David M. Thompson
Director
Omnibus (1967)
Season 2
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 60 min
None+
Genres: Biography, Documentary, Music
Keywords: imdb.arts, imdb.one-word-title, imdb.music-documentary, imdb.documentary-series, imdb.reenactment
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Song of Summer
Sept. 15, 1968, midnight
S2E2 - J.B. Priestley
Sept. 22, 1968, midnight
S2E4 - Blow The Wind Southerly
Oct. 6, 1968, midnight
S2E3 - Olympia 1936
Sept. 29, 1968, midnight
S2E5 - All My Loving
The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Pink Floyd, Cream, Donovan, Frank Zappa & Eric Burdon.
Nov. 3, 1968, midnight
S2E6 - Rossini: The Long Farewell
Nov. 10, 1968, midnight
S2E7 - The Hunted Man
Nov. 17, 1968, midnight
S2E8 - Paul Gauguin: Quest For Silence
Nov. 24, 1968, midnight
S2E9 - Rubinstein Speaks
Dec. 1, 1968, midnight
S2E10 - Hadrian VII
Dec. 8, 1968, midnight
S2E11 - Tallulah Bankhead
Dec. 15, 1968, midnight
S2E12 - Make A Joyful Noise
Dec. 22, 1968, midnight
S2E13 - Eric Porter
Dec. 29, 1968, midnight
S2E14 - Cream
Jan. 5, 1969, midnight
S2E15 - The Man Who Dances
Jan. 12, 1969, midnight
S2E16 - Woman From The Shadows
Jan. 19, 1969, midnight
S2E17 - Makers of the Queen's Music
Jan. 26, 1969, midnight
S2E18 - From Today, Painting Is Dead
Feb. 2, 1969, midnight
S2E19 - Myrna Loy
Feb. 16, 1969, midnight
S2E20 - Malcolm Arnold
March 2, 1969, midnight
S2E21 - Shostakovich
March 9, 1969, midnight
S2E22 - A Couple of Brians
March 23, 1969, midnight
S2E24 - Down These Mean Streets A Man Must Go
March 30, 1969, midnight
S2E29 - The Vital Juices Are Russian
June 1, 1969, midnight
S2E23 - 1969 Oscar Awards
April 20, 1969, midnight
S2E25 - The More We Are Together
May 4, 1969, midnight
S2E26 - Lawrence Durrell's Paris
May 11, 1969, midnight
S2E27 - Margot Fonteyn: Birthday of a Ballerina
May 18, 1969, midnight
S2E28 - Acting Styles in the 20th Century
May 25, 1969, midnight
S2E30 - So What If It's Just Green Cheese?
An improvised celebration of Apollo 11's landing on the Moon.
July 20, 1969, midnight
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 43080 min.
Released: Oct. 13, 1967
Last Air Date: Jan. 28, 1999, midnight
Status: Canceled
Certification: NR
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