David M. Thompson
Director
Omnibus (1967)
Season 30
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
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S30E4 - The Piero Trail
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S30E7 - Who's This Nobody from Quebec?
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Oct. 20, 1992, midnight
S30E8 - Avigdor Arikha
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Oct. 27, 1992, midnight
S30E9 - Gunter Grass: Fiction at the Frontier
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Nov. 3, 1992, midnight
S30E10 - Leonora Carrington: The House of Fear
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Nov. 10, 1992, midnight
S30E11 - Horst: Sixty Years and Still in Vogue
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Nov. 17, 1992, midnight
S30E12 - John Ford: Part One
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Dec. 1, 1992, midnight
S30E13 - John Ford 2
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Dec. 8, 1992, midnight
S30E14 - The King's College Choir
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Dec. 15, 1992, midnight
S30E15 - Rudolf Nureyev
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Jan. 12, 1993, midnight
S30E16 - Vittorio Storaro: Writing with Light
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March 2, 1993, midnight
BBC One
55 min/ep
39490 min
Oct. 13, 1967
Jan. 28, 1999, midnight
Canceled
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