Omnibus (1952)
Omnibus is an American, commercially sponsored, educational television series.
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Episode 1 - Capital Punishment
Release Date: 1958-10-26The program has only one segment: "Capital Punishment" (an examination of the case for capital punishment).
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Episode 2 - The Submariners
Release Date: 1958-11-09The program has only one segment: "The Submariners" (Esther Williams joins a Connecticut naval submarine base and presents a feature on submarines and the life and training of submariners and Navy divers).
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Episode 3 - The So-Called Human Race
Release Date: 1958-11-23The program has only one segment: "The So-Called Human Race" (play in three acts).
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Episode 4 - The Empty Chair
Release Date: 1958-12-07After the French Revolution, a tyrant ropes off a velvet chair in his palace and decrees that no one must ever sit in it, under penalty of death. Ultimately he is goaded by his subjects into sitting in the chair himself.
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Episode 5 - Dancing, a Man's Game
Release Date: 1958-12-21After the French Revolution, a tyrant ropes off a velvet chair in his palace and decrees that no one must ever sit in it, under penalty of death. Ultimately he is goaded by his subjects into sitting in the chair himself.
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Episode 6 - Prince Orestes
Release Date: 1959-01-04The program has only one segment: "Prince Orestes" (production of a Greek tragedy adapted from an Aeschylus trilogy about Orestes, who killed his mother and her lover in revenge for her murdering his father).
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Episode 7 - Malice in Wonderland
Release Date: 1959-01-18The program has only one segment: "Malice in Wonderland" (three-part drama satirizing Hollywood).
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Episode 8 - Abraham Lincoln - The Early Years
Release Date: 1959-02-01The program has only one segment: "Abraham Lincoln - The Early Years" (repeat showing from Season 3 of a feature film on the young Abraham Lincoln made from previous Omnibus episodes).
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Episode 9 - The Medium
Release Date: 1959-02-15The program has only one segment: "The Medium" (performance of Menotti's opera).
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Episode 10 - Ah Sweet Mystery of Mrs. Murphy
Release Date: 1959-03-01The program has two segments: (1) "Ah Sweet Mystery of Mrs. Murphy" (play by William Saroyan), and (2) "Visual Perception" (looking at how the eyes perceive images and optical illusions).
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Episode 11 - Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway
Release Date: 1959-03-15The program has only one segment: "Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway" (performance of the musical by George M. Cohan).
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Episode 12 - Power Among Men
Release Date: 1959-03-29The program has only one segment: "Power among Men" (showing of excerpts from a 1959 U.S. film about man's creative and destructive capabilities).
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Episode 13 - The Strange Ordeal of Normandier
Release Date: 1959-04-12The program has only one segment: "The Strange Ordeal of the Normandier" (the tragic story of an English tramp steamer struck by disaster in 1918 when its crew succumbed to blackwater fever, leaving the ship helpless and adrift in the Atlantic).
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Episode 14 - Professor Tim
Release Date: 1959-04-26The program has only one segment: "Professor Tim" (showing of a 1957 British-Irish comedy film performed by the Abbey Players of Dublin).
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Episode 15 - H.M.S. Pinafore (II)
Release Date: 1959-05-03The program has only one segment: "H.M.S. Pinafore" (performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera).