Hallmark Playhouse — 1948
29 episodes broadcast in 1948.
Jabez Stone, a down-on-his-luck New Hampshire farmer, sells his soul to Mr. Scratch for seven years of prosperity -- then hires the famed orator Daniel Webster to argue his way out when the devil comes to collect.
A new bride discovers on her honeymoon that the husband she adores is hopelessly devoted to his model trains, and must learn to share him with the railroad.
A traveling businessman falls for a quiet, plainly dressed woman at a New York dinner party, only to find she is a concert pianist who now refuses to touch the keys.
Sorting through the phonograph records of a marriage that is falling apart, Julie Carey relives the joys and heartbreaks she and her husband Roger have shared.
Jane Austen's comedy of manners, as the spirited Elizabeth Bennet spars with the proud Mr. Darcy while her mother schemes to marry off five daughters.
A light comedy about a man caught between his boat and his wife.
A. J. Cronin's idealistic young Dr. Andrew Manson takes his first post in a grim Welsh mining town and sets out to uncover the cause of the miners' persistent cough.
July 29, 1948
Phantom Filly
August 5, 1948
Afterward
Rupert Hughes's sentimental tale of parents who raise six children in a loving home, then watch them scatter -- until one announcement brings the family back together.
On the New York frontier of the Revolution, settlers Gil and Lana Martin defend their farms against raids by Indians and the renegades leading them.
August 26, 1948
State Fair
September 2, 1948
To Mary, with Love
A sweeping love story set in the early days of the Oklahoma Territory, from Edna Ferber's novel.
Host James Hilton's own novel: the shy schoolmaster Mr. Chipping arrives at Brookfield in 1870 and, over a lifetime teaching English boys, finds his one great love.
A gruff old Maine lighthouse keeper rescues and raises a little girl orphaned by a shipwreck off his island.
Bob Hope plays Elmer Kane, a cocky small-town rookie ballplayer from Gallipolis, Ohio, in Ring Lardner's comic baseball yarn.
Sinclair Lewis's restless young scientist Martin Arrowsmith pursues medical research, and love, in a career that stumbles on its way toward the stars.
A woman climbs from poverty in Nevada to wealth and power in New York society, in Louis Bromfield's Mrs. Parkington.
Tim O'Halloran, a young Irish railroad laborer newly arrived in Boston, meets a genuine leprechaun who helps him regain his family's luck and win his sweetheart Kitty.
A ranch boy stakes his hopes on taming a wild young filly named Flicka, and nurses her back from a near-fatal injury.
Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale of eleven brothers turned into swans and the devoted sister who labors to break the spell.
Jack Benny stars in Stephen Leacock's comic sketch about a nervous man hopelessly out of his depth in a bank.
The hardships of a pioneering couple homesteading in the Dakota Territory.
Edna Ferber's tender, bittersweet story of an aging widower trying to fit into the household of his grown children.
How one woman played her part in helping Abraham Lincoln win the Civil War.
A warm Christmas story set at a small tourist court out in the desert.
The tale of how the beloved carol 'Silent Night' was written in an Alpine village in 1818 and carried around the world.
James Hilton introduces his own tale of Shangri-La, the hidden valley of peace, closing with a New Year's message of hope; Herbert Marshall plays Conway.
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