Omni Magazine Television Shows
From The Space Library
"Omni:The New Frontier" Goes On Television Fall 1981 with host Peter Ustinov. Produced by Kathy Keeton and John Savage with Vivian Moss, Leslie Jay and Marsha Potash from their office at Omni Productions 909 Third Avenue NY NY. The show seems to have first aired on 14th September 1981.
It is believed that up to 26 episodes were scheduled and as many as 18 half hour episodes were aired in 1981 and 1982. They included "Suzanne Ciani/Terminal Man", "Bionic Kidney/Andrus Magic", "Isaac Asimov/I Robot", "Body Part Regeneration", "Omnivac", "Protein Brain", "Robots/Underground Housing", "Bionic Arm/Reactive Sculpture/Talking to Dolphins", "Elephant Man/Terraforming" (airdate November 10, 1981), "Computerized TV/Underwater Birth/Immortality", "Growth Hormone/Fukuda/School For Astronauts" (airdate September 28, 1981), "Interactive Video" and "Rutan". An episode aired in April 1982 and included an interview with Fred Hoyle about ice ages as well a look at NASA's airborne Solar observatory. Further episodes examined the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Moon bases, Space Colonies, Child Prodigies, Interstellar Spacecraft and A Tour of the Solar System. Interviews included Gerrard K. O'Neill, Chris McKay, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert Forward. Parts of these episodes were repurposed for the 1985 TV series hosted by Keir Dullea.
Credits for "Omni: The New Frontier" TV series:
Host Peter Ustinov
Executive Producers Bob Guccione, Kathy Keeton
Senior Producer Vivian Roberts Moss
Director Andrew C. Wilk
Set Design Danilo Donati
Music Paul Baillargeon
Directors of Photography Arthur Albert, Mark Benjamin, John Bonnano, Ted Churchill, Alan Dater, Flynn Donovan, Nick Doob, Robert Elfstrom, Boyd Estus, Paul Goldsmith, Howard Hall, Tom Hurwitz, Chuck Levy, Rick Malkames, Ralph Nelson, Sandi Sissel, Dyanna Taylor, Burt Van Munster, Gordy Waterman, Raul Zauritsky
Post Production Supervisor Robert Friedman
Production Manager Stephanie Hochman
Field Producers George Ancona, Joan Reisner Auritt, John Borden, Ann Eisner, Riva Freifeld, Milton Ginsberg, Victoria Hamburg, Imre Horvath, Hardy Jones, Roger Phenix, Tom Simon, Ira Wohl
Film Editors Werner Bundschuh, Iris Cahn, William Daughton, Jill Demby, Neil Kaufman, Jonathan Levy, Dennis O'Connor, Jonathan Oppenheim, Samuel Pollard, Ray Anne School, Wendy Wank, Graham Weinbren
Associate Producers Larry Engel, Joanna Hattery, Sydney Johnson, Tonia Shournatoff, Barbara Zahm
Special Segment Supervisor David Hanser
Music Editor Todd Kasow
Sound Editor Skip Lievsay
Assistant Post Production Supervisor Y. Sue Thorpe
Production Controller Curtiss Sayblack
Publicity Promotion Supervisor Leslie Jay
Assistant to the Producers Larie Adato
Assistant to the Director Ruth Foster
Production Facilities Glen Warreb Studios
Post Production Facilities Broadway Video
Matte Photography Don Dixon and Pete Turner
Opening Titles and Special Effects Ron Hays Music Image
Acknowledgements
NASA, Scand Video Sweden, Dentsu Corporation, New Otani Hotel Tokyo, Iwanami Productions, Kunio Kadawaki, Dr James McAlear EMV Associates, Dr Kevin Ulmer Genex Corporation, Dr Stephen Turner Bethesda Research Laboratory, Dr Forrest L. Carter Naval Research Laboratory, Richard Feldman National Institutes of Health, Battelle-Pacific Northwest Laboratories, Columbia University Psychology Dept, Scott Nourok and Robert Scopatz, DARPA, MIT Architecture Machine Group, Peace River Films, The Human Growth Foundation, The National Pituitary Agency, Motion Control Inc, Defense Depot Ogden Utah, John Chester Chaos Audio, Dr Clive Saunders UMIST, Robert G. Hughes Roswell Park Memorial Institute, James B. Gloer University of Illinois Urbana, National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, The Upjohn Co, National Cancer Institute, The National Science Foundation, Bally Manufacturing Corp Pinball Division, Frank Bristow and the staff of JPL, Dr Joseph Waltz St Barnabas Hospital, Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, Drs S and H Colon and Dr Romita and members of NYU microsurgery team, National Training Evaluation Center, Jerry Andrus Linn Benton Community College, Dr Stephen Jacobsen Center for Biomedical Design University of Utah, Myron Youdin; Ruth Dickey NYU Institute of Rehabilitation medicine, Belle Wineberg and Ellen Watermer Project Access Mid-Manhattan Library, Peter Thompson Otis Elevator Co, Sharp Electronics Co, Panasonic Co, E.I. Friedman University of Florida Tallahassee, U.S. Navy, James Oberg and Stackpole Books, Chris McKay University of Colorado, Basset Maguire University of Texas.
Omni: Visions of Tomorrow, hosted by Keir Dullea. At least four episodes were aired including:
"Futurebody" airdate April 13th 1985. Science and technology create advances in the areas of bone regeneration and the development of bionic arms, kidneys and test tube brains.
"Space" airdate August 16th 1985. NASA's space training center; learning the language of dolphins may help us communicate with extraterrestrials; NASA's 'flying telescope' allows a special look at the sun. Includes interviews with Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury.
"Amazing Medicine" airdate October 22nd 1985. A sea creature, the tunicate, may contain a cure for cancer, leukemia and herpes; gene splicing, laser surgery and acupuncture, and spinal meningitis; Soviet underwater childbirth.
"Lifestyles in the 21st Century" airdate December 6th 1985. Living in earth shelters, interactive videos and advanced mechanical prosthetics are some of the the next century's innovations. Also examined home computers, robots, underground living, interactive video, voice activated machines and reactive sculpture.
