Hallmark Playhouse — 1949
39 episodes broadcast in 1949.
A wandering ex-newspaperman loosens a political boss's grip on a small American town during the Depression, from Louis Bromfield's story.
A woman badly hurt in a car accident and her domineering husband, in a tale shadowed by the supernatural.
Christopher Morley's story of a spirited woman who takes to the road with a horse-drawn traveling bookshop.
An aged country doctor looks back on a life spent tending his friends and neighbors rather than chasing fame and fortune.
A warm Irish love story that reaches across two generations.
Host James Hilton's own novel: a shell-shocked amnesiac and the woman who loves him through his lost years, with Joan Fontaine.
Edna Ferber's chronicle of a woman's hard-won life on the truck farms of the 19th-century Midwest.
Inheriting a London house, Peter Standish finds an ancestor's diary that carries him back into the 18th century and a love that spans the centuries; David Niven stars.
A dramatization of composer Meredith Willson's early years and his Mason City, Iowa boyhood.
A St. Patrick's Day tale of an illiterate old Irishman and the grandson he adopts, with Barry Fitzgerald.
A brisk dramatization of the frontier marshal's life, with Richard Conte.
The story of Jessie Benton Fremont and her marriage to the explorer and soldier John C. Fremont, with Loretta Young.
A stagestruck small-town girl from Vermont comes to Broadway determined to become a star; Elizabeth Taylor stars.
The true story of a devoted minister making his way in a contentious rural Iowa parish, with George Brent.
A white-collar girl from the poor side of Philadelphia, looked down on by the city's society set, builds a career on her own terms; June Allyson stars.
A girl comes of age in tenement Brooklyn, bound above all to her dreamer of a father; James Dunn reprises his film role.
A Mother's Day story of a devoted mother of seven and the ambitious daughter who comes, in time, to see her mother's true worth; Linda Darnell stars.
James Thurber's tall tale of a struggling ballclub that signs a three-foot 'midget' as its secret weapon, with William Frawley.
A scarred war veteran and a homely young woman, married almost in resignation, gradually find each other beautiful once love takes hold; Richard Widmark stars.
A love story played out along a carnival midway, bridging the gap between the generations; Charles Bickford stars.
The season's last broadcast: an affectionate look at an immigrant who has made America his own, keeping house for a family by day and treasuring his new citizenship; Paul Lukas stars.
September 8, 1949
Yankee from Olympus
September 15, 1949
Anna and the King of Siam
September 22, 1949
So Well Remembered
An eerie tale of a New York artist in a killing heatwave who finds a headstone already carved with his own name; Ronald Colman stars.
Fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown and a young stablehand train her horse Piebald to run in England's Grand National; Roddy McDowall stars.
A love story set on the western frontier.
October 20, 1949
Let the Hurricane Roar
A portrait of a weary small-town doctor, his own fears and pains, on a day that begins with the loss of a colleague; Edmund Gwenn stars.
A retired army colonel returns to his beloved hometown and wages a one-man campaign against City Hall; Charles Coburn stars.
The story of Varina Davis, wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis; Irene Dunne stars.
A small-town lawyer, once his class's brightest hope, receives a letter that makes him reckon with whether the modest life he chose squandered his promise or honored it; Lew Ayres stars.
Longfellow's Thanksgiving verse tale of the famous romantic triangle in the Plymouth colony; David Niven stars.
The life of a devoted schoolteacher followed across the years; Martha Scott reprises her film role as Ella Bishop.
December 8, 1949
Christopher and Columbus
December 15, 1949
Wedding Morning
A second telling of the Christmas carol's origin, with music director Lyn Murray honored on the air.
December 29, 1949
Father Flanagan
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