About this season
Omnibus is an American, commercially sponsored, educational television series.
Episodes (15)
1. Capital Punishment
Aired 26 October 1958
The program has only one segment: "Capital Punishment" (an examination of the case for capital punishment).
2. The Submariners
Aired 9 November 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).
3. The So-Called Human Race
Aired 23 November 1958
The program has only one segment: "The So-Called Human Race" (play in three acts).
4. The Empty Chair
Aired 7 December 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.
5. Dancing, a Man's Game
Aired 21 December 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.
6. Prince Orestes
Aired 4 January 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).
7. Malice in Wonderland
Aired 18 January 1959
The program has only one segment: "Malice in Wonderland" (three-part drama satirizing Hollywood).
8. Abraham Lincoln - The Early Years
Aired 1 February 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).
9. The Medium
Aired 15 February 1959
The program has only one segment: "The Medium" (performance of Menotti's opera).
10. Ah Sweet Mystery of Mrs. Murphy
Aired 1 March 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).
11. Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway
Aired 15 March 1959
The program has only one segment: "Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway" (performance of the musical by George M. Cohan).
12. Power Among Men
Aired 29 March 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).
13. The Strange Ordeal of Normandier
Aired 12 April 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).
14. Professor Tim
Aired 26 April 1959
The program has only one segment: "Professor Tim" (showing of a 1957 British-Irish comedy film performed by the Abbey Players of Dublin).
15. H.M.S. Pinafore (II)
Aired 3 May 1959
The program has only one segment: "H.M.S. Pinafore" (performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera).