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- Omnibus was a television program that sought to provide the best of what television could provide as the highest common denominator of intellectual curiosity and interest. This level of programing excellence has not been achieved again.
- An old king, stepping down from the throne, disinherits his favorite daughter on a mad whim and gives his kingdom to his two older daughters, both of whom prove treacherous.
- The program has six segments: (1) "Lincoln Part I: The End and the Beginning" (drama tracing the end and beginning of Abraham Lincoln's life), (2) "The Telephone" (comic operatic sketch), (3) "Leonardo da Vinci" (short portrayal of the Italian polymath), (4) "Lonely Hearts Ballet" (showing of a 1952 ballet film short), (5) "Flagg Dog Training School" (feature), and (6) "Plastics" (short documentary).
- The program has six segments: (1) "A Lodging for the Night" (adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson story), (2) "Pimpinella" (German puppet film), (3) "Olga Coelho" (the famed Brazilian soprano and guitarist performs native folk music of Brazil), (4) "An Early Science Fiction Film" (showing of a 1909 English film, 'The Airship Destroyer', predicting a war of the future), (5) "Reforestation" (feature), and (6) "Traffic Engineering" (findings of case traffic studies at the Yale School of Traffic Engineering).
- The program has three segments: (1) "Arms and the Man" (staging of George Bernard Shaw's play), (2) "Manufacturers - Machines and People" (a look at manufacturing processes), and (3) (Alistair Cooke summarizes Omnibus' first season).
- The program has four segments: (1) "Beethoven's Fifth Symphony" (Leonard Bernstein analyzes the symphony and conducts the first movement), (2) "Ballet Girl" (featuring a six-year-old girl starting out as a ballet dancer), (3) "Oberlin v. Denison" (featuring College football in the Midwest), and (4) "Your Cornered Grocer" (short feature on the growth of supermarkets).
- The program has only one segment: "Dear Brutus" (adaptation of play by J.M. Barrie).
- The program has three segments: (1) "Die Fledermaus" (English-language production based on Johann Strauss' opera), (2) (interview with its conductor, Eugene Ormandy), and (3) "Heart of the City" (short feature on the automobile industry and trade).
- The program has five segments: (1) "Glory in the Flower" (story based on William Inge play), (2) "The Little Kitty Stayed Cool" (James Thurber short story), (3) "The Little Fugitive" (interview with the 8-year-old star of the prizewinning film), (4) "Excerpts from Oklahoma" (selections from Rodgers and Hammerstein's record-breaking musical), and (5) "Struggle for Survival" (showing of 1944 Swedish wildlife film).
- The program has three segments: (1) "Hilde and the Turnpike" (adaptation of a play), (2) "Undersea Research" (featuring the role of the bathyscaphe in undersea exploration), and (3) "A Marriage Has Been Arranged" (a scene from a play).
- The program has four segments: (1) "The Virtuous Island" (a Jean Giraudoux comedy-drama), (2) "The French Horn" (short history and lesson on the French horn), (3) "Wild Musk Oxen" (featuring capture of a live musk-ox), and (4) "Orson Bean" (comedy monologue on Christmas gift wrapping).
- The program has five segments: (1) "Lord Byron's Love Letter" (Tennessee Williams play), (2) "135th Street" (Gershwin musical with all-black cast), (3) "Photomicrography" (featuring the use of micro- and high-speed photography in industrial processes), (4) "Lincoln-Rutledge Debate" (discussion on the authenticity of the alleged love affair between Lincoln and Ann Rutledge), and (5) "Response to the Lincoln Series" (viewers' response to James Agee's Lincoln films).
- The program has five segments: (1) "Mom and Leo" (drama), (2) "Irish Linen" (story), (3) "Mary's Baby" (reading of a Christmas poem), (4) "The 51st Dragon" (reading of a fantasy story), (5) "The Young Fighter" (documentary on new developments in camera and sound equipment), and (6) "The Dispatcher" (unknown content).
- The program has five segments: (1) "Lincoln, Part II: Early Boyhood" (drama tracing Abraham Lincoln's early youth), (2) "A Christmas Tie" (William Saroyan story), (3) "Tugboat Captain" (documentary), (4) "The Automobile" (short feature), and (5) "Dance Madness" (French ballet production).
- Norman Lloyd and James Agee continue the story of Lincoln; Robert Tallman and Helen Hayes present stories of Mother Goose.
- The program has five segments: (1) "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem" (tracing Lincoln's arrival in New Salem), (2) "Henry V, Act 5, Scene 2" (famous Shakespearean love scene), (3) "Jose Greco" (production of Ravel's 'Bolero'), (4) "Old Time Aviation" (celebration in film of 50th anniversary of aviation), and (5) "Role of a Rescue Helicopter in Korea" (feature).
- The program has five segments: (1) "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge" (tracing Lincoln's early political career), (2) "Napoleon's Love Letters" (dialogue from love letters between Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine), (3) "The Pelican" (wildlife feature), (4) "Valentines" (tracing the origin of Valentine's Day and the exchange of valentines), and (5) (driver training film).
- A wealthy mother's only son leaves his pampered life to join a gang of mobsters.
- The program has four segments: (1) "Nobody's Fool" (filmed play from John Steinbeck story), (2) "Village Incident - India" (living newspaper-type drama), (3) "Benediction" (reading of a short poem to greet the New Year), and (4) "Palle Alone in the World" (a repeat showing of the 1949 Swedish fantasy film from Season 1).
- The program has five segments: (1) "Nothing So Monstrous" (dramatized adaptation of a John Steinbeck story), (2) "E=MC2" (celebration of the 15th anniversary of splitting the first uranium atom with the Columbia University cyclotron), (3) "The Hunter" (showing of a Swedish film on nature and wildlife), (4) "Signs" ( interview with an animated sign maker), and (5) "The Garage" (a look at bus maintenance and repair).
- 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).
- The program has two segments: (1) "One Nation" (the first of a three-part series examining the United States constitution), and (2) "Songs by Frances Archer and Beverly Gile" (performance of English folk songs).
- The program has only one segment: "Harvard University Remote" (discussion of the role played by the modern university and college in American life).
- The program has three segments: (1) "Sleeping Beauty in the Woods" (Respighi's opera), (2) "Skiing" (featuring discussion and films on skiing), and (3) "The Conquest of Everest" (documenting the successful ascent of Everest).
- The program has only one segment: "The American Musical Comedy" (Leonard Bernstein traces the development of this entertainment form, with staged excerpts).
- The program has three segments: (1) "The Apollo of Bellac" (adaptation of a Jean Giraudoux play, (2) "Omnibus in Retrospect" (featuring highlights from Omnibus' second season), and (3) "The Phoenix Project" (looking at the preservation of food by radiation).
- The program has three segments: (1) "The Art of Ballet" (dancers show the evolution of ballet), (2) "The Boyhood of William Shakespeare" (sketch on the Bard's childhood), and (3) (program of music on the portable organ).
- 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).
- The program has two segments: "The Best Year in the History of the Whole World" (humorous Saroyan play), and (2) (Japanese dancing and drama with the Azuma Kabuki dancers).
- The program has four segments: (1) "The Capital of the World" 1 (ballet adaptation of Hemingway's short story), (2) "The Capital of the World" 2 (dramatic interpretation of Hemingway's short story), (3) "Christmas Window at Lord and Taylors" (a look at the Christmas window display of the famous New York department store), and (4) "Laughing Gas" (a slapstick comedy sequence from the Italian film, 'Curiosity').
- 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).
- The program has four segments: (1) "The Gold Dress" (adaptation of a Stephen Vincent Benet story), (2) "Frank Lloyd Wright" (the architect comments on his newly-designed tower building, (3) "Les Paul and Mary Ford" (the popular musicians demonstrate their multi-track playback technique), and (4) "Symphony of a City" (showing of a 1947 Swedish film about the rhythm of life in Stockholm).
- The program has five segments: (1) "The Happy Journey" (Thornton Wilder story), (2) "The Blind Man" (documentary of a typical day in the life of a blind man), (3) "The Coronation Ceremony" (story of the English coronation ceremony and Elizabeth II's forthcoming coronation), (4) "The Five Gifts of Life" (ballet based on Mark Twain's story), and (5) "The Income Tax" (short feature on the history of income tax).
- An angel is sent to New York City with instructions to blow a trumpet which will destroy the Earth.
- The program has four segments: (1) "The House" (dramatization of John Steinbeck story), (2) "Letters to be Answered" (Alistair Cooke replies to letters of comment and inquiry), (3) "Treason, 1780" (story of Benedict Arnold's betrayal of his country), and (4) "Jonathan Winters" (comic monologues).
- Thomas Mendip believes he would like to die. Jennet emphatically doesn't want to be burnt as a witch. Theirs is an unlikely love affair, and their story is an even more unlikely comedy.
- The program has five segments: (1) "The Last Night of Don Juan" (play), (2) "Animated Genesis" (showing of an excerpt from a 1952 abstract film about cell division and genetics), (3) "Country Editor" (feature on small-town American family-run weekly newspaper), (4) "Highway Construction" (short feature), and (5) "Piano and Pianist" (a Chopin nocturne played on the world's oldest surviving piano at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art).
- The program has five segments: (1) "The Man in the Cool, Cool Moon" (play), (2) "The Bear" (scene from Chekhov play), (3) "Dance Congress" (showing of a 1952 ballet film short), (4) "Letters to be Answered" (Alistair Cooke replies to letters of comment and inquiry), and (5) "Travel by Bus" (short feature).
- 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).
- The program has three segments: (1) "The Sojourner" (dramatization of play), (2) "Chicken Little" (operetta), and (3) "Melies the Magician" (showing of a 1952 French documentary film short about Georges Melies, the early pioneer film producer, and his ingenious trick film techniques).
- The program has six segments: (1) "The Trial of Anne Boleyn" (drama portraying the last days of Henry VIII's second wife), (2) "The Bad Men" (TV play), (3) "The Mikado" (scene from the comic opera), (4) "Witch Doctor" (featuring a Haiti voodoo dance ceremony), (5) "Motion Picture X-Rays" (feature on X-rays), and (6) "Requiem" (narration of Armistice Day tribute).
- A self-made man divorces his wife who becomes a typist and warns him his second wife may leave him too.
- The program has five segments: (1) "Toine" (adaptation of a Guy De Maupassant story), (2) (concert by London's St Paul's Cathedral Choir), (3) (interview with an Arctic explorer about his life with the Eskimos), (4) (demonstration of X-ray motion picture techniques), and (5) "Place Names in the United States" (tracing the impact of 19th-century settlers' westward movement on various US town names).
- Leonard Bernstein explains how the music of the plot increases the emotional impact of the words that are sung. He compares the spoken words in English to scenes in a play to the singing version as it appears in opera. Most of the examples are from the Puccini opera La Bohème.
- The program has two segments: (1) "With Liberty and Justice for All" (the third of a three-part series examining the United States constitution), and (2) "James Thurber, Man and Boy" (interview with the celebrated author and humorist).
- A verse drama treatment of the critical battle of the American Civil War.