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- When young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of the church's newest member.
- 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.
- This is the 1977 television recording of the Rise and Fall of Managing by Kurt Weill
- Don Giovanni is the man every woman wants, and every man wants to be. But when he commits murder in his pursuit of women and pleasure, and later insults the statue of the man he killed, there is Hell to pay.
- Andrea Chenier is a poet during the French Revolution. He and Maddalena are in love. Gerard, former servant in Maddalena's house, denounces them to the Tribunal, but recants it too late. The lovers go to the guillotine together.
- An old king, stepping down from the throne, disinherits his favorite daughter on a mad whim and gives his kingdom to his two older daughters, both of whom prove treacherous.
- Starving artist and consumptive seamstress fall in love, have trouble maintaining the relationship. His painter friend also has romantic troubles with his ambitious grisette.
- The program has six segments: (1) "Lincoln Part I: The End and the Beginning" (drama tracing the end and beginning of Abraham Lincoln's life), (2) "The Telephone" (comic operatic sketch), (3) "Leonardo da Vinci" (short portrayal of the Italian polymath), (4) "Lonely Hearts Ballet" (showing of a 1952 ballet film short), (5) "Flagg Dog Training School" (feature), and (6) "Plastics" (short documentary).
- Don Carlo, crown prince of Spain, falls in love with Elisabeth of Valois, originally promised to him but later married to his father King Philip, as part of the terms of a peace treaty between France and Spain. Incited to treason against his father on behalf of the Flemish, and accused of adultery with the queen, Don Carlo is cast into prison. Escaping, he flees to the monastery of St. Just, where Elisabeth comes to bid him farewell. The lovers are surprised by the King and the Grand Inquisitor, but Don Carlo is protected from them when the ghostly Charles V emerges from the tomb and draws him into the cloister.
- Tannhauser longs for earthly life, rejects Venus, returns to mortal Elisabeth. He's condemned by the Landgrave for his carnality, and sent to Rome. The Pope predicts forgiveness is as likely as his walking stick is of sprouting new shoots.
- Former nobleman Ernani leads a group of bandits who also help to fight tyranny in France. Alliances shift, and Ernani makes a fatal promise.
- Troubadour Manrico, kidnapped and raised by gypsy Azucena, courts Leonora and she loves him. Count di Luna wants Leonora, vows to destroy Manrico, not knowing they are actually brothers.
- Pharaoh's daughter Amneris loves general Radames, but he loves slave Aida. Aida's father leads the Ethiopian army to invade Egypt. When he's captured, he wants Aida to gain military secrets from Radames.
- Country bumpkin Nemorino is in love with Adina. She seems interested, but a poor farmer is beneath her station. She flirts with handsome Sgt Belcore, but when Nemorino joins his army to earn money to marry Adina, she sheds a secret tear.
- 1977– 2h 20m7.9 (36)TV EpisodeMinnie, barkeeper to a camp of gold miners, has fallen for a mysterious visitor from Sacramento. Meanwhile, a notorious bandit is on the loose, and Sheriff Rance and a lynch mob is hot on his trail. Minnie comes to the rescue.
- Leonora plans to elope with Don Alvaro, but he accidentally shoots and kills her father, who curses them as he dies. The lovers go on the run, but get separated. Bent on revenge, Leonora's brother Don Carlo, hunts them down.
- A live Metropolitan Opera Christmas Day broadcast of Humperdinck's opera.
- 1977–8.4 (46)TV EpisodeA "Live from the Met" broadcast of the opera, on a double bill with its frequent "partner", Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana".
- His sarcasm has made many enemies for Rigoletto, court jester for the Duke of Mantua. They conspire to kidnap Rigoletto's mistress for the Duke, unaware that she is really his daughter. Rigoletto's plans for revenge go disastrously wrong.
- An opera in three acts about an escaped political prisoner, a prima donna, and the brutal chief of the secret police.
- The program has six segments: (1) "A Lodging for the Night" (adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson story), (2) "Pimpinella" (German puppet film), (3) "Olga Coelho" (the famed Brazilian soprano and guitarist performs native folk music of Brazil), (4) "An Early Science Fiction Film" (showing of a 1909 English film, 'The Airship Destroyer', predicting a war of the future), (5) "Reforestation" (feature), and (6) "Traffic Engineering" (findings of case traffic studies at the Yale School of Traffic Engineering).
- The program has three segments: (1) "Arms and the Man" (staging of George Bernard Shaw's play), (2) "Manufacturers - Machines and People" (a look at manufacturing processes), and (3) (Alistair Cooke summarizes Omnibus' first season).
- The program has four segments: (1) "Beethoven's Fifth Symphony" (Leonard Bernstein analyzes the symphony and conducts the first movement), (2) "Ballet Girl" (featuring a six-year-old girl starting out as a ballet dancer), (3) "Oberlin v. Denison" (featuring College football in the Midwest), and (4) "Your Cornered Grocer" (short feature on the growth of supermarkets).
- The program has only one segment: "Dear Brutus" (adaptation of play by J.M. Barrie).
- The program has three segments: (1) "Die Fledermaus" (English-language production based on Johann Strauss' opera), (2) (interview with its conductor, Eugene Ormandy), and (3) "Heart of the City" (short feature on the automobile industry and trade).
- 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).
- The program has three segments: (1) "Hilde and the Turnpike" (adaptation of a play), (2) "Undersea Research" (featuring the role of the bathyscaphe in undersea exploration), and (3) "A Marriage Has Been Arranged" (a scene from a play).
- The program has four segments: (1) "The Virtuous Island" (a Jean Giraudoux comedy-drama), (2) "The French Horn" (short history and lesson on the French horn), (3) "Wild Musk Oxen" (featuring capture of a live musk-ox), and (4) "Orson Bean" (comedy monologue on Christmas gift wrapping).
- The program has five segments: (1) "Lord Byron's Love Letter" (Tennessee Williams play), (2) "135th Street" (Gershwin musical with all-black cast), (3) "Photomicrography" (featuring the use of micro- and high-speed photography in industrial processes), (4) "Lincoln-Rutledge Debate" (discussion on the authenticity of the alleged love affair between Lincoln and Ann Rutledge), and (5) "Response to the Lincoln Series" (viewers' response to James Agee's Lincoln films).
- The program has five segments: (1) "Mom and Leo" (drama), (2) "Irish Linen" (story), (3) "Mary's Baby" (reading of a Christmas poem), (4) "The 51st Dragon" (reading of a fantasy story), (5) "The Young Fighter" (documentary on new developments in camera and sound equipment), and (6) "The Dispatcher" (unknown content).
- The program has five segments: (1) "Lincoln, Part II: Early Boyhood" (drama tracing Abraham Lincoln's early youth), (2) "A Christmas Tie" (William Saroyan story), (3) "Tugboat Captain" (documentary), (4) "The Automobile" (short feature), and (5) "Dance Madness" (French ballet production).
- Norman Lloyd and James Agee continue the story of Lincoln; Robert Tallman and Helen Hayes present stories of Mother Goose.
- The program has five segments: (1) "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem" (tracing Lincoln's arrival in New Salem), (2) "Henry V, Act 5, Scene 2" (famous Shakespearean love scene), (3) "Jose Greco" (production of Ravel's 'Bolero'), (4) "Old Time Aviation" (celebration in film of 50th anniversary of aviation), and (5) "Role of a Rescue Helicopter in Korea" (feature).
- The program has five segments: (1) "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge" (tracing Lincoln's early political career), (2) "Napoleon's Love Letters" (dialogue from love letters between Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine), (3) "The Pelican" (wildlife feature), (4) "Valentines" (tracing the origin of Valentine's Day and the exchange of valentines), and (5) (driver training film).
- A wealthy mother's only son leaves his pampered life to join a gang of mobsters.
- The program has four segments: (1) "Nobody's Fool" (filmed play from John Steinbeck story), (2) "Village Incident - India" (living newspaper-type drama), (3) "Benediction" (reading of a short poem to greet the New Year), and (4) "Palle Alone in the World" (a repeat showing of the 1949 Swedish fantasy film from Season 1).
- 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).
- The program has two segments: (1) "Oedipus, the King" (play by Sophocles), and (2) "Solo Khumbu" (excerpts from a film documentary on social life and customs in Nepal).
- The program has two segments: (1) "One Nation" (the first of a three-part series examining the United States constitution), and (2) "Songs by Frances Archer and Beverly Gile" (performance of English folk songs).
- The program has only one segment: "Harvard University Remote" (discussion of the role played by the modern university and college in American life).
- The program has three segments: (1) "Sleeping Beauty in the Woods" (Respighi's opera), (2) "Skiing" (featuring discussion and films on skiing), and (3) "The Conquest of Everest" (documenting the successful ascent of Everest).