David M. Thompson
Director
Omnibus (1967)
Season 29
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
S29E1 - La Stupenda - A Retrospective of Dam
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July 11, 1991, midnight
S29E2 - The Proms/Pictures at an Exhibition
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Aug. 30, 1991, midnight
S29E3 - Peter Greenaway
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Sept. 13, 1991, midnight
S29E4 - Pablo Casals: Song of the Birds
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Sept. 20, 1991, midnight
S29E5 - Don Delillo/The Word, the Image, the Gun
About the American novelist Don Delillo who is obsessed by violent images and what they can do to the soul of a 20th century culture like his, is dazzlingly, nay blindingly, assembled.
Sept. 27, 1991, midnight
S29E6 - Torvill & Dean: Bladerunners
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Oct. 4, 1991, midnight
S29E7 - Malcolm Arnold at 70
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Oct. 11, 1991, midnight
S29E8 - Martha Gellhorn
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Oct. 18, 1991, midnight
S29E9 - Against Pornography: The Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
Radical feminist Andrea Dworkin's expose on the pornography industry.
Oct. 25, 1991, midnight
S29E10 - Irek Mukhamedov
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Oct. 11, 1991, midnight
S29E11 - Eric Hebborn: Portrait of a Master Forger
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Nov. 8, 1991, midnight
S29E12 - Ulster Says Ho Ho Ho
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Nov. 15, 1991, midnight
S29E13 - Joseph Cornel: Worlds in a Box
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Nov. 29, 1991, midnight
S29E14 - Shakespeare: A Year with the RSC
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Dec. 6, 1991, midnight
S29E15 - The Prince of Paisley Park
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Dec. 12, 1991, midnight
S29E16 - Benny Hill: Clown Imperial
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Dec. 20, 1991, midnight
S29E17 - Signs of the City
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Jan. 21, 1992, midnight
S29E18 - Episode 18
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S29E19 - Episode 19
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S29E20 - Episode 20
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S29E21 - Episode 21
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S29E22 - Episode 22
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S29E23 - Episode 23
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S29E24 - Episode 24
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BBC One
55 min/ep
39490 min
Oct. 13, 1967
Jan. 28, 1999, midnight
Canceled
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