David M. Thompson
Director
Omnibus (1967)
Season 22
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
None+
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
S22E3 - The Bolshoi Ballet
Aug. 28, 1986, midnight
S22E9 - The Mission
A documentary that chronicles the making of the movie. It looks at the process of casting real Indians in the film and their importance in adding authenticity to the story, their performances and involvement in the intricacies of the filmmaking process, Native culture today in South America, the history of Jesuit missions, the film's set construction, action scene construction, the picture's story and themes, the presence of the modern-day Colombian Army on the set and the resultant parallels to the film, and much more.
Oct. 17, 1986, midnight
S22E1 - The Proms -1
None
Aug. 8, 1986, midnight
S22E4 - Jessye Norman
None
Sept. 12, 1986, midnight
S22E5 - Meetings with Ambler
None
Sept. 19, 1986, midnight
S22E6 - Hitchcock: Its Only A Movie
None
Sept. 26, 1986, midnight
S22E7 - Hitchcock: Sex, Murder and Mayhem
None
Oct. 3, 1986, midnight
S22E8 - Courtney Pine and the New Jazz
None
Oct. 10, 1986, midnight
S22E11 - Ray Charles
None
Oct. 31, 1986, midnight
S22E12 - Cannon in Flowers
None
Nov. 7, 1986, midnight
S22E13 - Rodin 1840-1917
None
Nov. 14, 1986, midnight
BBC One
55 min/ep
39490 min
Oct. 13, 1967
Jan. 28, 1999, midnight
Canceled
NR
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