Omnibus(1967)
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.
- First aired:
- 1967-10-13
- Country:
- GB
- Network:
- BBC One
Episodes
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1. Irving Berlin - The Voice of the City
1988-05-06
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2. A Poisoned Chalice?
1988-05-13
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3. Lucien Freud
1988-05-20
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4. Memories of a Musical Dog
1988-05-27
A celebration of a century of recording history as seen through the eyes of Nipper the 'His Master's Voice' dog for ever seen listening to a gramophone horn in the world famous trademark. In the programme there are extracts from nearly 100 recordings.
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5. The Cinema of Satyajit Ray
1988-06-03
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6. My Homeland
1988-06-10
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7. Pablo Picasso: The Last Years
1988-06-17
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8. From Bitter Earth - Artists of the Holocaust
1988-07-08
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9. Songs from the Life of Leonard Cohen
1988-07-15
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10. Whale Nation
1988-07-22
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