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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.
Seasons
1. Amahl and the Night Visitors
Broadcast live from New York, Gian Carlo Menotti's Christmas story was the first opera commissioned for television, and was repeated in several subsequent telecasts.
2. Doctor Serocold
A Hollywood press agent is assigned to promote a starlet with whom he was once in love.
3. Love Story
Adaptation of the novel by Helen Ashton.
4. The Big Build-Up
Dramatization of the love affair between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
5. The Story of Roger Williams
In 1631 Roger Williams landed in Boston. He had come to America to find freedom of belief and worship; instead, he found the church here still connected to the church in England and just as oppressive. He refused to join the church in Boston because it still held communion with the Church of England, from which he had just fled. He thought it his duty to renounce all connection with any church that would stain its hands in the blood of the Lord's people.
6. Florence Nightingale
Biography of Florence Nightingale: her determination to build hospitals and train nurses for the sick and disabled during the Crimean War, her correspondence with the Minister of War, and the letter of appreciation she received from Queen Victoria.
7. Woman with a Sword
Story of Anna Ella Carroll, prominent member of a Maryland family who served as unofficial but close advisor and special representative to President Lincoln.
8. The Plot to Kidnap General Washington
Irish-American tailor Hercules Mulligan's contribution to the American Revolution.
9. Mistress of the White House
The story of Dolley Madison.
10. Prelude
The meeting of George Sand and Frederic Chopin.
11. Juliette Low and the Girl Scouts
The founding of the Girl Scouts, presented on the occasion of their 40th anniversary.
12. Constitution Island
A salute to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on its 150th anniversary, focusing on Anna Warner's historic gift of Contitution Island to the institution; set in 1907.
13. Harriet Quimby
The story of America's first woman aviator.
14. The Vision of Father Flanagan
The story of Reverend Edward Joseph Flanagan who, as a young priest from Ireland, founded Boys Town, Nebraska, where outcast boys could find the love and care denied them in their own homes.
15. Ordeal by White House
Little-known incidents in the life of Grover Cleveland.
16. Anne Bradstreet, Puritan Poetess
Story of America's first woman author.
17. Miracle in May
Dr. Edward Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccination.
18. The Face of Spain
The life of Francisco Goya; set in Spain, 1786.
19. A Woman for the Ages
The story of Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams.
20. Reign of Terror
Eliza Monroe, in Paris as the wife of the U.S. Foreign Minister toFrance, obtains Madame Lafayette's release from prison and sentence of death by guillotine.
21. The Magnificent Failure
A biography of Louisa May Alcott, ending with her writing of ""Little Women"" in 1860.
22. The King's Author
Biography of Ben Jonson, covering the writing of Eastward ho; set in London, 1606.
23. Nefretiti, Queen of Egypt
Biography of Nefretiti, illustrating her life with the Pharoah and her influence on Egyptian history and culture.
24. Mr. and Mrs. Freedom
The story of Anna and John Peter Zenger and their fight for freedom of the press.
25. Forgotten Children
A dramatization honouring American educator Martha Berry, founder of Mt. Berry, a Georgia home for mountain people.
26. Our Sister Emily
The story of the Bronte sisters.
27. The Legend of Josiah Blow
An infantryman in the American Revolution lights a firecracker and gets blown into another generation.
28. The Real Glory
Story of a town in U.S. taken over by corrupt men due to the neglect of the citizenry.
29. Salvage
An aging man thinks his usefulness to society is at an end.
30. 21-Plus
Story of the importance of one vote in an election.
31. The Carlson Legend
A young state senator runs into a moral problem while conducting a cleanup campaign.
32. The Last Command
33. I Lift Up My Lamp
A young Czech girl in the U.S. is faced with the choice of returning to her family behind the Iron Curtain or remaining free in the U.S.
34. Crabapple Saint
Story of Johnny Appleseed, the wanderer who planted trees as he traveled.
35. Refresher Course
Story of a wealthy middle-aged married couple who retrace their honeymoon, and in so doing, regain their love for each other.
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Ray Donovan
Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, Ray Donovan does the dirty work for LA's top power players, and makes their problems disappear. His father's unexpected release from prison sets off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core.
Breaking Bad
Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.
Stranger Things
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.
Death Note
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?
Obi-Wan Kenobi
During the reign of the Galactic Empire, former Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, embarks on a crucial mission to confront allies turned enemies and face the wrath of the Empire.
WandaVision
Wanda Maximoff and Vision—two super-powered beings living idealized suburban lives—begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.
Wednesday
Smart, sarcastic and a little dead inside, Wednesday Addams investigates twisted mysteries while making new friends — and foes — at Nevermore Academy.
Squid Game
Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes.
It
In 1960, seven outcast kids known as "The Losers' Club" fight against an ancient shape-shifting alien who poses as a child-killing clown, while also dealing with bullies and abusive parents. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the creature once and for all when it returns to their hometown.
Friends
Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get from each other to be the perfect antidote to the pressures of life.
Game of Thrones
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.
Two and a Half Men
A hedonistic jingle writer's free-wheeling life comes to an abrupt halt when his brother and 10-year-old nephew move into his beach-front house.
Chernobyl
The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
Doctor Who
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.
The Boys
A group of vigilantes known informally as “The Boys” set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.
Better Call Saul
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".
Money Heist
To carry out the biggest heist in history, a mysterious man called The Professor recruits a band of eight robbers who have a single characteristic: none of them has anything to lose. Five months of seclusion - memorizing every step, every detail, every probability - culminate in eleven days locked up in the National Coinage and Stamp Factory of Spain, surrounded by police forces and with dozens of hostages in their power, to find out whether their suicide wager will lead to everything or nothing.
Young Sheldon
The early life of child genius Sheldon Cooper, later seen in The Big Bang Theory.
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