Hemo comes from the Greek word for blood and tonight's one-hour film is about our blood, how it circulates and what its functions are. One way of showing these things will be through the use of animated cartoons and cartoon characters such as Hemo himself, Professor Anatomy and the pacemaker. There will also be special medical films, and the whole show will be tied together through the appearance of Dr. Research and The Fiction Writer, as they try to visualize our circulatory system. 
The show will open with a Chronicle of  man's knowledge about blood. Then animated sequences will show the heart pumping blood, the lungs slipping oxygen into it and other organs in the system functioning. The intricate system of tubes, arteries, capillaries, and veins, that conduct the blood on its errands, is geographically presented. A theory is offered to account for the presence of blood in man, and microscopic film shots show the capillaries in action. We see what happens to the blood in a knockout and in a state of shock.
Dr. Research is played by Dr. Frank Baxter, who performed the same role in "Our Mr. Sun." Actor Richard Carlson plays The Fiction Writer. Written and directed by Frank Capra. Educational film from Bell Laboratories. 

With the help of animated characters, the Fiction Writer (Richard Carlson), and Dr. Frank Baxter, talk about the weather and describe what scientists are doing about it. They illustrate the origins of such weather elements as wind, clouds, rain, snow, hail and lightning: show how these elements combine to produce weather and depict scientific attempts to predict and control weather.
Shamus Culhane Productions did the animation for the hour-long filmed program, which was produced by Frank Capra. Mel Blanc, Hans Conried, Lurene Tuttle, Franklin Pangborn, Jay Novello, and Ken Peters are the voices of the cartoon characters.

A reconstruction of Shakespeare's life and times, with scenes and settings of the highlights of his career, accompanied by scenes from a dozen of his plays, with readings by Sir Michael Redgrave and a company of British actors, with Sir Ralph Richardson as guest narrator. Produced in the United Kingdom.                        

The Senate Sub-Committee on Un-American Activities (1955-1956)
investigation of Pacifica radio as a possible front.
             

A special about the problems with mail-order guns.            

A look at the sinking of the ship Lusitania on May 7th, 1915, after taking a direct hit from a German U-boat submarine without warning, sinking within twenty minutes. The story is told by survivors and members of the U-boat crew.  

Narrated by Robert Ryan. Music by Morton Gould.                                                  

The life of German composer Ludwig Van Beethoven. David McCallum is the voice of Beethoven. 

Dupe Of Number 990.                          

This program explores Ludwig Van Beethoven's role as an emancipator whose innovations and experiments freed music from the rigid formalism of the 18th century. David McCallum is heard as the voice of Beethoven. Script and narration by John H. Secondari. 

  One in this series of programs which examine significant events in the history of western civilization using dramatic re-creation. This episode examines the life of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven. Performances by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and pianist Claude Frant are featured. As the program opens, the narrator describes the social climate of Vienna and surrounding European countries at the end of the eighteenth century. A discussion follows concerning BeethovenÕs family and his musical education in Bonn.

 With his father's guidance, Beethoven performed at age seven, composed his first fugue when he was thirteen, and worked as a court musician by the age of fourteen. However, since the work of a court musician did not allow Beethoven to have adequate creative freedom, Beethoven moved to Vienna (the cultural mecca at that time) after his mother's death, in order to compose his own music. After a short time, he began to gain recognition in aristocratic society, with pieces such as his Opus 1 trios. A discussion follows regarding Beethoven's struggles as a composer, the inspiration he found in nature, as well as his discomfort among the aristocracy.

During Beethoven's period of success he was able to subsist using his commissions. An excerpt of his composition for the Prometheus Ballet is used as an example of his commissioned work, and then there is a discussion about Beethoven's gradual deafness and the music that he composed in spite of or possibly because of his deafness. The program concludes with quotations from Beethoven concerning the connection between art and the human spirit. Other compositions featured in the program include the following: Pathetique Sonata, op.13; Moonlight Sonata, op.15; Piano Concerto no.1; and Symphony no.1,op. 21.          

A documentary that examines how Abraham Lincoln might have been forced to campaign in the modern-day era.           

Hugh Downs traces the rise of early Christianity through a tour of Mediterranean ruins. His stops include the remains of Pompeii in southern Italy; the Basilica of St. Paul's outside the walls of Rome; catacombs in Sousse; a fortress city on Tunisia's eastern coast; and Hagia Sophia, a memorial to Constantine located in Istanbul.

Host: Hugh Downs.             

A documentary about the search for a sunken Japanese submarine.
Narrated by Richard Widmark.