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Omnibus

Omnibus — Season 5

IMDb 7.0 HD 1952 8 Seasons 159 Episodes

Omnibus is an American, commercially sponsored, educational television series.

Episodes

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E1 The American Musical Comedy
Aired 07 Oct 1956

No overview available.

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E2 Androcles and the Lion
Aired 14 Oct 1956

No overview available.

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E3 The Last Day of Manolete
Aired 21 Oct 1956

No overview available.

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E4 My Heart's in the Highlands
Aired 28 Oct 1956

No overview available.

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E5 Let There Be Farce
Aired 04 Nov 1956

No overview available.

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E6 Moliere's School for Wives
Aired 11 Nov 1956

The program has two segments: (1) "Moliere's School for Wives" (comedy play by Moliere), and (2) "Skull Session" (survey of college football in the U.S.).

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E7 Plays of the Irish Renaissance
Aired 18 Nov 1956

The program has three segments: (1) "Plays of the Irish Renaissance" (scenes from works by Irish playwrights), (2) "The Era of Wonderful Nonsense" (documentary on crazy ways of making a living in the 1920s), and (3) "On the Bowery" (showing of an excerpt from a 1956 film dealing with the life of down-and-outs in a downtown area of New York).

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E8 The Blue Hotel
Aired 25 Nov 1956

The program has three segments: "The Blue Hotel" (adaptation of a Stephen Crane story), "The Children's Party" (comic monologue), and "Vest-Pocket Symphony" (harmonica music).

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E9 A Man Without a Country
Aired 02 Dec 1956

No overview available.

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E10 The Fine Art of Murder
Aired 09 Dec 1956

Rex Stout appeared in this presentation of a homicide as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe and Rex Stout would variously present it.

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E11 The Christmas Tie
Aired 16 Dec 1956

The program has four segments: (1) "The Christmas Tie" (re-staging of the William Saroyan play produced in Season 1), (2) "The Spirit of Freedom" (re-enactment of Sandor Szabo's flight from Communism), (3) "Drug Store, Sunday Noon" (story), and (4) "Szabo Interview" (interview with the subject of segment 2).

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E12 Madeline Visits Omnibus
Aired 23 Dec 1956

The program has five segments: (1) "Madeline and the Bad Hat" (adaptation of a children's story), (2) "Columbus Boychoir" (Christmas songs), (3) "Susie's Night Out" (film of a pet shop at night), (4) "Bill Baird's Marionettes" (puppet parody of Omnibus), and (5) "The Star of Bethlehem" (scientific explanation of the star in the Nativity story).

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E13 The Art of Choreography
Aired 30 Dec 1956

The program has two segments: (1) "The Art of Choreography" (tracing the history of choreography from earliest times), and (2) "Master Gunmanship" (comedy feature on the art of pistol-shooting).

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E14 Oedipus, the King
Aired 06 Jan 1957

The program has two segments: (1) "Oedipus, the King" (play by Sophocles), and (2) "Solo Khumbu" (excerpts from a film documentary on social life and customs in Nepal).

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E15 Introduction to Modern Music
Aired 13 Jan 1957

The program has three segments: (1) "Introduction to Modern Music" (Leonard Bernstein discusses modern music and composers, including Bartok, Berg, Hindemith, Ives, Prokofiev, Schoenberg and Stravinsky), (2) "Out" (showing of a 1957 UN documentary about the influx of Hungarian refugees into Austria as a result of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution), and (3) "John Hersey Interview" (interview with the writer of segment (2))

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E16 Lee at Gettysburg
Aired 20 Jan 1957

A verse drama treatment of the critical battle of the American Civil War.

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E17 The Big Wheel: the Burlesque Entertainment of Yesterday
Aired 27 Jan 1957

The program has two segments: (1) "The Big Wheel" (a survey of the age of burlesque, featuring examples of acts of the period), and (2) "The Message" (showing of a 1956 UK film drama on the moral and ethical aspects of war).

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E18 The Theatre Breaks Loose
Aired 03 Mar 1957

No overview available.

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E19 The Trial of Captain Kidd
Aired 10 Mar 1957

No overview available.

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E20 How the F-100 Got Its Tail
Aired 17 Mar 1957

No overview available.

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E21 The Fall River Legend: the Trial of Lizzie Borden
Aired 24 Mar 1957

The program has two segments: (1) "The Trial of Lizzie Borden" (dramatization of the murder trial of Lizzie Borden), and (2) "The Fall River Legend" (dramatic ballet presentation of the Lizzie Borden story).

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E22 The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach
Aired 31 Mar 1957

The program has two segments: (1) "The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach" (Leonard Bernstein analyzes Bach's music and techniques, illustrated with an excerpt from 'The St. Matthew Passion' and other choral and orchestral works), and (2) "A Maine Lobsterman" (repeat showing of a feature from Season 3 about lobster-fishing in Maine).

Top Cast

Alistair Cooke
Alistair Cooke
Self - Host

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