Omnibus (1967)
Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'. It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards. Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott. For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman. The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.
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Episodes
- 1 1. Wild Swans1993-09-28
- 2 2. Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One1993-10-05
- 3 3. Nina Simone -The Legend1993-10-12
- 4 4. Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part Two1993-10-12
- 5 5. Sweet Home Chicago1993-10-19 · 46mWhen southern blues musicians moved north in the years after the war Chicago was an obvious destination, offering day jobs in Industry and night work in the clubs. Of the record la
- 6 6. Houdini1993-10-26
- 7 7. The Magic Lantern1993-11-02
- 8 8. The Russian Striptease1993-11-09
- 9 9. Everything You Wanted to Know About Conductors But Were Afraid to Ask1993-11-23
- 10 10. The Boy Next Door1993-11-30A portrait of Boy George. UK telly. Early 90s. Crying Game US release era.
- 11 11. Who Killed Tchaikovsky1993-12-07A hundred years ago Tchaikovsky died suddenly In St Petersburg, within days of conducting the work many consider to be his greatest, the Pathétique Symphony. How did the great comp
- 12 12. Sebastião Salgado: Looking Back at You1993-12-14 · 51mA documentary that visits Brazil, India and Paris to explore the work of photojournalist Sebastião Salgado, who had been working for seven years on a huge project recording the liv
- 13 13. Sunset Boulevard1993-12-21A look behind the scenes of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of the classic movie 'Sunset Boulevard'
- 14 14. Freeze, But Is It Art?1994-02-22
- 15 15. The Piero Trail 11994-02-23
- 17 17. Mister Abbott's Broadway1994-03-01
- 18 18. The Piero Trail 21994-03-02
- 19 19. Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy1994-03-08Profile of the novelist Vikram Seth, including footage from a family reunion in Delhi.
- 20 20. Hildegard1994-03-29
- 21 21. Bill T Jones1994-04-05
- 22 22. Gielgud: Scenes from 9 Decades1994-04-12
- 23 23. Joan Littlewood's Lovely War1994-04-19
- 24 24. Sir John Betjeman1994-04-26
- 25 25. Duke Ellington 1: Reminiscing in Tempo1994-05-03
- 26 26. Duke Ellington 21994-05-10
- 27 27. Robert Stephens: Every Inch a King1994-05-24
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