Omnibus

Glory in the Flower

The program has five segments: (1) "Glory in the Flower" (story based on William Inge play), (2) "The Little Kitty Staye

The Battler

King Lear

King Lear is a 1953 live television adaptation of the Shakespeare play with stage direction by Peter Brook and starring

The Golden Dress

Billy the Kid

The Raspberry Queen

Toine

The program has five segments: (1) "Toine" (adaptation of a Guy De Maupassant story), (2) (concert by London's St Paul's

The Horn Blows at Midnight

Television adaptation of Jack Benny's 1945 feature film of the same name. Jack plays an angel name Athanael, who's been

Capital of the World

The Nature of the Beast

Mom and Leo

The Sojourner

Nobody's Fool

The Remarkable Case of Mr. Buhl

The Duchess and the Smugs

Nothing So Monstrous

The program has five segments: (1) "Nothing So Monstrous" (dramatized adaptation of a John Steinbeck story), (2) "E=MC2"

Sleeping Beauty in the Woods

The Confidential Clerk

A Time Out of War

Hilde and the Turnpike

The House

Three Sketches

Tell Me If It Hurts

The Apollo of Bellac

Treadmill to Oblivion

The program has four segments: (1) "Treadmill to Oblivion" (play telling the story of Fred Allen's radio career), (2) "P

The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife

Young Man in Politics

The program has three segments: (1) "Young Man in Politics" (sub-titled "A Clean, Fresh Breeze") ( a coming-of-age play)

Brewsie and Willie

The program has four segments: (1) "My Several Worlds" (discussion of Pearl S. Buck's autobiography), (2) "Brewsie and W

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

Antigone

The Virtuous Island

The program has four segments: (1) "The Virtuous Island" (a Jean Giraudoux comedy-drama), (2) "The French Horn" (short h

A Maine Lobsterman

The Contrast

The program has four segments: (1) "The Contrast" (1787 comedy of manners), (2) (presentation of the historical backgrou

The Second Shepherds' Play

The program has four segments: (1) "The Second Shepherds' Play" (performance of the famous medieval mystery play), (2) "

The Merry Widow

The Trial of St. Joan

The program has four segments: (1) "The Trial of St. Joan" (based on George Bernard Shaw's play), (2) "Balance" (an arch

The Adams Family

The program has four segments: (1) "The Adams Family" (the first in a series of biographies of President John Adams' fam

H.M.S. Pinafore (I)

The program has three segments: (1) "H.M.S. Pinafore" (six songs from Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas), (2) "The Yukaw

John Quincy Adams

The program has four segments: (1) "John Quincy Adams" (the second in a series of Adams Family biographies), (2) "Yehudi

Hamlet

The program has three segments: (1) "Hamlet" (performance of excerpts from Shakespeare's play), (2) "Swordsmanship" (fea

Mr. Lincoln

The program has two segments: (1) "Mr. Lincoln" (feature film on the young Abraham Lincoln made from previous Omnibus ep

The Turn of the Screw

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

The New World

The program has four segments: (1) "The New World" (J.M. Barrie story), (2) "The First 'R' " (a look at reading difficul

The Life and Times of Henry Adams and Charles Francis Adams, Jr.

The program has three segments: (1) "The Lives of Henry Adams and Charles Francis Adams Jr." (the third in a series of A

The Mighty Casey

The program has two segments: (1) "The Mighty Casey" (staging of William Schuman's opera based on Thayer's famous poem a

A Different Drummer

The program has three segments: (1) "A Different Drummer" (staging of a play by Eugene McKinney), (2) "The Heart" (featu

Henry Adams

The program has four segments: (1) "Henry Adams" (the fourth in a series of Adams Family biographies), (2) "Balance II"

The Four Flags of the Confederacy

The program has four segments: (1) "The Four Flags of the Confederacy" (documentary on the national flags used by the Co

Iliad

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

The program has five segments: (1) "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (Harriet Beecher Stowe story), (2) "Dances from India" (performan

The Birth of Modern Times

The program has only one segment: "The Birth of Modern Times" (a live program tracing the revival of the arts, literatur

The Jazz World

The program has two segments: (1) "The Jazz World" (Leonard Bernstein discusses jazz and conducts a jazz number), and (2

The Adams House

The program has five segments: (1) "The Adams House" (a follow-up to the series of Adams Family biographies), (2) "Telev

Toby and the Tall Corn

The program has three segments: (1) "Toby and the Tall Corn" (repeat showing of play broadcast in Season 3), (2) "Antoni

American Boyhoods, Captain John M. Ellicott

The program has three segments: "American Boyhoods: Captain John M. Ellicott" (Captain Ellicott remembers events during

She Stoops to Conquer

The program has only one segment: "She Stoops to Conquer" (adaptation of Oliver Goldsmith's comedy of manners).

The Art of Conducting.

The Royal Game

The Royal Game

The program has four segments: (1) "The Royal Game" (adaptation of play), (2) "Jack Be Normal" (play), (3) "The Old Woma

Salome

Messiah

The Best Year in the History of the Whole World

The program has two segments: "The Best Year in the History of the Whole World" (humorous Saroyan play), and (2) (Japane

Dear Brutus

The program has only one segment: "Dear Brutus" (adaptation of play by J.M. Barrie).

The Great Forgery

The program has three segments: (1) "The Great Forgery" (the story of how four Americans swindled the Bank of England of

Episode 15

The program has four segments: (1) "The Yugoslav National Folk Ballet" (a Macedonian troupe perform Yugoslav folk dancin

Minds over Manners

The program has two segments: (1) "Minds over Manners" (three dramatic sketches showing changes in American manners and

One Nation

The program has two segments: (1) "One Nation" (the first of a three-part series examining the United States constitutio

Mr Lincoln

The program has only one segment: "Mr. Lincoln" (repeat showing of a feature film from Season 3 on the young Abraham Lin

One Nation Indivisible

The program has only one segment: "One Nation Indivisible" (the second of a three-part series examining the United State

The Art of Ballet

The program has three segments: (1) "The Art of Ballet" (dancers show the evolution of ballet), (2) "The Boyhood of Will

With Liberty and Justice for All

The program has two segments: (1) "With Liberty and Justice for All" (the third of a three-part series examining the Uni

The Better Half

The program has three segments: (1) "The Better Half" (adaptation of Noel Coward play), (2) "The Museum That Jack Built"

Harvard University Remote

The program has only one segment: "Harvard University Remote" (discussion of the role played by the modern university an

The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell

The program has two segments: (1) "The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell" (re-enactment of the 1925 trial of the U.S. Air

The American Musical Comedy

Androcles and the Lion

The Last Day of Manolete

My Heart's in the Highlands

Let There Be Farce

Moliere's School for Wives

The program has two segments: (1) "Moliere's School for Wives" (comedy play by Moliere), and (2) "Skull Session" (survey

Plays of the Irish Renaissance

The program has three segments: (1) "Plays of the Irish Renaissance" (scenes from works by Irish playwrights), (2) "The

The Blue Hotel

The program has three segments: "The Blue Hotel" (adaptation of a Stephen Crane story), "The Children's Party" (comic mo

A Man Without a Country

The Fine Art of Murder

Rex Stout appeared in this presentation of a homicide as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe and Rex Stout would var

The Christmas Tie

The program has four segments: (1) "The Christmas Tie" (re-staging of the William Saroyan play produced in Season 1), (2

Madeline Visits Omnibus

The program has five segments: (1) "Madeline and the Bad Hat" (adaptation of a children's story), (2) "Columbus Boychoir

The Art of Choreography

The program has two segments: (1) "The Art of Choreography" (tracing the history of choreography from earliest times), a

Oedipus, the King

The program has two segments: (1) "Oedipus, the King" (play by Sophocles), and (2) "Solo Khumbu" (excerpts from a film d

Introduction to Modern Music

The program has three segments: (1) "Introduction to Modern Music" (Leonard Bernstein discusses modern music and compose

Lee at Gettysburg

A verse drama treatment of the critical battle of the American Civil War.

The Big Wheel: the Burlesque Entertainment of Yesterday

The program has two segments: (1) "The Big Wheel" (a survey of the age of burlesque, featuring examples of acts of the p

The Theatre Breaks Loose

The Trial of Captain Kidd

How the F-100 Got Its Tail

The Fall River Legend: the Trial of Lizzie Borden

The program has two segments: (1) "The Trial of Lizzie Borden" (dramatization of the murder trial of Lizzie Borden), and

The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach

The program has two segments: (1) "The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach" (Leonard Bernstein analyzes Bach's music and tech

School for Wives

To provide himself with an ideal wife, Arnolphe a bachelor, has had a girl educated from infancy in such a way as to ke

American Trial by Jury

1. Last month Leonard Bernstein, American Composer and Conductor, responded to an invitation to conduct the Israel Phil

The Suburban Review

Life of Samuel Johnson

Based on the celebrated Englishman of letters, from 1763 until his death.

The Young People's Concert

La Perichole

Perichole was a Peruvian actress who also is a character in "The Bridge of San Luis Rey". The opera depicts her romanti

Moment of Truth

Faced with the prospect of imminent invasion by enemy forces, the prime minister contrives a desperate plan. He recalls

Mrs. McThing

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Bernstein Looks at Opera

90 minutes of operatic music direct from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Participating will be th

The Lady's Not for Burning

The scene is England in the 1400's in the mayor's house at Cool Clary. A vagrant named Thomas Mendip is making things d

The Reindeer Men

Two Norwegian films are featured. "The Reindeer Men", filmed by Per Host, which shows the way of life of a nearly extin

Bernstein in Israel

Capital Punishment

The program has only one segment: "Capital Punishment" (an examination of the case for capital punishment).

The Submariners

The program has only one segment: "The Submariners" (Esther Williams joins a Connecticut naval submarine base and presen

The So-Called Human Race

The program has only one segment: "The So-Called Human Race" (play in three acts).

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

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

Prince Orestes

The program has only one segment: "Prince Orestes" (production of a Greek tragedy adapted from an Aeschylus trilogy abou

Malice in Wonderland

The program has only one segment: "Malice in Wonderland" (three-part drama satirizing Hollywood).

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 Medium

The program has only one segment: "The Medium" (performance of Menotti's opera).

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 Perceptio

Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway

The program has only one segment: "Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway" (performance of the musical by George M. Cohan).

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

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 s

Professor Tim

The program has only one segment: "Professor Tim" (showing of a 1957 British-Irish comedy film performed by the Abbey Pl

H.M.S. Pinafore (II)

The program has only one segment: "H.M.S. Pinafore" (performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera).

He Shall Have Power

A Midwinter Night's Dream

Robert Altman in England

Suburban Revue

S. J. Perelman's Paean to Burlesque

Arthur Miller Plays

Western Hemisphere 1971