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26 Episodes 1954 - 1955
Episode 1
Sun, Oct 17, 1954
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).
Episode 2
Sun, Oct 24, 1954
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).
Episode 3
Sun, Oct 31, 1954
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).
Episode 4
Sun, Nov 7, 1954
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).
Episode 5
Sun, Nov 14, 195433 mins
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).
Episode 6
Sun, Nov 21, 1954
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).
Episode 7
Sun, Nov 28, 1954
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).
Episode 8
Sun, Dec 5, 1954
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).
Episode 9
Sun, Dec 12, 1954
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).
Episode 10
Sun, Dec 19, 1954
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).
Episode 11
Sun, Dec 26, 1954
The program has only one segment: "The Merry Widow" (Franz Lehar's operetta).
Episode 12
Sun, Jan 2, 1955
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).
Episode 13
Sun, Jan 9, 1955
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).
Episode 14
Sun, Jan 16, 1955
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).
Episode 15
Sun, Jan 23, 1955
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).
Episode 16
Sun, Jan 30, 1955
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).
Episode 17
Sun, Feb 6, 1955
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).
Episode 18
Sun, Feb 13, 1955
A governess, sent to a country house to look after two young children, becomes convinced that they are being menaced by an evil spirit.
Episode 19
Sun, Feb 20, 1955
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).
Episode 20
Sun, Feb 27, 1955
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).
Episode 21
Sun, Mar 6, 1955
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).
Episode 22
Sun, Mar 13, 1955
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).
Episode 23
Sun, Mar 20, 1955
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).
Episode 24
Sun, Mar 27, 1955
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).
Episode 25
Sun, Apr 3, 1955
The program has only one segment: "Iliad"(dramatization of Homer's epic account of the tenth year of the Trojan War).
Episode 26
Sun, Apr 10, 1955
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).