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 (16)
1. Barcelona with Robert Hughes
Aired 16 July 1992
2. Angela Carter's Curious Room
Aired 15 September 1992
3. Disney: The Fairy-Tale Years
Aired 22 September 1992
4. The Piero Trail
Aired 29 September 1992
5. Lost Paradise -The Gardens of Burlemarx
Aired 6 October 1992
6. Eye of the Storm: Ridley Scott
Aired 13 October 1992
7. Who's This Nobody from Quebec?
Aired 20 October 1992
8. Avigdor Arikha
Aired 27 October 1992
9. Gunter Grass: Fiction at the Frontier
Aired 3 November 1992
10. Leonora Carrington: The House of Fear
Aired 10 November 1992
11. Horst: Sixty Years and Still in Vogue
Aired 17 November 1992
12. John Ford: Part One
Aired 1 December 1992
13. John Ford 2
Aired 8 December 1992
14. The King's College Choir
Aired 15 December 1992
15. Rudolf Nureyev
Aired 12 January 1993
16. Vittorio Storaro: Writing with Light
Aired 2 March 1993