is a Long Runner series of (mostly) serious Made For TV Movies produced and promoted by the Hallmark greeting card company in the US, usually featured on the Hallmark Channel. Outside of PBS and the Met, Hallmark Hall Of Fame is one of the few productions still sponsored and aired (on occasion) by a single corporate benefactor. The works vary all over the place -- from hard-hitting drama and tragedy, to soft-tissue Melodrama and slice-of-life pics.
For the more general Genre of shows that express some form of "Hallmark Sentiment", see A Hallmark Presentation.
Notable entries include dramas which challenge such audience expectations.
For the Darker and Edgier version, see HBO, Lifetime Movie of the Week.
Not to be confused with movies made for The Hallmark Channel, which often aren't part of this series.
Notable Entries in the Series
- 1987's "The Secret Garden" won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program
Tropes used in Hallmark Hall of Fame include:
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Awarded from 1950 to 2020. |
| 1950–1980 |
- Time for Beany (1950)
- Time for Beany (1951)
- No Award (1952)
- Time for Beany (1953)
- Kukla, Fran and Ollie (1954)
- Lassie (1955)
- Lassie (1956)
- No Award (1957–1959)
- The Huckleberry Hound Show (1960)
- Young People's Concert (1961)
- New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts with Leonard Bernstein (1962)
- Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (1963)
- Discovery (1964)
- No Award (1965)
- A Charlie Brown Christmas (1966)
- Jack and the Beanstalk (1967)
- No Award (1968–1969)
- Sesame Street (1970)
- Sesame Street (1971)
- Sesame Street (1972)
- ABC Afterschool Special / The Electric Company / Sesame Street / Zoom (1973)
- Marlo Thomas and Friends in Free to Be... You and Me (1974)
- Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1975)
- Huckleberry Finn / You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown (1976)
- Ballet Shoes (1977)
- Halloween Is Grinch Night (1978)
- Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (1979)
- Benji at Work (1980)
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| 1981–2005 |
- Donahue and Kids (1981)
- The Wave (1982)
- Big Bird in China (1983)
- He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' (1984)
- American Playhouse ("Displaced Person") (1985)
- WonderWorks ("Anne of Green Gables") (1986)
- Jim Henson's The Storyteller ("Hans My Hedgehog") (1987)
- ("The Secret Garden") (1988)
- Free to Be... a Family (1989)
- A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story (1990)
- You Can't Go Home Again: A 3-2-1 Contact Extra (1991)
- Mark Twain and Me (1992)
- Avonlea / Beethoven Lives Upstairs (1993)
- CBS Schoolbreak Special ("Kids Killing Kids / Kids Saving Kids") (1994)
- The World Wildlife Fund Presents "Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger" (1995)
- Peter and the Wolf (1995)
- How Do You Spell God? (1997)
- Muppets Tonight / Nick News Special Edition: What Are You Staring At? (1998)
- The Truth About Drinking: The Teen Files (1999)
- The Color of Friendship / Goodnight Moon and Other Sleepytime Tales (2000)
- The Teen Files: Surviving High School (2001)
- Nick News Special Edition — Faces of Hope: The Kids of Afghanistan (2002)
- Through a Child's Eyes: September 11, 2001 (2003)
- Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me (2004)
- Classical Baby / Nick News with Linda Ellerbee: Never Again? From the Holocaust to the Sudan (2005)
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| 2006–2020 |
- High School Musical / I Have Tourette's but Tourette's Doesn't Have Me (2006)
- Nick News with Linda Ellerbee — Private Worlds: Kids and Autism (2007)
- Classical Baby (I'm Grown Up Now): The Poetry Show / Nick News with Linda Ellerbee: The Untouchable Kids of India (2008)
- Wizards of Waverly Place / Grandpa, Do You Know Who I Am? with Maria Shriver / Nick News with Linda Ellerbee — Coming Home: When Parents Return from War (2009)
- Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie / Nick News with Linda Ellerbee — The Face of Courage: Kids Living with Cancer (2010)
- A Child's Garden of Poetry / Nick News with Linda Ellerbee — Under the Influence: Kids of Alcoholics (2011)
- Wizards of Waverly Place / Sesame Street: Growing Hope Against Hunger (2012)
- Nick News with Linda Ellerbee — Forgotten But Not Gone: Kids, HIV & AIDS (2013)
- One Last Hug: Three Days at Grief Camp (2014)
- Alan Alda and the Actor Within You: A YoungArts Masterclass (2015)
- It's Your 50th Christmas, Charlie Brown! (2016)
- Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas (2017)
- The Magical Wand Chase: A Sesame Street Special (2018)
- When You Wish Upon a Pickle: A Sesame Street Special (2019)
- The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance / We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest (2020)
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