First Broadcast:
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Amahl and the Night Visitors on Christmas Eve 1951
(first opera ever commissioned for television)
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Average Running Time of Broadcast:
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96 minutes
(8-10 minutes longer than typical made-for-television movies)
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Number of Broadcasts:
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249 as of April 2013
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Number of Awards:
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132 Total
80 Emmys (more than twice as many as any other TV series)
28 Christopher Awards
11 Peabody Awards
9 Golden Globes
4 Humanitas Prizes
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Award-Winning Actors:
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64 Academy Award-winning actors have appeared in Hallmark Hall of Fame presentations. That is one-fourth of all the actors who have ever won an Oscar.
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Most-Watched Broadcast:
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1997 production of What the Deaf Man Heard, starring Matthew Modine and James Earl Jones, holds the series' viewership record of nearly 23 million viewers.
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Most-Honored Broadcast:
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1986 production of Promise, starring James Garner and James Woods, is the most-honored single program in television history (5 Emmys, 1 Christopher Award, 1 Peabody Award, 2 Golden Globes, 1 Humanitas Prize).
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Length of Hallmark Commercials:
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2 minutes average
(for those running during Hallmark Hall of Fame movies)
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Average Number of Hallmark Commercials:
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8 commercials per 2-hour broadcast |