David M. Thompson
Director
Omnibus (1967)
Season 31
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
S31E1 - Wild Swans
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Sept. 28, 1993, midnight
S31E2 - Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One
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Oct. 5, 1993, midnight
S31E3 - Nina Simone -The Legend
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Oct. 12, 1993, midnight
S31E4 - Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part Two
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Oct. 12, 1993, midnight
S31E5 - Sweet Home Chicago
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Oct. 19, 1993, midnight
S31E6 - Houdini
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Oct. 26, 1993, midnight
S31E7 - The Magic Lantern
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Nov. 2, 1993, midnight
S31E8 - The Russian Striptease
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Nov. 9, 1993, midnight
S31E9 - Everything You Wanted to Know About Conductors But Were Afraid to Ask
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Nov. 23, 1993, midnight
S31E10 - The Boy Next Door
A portrait of Boy George. UK telly. Early 90s. Crying Game US release era.
Nov. 30, 1993, midnight
S31E11 - Who Killed Tchaikovsky
A hundred years ago Tchaikovsky died suddenly In St Petersburg, within days of conducting the work many consider to be his greatest, the Pathétique Symphony. How did the great composer meet his death? Officially, he died of cholera, but a Russian emigre living in America has produced evidence to show that he was forced to commit suicide. Anthony Holden conducts an investigation into the mystery, and the film follows clues in New York, St Petersburg and Moscow, clues within the music and the known facts of Tchaikovsky's life, in search of the facts behind the composer's untimely death.
Dec. 7, 1993, midnight
S31E12 - Sebastião Salgado: Looking Back at You
A documentary that visits Brazil, India and Paris to explore the work of photojournalist Sebastião Salgado, who had been working for seven years on a huge project recording the lives of manual workers throughout the world.
Dec. 14, 1993, midnight
S31E13 - Sunset Boulevard
A look behind the scenes of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of the classic movie 'Sunset Boulevard'
Dec. 21, 1993, midnight
S31E14 - Freeze, But Is It Art?
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Feb. 22, 1994, midnight
S31E15 - The Piero Trail 1
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Feb. 23, 1994, midnight
S31E17 - Mister Abbott's Broadway
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March 1, 1994, midnight
S31E18 - The Piero Trail 2
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March 2, 1994, midnight
S31E19 - Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy
Profile of the novelist Vikram Seth, including footage from a family reunion in Delhi.
March 8, 1994, midnight
S31E20 - Hildegard
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March 29, 1994, midnight
S31E21 - Bill T Jones
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April 5, 1994, midnight
S31E22 - Gielgud: Scenes from 9 Decades
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April 12, 1994, midnight
S31E23 - Joan Littlewood's Lovely War
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April 19, 1994, midnight
S31E24 - Sir John Betjeman
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April 26, 1994, midnight
S31E25 - Duke Ellington 1: Reminiscing in Tempo
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May 3, 1994, midnight
S31E26 - Duke Ellington 2
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May 10, 1994, midnight
S31E27 - Robert Stephens: Every Inch a King
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May 24, 1994, midnight
BBC One
55 min/ep
39490 min
Oct. 13, 1967
Jan. 28, 1999, midnight
Canceled
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