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. Irving Berlin - The Voice of the City
Aired 6 May 1988
2. A Poisoned Chalice?
Aired 13 May 1988
3. Lucien Freud
Aired 20 May 1988
4. Memories of a Musical Dog
Aired 27 May 1988
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.
5. The Cinema of Satyajit Ray
Aired 3 June 1988
6. My Homeland
Aired 10 June 1988
7. Pablo Picasso: The Last Years
Aired 17 June 1988
8. From Bitter Earth - Artists of the Holocaust
Aired 8 July 1988
9. Songs from the Life of Leonard Cohen
Aired 15 July 1988
10. Whale Nation
Aired 22 July 1988