Omnibus

The program has four segments: (1) "The Contrast" (1787 comedy of manners), (2) (presentation of the historical background to this comedy), (3) "The Figurehead" (showing of a 1953 short puppet film about unrequited love), and (4) "Balloons" (featuring the history of hot-air ballooning).

All Episodes - Season 3

Episode 1

Treadmill to Oblivion

Episode 2

The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife

Episode 3

Young Man in Politics

Episode 4

Brewsie and Willie

Episode 5

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

Episode 6

Antigone

Episode 7

The Virtuous Island

Episode 8

A Maine Lobsterman

Episode 9

The Contrast

Episode 10

The Second Shepherds' Play

Episode 11

The Merry Widow

Episode 12

The Trial of St. Joan

Episode 13

The Adams Family

Episode 14

H.M.S. Pinafore (I)

Episode 15

John Quincy Adams

Episode 16

Hamlet

Episode 17

Mr. Lincoln

Episode 18

The Turn of the Screw

Episode 19

The New World

Episode 20

The Life and Times of Henry Adams and Charles Francis Adams, Jr.

Episode 21

The Mighty Casey

Episode 22

A Different Drummer

Episode 23

Henry Adams

Episode 24

The Four Flags of the Confederacy

Episode 25

Iliad

Episode 26

Uncle Tom's Cabin