David M. Thompson
Director
Omnibus (1967)
Season 20
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
S20E1 - Huw Wheldon: By His Friends
April 11, 1986, midnight
S20E2 - Lawrence and Arabia
April 18, 1986, midnight
S20E3 - Comic Relief
April 25, 1986, midnight
S20E4 - Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios
May 2, 1986, midnight
S20E5 - Video Jukebox
The roots of rock video are traced through the musicals and promotional shorts of the 30s, the jazz soundies of the 40s, the rock 'n' roll films and scorpitones of the 50s and the television pop programmes of the 60s to the first true videos in the 70s and the cable TV channels of rock videos in the 80s.
May 9, 1986, midnight
S20E6 - Alice Walker and the Color Purple
May 16, 1986, midnight
S20E7 - The Last Moguls
May 23, 1986, midnight
S20E8 - Omnibus at the Proms (1)
Aug. 8, 1986, midnight
S20E9 - Omnibus at the Proms (2)
Aug. 15, 1986, midnight
S20E10 - The Bolshoi Ballet
Aug. 28, 1986, midnight
S20E11 - Jessye Norman
Sept. 12, 1986, midnight
S20E12 - Last Night of The Proms: BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
Sept. 13, 1986, midnight
S20E13 - Meetings With Ambler
Sept. 19, 1986, midnight
S20E14 - Hitchcock: It's Only A Movie (1)
Sept. 26, 1986, midnight
S20E15 - Hitchcock: Sex, Murder and Mayhem (2)
Oct. 3, 1986, midnight
S20E16 - Courtney Pine and The New Jazz
Oct. 10, 1986, midnight
S20E17 - The Mission
Oct. 17, 1986, midnight
S20E18 - The Most Beautiful Lies
Oct. 24, 1986, midnight
S20E19 - Ray Charles
Oct. 31, 1986, midnight
S20E20 - Cannon in Flowers
Nov. 7, 1986, midnight
S20E21 - Rodin 1840-1917
Nov. 14, 1986, 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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