Omnibus

Season 7

15 episodes · Oct 26, 1958

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  • S7E1

    Capital Punishment

    Oct 26, 1958

    The program has only one segment: "Capital Punishment" (an examination of the case for capital punishment).

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  • S7E2

    The Submariners

    Nov 9, 1958

    The 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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  • S7E3

    The So-Called Human Race

    Nov 23, 1958

    The program has only one segment: "The So-Called Human Race" (play in three acts).

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  • S7E4

    The Empty Chair

    Dec 7, 1958

    After 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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  • S7E5

    Dancing, a Man's Game

    Dec 21, 1958

    After 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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  • S7E6

    Prince Orestes

    Jan 4, 1959

    The 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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  • S7E7

    Malice in Wonderland

    Jan 18, 1959

    The program has only one segment: "Malice in Wonderland" (three-part drama satirizing Hollywood).

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  • S7E8

    Abraham Lincoln - The Early Years

    Feb 1, 1959

    The 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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  • S7E9

    The Medium

    Feb 15, 1959

    The program has only one segment: "The Medium" (performance of Menotti's opera).

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  • S7E10

    Ah Sweet Mystery of Mrs. Murphy

    Mar 1, 1959

    The 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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  • S7E11

    Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway

    Mar 15, 1959

    The program has only one segment: "Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway" (performance of the musical by George M. Cohan).

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  • S7E12

    Power Among Men

    Mar 29, 1959

    The 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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  • S7E13

    The Strange Ordeal of Normandier

    Apr 12, 1959

    The 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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  • S7E14

    Professor Tim

    Apr 26, 1959

    The 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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  • S7E15

    H.M.S. Pinafore (II)

    May 3, 1959

    The program has only one segment: "H.M.S. Pinafore" (performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera).

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