Word: omnibuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). The Lizzie Borden Case, a dramatization, and Agnes de Mille's Fall River Legend ballet...
...Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m. .ABC). The Trial of Captain Kidd, with Victor Jory...
...five years the Ford Foundation has stood like a rock of gold behind TV's Omnibus. "We were operating," says Omnibus' Executive Producer Robert Saudek, "with what Justice Holmes called 'the fighting significance of guarantees.' " What Saudek meant was that Omnibus, with Ford's "venture capital" behind it, could fight the mediocrity of TV and "raise the level of American taste." Saudek and Omnibus made such a good start at both objectives that last week the foundation decided to abandon its "experiment" and sent Omnibus into the cold world of commercial TV -with its blessings...
...show's full property rights fell to balding, bushy-browed Bob Saudek, 45, who promptly formed a new packaging firm-Robert Saudek Associates, Inc.-to keep Omnibus on the TV air. Best "guarantee" now, says Saudek, is "the funded know-how of my creative staff," which will include such Omnibus regulars as Cultural Headwaiter Alistair Cooke, Drama Critic Walter Kerr. But the question remains: Can Omnibus maintain the courage of past conceits, the venturesomeness of past successes, the educational luxury of such occasional failures as its go-minute The Iliad, without special subsidy? The signs are encouraging: both current...
...Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). Scenes from notable Greek, Elizabethan and contemporary plays...