About this season
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.
Episodes (4)
1. The Patriots
Aired 15 November 1963 • 120 min
Adaptation of Kingsley's Broadway play. During the post-Revolutionary War period of the 1790s, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson clash over the precarious economic and military positions of the new republic.
2. A Cry of Angels
Aired 15 December 1963 • 120 min
The story of the writing of Handel's Messiah.
3. Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Aired 5 February 1964 • 120 min
Adaptation of the play by Robert E. Sherwood. Dramatization of Lincoln's romance with Ann Rutledge and his relations with Mary Todd Lincoln.
4. Little Moon of Alban
Aired 18 March 1964 • 120 min
A re-staging of the 1958 play, with Julie Harris reprising her role as an Irish religious nurse whose faith is tested by the deaths of her loved ones in the Irish rebellion.