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October 26, 1958

Season 7

01. Capital Punishment

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

October 26, 1958

02. The Submariners

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).

November 9, 1958

03. The So-Called Human Race

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

November 23, 1958

04. The Empty Chair

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.

December 7, 1958

05. Dancing, a Man's Game

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.

December 21, 1958

06. Prince Orestes

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).

January 4, 1959

07. Malice in Wonderland

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

January 18, 1959

08. Abraham Lincoln - The Early Years

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).

February 1, 1959

09. The Medium

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

February 15, 1959

10. Ah Sweet Mystery of Mrs. Murphy

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).

March 1, 1959

11. Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway

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

March 15, 1959

12. Power Among Men

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).

March 29, 1959

13. The Strange Ordeal of Normandier

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).

April 12, 1959

14. Professor Tim

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

April 26, 1959

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

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

May 3, 1959