Omnibus
Omnibus is an American, commercially sponsored, educational television series.
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Season 7
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E1
Capital Punishment
The program has only one segment: "Capital Punishment" (an examination of the case for capital punishment).
Oct 26, 1958 -
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E2
The Submariners
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).
Nov 9, 1958 -
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E3
The So-Called Human Race
The program has only one segment: "The So-Called Human Race" (play in three acts).
Nov 23, 1958 -
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E4
The Empty Chair
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.
Dec 7, 1958 -
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E5
Dancing, a Man's Game
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.
Dec 21, 1958 -
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E6
Prince Orestes
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).
Jan 4, 1959 -
7
E7
Malice in Wonderland
The program has only one segment: "Malice in Wonderland" (three-part drama satirizing Hollywood).
Jan 18, 1959 -
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E8
Abraham Lincoln - The Early Years
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).
Feb 1, 1959 -
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E9
The Medium
The program has only one segment: "The Medium" (performance of Menotti's opera).
Feb 15, 1959 -
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E10
Ah Sweet Mystery of Mrs. Murphy
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).
Mar 1, 1959 -
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E11
Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway
The program has only one segment: "Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway" (performance of the musical by George M. Cohan).
Mar 15, 1959 -
12
E12
Power Among Men
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).
Mar 29, 1959 -
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E13
The Strange Ordeal of Normandier
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).
Apr 12, 1959 -
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E14
Professor Tim
The program has only one segment: "Professor Tim" (showing of a 1957 British-Irish comedy film performed by the Abbey Players of Dublin).
Apr 26, 1959 -
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E15
H.M.S. Pinafore (II)
The program has only one segment: "H.M.S. Pinafore" (performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera).
May 3, 1959