Alistair Cooke
Self - Host
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Season 7
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Episode 11958-10-26
Capital Punishment
The program has only one segment: "Capital Punishment" (an examination of the case for capital punishment).
Episode 21958-11-09
The Submariners
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 31958-11-23
The So-Called Human Race
The program has only one segment: "The So-Called Human Race" (play in three acts).
Episode 41958-12-07
The Empty Chair
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 51958-12-21
Dancing, a Man's Game
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 61959-01-04
Prince Orestes
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 71959-01-18
Malice in Wonderland
The program has only one segment: "Malice in Wonderland" (three-part drama satirizing Hollywood).
Episode 81959-02-01
Abraham Lincoln - The Early Years
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 91959-02-15
The Medium
The program has only one segment: "The Medium" (performance of Menotti's opera).
Episode 101959-03-01
Ah Sweet Mystery of Mrs. Murphy
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 111959-03-15
Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway
The program has only one segment: "Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway" (performance of the musical by George M. Cohan).
Episode 121959-03-29
Power Among Men
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 131959-04-12
The Strange Ordeal of Normandier
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 141959-04-26
Professor Tim
The program has only one segment: "Professor Tim" (showing of a 1957 British-Irish comedy film performed by the Abbey Players of Dublin).
Episode 151959-05-03
H.M.S. Pinafore (II)
The program has only one segment: "H.M.S. Pinafore" (performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera).
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