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 (24)
1. La Stupenda - A Retrospective of Dam
Aired 11 July 1991
2. The Proms/Pictures at an Exhibition
Aired 30 August 1991
3. Peter Greenaway
Aired 13 September 1991
4. Pablo Casals: Song of the Birds
Aired 20 September 1991
5. Don Delillo/The Word, the Image, the Gun
Aired 27 September 1991
About the American novelist Don Delillo who is obsessed by violent images and what they can do to the soul of a 20th century culture like his, is dazzlingly, nay blindingly, assembled.
6. Torvill & Dean: Bladerunners
Aired 4 October 1991
7. Malcolm Arnold at 70
Aired 11 October 1991
8. Martha Gellhorn
Aired 18 October 1991
9. Against Pornography: The Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
Aired 25 October 1991
Radical feminist Andrea Dworkin's expose on the pornography industry.
10. Irek Mukhamedov
Aired 11 October 1991
11. Eric Hebborn: Portrait of a Master Forger
Aired 8 November 1991
12. Ulster Says Ho Ho Ho
Aired 15 November 1991
13. Joseph Cornel: Worlds in a Box
Aired 29 November 1991
14. Shakespeare: A Year with the RSC
Aired 6 December 1991
15. The Prince of Paisley Park
Aired 12 December 1991
16. Benny Hill: Clown Imperial
Aired 20 December 1991
17. Signs of the City
Aired 21 January 1992