5x1 - The American Musical Comedy

October 7, 1956

5x2 - Androcles and the Lion

October 14, 1956

5x3 - The Last Day of Manolete

October 21, 1956

5x4 - My Heart's in the Highlands

October 28, 1956

5x5 - Let There Be Farce

November 4, 1956

5x6 - Moliere's School for Wives

November 11, 1956

The program has two segments: (1) "Moliere's School for Wives" (comedy play by Moliere), and (2) "Skull Session" (survey of college football in the U.S.).

5x7 - Plays of the Irish Renaissance

November 18, 1956

The program has three segments: (1) "Plays of the Irish Renaissance" (scenes from works by Irish playwrights), (2) "The Era of Wonderful Nonsense" (documentary on crazy ways of making a living in the 1920s), and (3) "On the Bowery" (showing of an excerpt from a 1956 film dealing with the life of down-and-outs in a downtown area of New York).

5x8 - The Blue Hotel

November 25, 1956

The program has three segments: "The Blue Hotel" (adaptation of a Stephen Crane story), "The Children's Party" (comic monologue), and "Vest-Pocket Symphony" (harmonica music).

5x9 - A Man Without a Country

December 2, 1956

5x10 - The Fine Art of Murder

December 9, 1956

Rex Stout appeared in this presentation of a homicide as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe and Rex Stout would variously present it.

5x11 - The Christmas Tie

December 16, 1956

The program has four segments: (1) "The Christmas Tie" (re-staging of the William Saroyan play produced in Season 1), (2) "The Spirit of Freedom" (re-enactment of Sandor Szabo's flight from Communism), (3) "Drug Store, Sunday Noon" (story), and (4) "Szabo Interview" (interview with the subject of segment 2).

5x12 - Madeline Visits Omnibus

December 23, 1956

The program has five segments: (1) "Madeline and the Bad Hat" (adaptation of a children's story), (2) "Columbus Boychoir" (Christmas songs), (3) "Susie's Night Out" (film of a pet shop at night), (4) "Bill Baird's Marionettes" (puppet parody of Omnibus), and (5) "The Star of Bethlehem" (scientific explanation of the star in the Nativity story).

5x13 - The Art of Choreography

December 30, 1956

The program has two segments: (1) "The Art of Choreography" (tracing the history of choreography from earliest times), and (2) "Master Gunmanship" (comedy feature on the art of pistol-shooting).

5x14 - Oedipus, the King

January 6, 1957

The program has two segments: (1) "Oedipus, the King" (play by Sophocles), and (2) "Solo Khumbu" (excerpts from a film documentary on social life and customs in Nepal).

5x15 - Introduction to Modern Music

January 13, 1957

The program has three segments: (1) "Introduction to Modern Music" (Leonard Bernstein discusses modern music and composers, including Bartok, Berg, Hindemith, Ives, Prokofiev, Schoenberg and Stravinsky), (2) "Out" (showing of a 1957 UN documentary about the influx of Hungarian refugees into Austria as a result of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution), and (3) "John Hersey Interview" (interview with the writer of segment (2))

5x16 - Lee at Gettysburg

January 20, 1957

A verse drama treatment of the critical battle of the American Civil War.

5x17 - The Big Wheel: the Burlesque Entertainment of Yesterday

January 27, 1957

The program has two segments: (1) "The Big Wheel" (a survey of the age of burlesque, featuring examples of acts of the period), and (2) "The Message" (showing of a 1956 UK film drama on the moral and ethical aspects of war).

5x18 - The Theatre Breaks Loose

March 3, 1957

5x19 - The Trial of Captain Kidd

March 10, 1957

5x20 - How the F-100 Got Its Tail

March 17, 1957

5x21 - The Fall River Legend: the Trial of Lizzie Borden

March 24, 1957

The program has two segments: (1) "The Trial of Lizzie Borden" (dramatization of the murder trial of Lizzie Borden), and (2) "The Fall River Legend" (dramatic ballet presentation of the Lizzie Borden story).