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 (20)
1. Malkovich
Aired 7 September 1990
2. Plunder - The Stolen Kanakaria Mosaics
Aired 14 September 1990
3. King of the Blues
Aired 21 September 1990
BBC documentary directed by Iann Potts. Follows BB King's home-coming playing a concert in his home town of Indianola, to Parchman Prison bull ring where he gives a concert to inmates.
4. Jorge Amado and his Tent of Miracles
Aired 28 September 1990
5. Life of Python
Aired 5 October 1990
6. Building for a New Age - A Romanian Story
Aired 12 October 1990
7. L.B - A Portrait of Leonard Bernstein
Aired 19 October 1990
8. Antoni Tapies
Aired 26 October 1990
9. Garrison Keillor - The Wide Open Page
Aired 2 November 1990
10. The Return of the Green Man
Aired 11 November 1990
11. Tales of Ordinary Murder - Rian Mala in South Africa
Aired 30 November 1990
12. Behind the American Dream
Aired 7 December 1990
13. A Profile of Michael Andrews
Aired 29 January 1991
14. Inside the Russia House
Aired 19 February 1991
15. Sidney Lumet
Aired 26 January 1991
16. Tom Jones - The Voice Made Flesh
Aired 29 March 1991