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 (14)
1. Judy Chicago's Dinner Party
Aired 13 January 1981
2. But The Client Loved It...
Aired 20 January 1981
3. When The Dancing Had to Stop
Aired 27 January 1981
4. The First Freedom
Aired 3 February 1981
5. The Story of G...
Aired 10 February 1981
6. Dallas The Big Store
Aired 24 February 1981
7. Punch & Judy
Aired 3 March 1981
8. Stevie Wonder: Innervisions
Aired 17 March 1981
9. Norman Foster: Watch This Space
Aired 24 March 1981
10. An Actor's Life For Me
Aired 31 March 1981
11. Parrots, Bees, Ducks and Finches
Aired 7 April 1981
Documentary which looks at the history of the English Stage Company and its base, the Royal Court Theatre in London. Past triumphs and failures are reviewed with the aid of Sir John Gielgud, John Osborne, Max Stafford-Clark, Arnold Wesker, Dennis Waterman, Oscar Lewenstein, Nigel Williams and E.A. Whitehead.
12. Mark Gertler
Aired 14 April 1981
13. We Ask the Questions
Aired 21 April 1981
14. Landseer: A Victorian Comedy
Aired 2 June 1981