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 (18)
1. Tribute to Laurence Olivier
Aired 14 July 1989
2. Jessye Norman Sings Carmen
Aired 21 July 1989
3. A Second Chance
Aired 8 September 1989
4. Rape - That's Entertainment?
Aired 15 September 1989
5. Raymond Carver
Aired 22 September 1989
6. Butterfly
Aired 29 September 1989
7. Art in the Ring
Aired 6 October 1989
8. Art in the Third Reich- Power
Aired 13 October 1989
9. Art in the Third Reich- Propaganda
Aired 20 October 1989
10. Ronnie Scott and All That Jazz
Aired 27 October 1989
11. Tim Rollins & Kos: The Art of Survival
Aired 3 November 1989
12. The Kirov Ballet: Leningrad Legend
Aired 10 November 1989
13. Pipe Dreams
Aired 24 November 1989
14. My Most Difficult Book - The Story of 'Lolita'
Aired 1 December 1989
How Vladimir Nabokov wrote his most famous novel, and why it is one of the greatest novels ever written.
15. Alan Ayckbourn: Sex and Politics
Aired 13 February 1990
Michael Billington, drama critic of The Guardian newspaper, explores the life and work of Alan Ayckbourn, including his latest play due to open in London - Man of the Moment - and also conducts an interview with the playwright and director.
16. Sunday in the Park with Stephen
Aired 20 March 1990
17. The Novelist Who Would Be President
Aired 27 March 1990
18. Van Gogh
Aired 20 June 1990
Vincent Van Gogh [played by Linus Roache] meets Roulin, [played by Jim Broadbent]and Gaughin [played by Jack Shepherd]