David M. Thompson
Director
Omnibus (1967)
Season 28
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
S28E1 - Malkovich
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Sept. 7, 1990, midnight
S28E2 - Plunder - The Stolen Kanakaria Mosaics
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Sept. 14, 1990, midnight
S28E3 - King of the Blues
BBC documentary directed by Iann Potts. Follows BB King's home-coming playing a concert in his home town of Indianola, to Parchman Prison bull ring where he gives a concert to inmates.
Sept. 21, 1990, midnight
S28E4 - Jorge Amado and his Tent of Miracles
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Sept. 28, 1990, midnight
S28E5 - Life of Python
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Oct. 5, 1990, midnight
S28E6 - Building for a New Age - A Romanian Story
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Oct. 12, 1990, midnight
S28E7 - L.B - A Portrait of Leonard Bernstein
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Oct. 19, 1990, midnight
S28E8 - Antoni Tapies
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Oct. 26, 1990, midnight
S28E9 - Garrison Keillor - The Wide Open Page
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Nov. 2, 1990, midnight
S28E10 - The Return of the Green Man
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Nov. 11, 1990, midnight
S28E11 - Tales of Ordinary Murder - Rian Mala in South Africa
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Nov. 30, 1990, midnight
S28E12 - Behind the American Dream
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Dec. 7, 1990, midnight
S28E13 - A Profile of Michael Andrews
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Jan. 29, 1991, midnight
S28E14 - Inside the Russia House
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Feb. 19, 1991, midnight
S28E15 - Sidney Lumet
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Jan. 26, 1991, midnight
S28E16 - Tom Jones - The Voice Made Flesh
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March 29, 1991, midnight
S28E17 - Episode 17
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S28E18 - Episode 18
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S28E19 - Episode 19
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S28E20 - Episode 20
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BBC One
55 min/ep
39490 min
Oct. 13, 1967
Jan. 28, 1999, midnight
Canceled
NR
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