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Season 2

episodes

E1
1.Glory in the Flower
Oct 4, 1953

The program has five segments: (1) "Glory in the Flower" (story based on William Inge play), (2) "The Little Kitty Stayed Cool" (James Thurber short story), (3) "The Little Fugitive" (interview with the 8-year-old star of the prizewinning film), (4) "Excerpts from Oklahoma" (selections from Rodgers and Hammerstein's record-breaking musical), and (5) "Struggle for Survival" (showing of 1944 Swedish wildlife film).

E2
2.The Battler
Oct 11, 1953
E3
3.King Lear
Oct 18, 1953

King Lear is a 1953 live television adaptation of the Shakespeare play with stage direction by Peter Brook and starring Orson Welles. It was aired on CBS as part of the U.S. television series Omnibus, and preserved on kinescope. A heavily abridged version of the play, this production condensed the play by eliminating the Edgar-Edmund subplot. Welles returned to America to star in this presentation. He was guarded by IRS agents, prohibited to leave his hotel room when not at the studio, prevented from making any purchases, and the entire sum he earned went to his tax bill. Welles returned to England after the broadcast. The cast included Micheál Mac Liammóir and the British actor Alan Badel. It was hosted by Alistair Cooke.

E4
4.The Golden Dress
Oct 25, 1953
E6
6.Billy the Kid
Nov 8, 1953
E7
7.The Raspberry Queen
Nov 15, 1953
E8
8.Toine
Nov 22, 1953

The program has five segments: (1) "Toine" (adaptation of a Guy De Maupassant story), (2) (concert by London's St Paul's Cathedral Choir), (3) (interview with an Arctic explorer about his life with the Eskimos), (4) (demonstration of X-ray motion picture techniques), and (5) "Place Names in the United States" (tracing the impact of 19th-century settlers' westward movement on various US town names).

E9
9.The Horn Blows at Midnight
Nov 29, 1953

Television adaptation of Jack Benny's 1945 feature film of the same name. Jack plays an angel name Athanael, who's been sent to destroy the Earth by playing his trumpet.

E10
10.Capital of the World
Dec 6, 1953
E11
11.The Nature of the Beast
Dec 13, 1953
E12
12.Mom and Leo
Dec 20, 1953
E13
13.The Sojourner
Dec 27, 1953
E14
14.Nobody's Fool
Jan 3, 1954
E15
15.The Remarkable Case of Mr. Buhl
Jan 10, 1954
E16
16.The Duchess and the Smugs
Jan 17, 1954
E17
17.Nothing So Monstrous
Jan 24, 1954

The program has five segments: (1) "Nothing So Monstrous" (dramatized adaptation of a John Steinbeck story), (2) "E=MC2" (celebration of the 15th anniversary of splitting the first uranium atom with the Columbia University cyclotron), (3) "The Hunter" (showing of a Swedish film on nature and wildlife), (4) "Signs" ( interview with an animated sign maker), and (5) "The Garage" (a look at bus maintenance and repair).

E18
18.Sleeping Beauty in the Woods
Jan 31, 1954
E19
19.The Confidential Clerk
Feb 14, 1954
E20
20.A Time Out of War
Feb 21, 1954
E21
21.Hilde and the Turnpike
Feb 28, 1954
E22
22.The House
Mar 7, 1954
E23
23.Three Sketches
Mar 14, 1954
E24
24.Tell Me If It Hurts
Mar 21, 1954
E25
25.The Apollo of Bellac
Mar 28, 1954