Omnibus: Mr. Lincoln & The Civil War

Called "the most successful cultural magazine series and a prototype for educational television", Omnibus was the Golden Age of Television's most distinguished production, a multiple Emmy® and Peabody Award-winning series delivering sophistication, refinement, and sparkling intelligence to a national audience. Its eight groundbreaking seasons -- broadcast live and nationwide from 1952 to 1961 over 164 episodes -- of live, commercial-network broadcasts featured host Alastair Cooke and the most accomplished luminaries of the day, and garnered more than 13 million viewers per program and 65 awards — including nine Emmy® and two Peabody Awards.