David M. Thompson
Director
Omnibus (1967)
Season 26
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
S26E1 - Barcelona With Robert Hughes
July 16, 1992, midnight
S26E2 - Angela Carter's Curious Room
Sept. 15, 1992, midnight
S26E3 - Disney: The Fairy Tale Years
Sept. 22, 1992, midnight
S26E4 - The Piero Trail
Sept. 29, 1992, midnight
S26E5 - The Lost Paradise
Oct. 6, 1992, midnight
S26E6 - Eye of the Storm: Ridley Scott
Oct. 13, 1992, midnight
S26E7 - Who's This Nobody from Quebec?
Oct. 20, 1992, midnight
S26E8 - Avigdor Arikha
Oct. 27, 1992, midnight
S26E9 - Gunter Grass: Fiction at the Frontier
Nov. 3, 1992, midnight
S26E10 - Leonora Carrington and The House of Fear
Nov. 10, 1992, midnight
S26E11 - Horst: 60 Years and Still in Vogue
Nov. 17, 1992, midnight
S26E12 - John Ford (1)
Dec. 1, 1992, midnight
S26E13 - John Ford (2)
Dec. 8, 1992, midnight
S26E14 - King's College Choir
Dec. 15, 1992, midnight
S26E15 - The Russian Striptease
Jan. 9, 1993, midnight
S26E16 - Writing With Light: Vittorio Storaro
March 2, 1993, 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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