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15 Episodes 1958 - 1959
Episode 1
Sun, Oct 26, 1958
The program has only one segment: "Capital Punishment" (an examination of the case for capital punishment).
Episode 2
Sun, Nov 9, 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).
Episode 3
Sun, Nov 23, 1958
The program has only one segment: "The So-Called Human Race" (play in three acts).
Episode 4
Sun, Dec 7, 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.
Episode 5
Sun, Dec 21, 1958
Assisted by the top names in sport, Gene Kelly dances on television for the first time as he demonstrates the rhythm and coordination required of great athletes. He also traces the history of modern American dance, and sets out to prove that dancing is, not the property of women but that, rightfully, it's "a man's game."
Episode 6
Sun, Jan 4, 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).
Episode 7
Sun, Jan 18, 1959
The program has only one segment: "Malice in Wonderland" (three-part drama satirizing Hollywood).
Episode 8
Sun, Feb 1, 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).
Episode 9
Sun, Feb 15, 1959
The program has only one segment: "The Medium" (performance of Menotti's opera).
Episode 10
Sun, Mar 1, 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).
Episode 11
Sun, Mar 15, 1959
The program has only one segment: "Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway" (performance of the musical by George M. Cohan).
Episode 12
Sun, Mar 29, 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).
Episode 13
Sun, Apr 12, 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).
Episode 14
Sun, Apr 26, 1959
The program has only one segment: "Professor Tim" (showing of a 1957 British-Irish comedy film performed by the Abbey Players of Dublin).
Episode 15
Sun, May 10, 1959
The program has only one segment: "H.M.S. Pinafore" (performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera).