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The Best Episodes of Omnibus Season 3

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The Best Episodes of Omnibus Season 3

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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).

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    #2 - The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife

    S3:E2

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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).

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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).

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    #5 - Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

    S3:E5

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    #6 - Antigone

    S3:E6

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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).

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    #8 - A Maine Lobsterman

    S3:E8

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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).

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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).

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    #11 - The Merry Widow

    S3:E11

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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).

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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).

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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).

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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).

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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).

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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).

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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.

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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).

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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).

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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).

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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).

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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).

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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).

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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).

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

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