Omnibus is an American commercially sponsored, educational TV series, broadcast live primarily on Sunday afternoons at 4:00 pm Eastern time, from November 9, 1952 until 1961. Omnibus originally aired on CBS, and later on Sunday evenings on ABC. The program finally moved to NBC in 1957, where it was irregularly scheduled until 1961. ABC aired a brief revival of the series in 1981.
With Ford Foundation funding, Omnibus, hosted by Alistair Cooke in his American television debut, featured diverse programming about science, the arts, and the humanities. The program featured original works by playwrights such as William Saroyan, interviews with celebrities such as Frank Lloyd Wright, and performances by many of the most famous entertainers of the day such as Jack Benny and Orson Welles. The series was the occasion for the first television appearances of Jonathan Winters and Leonard Bernstein, who gave his first televised music lectures on it.
The Omnibus series won more than 65 awards, including seven Emmy Awards and two Peabody Awards.
Since its initial live broadcast, the series has been consigned to archives. Some of these archives include The Library of Congress and Global ImageWorks. The Bernstein Omnibus programs, however, were released on a 4-DVD set on January 26, 2010.
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