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- 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).
- 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 two segments: (1) "Advice to Bathers" (feature on swimming with Esther Williams and the Yale swimming team), and (2) "Courtship" (Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy act out various courtship scenes in the theatre).
- 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).
- 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 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 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 only one segment: "Dancing - A Man's Game" (Gene Kelly links the art of dance with athletics in the movements involved and with the aid of top sports athletes argues for dancing being inherently a masculine activity).
- The program has three segments: (1) "The Art of Conducting" (talk and demonstration by Leonard Bernstein), (2) "American Boyhood" (Rev. Dr. Harry Fosdick reminisces on events from his boyhood), and (3) "The Harlem Globetrotters" (basketball demonstration by the Harlem Globetrotters).
- An angel is sent to New York City with instructions to blow a trumpet which will destroy the Earth.
- 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 only one segment: "The American Musical Comedy" (Leonard Bernstein traces the development of this entertainment form, with staged excerpts).
- The program has two segments: (1) "The Jazz World" (Leonard Bernstein discusses jazz and conducts a jazz number), and (2) "Famous America Boyhoods" (William Saroyan recreates scenes of his boyhood).
- 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 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))
- 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 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).
- 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 death of John, the Baptist - Jokanaan.
- 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 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 only one segment: "The Birth of Modern Times" (a live program tracing the revival of the arts, literature, music and learning during the Renaissance period).
- 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).
- 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 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 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 four segments: (1) "The Royal Game" (adaptation of play), (2) "Jack Be Normal" (play), (3) "The Old Woman" (animated rendition of folk song), and (4) "Mother, I Would Marry" (animated rendition of folk song).
- 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).
- 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.
- The program has three segments: "Androcles and the Lion" (adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play), (2) "The Silent World - Excerpts" (showing of the first of three excerpts from a 1956 French film by Jacques-Yves Cousteau on underwater life around the world), and (3) "The Man Who" (a look at campaigns for the U.S. Presidency through 1928).
- A young army officer, Napoleon Bonaparte, is outsmarted by a mystery woman.
- The program has four segments: (1) "A Jury of Her Peers" (adaptation of a Susan Glaspell play), (2) "Billy the Kid" (presentation of Eugene Loring's ballet), (3) (documentary on the X-ray machine), and (4) "Romance of Transportation" (showing of a humorous 1952 Canadian animated film).
- 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).
- The program has three segments: (1) "The Trial of Mr. Pickwick" (Dickens-based story), (2) "Agnes DeMille's 'Rodeo' " (dance episode from the ballet), and (3) "Palle Alone in the World" (showing of a 1949 Swedish fantasy film).
- A governess, sent to a country house to look after two young children, becomes convinced that they are being menaced by an evil spirit.
- An abridged version of Jacques Offenbach's operetta about the street singer who became the mistress of the Viceroy of Peru.
- 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.
- This episode goes behind the scenes of the ballet Othello. The life cycle of sea horse is examined. The choosing and work of a local festival's Raspberry Queen is explained.
- 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 program has three segments: (1) "My Heart's in the Highlands" (one-act play by William Saroyan), "Almost All about Horses" (looking at how sport uses different kinds of horses), and (3) "The Silent World" (showing of the third of three excerpts from a 1956 French film by Jacques-Yves Cousteau on underwater life around the world).
- 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).
- The program has only one segment: "Capital Punishment" (an examination of the case for capital punishment).
- 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).
- This program has five segments: (1) "The Abracadabra Kid" (story), (2) "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" (reading of Longfellow's famous poem), (3) "Trial by Jury" (Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera), (4) "Images Medievales" (showing of an excerpt from a 1949 film about life in the Middle Ages as shown by miniature illuminated manuscripts), and (5) "The New Bus" (informational film).
- The program has four segments: (1) "Toy Symphony with Stokowski" (Haydn's 'Toy Symphony' and Britten's 'Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra' with commentary), (2) "World We Live in" (featuring articles from LIFE magazine on the 'Face of the Land'), (3) "The Stranger Left No Card" (repeat showing of a 1952 filmed short story), and (4) "Formation of Mountains" (animated feature).
- 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).
- Rex Stout appeared in this presentation of a homicide as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe and Rex Stout would variously present it.
- 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 program has two segments: (1) "Messiah" (Leonard Bernstein conducts Handel's oratorio), and (2) "Carols and Chorales" (festive carols and choral music).
- The program has five segments: (1) "The Battler" (adaptation of an Ernest Hemingway story), (2) "Lola Flores and Her Flamenco Dancers" (Spanish dance and music), (3) "Operation Hurricane" (showing of a 1953 film documentary on the development and explosion of the first British atomic bomb in the Pacific in 1952), (4) "Preview of King Lear" (featuring a rehearsal and discussion of the Shakespeare play to be shown in the following edition), and (5) "The Automatic Pinspotter" (a look at machines for clearing and resetting pins in a bowling alley).
- The program has five segments: (1) "Grandma Moses" (showing of a 1950 film short documenting the life and work of the then 90-year-old primitive artist), (2) "Everyman" (morality play), (3) "The Drift to One Eye" (a reading of whimsical musings by Robert Benchley), (4) "Trip to the Moon" (showing of the classic 1902 film short by Georges Melies), and (5) "Maine Chance" (unknown content).
- The program has five segments: (1) "A Tale of Two Cities" (reading of an excerpt, 'The Fancy Ball', from Charles Dickens' novel), (2) "Gaite Parisienne" (ballet to music by Offenbach), (3) "Figgerin' of Aunt Wilma" (James Thurber story), (4) "Bombardier Training" (tracing the development of aerial bombing), and (5) "Modern Art and Sculpture" (looking at key examples of modern sculptures).
- The program has five segments: (1) "My Brother Henry" (J.M. Barrie story), (2) "Walt Disney's 'Peter Pan' " (film preview), (3) "Pictures at an Exhibition" (dance interpretation of Moussorgsky's suite for orchestra), (4) (Leopold Stokowski conducts Christmas carol singers), and (5) "William Faulkner" (interview with the prize-winning novelist).
- The program has five segments: (1) "Vive!" (story), (2) "The Servant with Two Masters" (play), (3) "Raymond Loewy" (the industrial designer discusses examples of his work), (4) "Barn Dance" (ingenious use of time-lapse photography and film editing to produce dance effects), and (5) "The Haircut" (comedy feature).
- The program has five segments: (1) "The Nature of the Beast" (scene from unfinished Moss Hart play), (2) "Animals in Rocket Flight" (showing of US Air Force documentary film), (3) "Birth of a Band" (music from a progressive jazz band), (4) "The Psychology of Taste" (discussion on taste perception), and (5) "Cut-Rite" (a look at paper products).
- 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).
- The program has five segments: (1) "The Trial of Ben Jonson" (play), (2) "Jean Sibelius" (celebration of the composer's 87th birthday), (3) "The Dagger" (showing of a 1952 film ballet short), (4) "Rowland Emett" (the cartoonist displays some of his ingenious whimsical inventions), and (5) "Slow motion and High-Speed Photography" (feature).
- 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).
- 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).
- The program has only one segment: "The Merry Widow" (Franz Lehar's operetta).
- Scenes from various plays are performed, including "The Plough and the Stars" and "Juno and the Paycock" by Sean O'Casey; "The Whiteheaded Boy" and "Is Life Worth Living?" by Lennox Robinson; "The Countess Cathleen" by William Butler Yeats; "Shadow and Substance" by Paul Vincent Carroll; and "Dierdre of the Sorrows" by John Millington Synge. In addition, two new documentaries are screened: the one, ""The Era of Wonderful Nonsense," a short subject documenting the excesses of the 1920s, produced especially for this episode; the other, On the Bowery (1956), a feature length film looking at New York's Skid Row, recently awarded first prize at the Venice Film Festival, from which roughly 20 minutes are excerpted.
- A visit with artist Thomas Hart Benton, his daughter Jessie and his guest Claude Rains, Benton reads from "Huckleberry Finn" and Rains recites Carl Sandburg poetry; movie theaters of the silent era are featured with a showing of the 1914 film "While the Tide Was Rising;" a segment of the Roberto Rossellini film "The Flowers of Saint Francis" (1950) is show; The Benny Goodman Trio performs.
- The program has only one segment: "Malice in Wonderland" (three-part drama satirizing Hollywood).
- The program has only one segment: "Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway" (performance of the musical by George M. Cohan).
- The program has only one segment: "H.M.S. Pinafore" (performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera).
- 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).
- 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).
- The program has four segments: (1) "The Remarkable Case of Mr. Bruhl" (adaptation of James Thurber story), (2) "Decision for Chemistry" (excerpts from film giving vocational guidance on chemical engineering), (3) "Forgery in Art" (feature on different techniques for detecting art forgeries), and (4) "Casadesus Family" (classical concert by the celebrated pianistic family trio).
- The program has six segments: (1) "Three Maidens and the Devil" (ballet), (2) "Happy Birthday, Aunt Sarah" (musical parody), (3) "Audubon's Birds of America" (highlights of the life and illustrations of the famous painter of wild birds), (4) "Do It Yourself" (feature on the do-it-yourself craze), (5) "The Young Fox" (showing of a Swedish film documentary), and (6) "Fisherman's Holiday" (showing of an Italian film short).
- The program has only one segment: "La Boheme" (English-language production of Puccini's opera).
- The program has six segments: (1) "The Oyster and the Pearl" (TV play), (2) "Wheat Germ" (time-lapse photography feature), (3) "Rospigliosi Cup" (exhibition of the famous decorative ornament made in gold and enamel, displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art), (4) "Under the Bridges of Paris" (showing of a 1952 French ballet presentation), (5) "La Boheme Preview" (interview with cast members in rehearsal for the next edition's scheduled production), and (6) "Radar" (feature on equipment and supplies).
- The program has six segments: (1) "Tell Me If It Hurts" (showing of a 1934 English comedy film about a visit to the dentist), (2) "Ballet Girl" (portraying the rigorous training of a young would-be ballerina), (3) "Arteriosclerosis" (short documentary on the causes and effects of hardening of the arteries), (4) "Village Festival" (featuring native dances of Hawaii), (5) "The New York Times" (a visit to the newspaper's central offices, documenting the numerous activities which go into the preparation of the morning edition), and (6) "The Chemist" (short feature).
- The program has four segments: (1) "Three Sketches (comedy sketches), (2) "Shoot the Nets" (showing of a 1950 Dutch film about fishermen bringing in the season's first herring catch), (3) "The Gambler, the Nun and the Radio" (adaptation of Hemingway short story), and (4) "Scenicruiser" (unknown content).
- The program has four segments: (1) "A Time Out of War" (showing of 1954 film which won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject), (2) "Yale Shakespeare Festival" (featuring a tour of the festival and scenes from Shakespeare), (3) "South African Folk Songs" (a medley of popular local songs), and (4) "Consumer Research" (short feature).
- The program has four segments: (1) "The Confidential Clerk" (selection from T.S. Eliot's play and discussion of the poet), (2) "The Whale Who Wanted to be a Submarine" (narration of humorous story), (3) "Azuma Kabuki Dancers and Musicians" (Japanese dancing and drama), and (4) "Paso Doble" (Budd Schulberg story).
- The program has four segments: (1) "Comedy in Music" (Victor Borge one-man comedy show), (2) "John Jay and Skiing Films" (interview with ski lecturer), (3) "Underwater Camera" (showing of a film short by Jacques Yves Cousteau on the recovery of sunken art treasures), (4) (a repeat showing of the segment, "Lincoln Part I: The End and the Beginning" from Season 1), and (5) "Space Engineering" (a look at refrigeration in space).
- The program has three segments: (1) "The Duchess and the Smugs" (adaptation of Pamela Frankau novel), (2) "Henry A. Barnes, Traffic Engineer" (feature on metropolitan traffic control), and (3) "Undersea Archaeology" (showing of a film short by Jacques Yves Cousteau on underwater exploration).
- 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 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).
- The program has only one segment: "Iliad"(dramatization of Homer's epic account of the tenth year of the Trojan War).
- 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 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 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).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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 program has five segments: (1) "The Adams House" (a follow-up to the series of Adams Family biographies), (2) "Television Magic" (featuring new television techniques), (3) "Bow Bells" (showing of a 1954 film in which a Cockney looks at life in the East End of London), (4) "Survival in the Bush" (showing of a 1954 film about survival in the wilds of Canada), and (5) "Animals in Motion" (short feature on animal locomotion).
- The program has three segments: (1) "Toby and the Tall Corn" (repeat showing of play broadcast in Season 3), (2) "Antonio and His Spanish Ballet Company" (Spanish ballet dancing), and (3) "Excursion House" (looking at the housing boom in America).
- The program has three segments: "American Boyhoods: Captain John M. Ellicott" (Captain Ellicott remembers events during his boyhood), (2) (comic monologue), and (3) (scenes from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance").
- The program has only one segment: "She Stoops to Conquer" (adaptation of Oliver Goldsmith's comedy of manners).
- The program has three segments: (1) "The Great Forgery" (the story of how four Americans swindled the Bank of England of $100,000 through forged letters of credit), (2) "The Great Adventure 1" (showing of Part 1 of a 1953 Swedish film about nature and wildlife), and (3) (short tribute to Benjamin Franklin).
- The program has two segments: (1) "Minds over Manners" (three dramatic sketches showing changes in American manners and customs of 100 years ago, 50 years ago and the present day), and (2) "Sugar Ray Robinson Visits Stillman's Gym" (a championship boxer gives a demonstration).
- The program has only one segment: "Mr. Lincoln" (repeat showing of a feature film from Season 3 on the young Abraham Lincoln, made from previous Omnibus episodes).
- The program has only one segment: "One Nation Indivisible" (the second of a three-part series examining the United States constitution).
- The program has three segments: (1) "The Better Half" (adaptation of Noel Coward play), (2) "The Museum That Jack Built" (exploration of the ideal science museum), and (3) "Something about the Sky" (visual essay on the sky and clouds).
- The program has two segments: (1) "The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell" (re-enactment of the 1925 trial of the U.S. Air Force hero), and (2) "How the F-100 Got Its Tail" (featuring the work of test pilots on the supersonic jet fighter aircraft).
- The program has four segments: (1) "The Last Day of Manolete" (recording through still photos the day the celebrated Spanish bullfighter was killed), (2) "The Stranger Left No Card" (reshowing of a 1952 filmed short story), (3) "The Silent World" (showing of the second of three excerpts from a 1956 French film by Jacques-Yves Cousteau on underwater life around the world) and (4) "Rodeo" (reshowing of Agnes DeMille's 'Rodeo' from Season 1).
- The program has three segments: (1) "Let There Be Farce" (prize-winning Canadian comedy), (2) (Eartha Kitt performs international folk songs), and (3) (a look at the Twenties through newsreel clips).
- 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.).
- 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).
- 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).
- 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 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).
- The program has four segments: (1) "The Yugoslav National Folk Ballet" (a Macedonian troupe perform Yugoslav folk dancing), (2) "The Great Adventure 2" (showing of Part 2 of a 1953 Swedish film about nature and wildlife), (3) "Other Channels" (a look at advertising on foreign television channels), and (4) "Skiing, Anyone?" (feature on skis and skiing).
- The program has only one segment: "Professor Tim" (showing of a 1957 British-Irish comedy film performed by the Abbey Players of Dublin).
- 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).
- 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).
- The program has only one segment: "The Medium" (performance of Menotti's opera).
- 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).
- 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).
- The program has only one segment: "The So-Called Human Race" (play in three acts).
- The program has three segments: "The Blue Hotel" (adaptation of a Stephen Crane story), (2) "The Children's Party" (comic monologue), and (3) "Vest-Pocket Symphony" (harmonica music).
- The program has four segments: (1) "The Man without a Country" (adaptation of Edward Everett Hale's classic story), (2) "Amicable Parting" (drama), (3) "Different Drummers" (a celebrated Indian drummer joins American jazz musicians to combine their countries' rhythmic styles and patterns), and (4) "The Fastest Game of All" (speedy action and analysis of an ice hockey match between U.S. and Canadian teams).
- 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).
- 1952–1961TV EpisodeThe 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).