T H E H A L L M A R K P L A Y H O U S E ----- --------------- ----------------- 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. 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. Two catalogs listed shows in 1947. Dates listed at the top are based on Jay Hickerson's guide and J. David Goldin's book. Shows with 1947 dates are included in the log, listed as "unverified". 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 ------------ --- ----------------------------- ----------------- ----- ..... unverified season ..... ...... airs Thursdays ....... Feb 13, 1947 "The Counsel Assigned" Raymond Massey yes Feb 20, 1947 "One Man Posse" Wallace Beery yes Feb 27, 1947 "We Were Expecting You At yes Dicar" Mar 06, 1947 "Pete's Thanksgiving" Otto Krugar yes Mar 13, 1947 "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" yes Mar 20, 1947 "Della" yes Mar 27, 1947 "Yankee from Olympus" Roger Pryor yes Apr 03, 1947 "The Man Who Conquered yes Devil's Island" Apr 10, 1947 "Portrait of an America" yes Apr 17, 1947 "Eleven Against The Nazi yes A-Bomb" Apr 24, 1947 "The Story of Babe Ruth" Babe Ruth yes May 01, 1947 "Dr. Mike" John Garfield yes .... 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, D. Fairbanks, Jr. yes Alt: "Elizabeth, Captive 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 ? "Ladies of the Jury" L. Watson ? "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 Counsel Assigned, The 47-02-13 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 Della 47-03-20 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. Mike 47-05-01 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 Eleven Against The Nazi A-Bomb 47-04-17 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 Ladies of the Jury 51-09-06 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 Who Conquered Devil's Island, The 47-04-03 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 One Man Posse 47-02-20 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 Pete's Thanksgiving 47-03-06 Petrified Forest 51-08-09 Phantom Filly 48-07-29 Piece of String, A unknown Pioneer Preacher 50-03-30 Portrait of an America 47-04-10 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 Babe Ruth, The 47-04-24 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 Sweet Rosie O'Grady 47-03-13 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 We Were Expecting You At Dicar 47-02-27 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 47-03-27 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, Box 4321, Hamden, CT 06514 * "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 (Box 4321, Hamden, CT 06514) 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) Last Update: May 20, 2004 This log is informational only. It does not imply that I or my references have these shows for trade or sale. The shows may still be protected under copyright law and should be obtained only from authorized dealers. The log may be freely reproduced and published on a no-profit basis. Please send error corrections or additional information to Frank M. Passage, 109 Elmwood Road, Verona, NJ 07044 (email: wb2ntp@arrl.net).