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Welcome to the official Omnibus With Alistair Cooke channel on YouTube - Featuring the landmark series broadcast live across the US from 1952 to 1961.
Omnibus - The Golden Age of Television’s Most Distinguished Series. globalimageworks. 22 videos 11,108 views Last updated on Jul 21, 2015. Highlights from the Omnibus TV series. For licensing...
Omnibus was a television program that sought to provide the best of what television could provide as the highest common denominator of intellectual curiosity and interest. This level of programing excellence has not been achieved again. Stars. Alistair Cooke. Leonard Bernstein. Joseph N. Welch. See production info at IMDbPro. RENT/BUY.
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The program has two segments: (1) "The Big Wheel" (a survey of the age of burlesque, featuring examples of acts of the period), and (2) "The Message" (showing of a 1956 UK film drama on the moral and ethical aspects of war).
Visit the TV show page for 'Omnibus' on Moviefone. Discover the show's synopsis, cast details, and season information. Watch trailers, exclusive interviews, and episode reviews.
Omnibus was the most successful cultural magazine series in the history of U.S. commercial television and a prototype for the development of programming on educational television.
Hosted by British-born journalist and broadcaster Alistair Cooke (pictured below), the series of (initially) 90-minute episodes featured an anthology of plays, interviews with public figures of note, and items of interest from the worlds of science, the arts and humanities.
