Omnibus (1952) - Video Detective

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Omnibus is an American, commercially sponsored, educational television series.

Original Release

11/09/1952 on CBS

US Release

11/09/1952

Cast

Name

Character

Alistair Cooke

Self - Host / Narrator (segment "Requiem")

Leonard Bernstein

Self / Self - Conductor (segment "Messiah") / Self - Conductor (segment "The Art of Conducting") / Self - Conductor (segment) / Self - Conductor and Commentator (segment "Introduction to Modern Music") / Self - Conductor and Commentator / Self - Musician (segment "The Jazz World") / Self - Musician (segment) / Self (segment "Beethoven's Fifth Symphony")

Joseph N. Welch

Self - Presenter (segment) / Self - Commentator (segment "The Trial of Lizzie Borden") / Self - Lawyer (segment "Boyhoods - Joseph N. Welch") / Self - Narrator / Self - Presenter (segment "One Nation") / Self - Presenter (segment "With Liberty and Justice for All")

Helen Hayes

(segment "The Twelve Pound Look") / Bessie Arlington (segment "A Christmas Tie") / Bessie Arlington (segment "The Christmas Tie") / (segment "Drug Store, Sunday Noon") / Mom (segment "Mom and Leo" / (segment "Irish Linen") / Self - Reader (segment "Mary's Baby") / Mrs. Dearth (segment) / Mrs. Howard V. Larue III / Mrs. Kirby (segment "The Happy Journey") / Self - Storyteller (segment "Mother Goose")

Martin Gabel

Narrator / Narrator (segment "Lincoln Part I: The End and the Beginning") / Narrator (segment "Lincoln Part III: Growing Up") / Narrator (segment "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem") / Narrator (segment "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge") / Narrator (segment "Lincoln, Part II: Early Boyhood") / Narrator (segment "Mr. Lincoln")

James Daly

(segment "Henry Adams") / (segment "My Heart's in the Highlands") / (segment) / Colonel Billy Mitchell (segment "The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell") / General Robert E. Lee (segment) / Narrator (segment "The Fine Art of Murder") / St. Clare (segment "Uncle Tom's Cabin")

Burgess Meredith

(segment "The Sea of Winslow Homer") / (segment "The Virtuous Island") / Avon Horsley Jr. (segment "A Christmas Tie") / Everyman (segment "Everyman") / Narrator (segment "Excursion House") / Self - Interviewer

Joanne Woodward

Ann Rutledge (segment "Lincoln Part I: The End and the Beginning") / Ann Rutledge (segment "Lincoln Part III: Growing Up") / Ann Rutledge (segment "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem") / Ann Rutledge (segment "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge") / Ann Rutledge (segment "Lincoln, Part II: Early Boyhood") / Ann Rutledge (segment "Mr. Lincoln")

Royal Dano

Abraham Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part I: The End and the Beginning") / Abraham Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part III: Growing Up") / Abraham Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem") / Abraham Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge") / Abraham Lincoln (segment "Lincoln, Part II: Early Boyhood") / Abraham Lincoln (segment "Mr. Lincoln")

Crahan Denton

Tom Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part I: The End and the Beginning") / Tom Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part III: Growing Up") / Tom Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem") / Tom Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge") / Tom Lincoln (segment "Lincoln, Part II: Early Boyhood") / Tom Lincoln (segment "Mr. Lincoln")

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2	A Midwinter Night's Dream	Sunday, 01 January 1961
3	Robert Altman in England	Sunday, 08 January 1961
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5	S. J. Perelman's Paean to Burlesque	Sunday, 22 January 1961
6	Arthur Miller Plays	Sunday, 29 January 1961
7	Western Hemisphere 1971	Sunday, 16 April 1961

Directors

Andrew McCullough, Seymour Robbie, Charles S. Dubin, Bob Banner, Tad Danielewski, Lana Rhoades, William A. Graham, Norman Lloyd, Delbert Mann, Don Hewitt, Richard Dunlap, Peter Glushanok, Richard Leacock, Roger Englander, Herbert Hirschman, Lee Rothberg, Robert Ellis Miller, Daniel Petrie, John Stix, Harry Horner, Byron Paul, Arthur Zegart, David Greene, Peter Ustinov, Jack Sameth, Yul Brynner, Hal Davis, Gene Milford, Cyril Ritchard, Paul Nickell, Sidney Lumet, Wes Kenney, Norman Campbell, Jeffrey Hayden, Astrid Henning-Jensen, Arthur J. Ornitz, Gian Carlo Menotti, Gordon Rigsby, Jean Benoît-Lévy, Joseph Krumgold, Willard Van Dyke, Michael Dreyfuss, Clark Jones, Rai Purdy, Robert Sharpe, James Lee, Ruth Rawson, E. Martin Browne, David Epstein, Leo Seltzer, David Swift, Ernest Reid, James Walsh, Judd Whiting, Irving Jacoby, Fons Ianelli, Fred Carney, Richard Eckler, John Burrell, Ralph Levy, Gower Champion, Paul Bogart, Elliot Silverstein, Fielder Cook, Alex Segal, Ralph Nelson, Gene Kelly, Bjarne Henning-Jensen, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Michael Ritchie

Writers

William Saroyan, Andy Lewis, James Agee, Arnold Schulman, David Epstein, Maurice Valency, Ellen M. Violett, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Tallman, W.S. Gilbert, Arnold Sundgaard, Chester Burger, George Bernard Shaw, Allan Nevins, Joseph Hurley, Tad Mosel, J.M. Barrie, Walter Kerr, Lawrence Ravitz, Ernest Hemingway, James Thurber, John Steinbeck, Frank Duane, Richard Hofstadter, William Shakespeare, James Thomas Flexner, Jean Giraudoux, Sidney Carroll, Charles Dickens, Maxwell Anderson, James Lee, John Gutman, Sophocles, Russell Lynes, Mary Chase, Gian Carlo Menotti, Gore Vidal, A.E. Hotchner, E.J. Kahn Jr., S.J. Perelman, Arthur Sullivan, George Panetta, Glenway Wescott, Rachel L. Carson, John Millington Synge, J. Franklin Jones, Joel Sayre, Sean O'Casey, Gertrude Stein, Kay Swift, Eugene Solow, Susan Glaspell, George Oppenheimer, Moss Hart, Robert Louis Stevenson, Eric Knight, William Inge, Perry Wolff, Leonard Gershe, William Spier, Thornton Wilder, Hugh Wedlock Jr., Richard Leacock, Alvin Sapinsley, Paul Vincent Carroll, Joseph Krumgold, Anatole France, Guy de Maupassant, George Bellak, Howard Snyder, Leo Davis, Ludwig Bemelmans, Irve Tunick, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nicholas E. Baehr, Stephen Vincent Benét, Lennox Robinson, Ogden Nash, Edmond Rostand, Carson McCullers, Homer, E.B. White, Stefan Zweig, Eugene Loring, Norman Walsh, Dudley Fitts, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Hutchinson, Alan Stern, Seymour S. Kety, Alen Robin, A.K. Lewis, Bob Cone, Lisabeth Blake, Royall Tyler, Robert Coughlan, George Bidwell, James Beach, John Pfeiffer, Alfred Harbage, Robert Sharpe, Tapan Saha, J.M.B. Churchill Jr., Eugene McKinney, Harry B. Logan, Edwin Way Teal, Jeremy Gury, Hadley Cantrell, H.L. Tredree, Robert Noah, Martin Quigley Jr., Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Helen Jerome, Leo Brady, Stephen Crane, David Swift, John Lardner, Alfred Sutro, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Hart, Pamela Frankau, Irving Jacoby, Margaret Lewerth, Oliver Goldsmith, Edward Everett Hale, Aeschylus, Stanley Kunitz, James Maher, William Engvick, Shaemas O'Sheel, Tim Kennedy, Frank Sullivan, Peter Brook, Garson Kanin, Cyril Ritchard, Gene Kelly, Peter Ustinov, Leueen MacGrath, Horton Foote, Leo Salkin, Dylan Thomas, George S. Kaufman, Anton Chekhov, Charles Perrault, Ed Jurist, Frank D. Gilroy, William Butler Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, Molière, Mark Twain, Henry James, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Paul Tripp, Alistair Cooke, Budd Schulberg, George M. Cohan, Buddy G. DeSylva, Noël Coward, Heywood Hale Broun, Fred Allen, Robert Benchley

Cast

Name

Character

Alistair Cooke

Self - Host / Narrator (segment "Requiem")

(segment "Moliere's School for Wives") / Androcles / Arnolphe / Narrator / Self - Performer (segment "The Big Wheel") / Painter (segment "Vive!")

Jessica Tandy

(segment "Minds over Manners") / (segment "The Better Half") / Blanche Du Bois (segment "Courtship") / Jackie (segment "Glory in the Flower") / Louisa Catherine Johnson (segment "John Quincy Adams") / Self - Reader (segment "Children's Books")

Hume Cronyn

Bartender (segment "Glory in the Flower") / Harold Mitchell (segment "Courtship") / John Quincy Adams (segment "John Quincy Adams") / Self - Reader (segment "Children's Books") / (segment "Minds over Manners") / (segment "The Better Half")

Bud Palmer

Self - Introduction (segment "The Harlem Globetrotters") / Self - Introduction (segment "Sugar Ray Robinson Visits Stillman's Gym") / Self - Introduction (segment "Gymnastics") / Narrator (segment "Skull Session") / Narrator (segment "Almost All about Horses") / Commentator (segment "The Fastest Game of All")

Cyril Ritchard

(segment "The Twelve Pound Look") / (segment "The Virtuous Island") / (segment "Three Sketches") / Sir Joseph Porter (segment)

Martyn Green

(segment "H.M.S. Pinafore") / (segment) / Judge (segment "Trial by Jury") / Ko-Ko (segment "The Mikado") / Lob (segment)

Harry Townes

(segment "One Nation Indivisible") / Edward Noyes (segment "The Great Forgery") / James Madison (segment "One Nation") / segment "The Gambler, the Nun and the Radio") / Woodrow Wilson

Bramwell Fletcher

(segment "One Nation") / (segment "The Second Shepherds' Play") / Earl of Kent (segment) / Mr. Coade (segment)

Jonathan Harris

(segment "Let There Be Farce") / (segment "The Trial of Anne Boleyn") / Matey (segment)

Agnes de Mille

Self (segment "Agnes DeMille's 'Rodeo' ") / Self - Presenter (segment "The Art of Ballet") / Self - Dancer (segment "The Art of Choreography") / (segment "Three Maidens and the Devil")