Omnibus was 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...
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Program creator:
Original network:
Air date of first episode:
- Nov 9, 1952
Air date of final episode:
- 1981
Original episode running time:
- 30 min (18 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 8
Number of episodes:
- 84