FAQ

8 seasons

158 episodes

November 9, 1952

January 1, 1961

55 minutes

8.2 out of 10

Alistair Cooke, Leonard Bernstein, and Joseph N. Welch

William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Homer, John Steinbeck, T.S. Eliot, Gore Vidal, George Bernard Shaw, and others

Yul Brynner, Sidney Lumet, Gene Kelly, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Peter Ustinov, Norman Lloyd, Jeffrey Hayden, Gian Carlo Menotti, 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, Kay Swift, Virgil Thomson, Morton Gould, William Schuman, Tony Mottola, and others

Richard Leacock, A.J. Villiers, Murray Lerner, Norman Dyhrenfurth, Arthur J. Ornitz, Edmond Séchan, 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