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Apr 12, 1951 · 29:00
In 1951 Joy Street was Francis Parkinson Keyes's latest novel and headed the list of bestsellers throughout America.…
Apr 13, 1950 · 28:43
Today we present a story written by the host of Hallmark Playhouse, James Hilton. The hero is a great pianist, and the…
Apr 14, 1949 · 29:00
A story of a good man a clergy man who lived and worked in Iowa One Foot In Heaven is a true story about Hartzell…
Apr 19, 1951 · 29:36
The beginnings of the automobile age, the days when the horse and buggy were just beginning to get replaced for the new…
Apr 20, 1950 · 28:21
Ruth and her beautiful sister Eileen come to New York's Greenwich Village looking for "fame, fortune and a 'For Rent'…
Apr 21, 1949 · 30:58
Kitty Foyle is a truly American heroine, high-spirited, forthright and abundantly sensitive to life as it unfolds for…
Apr 26, 1951 · 30:15
Published over a century ago, when California was still a province of Mexico, and when the few Americans who went there…
Apr 27, 1950 · 29:06
Tonight on the Hallmark Playhouse it's Alice McKay's They Came To A River - a brave story about brave people. A love…
Apr 28, 1949 · 30:01
There's a tree that grow in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. It grows in boarded up lots and out of…
Apr 5, 1951 · 29:46
I suppose there isn't one of us, who hasn't at some time or another dreamed of a place where he might find refuge from…
Apr 6, 1950 · 29:20
Written by: Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Arbutus Bonnet is an Easter story with an Easter message. Introduced by the…
Apr 7, 1949 · 30:06
Written by Pulitzer Prize winner, Zoë Akins, today's play handles with great sympathy and discernment the theme of a…
Aug 12, 1948 · 28:15
A sentimental story by Rupert Hughes written around 1912, which was based upon his family and early life, and was later…
Aug 19, 1948 · 27:41
You are about the hear the story of the American Revolution. Not in terms of Valley Forge and Yorktown, but as it was…
Aug 5, 1948 · 28:53
Tonight's Hallmark Playhouse offers the first radio performance of a strange and fascinating story by one of America's…
Dec 1, 1949 · 29:00
Cheers For Miss Bishop is a delightful story which is just as much a love story as any you have ever heard or read…
Dec 13, 1951 · 17:30
Today, the biography of John Hancock is dramatized, a man whose signature may well be the best known in our history. If…
Dec 14, 1950 · 30:42
Can anyone identify the exact moment when a beautiful sunset begins, or when a marriage starts to die? The first time…
Dec 15, 1949 · 28:26
A romantic comedy, but more than that, it is a wonderful love story, about the most important day in the life of a…
Dec 16, 1948
Step back in time to a heartwarming Christmas Eve tale with The Desert Shall Rejoice. Join Hollywood's finest stars in…
Dec 19, 1946 · 29:45
There Was Room For A Stranger is the true and heart-warming story of a lonely young man’s Christmas Eve in a small…
Dec 2, 1948 · 26:20
SOUND QUALITY NOTICE: Although this starts a little bad in the intro it gets better. The story is very audible. Do not…
Dec 23, 1948 · 28:00
The Story of Silent Night tells how that wonderful Christmas carol Silent Night came to be written in 1818. This story…
Dec 28, 1950 · 30:07
This is the story of a child, a child rescued from the past and offered the chance of a new life. It's a story which is…
Dec 28, 1952 · 30:17
Hallmark Playhouse present to you a dramatization of Catherine Marshall’s eloquent eulogy to her husband, A Man Called…
Dec 30, 1948 · 29:45
James Hilton introduces the story and tells you that while you won’t find Shangri-la on any maps everyone can find his…
Dec 6, 1951 · 28:09
Occasionally it happens that a single chance event can pull the switch, as it were, that can send the rest of the…
Dec 7, 1950 · 31:05
The story follows Hetty Pepper, a lower-class woman who has just been fired from her job at a department store. With…
Dec 8, 1949 · 29:23
This is a very delightful story by the fine English writer, Miss Elizabeth von Arnim. The story was written a good many…
Dec 9, 1948 · 26:40
Based on the true story of Anna Ella Carroll, a Maryland native, who freed her slaves and fought against secession.…
Feb 1, 1951 · 28:24
Tonight's story is one of James Hilton's own. The story of Mr Chips is that of a school master who grew up old and…
Feb 1, 1953 · 29:11
Step back in time to the American Revolution with this gripping tale of love, loyalty, and liberty. Jane Wyman shines…
Feb 10, 1949 · 30:17
A Hallmark Playhouse production of one of the most successful heart warming plays of all time. The play opens in a…
Feb 15, 1951 · 29:15
One of the world's best known story. Nobody knows who wrote Cinderella - perhaps people made it up whilst they wished…
Feb 16, 1950 · 29:04
Milly Brewster of Winnebago, Wisconsin always cleaned house in September and April. She started in the attic and worked…
Feb 17, 1949 · 30:00
Hallmark Playhouse present a dramatization of Random Harvest by James Hilton (1941) and starring Joan Fontaine. James…
Feb 2, 1950 · 27:54
One of the greatest love stories of all time, this is the story of Elizabeth Barrett, told against its background of…
Feb 22, 1951 · 29:41
Today's tale is a well-known one, from those days of destiny, when the future of America hung in the balance, and when…
Feb 23, 1950 · 30:21
Today's Hallmark Playhouse brings to you the Autobiography of Will Rogers. In this special broadcast, James Hilton and…
Feb 24, 1949 · 28:45
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and widely considered to be Edna Ferber's greatest achievement, So Big is a classic story…
Feb 3, 1949 · 27:00
QUALITY WARNING: Very crackly. Based on the book The Prairie Years which forms a part of the great biography of Abraham…
Feb 7, 1952 · 30:44
Anne Elliot is a 27-year-old spinster who is intelligent and warm. Her father, Sir Walter Elliot, is a very vain man…
Feb 8, 1951 · 29:18
This is a touching portrayal of Abraham Lincoln's early years in New Salem, Illinois. Joseph Cotton delivers a…
Feb 9, 1950
This is a thrilling dramatization of a lesser-known incident from Abraham Lincoln's life. As the newly elected…
Jan 11, 1951 · 28:00
Farmer In The Dell is a light-hearted story with a moral. It handles one of the perennial themes of American life, the…
Jan 11, 1953 · 29:51
Tonight's story is about a young couple who fall in love at first sight, with a farmhouse in New England. Margie and…
Jan 12, 1950 · 30:01
This is the story of an 1845 wagon train travelling along the Oregon Trail. The tale begins in Independence, Missouri…
Jan 13, 1949 · 28:46
Life slips through our hands like the sand in an hour glass, but where does life end and death begin? Thalia Corson is…
Jan 18, 1951 · 30:02
The strange thing about war is that amidst all its humanity to man, it does make some men more human, and this happened…
Jan 18, 1953 · 30:13
Mary hadn't slept all night, with the restless hours spent passing the years in revue. Now the grey light of the…
Jan 19, 1950 · 27:48
This is the story of the punctual Phileas Fogg who wagers that it is possible to travel around the world, in not one…
Jan 20, 1949 · 28:51
A charming story with an intriguing title. This tale opens in the spring of the year 1913 in New England. Helen hasn't…
Jan 25, 1951 · 28:03
In American history, there is an almost inexhaustible background for the kind of fiction in which personal adventure…
Jan 25, 1953 · 29:27
When we turn to the books of Bellamy Partridge, we're sure to find a story that both warms the heart and brings a smile…
Jan 27, 1949 · 29:37
A wonderfully heart warming chronicle of a plain man's life. There have been many stories of doctors throughout the…
Jan 31, 1952 · 30:54
It was a year which was to live on in book, in song, and in men's hearts. A year in which the history of the world was…
Jan 4, 1951
Step into the captivating world of Theodore Roosevelt in this engaging radio drama. Broderick Crawford delivers a…
Jan 4, 1953 · 29:49
American history is a fascinating subject - not only because of all the many stirring events which have gone into the…
Jan 5, 1950 · 29:10
Let's start the New Year laughing, with a book that had all of America laughing. It's a delightful story with its…
Jan 6, 1949 · 23:13
MacLeods's Folly is a warm-hearted and clear headed yarn about the exciting things that can happen in a small American…
Jul 1, 1948 · 28:59
Quite alone on a corner of one of the less fashionable suburbs in West Chester County, New York stood a squat, ugly two…
Jul 15, 1948 · 28:15
Written by: Charles Rawlings
Jul 22, 1948 · 28:04
Andrew Manson is just beginning his career as a doctor at 24 years old, and he has chosen his first position in a small…
Jul 8, 1948 · 28:48
This is a truly wonderful and exciting dramatization of an unforgettable story. Netherfield Park has been taken over by…
Jun 1, 1950 · 1:00:53
This story began over one hundred years ago, when Senator Tom Benton was travelling along the Missouri by steam boat.…
Jun 10, 1948 · 28:22
Jabez Stone is an unlucky farmer who unwisely sells his soul to the devil for seven years of prosperity of all the…
Jun 17, 1948 · 28:17
I don't know how you feel about trains, but for me, I've had a very real fascination since I was quite young and had…
Jun 2, 1949 · 28:36
In its own lighthearted way, I Like It Here is a story which seeks to show what it can mean to be an American citizen.…
Jun 24, 1948 · 28:55
Well you leave Onondaga on a business trip to New York. You're invited to a dinner party in the upper fifties. You sit…
Mar 1, 1951 · 29:45
Do you sometimes feel that you were born in the wrong century? That perhaps you would have preferred to live in a…
Mar 10, 1949 · 30:12
Tonight's show is a wonderful tribute to Meredith Willson, taken from his book, and chronicles his early years. He is…
Mar 13, 1952 · 30:34
This is a story by a fine young, Irish novelist about her own country, not only appropriate to the celebration of St…
Mar 15, 1951 · 29:47
In early August it was hard to believe that wind and snow and ice could ever drive the sun out of the sky, wither the…
Mar 17, 1949 · 29:10
Our Own Kind is a warm hearted and appropriate story suited to St Patrick's day starring superb Irish actor Barry…
Mar 2, 1950 · 29:08
For over twenty years, Julia aged forty five, had lived on Long Island, and there she had raised her late sister's…
Mar 20, 1952 · 30:43
In our lives, we have all lived through a time remembered. Indeed it often seems that life moved into high gear the…
Mar 22, 1951 · 29:59
The gentle hills of Massachusetts warm themselves in the eastern noon light, and the river winding its way through the…
Mar 24, 1949 · 25:51
Introduced by distinguished novelist Mr James Hilton as a dramatization of a fine piece of work by American…
Mar 29, 1951 · 29:17
It is the month of July, and the year is 1553. Henry VIII is in his grave, and the boy king Edward VI rules England,…
Mar 3, 1949 · 29:05
Peter Standish who inherited the house in Berkeley Square in London in 1939 from Mr Pettigrew. He finds a diary…
Mar 30, 1950 · 29:18
Pioneer Preacher is a biographical narrative of George Carroll Berryman, a Baptist preacher in turn-of-the century west…
Mar 31, 1949 · 30:00
Immortal Wife is the story of a woman Jessie Benton Fremont who married one of the greatest pioneers of American…
Mar 8, 1951 · 29:49
All of the great cities of the world were once small towns, and if a town remains small, it doesn't mean that it lacks…
Mar 9, 1950 · 28:58
Today's Hallmark Playhouse tells the life story and love story of a soldier who became a President - America's 7th…
May 10, 1951 · 29:50
A Man's Mother was written by Gladys Hasty Carroll (1940) tells of a mother whose heart was both warm and strong, a…
May 12, 1949 · 30:20
Grandpa is telling his grandson Jamie tales about the old times of baseball - especially the time when Pearl DeMonville…
May 17, 1951 · 28:32
The story of Benjamin Franklin, dramatized from a book which won the Pulitzer Prize - Carl Van Doren's fine biography.…
May 19, 1949 · 29:13
First produced as a play after World War I, and as a film in 1924, The Enchanted Cottage is about the illusion of…
May 24, 1951 · 28:39
The earth comes alive in the Springtime, and so does the heart of a boy. The branches and trees fill with new life,…
May 25, 1950 · 29:22
It was the dawn of the twentieth century in uptown New York. It was the time when the Schumacher's bought their first…
May 26, 1949 · 28:25
Today's story has the fascinating background of a carnival - and there's nobody who doesn't enjoy a carnival, for its…
May 3, 1951 · 29:56
Today on Hallmark Playhouse we present a dramatization of the latest novel of a very fine English writer, Rumer Godden.…
May 31, 1951 · 29:46
Jonny Appleseed was a folk hero and one of America's fondest legends. His real name was John Chapman, and he was born…
May 5, 1949 · 26:11
Hallmark Playhouse presents a story, which has not only proved extremely popular since its first publication but it's…
Nov 1, 1951 · 27:16
This is a story of our history, which Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote over 150 years ago. Many of us remember it from…
Nov 10, 1949 · 28:56
If you are interested in the Civil War, then you are sure to enjoy this radio show. The Bride of Fortune is Varina…
Nov 11, 1948 · 30:09
We shall tell a story today, which has not only endeared itself to generations, but the words and voice of a man best…
Nov 17, 1949 · 28:49
This is a wonderfully engaging story about a country lawyer. As the story begins, Marshall Fanning, Attorney at Law, is…
Nov 18, 1948 · 29:08
My Financial Career is a comedy dramatization of a short story by Stephen Leacock. As this story concerns a man and a…
Nov 23, 1950 · 30:27
Miss Hamilton, weaving history with her fiction, brings into the story true great American names forever associated in…
Nov 24, 1949 · 28:24
The Courtship of Miles Standish by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1858 is a story in verse, which tells of an incident…
Nov 25, 1948 · 30:49
Prepare for a compelling journey into the heart of the American frontier with 'Free Land', a story that beautifully…
Nov 29, 1948 · 42:53
At a café on a railway station, housewife Laura Jesson meets Dr. Alec Harvey. Although they are both already married,…
Nov 29, 1951 · 29:16
There often comes a moment in a young man's life when something quite accidental crops up to set him thinking back over…
Nov 3, 1949 · 28:37
The year 1940 was noteworthy for two events; Europe was embroiled in war, and Col Effingham retired after thirty five…
Nov 30, 1950 · 30:04
Today's story tells the tale of an American naval officer, Stephen Decatur. As every American knows, Decatur was one of…
Nov 4, 1948 · 28:47
Young Ken isn't doing very well at school and his mother things he should be given a Colt as he needs to succeed at…
Oct 11, 1951 · 27:40
It was a long way from the friendly orchards of Harriat's childhood to the wild, untamed orchards on the island of…
Oct 13, 1949 · 28:43
Today's story is a classic tale of the American old west. In 1875 when the story took place around Cheyenne, Wyoming,…
Oct 14, 1948 · 30:56
Today the Hallmark Playhouse brings a dramatization of a story written by a man who was judged worthy of both the…
Oct 18, 1951 · 27:43
The dramatization today is a George Bernard Shaw masterpiece. Shaw, of course, is best known for his plays and his wit,…
Oct 20, 1949 · 28:20
Newlyweds Caroline and Charles Baker are only sixteen and eighteen years old when they head west to make a home in the…
Oct 21, 1948 · 27:19
Susie Parkington remembers the story of her life, and where it all began six decades earlier, as a maid in frontier…
Oct 25, 1951 · 27:59
This is the story of a very remarkable man and a great American. Born a British subject, he took a leading part in the…
Oct 27, 1949 · 28:15
It was already long past midnight, but Dr Sericold still sat over his day books, making his entries. His day had begun…
Oct 28, 1948 · 27:38
Tim O'Halloran came to Boston from Ireland by steerage in the middle of the nineteenth century. A farm boy in his early…
Oct 4, 1951 · 28:01
Today's show brings to you the story of a country lawyer, a warm, human personality who breathes the very life of a…
Oct 6, 1949 · 28:22
National Velvet is the story of a 14-year-old girl named Velvet Brown, who with the help of Mi Taylor who was a…
Oct 7, 1948 · 28:51
His name was Elmer Kane, a rookie baseball player sometimes known as Hurricane, and sometimes known as Elmer the Great.…
Sep 13, 1951 · 28:08
In the beginning of our history, many noble words were spoken and written and sung, and this is the story of how some…
Sep 16, 1948 · 26:11
In 1870, Mr. Charles Chipping, an unsophisticated, very shy young man, starts a teaching career at Brookfield, an…
Sep 2, 1948 · 29:13
This is one of those stories that people probably remember best because they can recall their own emotions in reading…
Sep 20, 1951 · 28:39
Every year there came a rose with its simple message, Rudolf, Flavia, Always. Rudolf, the tall, red-headed Englishman…
Sep 23, 1948 · 28:49
Once upon a time, on an island off the coast of Maine, there lived in a lighthouse, an old sea captain named January,…
Sep 27, 1951 · 27:41
This history of our nation is the history of countless brave men and women whose names who have never gotten into…
Sep 29, 1949 · 28:29
It is August 20th, 1949 - a day to remember. The newspapers with blazing headlines, said that the temperature was well…
Sep 8, 1949 · 28:29
Hallmark today brings to you the story of Oliver Wendell Holmes, a symbol of democracy, a pillar of human understanding…
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