Season 2

1. Glory in the Flower

1953-10-04

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).

2. The Battler

1953-10-11

3. King Lear

1953-10-18

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.

4. The Golden Dress

1953-10-25

6. Billy the Kid

1953-11-08

7. The Raspberry Queen

1953-11-15

8. Toine

1953-11-22

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).

9. The Horn Blows at Midnight

1953-11-29

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.

10. Capital of the World

1953-12-06

11. The Nature of the Beast

1953-12-13

12. Mom and Leo

1953-12-20

13. The Sojourner

1953-12-27

14. Nobody's Fool

1954-01-03

15. The Remarkable Case of Mr. Buhl

1954-01-10

16. The Duchess and the Smugs

1954-01-17

17. Nothing So Monstrous

1954-01-24

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).

18. Sleeping Beauty in the Woods

1954-01-31

19. The Confidential Clerk

1954-02-14

20. A Time Out of War

1954-02-21

21. Hilde and the Turnpike

1954-02-28

22. The House

1954-03-07

23. Three Sketches

1954-03-14

24. Tell Me If It Hurts

1954-03-21

25. The Apollo of Bellac

1954-03-28