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Omnibus

Season 2 · 24 episodes · Oct 4, 1953

  1. Episode 1

    Glory in the Flower

    Oct 4, 1953

    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).

  2. Episode 2

    The Battler

    Oct 11, 1953

  3. Episode 3

    King Lear

    Oct 18, 1953

    King Lear is a 1953 live television adaptation of the Shakespeare play with stage direction by Peter Brook and starring Orson Welles. It was aired on CBS as part of the U.S. television series Omnibus, and preserved on kinescope. A heavily abridged version of the play, this production condensed the play by eliminating the Edgar-Edmund subplot. Welles returned to America to star in this presentation. He was guarded by IRS agents, prohibited to leave his hotel room when not at the studio, prevented from making any purchases, and the entire sum he earned went to his tax bill. Welles returned to England after the broadcast. The cast included Micheál Mac Liammóir and the British actor Alan Badel. It was hosted by Alistair Cooke.

  4. Episode 4

    The Golden Dress

    Oct 25, 1953

  5. Episode 6

    Billy the Kid

    Nov 8, 1953

  6. Episode 7

    The Raspberry Queen

    Nov 15, 1953

  7. Episode 8

    Toine

    Nov 22, 1953

    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).

  8. Episode 9

    The Horn Blows at Midnight

    Nov 29, 1953

    Television adaptation of Jack Benny's 1945 feature film of the same name. Jack plays an angel name Athanael, who's been sent to destroy the Earth by playing his trumpet.

  9. Episode 10

    Capital of the World

    Dec 6, 1953

  10. Episode 11

    The Nature of the Beast

    Dec 13, 1953

  11. Episode 12

    Mom and Leo

    Dec 20, 1953

  12. Episode 13

    The Sojourner

    Dec 27, 1953

  13. Episode 14

    Nobody's Fool

    Jan 3, 1954

  14. Episode 15

    The Remarkable Case of Mr. Buhl

    Jan 10, 1954

  15. Episode 16

    The Duchess and the Smugs

    Jan 17, 1954

  16. Episode 17

    Nothing So Monstrous

    Jan 24, 1954

    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).

  17. Episode 18

    Sleeping Beauty in the Woods

    Jan 31, 1954

  18. Episode 19

    The Confidential Clerk

    Feb 14, 1954

  19. Episode 20

    A Time Out of War

    Feb 21, 1954

  20. Episode 21

    Hilde and the Turnpike

    Feb 28, 1954

  21. Episode 22

    The House

    Mar 7, 1954

  22. Episode 23

    Three Sketches

    Mar 14, 1954

  23. Episode 24

    Tell Me If It Hurts

    Mar 21, 1954

  24. Episode 25

    The Apollo of Bellac

    Mar 28, 1954