '76 unknown
Squanto and The Cockney Indian 53-11-22
Standish of Standish 52-11-23
State Fair 48-08-26
Stephen Foster 51-12-27
Story of Clair and Robert Schumann, The 52-02-14
Story of Danial, The 54-11-28
Story of John Erikson unknown
Story of Johney Appleseed, The 51-05-31
Story of Kansas City 50-06-01
Story of Silent Night, The 48-12-23
Story of Silent Night, The 49-12-22
Story of Silent Night, The 50-12-21
Story of Silent Night, The 51-12-20
Stradivarius 54-04-25
Tamerak Tree, The 52-01-03
Theodore Roosevelt 54-10-17
They Came To A River 50-04-27
Third Ingredient, The 50-12-07
This Pleasent Leave 52-03-13
Three Wishes of Jamie McBruin 50-03-16
Thunder Shower 52-11-16
Time Remembered 52-03-20
To Mary with Love 48-09-02
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A 49-04-28
Trenton '76 53-02-01
Tribute to Lionel Barrymore, A 54-11-21
True Confessions 51-06-14
True Story Of Tom Mix 54-01-03
Trygve Lie 55-03-13
Two Years Before The Mast 51-04-26
Unless Love Is Music 48-06-24
Valley Forge 51-02-22
Victoria Regina 50-05-04
Victoria Regina 54-05-23
Virginian, The 49-10-13
W. Freelin Kendrick: The Helping Hand 53-05-31
Waterloo Bridge 51-03-29
Wave High The Banner 53-01-04
Way West, The 50-01-12
Wayfarers, The 50-05-18
Web of Destiny, The 51-09-27
Wedding Morning 49-12-15
West of the Hill 50-09-21
Westward Ho! 52-01-31
Whistler's Mother 52-05-08
Whistling In The Dark 51-06-07
Why Keep Your Heart In Cold Storage unknown
Widened Heart, The 51-11-22
Wild Orchard, The 51-10-11
Wild Swan, The 48-11-11
William Allen White 54-01-10
William Byers: Two Gun Journalist 53-11-15
William Dunlap 53-04-19
William Harvey 54-11-07
Wine of Youth 50-02-02
Winston Churchill 55-01-30
Woman Who Couldn't Come Home unknown
Woman with A Sword 48-12-09
Wyatt Earp 54-12-05
Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshall 49-03-24
Yankee from Olympus 49-09-08
Yankee Storekeeper 52-03-27
You Could Look It Up 49-05-12
Young Mr. Disraeli 52-10-12


References:

* "The Big Broadcast" by Frank Buxton and Bill Owen, out of print.

* "The Ultimate History of Network Radio Programming and Guide To All
Circulating Shows", by Jay Hickerson, 27436 Desert Rose Ct.,
Leesburg, FL 34748

* "The Golden Age of Radio" by J. David Goldin, Box 542, Newtown, CT
06470

* OTR club and vendor catalogs or web sites:
* AVPRO, Don Aston, PO Box 1392, Lake Elsinore, CA 92531-1392
* Jerry Haendiges Productions, Jerry Haendiges, 13808 Sunset Dr.,
Whittier, CA 90602
* Radio Showcase, Steve Kelez, PO Box 4357, Santa Rosa, CA 95402
* University of Memphis Radio Program Archive, Microforms Dept.,
McWherter Library, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152
* Radio Historical Association of Colorado, PO Box 1908,
Englewood, CO 80150
* Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety And
Comedy, PO Box 7177, Van Nuys, CA 91409-7177
* North American Radio Archives, 134 Vincewood Dr., Nicolasville,
KY 40356
* Erstwhile Radio, PO Box 2284, Peabody, MA 01960
* Great American Radio, Gary Kramer, PO Box 504, Genesee, MI 48437


Other Logs or Books:

* Jay Hickerson Hickerson (27436 Desert Rose Ct., Leesburg, FL 34748)
offers logs for both HALLMARK PLAYHOUSE and HALLMARK HALL OF FAME.

* THE HALLMARK PLAYHOUSE log, Jerry Haendiges Productions, 13808
Sunset Dr., Whittier, CA 90602 (http://www.otrsite.com)


Reader Feedback:

* Stewart Wright identified shows from 1947 as from the Radio Reader's
Digest and not the Hallmark Playhouse. They've been removed. He
also identified the correct title for September 6, 1951.


Last Update: Jul 25, 2007


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