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 (11)
1. The Proms -1
Aired 8 August 1986
3. The Bolshoi Ballet
Aired 28 August 1986 • 39 min
4. Jessye Norman
Aired 12 September 1986
5. Meetings with Ambler
Aired 19 September 1986
6. Hitchcock: Its Only A Movie
Aired 26 September 1986
7. Hitchcock: Sex, Murder and Mayhem
Aired 3 October 1986
8. Courtney Pine and the New Jazz
Aired 10 October 1986
9. The Mission
Aired 17 October 1986 • 70 min
A documentary that chronicles the making of the movie. It looks at the process of casting real Indians in the film and their importance in adding authenticity to the story, their performances and involvement in the intricacies of the filmmaking process, Native culture today in South America, the history of Jesuit missions, the film's set construction, action scene construction, the picture's story and themes, the presence of the modern-day Colombian Army on the set and the resultant parallels to the film, and much more.
11. Ray Charles
Aired 31 October 1986
12. Cannon in Flowers
Aired 7 November 1986
13. Rodin 1840-1917
Aired 14 November 1986