Season 7

Episodes • 1958

Alistair Cooke
Capital Punishment

1. Capital Punishment

min

The program has only one segment: "Capital Punishment" (an examination of the case for capital punishment).

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The Submariners

2. The Submariners

min

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).

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The So-Called Human Race

3. The So-Called Human Race

min

The program has only one segment: "The So-Called Human Race" (play in three acts).

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The Empty Chair

4. The Empty Chair

min

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.

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Dancing, a Man's Game

5. Dancing, a Man's Game

min

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.

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Prince Orestes

6. Prince Orestes

min

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).

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Malice in Wonderland

7. Malice in Wonderland

min

The program has only one segment: "Malice in Wonderland" (three-part drama satirizing Hollywood).

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Abraham Lincoln - The Early Years

8. Abraham Lincoln - The Early Years

min

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).

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The Medium

9. The Medium

min

The program has only one segment: "The Medium" (performance of Menotti's opera).

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Ah Sweet Mystery of Mrs. Murphy

10. Ah Sweet Mystery of Mrs. Murphy

min

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).

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Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway

11. Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway

min

The program has only one segment: "Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway" (performance of the musical by George M. Cohan).

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Power Among Men

12. Power Among Men

min

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).

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The Strange Ordeal of Normandier

13. The Strange Ordeal of Normandier

min

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).

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Professor Tim

14. Professor Tim

min

The program has only one segment: "Professor Tim" (showing of a 1957 British-Irish comedy film performed by the Abbey Players of Dublin).

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H.M.S. Pinafore (II)

15. H.M.S. Pinafore (II)

min

The program has only one segment: "H.M.S. Pinafore" (performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera).

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