Episodes (26)

Treadmill to Oblivion
S03E01 · Treadmill to Oblivion

Oct 17, 1954

The program has four segments: (1) "Treadmill to Oblivion" (play telling the story of Fred Allen's radio career), (2) "Percussion" (a demonstration of musical percussion instruments), (3) "Around the World" (an airplane trip around the world in 18 minutes), and (4) "Dance to Freedom" (two escaped Hungarian dancers from East Berlin perform a ballet number).

The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife
S03E02 · The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife

Oct 24, 1954

The program has four segments: (1) "The Man with the Diamond" (a Frank Gilroy folk tale), (2) "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife" (dramatization of an Anatole France play), (3) "Children of the U.N." (feature with unknown content), and (4) "Farewell to Native Dancer" (the celebrated champion racehorse takes his last bow at the Belmont racetrack).

Young Man in Politics
S03E03 · Young Man in Politics

Oct 31, 1954

The program has three segments: (1) "Young Man in Politics" (sub-titled "A Clean, Fresh Breeze") ( a coming-of-age play), (2) "Toby and the Tall Corn" (play), and (3) (featuring art objects from the Whitney Museum of American Art).

Brewsie and Willie
S03E04 · Brewsie and Willie

Nov 07, 1954

The program has four segments: (1) "My Several Worlds" (discussion of Pearl S. Buck's autobiography), (2) "Brewsie and Willie" (dramatization of a Gertrude Stein short story), (3) "Wrestling, Honest and Otherwise" (demonstration of professional wrestling), and (4) "From Arvida" (a look at the aluminum industry in a Quebec settlement).

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
S03E05 · Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

Nov 14, 1954

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).

Antigone
S03E06 · Antigone

Nov 21, 1954

The program has three segments: (1) "Antigone" (play by Sophocles), (2) "Skating for Fun" (ice skating lesson by an Olympic champion), and (3) "Corral" (showing of a 1954 film short about the rounding up of wild horses).

The Virtuous Island
S03E07 · The Virtuous Island

Nov 28, 1954

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).

A Maine Lobsterman
S03E08 · A Maine Lobsterman

Dec 05, 1954

The program has four segments: "A Maine Lobsterman" (feature about lobster-fishing in Maine), (2) "Toys" (featuring new toys on the market), (3) (a performance by French puppeteers), and (4) "The Deaf Child" (a visit to a New York school for the deaf).

The Contrast
S03E09 · The Contrast

Dec 12, 1954

The program has four segments: (1) "The Contrast" (1787 comedy of manners), (2) (presentation of the historical background to this comedy), (3) "The Figurehead" (showing of a 1953 short puppet film about unrequited love), and (4) "Balloons" (featuring the history of hot-air ballooning).

The Second Shepherds' Play
S03E10 · The Second Shepherds' Play

Dec 19, 1954

The program has four segments: (1) "The Second Shepherds' Play" (performance of the famous medieval mystery play), (2) "Vienna Choir Boys" (carols by the Vienna Boys Choir), (3) "Children's Books" (readings of children's stories), and (4) "A House of Cards" (short drama revolving around greetings cards).

The Merry Widow
S03E11 · The Merry Widow

Dec 26, 1954

The program has only one segment: "The Merry Widow" (Franz Lehar's operetta).

The Trial of St. Joan
S03E12 · The Trial of St. Joan

Jan 02, 1955

The program has four segments: (1) "The Trial of St. Joan" (based on George Bernard Shaw's play), (2) "Balance" (an architect illustrates the history of architecture), (3) "The Chick" (film short on the incubation of a chicken's egg), and (4) "Kitimat" (short feature on hydroelectric power facilities for the aluminum smelting industry in British Columbia).

The Adams Family
S03E13 · The Adams Family

Jan 09, 1955

The program has four segments: (1) "The Adams Family" (the first in a series of biographies of President John Adams' family), (2) "Grand Central" (looking at the operation of New York's Grand Central Station), (3) (skin-divers battle with a shark), and (4) "Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships" (feature on the international leader exchange program established in honor of the US. President).

H.M.S. Pinafore (I)
S03E14 · H.M.S. Pinafore (I)

Jan 16, 1955

The program has three segments: (1) "H.M.S. Pinafore" (six songs from Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas), (2) "The Yukawa Story" (the story of the family of Hideki Yukawa, the winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in physics), and (3) "Jury Duty" (cameras follow Allen Funt and his 'Candid Camera' team).

John Quincy Adams
S03E15 · John Quincy Adams

Jan 23, 1955

The program has four segments: (1) "John Quincy Adams" (the second in a series of Adams Family biographies), (2) "Yehudi Menuhin and the Little Orchestra Society of New York" (the celebrated violinist gives a lesson on the violin), (3) "Hunting Underwater" (a film on scuba-diving), and (4) "Quality Control" (short feature).

Hamlet
S03E16 · Hamlet

Jan 30, 1955

The program has three segments: (1) "Hamlet" (performance of excerpts from Shakespeare's play), (2) "Swordsmanship" (featuring the history of fencing and a demonstration), and (3) "Power to Fly" (the pilot's story of his recent flight which broke the world altitude record).

Mr. Lincoln
S03E17 · Mr. Lincoln

Feb 06, 1955

The program has two segments: (1) "Mr. Lincoln" (feature film on the young Abraham Lincoln made from previous Omnibus episodes), and (2) "The Story of Valentines" (short feature on the history of valentines).

The Turn of the Screw
S03E18 · The Turn of the Screw

Feb 13, 1955

A governess, sent to a country house to look after two young children, becomes convinced that they are being menaced by an evil spirit.

The New World
S03E19 · The New World

Feb 20, 1955

The program has four segments: (1) "The New World" (J.M. Barrie story), (2) "The First 'R' " (a look at reading difficulties and new methods of remedying them), (3) "The Sea of Winslow Homer" (the celebrated artist's paintings are used to illustrate the changing look of the sea), and (4) "Rear Admiral Donald B. MacMillan" (short feature on the well-known Arctic explorer).

The Lives of Henry Adams and Charles Francis Adams Jr.
S03E20 · The Lives of Henry Adams and Charles Francis Adams Jr.

Feb 27, 1955

The program has three segments: (1) "The Lives of Henry Adams and Charles Francis Adams Jr." (the third in a series of Adams Family biographies, dealing with the life of Charles Francis Adams Jr.), (2) "Command Post" (a look at how radar installations would react to an air attack on the United States), and (3) "The Brain" (a feature on the human brain).

The Mighty Casey
S03E21 · The Mighty Casey

Mar 06, 1955

The program has two segments: (1) "The Mighty Casey" (staging of William Schuman's opera based on Thayer's famous poem about the legendary baseball player), and (2) "All about Diamonds" (feature).

A Different Drummer
S03E22 · A Different Drummer

Mar 13, 1955

The program has three segments: (1) "A Different Drummer" (staging of a play by Eugene McKinney), (2) "The Heart" (feature on the human body's main organ), and (3) "Boyhoods - Joseph N. Welch" (exploring the childhood and youth of the celebrated lawyer who served as chief counsel to the U.S. Army in the Army-McCarthy hearings).

Henry Adams
S03E23 · Henry Adams

Mar 20, 1955

The program has four segments: (1) "Henry Adams" (the fourth in a series of Adams Family biographies), (2) "Balance II" (an architect looks at modern architecture), (3) "The Window Cleaner" (short feature), and (4) "Vernal Equinox" (an astronomer explains the sun's crossing of the plane of the celestial equator).

The Four Flags of the Confederacy
S03E24 · The Four Flags of the Confederacy

Mar 27, 1955

The program has four segments: (1) "The Four Flags of the Confederacy" (documentary on the national flags used by the Confederate States in the American Civil War), (2) "Minor League Baseball" (sporting feature), (3) "The Back of Beyond" (showing of excerpts from a 1954 Australian film following a mailman as he delivers mail to remote areas in the Australian outback), and (4) "Subscription TV" (feature).

Iliad
S03E25 · Iliad

Apr 03, 1955

The program has only one segment: "Iliad"(dramatization of Homer's epic account of the tenth year of the Trojan War).

Uncle Tom's Cabin
S03E26 · Uncle Tom's Cabin

Apr 10, 1955

The program has five segments: (1) "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (Harriet Beecher Stowe story), (2) "Dances from India" (performance of Indian classical dance), (3) "Change Ringing" (demonstration of patterns of bell-ringing), (4) "The Most Beautiful Easter Eggs in the World" (short feature), and (5) "Committee for Economic Development" (short feature).

About

Omnibus Season 3 (1954) is released on Oct 17, 1954 and the latest season 8 of Omnibus is released in 1961. Watch Omnibus online - the English Drama TV series from United States. Omnibus is directed by Andrew McCullough,Seymour Robbie,Charles S. Dubin,Bob Banner and created by Aeschylus with Alistair Cooke and Leonard Bernstein.

As know as:

Omnibus, Омнибус (Сборник произведений), Омнибус (Сборник произведений)(Russian)

Countries:

United States

Language:

English

Production Companies:

Affiliated Film Producers, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), CBS Studios

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