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form y separately published work icon Hallmark Hall of Fame (International) assertion series - publisher   anthology   film/TV  
Alternative title: Hallmark Television Playhouse
Issue Details: First known date: 1951... 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame
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Arguably the longest-running anthology series on television, the Hallmark Hall of Fame, which first aired in 1951, presents both television dramatisations of famous plays and books and original programs especially written for the series.

Notes

  • Originally broadcast by NBC beginning in 1951, the show was titled Hallmark Television Playhouse for its first two seasons. It has been broadcast by the CBS Network since 1979.

  • The series has won or been nominated for more than forty awards (for individual programs and performances), including Directors Guild of America Awards, Emmy Awards, and Golden Globes.

  • The show began as a live program, then switched to videotape in the 1960s and finally to film (and on-location filming) in the early 1970s. The productions have ranged in length from ninety minutes through to three hours.

  • Only works by Australian script-writers or adapted from Australian works are individually indexed.

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form y separately published work icon The File on Devlin Michael Dyne , Edward Essex , United States of America (USA) : NBC , 1969 Z1523602 1969 single work film/TV A young woman finds herself embroiled in Cold War intrigue when her father, a Nobel Prize-winning author, vanishes while travelling near the Russian border. Entrusted by her father with an unfinished book he was working on before his trip, the daughter becomes engaged in a power struggle over the material with her estranged stepmother. Suspiciously befriended by a journalist in the midst of the crisis, the young woman ultimately learns that no one is to be trusted, as her father's work is of interest to the intelligence departments of several countries. United States of America (USA) : NBC , 1969
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form y separately published work icon The Echo of Thunder H. Haden Yelin , Studio City United States of America (USA) : Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions CBS , 1998 Z1134808 1998 single work film/TV

Larry, a palm tree farmer in the Australian outback, learns that his ex-wife has died, and that his daughter Lara is coming to live with him. He wants things to work out, but Lara has a rocky time with Larry's new wife Gladwyn, and their eldest daughter Pearl, as well as Gowd, a school bully. But with the help and love of her father, her new younger sister Opal, and a dog named Thunderwith, Lara begins to find the resources she needs to make a home with this new family.

 Studio City United States of America (USA) : Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions CBS , 1998

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First known date: 1951
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