David M. Thompson
Director
Omnibus (1967)
Season 16
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.
Released Oct. 13, 1967
Episode 55 min
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Genres: Documentary
Keywords: imdb.arts, imdb.one-word-title, imdb.music-documentary, imdb.documentary-series, imdb.reenactment
Production Companies: BBC
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S16E1 - Milan
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Oct. 10, 1982, midnight
S16E2 - Poppy - Monty Norman / John Sell Cotman
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Oct. 17, 1982, midnight
S16E3 - Apocalypse: Enrico Baj / Pas De Deux / Forss
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Oct. 24, 1982, midnight
S16E4 - Freya Stark in Italy
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Oct. 31, 1982, midnight
S16E6 - Photography / John Morley
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Nov. 14, 1982, midnight
S16E7 - The Folies Bergeres / Van Dyck in England
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Nov. 21, 1982, midnight
S16E8 - Raymond Mason in Paris / Pekinel Sisters
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Nov. 28, 1982, midnight
S16E9 - Wayne Sleep - Dash / Richard Payne Knight / Count Panza
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Dec. 5, 1982, midnight
S16E10 - Gardens / Ligeti
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Dec. 12, 1982, midnight
S16E12 - Peter Pan RSC
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Jan. 16, 1983, midnight
S16E13 - Cecile Ousset
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Jan. 23, 1983, midnight
S16E14 - Jonathan Miller - Magic Flute / Steven Berkoff
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Jan. 30, 1983, midnight
S16E15 - Raymond Briggs and The Bomb / Sutton Place
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Feb. 6, 1983, midnight
S16E18 - Richard Long/Landscapes
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Feb. 27, 1983, midnight
S16E20 - Patrick Heron
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March 13, 1983, midnight
S16E22 - Celibidache and Faure's Requiem
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April 3, 1983, midnight
S16E5 - Brits on Broadway: The American Dance Machine
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Nov. 7, 1982, midnight
S16E11 - David Puttnam
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Dec. 19, 1982, midnight
S16E16 - The Elgin Marbles/Tim White
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Feb. 13, 1983, midnight
S16E17 - Alasdair Gray/Cimabue
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Feb. 20, 1983, midnight
S16E19 - Writers on the Right
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March 6, 1983, midnight
S16E21 - Dirk Bogarde
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March 27, 1983, midnight
S16E23 - Peter Ustinov
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April 10, 1983, midnight
BBC One
55 min/ep
39490 min
Oct. 13, 1967
Jan. 28, 1999, midnight
Canceled
NR
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