The story of the King who believed he ruled by divine right and was completely heedless of his personal responsibility to his people and his Kingdom. Deposed by insurgent nobles who rebelled at his excesses, Richard ultimately found dignity and true nobility in the tragedy of his ultimate ruin.

The story unfolds as Calpurnia visits her husband on the battlefield and is ordered back to Rome and there learns of a plot against Caesar. She obtains the details and makes a desperate attempt to get the news to Caesar.

A dramatization of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Adaptation of the stage version devised by Le Gallienne and Friebus of the children's classic by Lewis Carroll.

An Americanization of the play by George Bernard Shaw:

Dick Dudgeon is the local scapegrace in the New Hampshire community of Yankees where he lives. Even his own mother becomes fed up with the way he flouts the cardinal rules of good sense, good manners and good religion, and throws him out of the house. Judith, Parson Anderson's pretty wife, also has a low opinion of Dick. But Shaw proves Dick's heart is in the right place for he's kind to a poor, belabored servant girl, and, it being the time of the American Revolution, he shortly becomes a Yankee hero.

Adaptation of the Broadway play by Elmer Rice.

A fashionable young woman escapes her dull life and demanding mother by dwelling in a world of outrageous daydreams.

Adaptation of the play by Emlyn Williams.

A strong-willed teacher, determined to educate the poor and illiterate youth of an impoverished Welsh village, discovers one student whom she believes to have the seeds of genius.

Theatre usherette Lu thinks of herself as a ""good fairy"" attempting to bring happiness to all she meets.

Adaptation of the Shakespeare play.

In a Spanish monastery, a baby left on the doorstep is raised by the strict head mother and the young nuns. At age 18, she is to be married and will leave the convent.

A 90-minute condensation of George Bernard Shaw's epic play.

Adaptation of Hellmann's Broadway melodrama.

Adaptation of the Anouilh play, as adapted for Broadway by Lillian Hellmann.

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Adaptation of the Gilbert & Sullivan musical comedy.

African-American tales of spirituality and oral black storytelling through a collection of vignettes on various Biblical stories and figures.

Suggested by Roark Bradford's ""Ol' Man Adam an' his chillun,"" based on the novel of the same name by Lawrence Edward Watkin.

t is 1919 in Ireland. Brigid Mary and her mother fiercely oppose her fiance's rebel activities, for Brigid Mary's father and brother both died at the hands of the British, and the two women want no more grief. But before long, in her desperation, Brigid Mary is drawn into a religious order.

A woman who slowly comes to realize that her husband is trying to murder her for her money.

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Backstager musical loosely based on Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew,"" music and lyrics by Cole Porter.

A musical adaptation (with songs by Richard Adler) of O. Henry's familiar Christmas story. A devoted young married couple each have one prized possession—Jim his watch, Della her long, luxuriant hair. When Christmas comes, with little money on hand, each plans a surprise for the other.

His new surroundings have stimulated the imagination of Peter Standish, a young American who has moved into a mansion in present-day Berkeley Square, London. In 1784 a namesake of his, also American, had visited this house. Standish longs to travel back through time and become this 18th century visitor. His longing becomes a reality.

Hallowe'en adaptation of the stage play by Maxwell Anderson; includes a tribute to Maxwell Anderson by Helen Hayes.

Adaptation of the play by Henrik Ibsen.

A Valentine's Day production of the Shakespeare play.

An Englishman, a former judge, arrives in the Near East, where a man he had sentenced to jail many years before plans revenge.

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A musical adaptation of James Hilton's novel ""Lost Horizon,"" in which a plane crash in the Himalayas leads a group of survivors to the hidden society of Shangri-La and its closely guarded secret of longevity.

Adaptation of the stage tragedy by William Shakespeare.

An original comic opera for Christmas. Libretto by Paul Engle; music by Philip Bezanson.

Adaptation of the stage play by Anouilh: A flighty duchess plays matchmaker in the drawing rooms of the aristocracy.

An Easter biblical production of the story of the Crucifixion.

""Premiere performance of a winner in the Hallmark teleplay writing competition, selected from over 1500 entries from 19 countries.""

A drifter who discovers the body of a murder victim in an isolated farm community is appalled by the town's casual acceptance of the crime.

Adaptation of the Broadway play by Housman, chronicling Queen Victoria's 50 years on the English throne.

Comedy revolving around murder, insanity, and two charming old ladies.

Adaptation of the Putlizer Prize-winning comedy by John Patrick, based on the novel by Vern Sneider.

A US Army captain is sent to teach the fundamentals of democracy and industry to the resident of a small village in occupied Japan. The first reconstructed local industry turns out to be a teahouse staffed with traditional geishas.

An adaptation of Rostand's classic play in which a man who believes himself disfigured by a large nose instructs another man in how to court the woman he loves.

This production of Bernard Shaw's play came close on the heels of its triumphant Broadwas musical incarnation as ""My Fair Lady.""

Vignettes cover a 30-year span in the life of the famous British novelist, philosopher, and Prime Minister.

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.

The story of the writing of Handel's Messiah.

Adaptation of the play by Robert E. Sherwood.

Dramatization of Lincoln's romance with Ann Rutledge and his relations with Mary Todd Lincoln.

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.

Television adaptation of the remarkably long-running off-Broadway musical.

The Magnificent Yankee is a 1965 biographical film in the Hallmark Hall of Fame television anthology series. The film was adapted by Robert Hartung from the Emmet Lavery play of the same title, which was in-turn adapted from the book Mr. Justice Holmes by Francis Biddle. The story examines the life of United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne won Emmy Awards for their performances. Noel Taylor received an Emmy Award nomination for his costume design, and Warren Clymer received an Emmy for scenic design.

Biography of the pioneering nurse Florence Nightingale.

Napoleon's last days of exile on the barren island of St. Helena.

Adaptation of the Broadway play by Lawrence and Lee.

A young man, Bert Cates, is arrested in a small Bible Belt town for teaching the theory of Evolution in the public school. Two of the finest legal minds in the U.S. are called to the trial: Henry Drummond for the defense, and Matthew Harrison Brady for the prosecution. The trial proceeds on three levels, the guilt or innocence of Cates, the issue of the Bible vs. Darwin, and finally, the personal confrontation between Drummond and Brady.

""The 68th major production, and the 15th continuous Hallmark Hall of Fame season.""

A depiction of Galileo's clash with the Catholic Church.

Adaptation of Anderson's Broadway play about the philosopher Socrates' clash with authority.

Noel Coward's classic comedy about a playwright researching the supernatural who inadvertently summons the ghost of his ex-wife.

In Berlin during 1926, a group of monarchist conspirators persuades an amnesiac girl to impersonate Anastasia, daughter of Czar Nicholas II, whose children were thought to have been killed in 1918 during the Russian Civil War. According to rumor, Anastasia survived - and will inherit the Czar's millions if she can prove her identity.

Historical drama about the troubled relationship between Queen Anne and the ambitious couple General John Churchill and his wife Sarah.

Adaptation of the George Bernard Shaw play which introduced Québec actress Genevieve Bujold to American television.

Adaptation of the Broadway play by Maxwell Anderson about the stormy relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and the Earl of Essex.

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Adaptation of the Cold War thriller by Catherine Gaskin.

Sally Devlin struggles to locate her father, an eminent author who has vanished near the Iron Curtain.

An irreverent Biblical retelling wherein the Gideon spends most of his time kvetching with the Angel of the Lord.

Documentary-style dramatization of the Potsdam Conference, based on the book Meeting at Potsdam by Charles L. Mee, Jr.