About this season
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.
Episodes (24)
1. Everybody's Expo
Aired 13 October 1967 • 60 min
The first edition of a regular weekly programme about the creative world of art and artists. Introduced by Henry Livings. Tonight: Everybody's Expo - An account of a world event.
2. Suliotis Sings
Aired 20 October 1967 • 50 min
The British debut of a new world opera star—at the age of twenty-four.
3. Beethoven Symphony No. 3, in E flat (Eroica)
Aired 3 November 1967
The first of three performances of Beethoven symphonies conducted by Colin Davis. BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Trevor Williams Part of a public concert in the Royal Festival Hall, London.
4. Tyger, Tyger
Aired 10 November 1967 • 50 min
An enquiry into the power of a familiar poem. Introduced by Henry Livings. "Tyger tyger burning bright In the forests of the night What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry" Why does this poem by William Blake 1757-1827 stick in the mind, and seize the imagination of so many different people?
5. Benjamin Britten and His Festival
Aired 22 November 1967
6. East of Bedlam
Aired 8 December 1967
7. Jacqueline
Aired 15 December 1967
8. The World of Coppard
Aired 15 December 1967
9. Dante's Inferno
Aired 22 December 1967
10. Diaghilev: The Years Abroad (1)
Aired 28 December 1967
11. Diaghilev: The Years in Exile (2)
Aired 9 January 1968
12. Edith Evans: A Birthday Tribute
Aired 16 January 1968
13. Top Brass
Aired 23 January 1968
14. Abelard and Heloise
Aired 30 January 1968
15. The Exile
Aired 6 February 1968
16. Tommy
Aired 26 March 1968
17. God's Tunes
Aired 2 April 1968
18. China and the Barbarians
Aired 23 April 1968
19. Whistle and I'll Come to You
6.0Aired 7 May 1968
20. My Name Is Benvenuto Cellini
Aired 21 May 1968
21. The Charm of Dynamite!
Aired 28 May 1968
22. Corporal Jan
Aired 18 June 1968
23. The Ken Russell Festival (1)
Aired 25 June 1968
24. The Ken Russell Festival (2)
Aired 2 July 1968