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The Best Episodes of Omnibus Season 3

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Omnibus Season 3 Episode 1 - Treadmill to Oblivion
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    #1 - Treadmill to Oblivion

    S3:E1

    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).

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 2 - The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife
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    #2 - The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife

    S3:E2

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 3 - Young Man in Politics
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    #3 - Young Man in Politics

    S3:E3

    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).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 4 - Brewsie and Willie
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    #4 - Brewsie and Willie

    S3:E4

    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).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 5 - Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
    8.0/10(18 votes)

    #5 - Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

    S3:E5

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 6 - Antigone
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    #6 - Antigone

    S3:E6

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    Director:Sidney Lumet
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 7 - The Virtuous Island
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    #7 - The Virtuous Island

    S3:E7

    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).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 8 - A Maine Lobsterman
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    #8 - A Maine Lobsterman

    S3:E8

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 9 - The Contrast
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    #9 - The Contrast

    S3:E9

    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).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 10 - The Second Shepherds' Play
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    #10 - The Second Shepherds' Play

    S3:E10

    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).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 11 - The Merry Widow
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    #11 - The Merry Widow

    S3:E11

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 12 - The Trial of St. Joan
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    #12 - The Trial of St. Joan

    S3:E12

    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).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 13 - The Adams Family
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    #13 - The Adams Family

    S3:E13

    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).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 14 - H.M.S. Pinafore (I)
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    #14 - H.M.S. Pinafore (I)

    S3:E14

    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).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 15 - John Quincy Adams
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    #15 - John Quincy Adams

    S3:E15

    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).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 16 - Hamlet
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    #16 - Hamlet

    S3:E16

    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).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 17 - Mr. Lincoln
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    #17 - Mr. Lincoln

    S3:E17

    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).

    Director:Norman Lloyd
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 18 - The Turn of the Screw
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    #18 - The Turn of the Screw

    S3:E18

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 19 - The New World
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    #19 - The New World

    S3:E19

    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).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 20 - The Life and Times of Henry Adams and Charles Francis Adams, Jr.
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    #20 - The Life and Times of Henry Adams and Charles Francis Adams, Jr.

    S3:E20

    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).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 21 - The Mighty Casey
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    #21 - The Mighty Casey

    S3:E21

    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).

    Director:Tad Danielewski
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 22 - A Different Drummer
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    #22 - A Different Drummer

    S3:E22

    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).

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 23 - Henry Adams
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    #23 - Henry Adams

    S3:E23

    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).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 24 - The Four Flags of the Confederacy
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    #24 - The Four Flags of the Confederacy

    S3:E24

    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).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Omnibus Season 3 Episode 25 - Iliad
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    #25 - Iliad

    S3:E25

    The program has only one segment: "Iliad"(dramatization of Homer's epic account of the tenth year of the Trojan War).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Treadmill to Oblivion" is the best rated episode of "Omnibus" season 3. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/17/1954. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife".