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 (10)
1. George Grosz: Enemy of the State
Aired 5 May 1987
Dramatized documentary about the life of the painter George Grosz.
2. Real Dreams
Aired 12 May 1987
3. James Stirling
Aired 22 May 1987
4. Michelangelo
Aired 29 May 1987
5. A US Journey with Isaac Bashevis
Aired 5 June 1987
6. Aretha Franklin
Aired 12 June 1987
7. The Big Bang in the Book World
Aired 19 June 1987
8. George Gershwin Remembered
Aired 10 July 1987
9. The Hackney Way
Aired 17 July 1987
10. Eudora Welty
Aired 24 July 1987