FAQ

8 seasons

158 episodes

November 9, 1952

January 1, 1961

55 minutes

8.3 out of 10

Alistair Cooke, Leonard Bernstein, and Joseph N. Welch

William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Homer, John Steinbeck, Robert Louis Stevenson, T.S. Eliot, Noël Coward, and others

Yul Brynner, Gene Kelly, Sidney Lumet, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Peter Ustinov, Norman Lloyd, Gian Carlo Menotti, Jeffrey Hayden, Paul Bogart, Gower Champion, and others

Robert Saudek, William Spier, Fred Rickey, Richard De Rochemont, Brewster Morgan, Eugene Solow, Alan Anderson, Allen Funt, Heikki Aho, Leonid Kipnis, and others

Aaron Copland, Paul Bowles, Gian Carlo Menotti, George Antheil, Franz Lehár, Virgil Thomson, Kay Swift, Morton Gould, Tony Mottola, William Schuman, and others

Richard Leacock, A.J. Villiers, Murray Lerner, Edmond Séchan, Norman Dyhrenfurth, Arthur J. Ornitz, Andrew McCullough, Chester Kronfeld, Drummond Drury, Frederick Gately, and others

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.

Oedipus, Iago, Blanche DuBois, Nero Wolfe, Stanley Kowalski, Samuel Pickwick, Archie Goodwin, Abraham Lincoln, Albany, Alizon Eliot, and others

Drama, Historical Drama, Historical, and Music

13 awards

19 nominations