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 (12)
1. Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
Aired 3 September 1995
3. Listen, Paula...
Aired 18 September 1995
4. Enigma: The Making of a Hardback Hero
Aired 25 September 1995
Robert Harris's Fatherland was a publishing phenomenon, the most successful first novel by a British author in 20 years. Now he's writing his 2nd novel, Enigma, which looks like being the publishing event of the year. Can he do it? Is he a one-hit wonder or a hardback hero?
6. Gore Vidal's Gore Vidal Part 1
Aired 9 October 1995
7. Gore Vidal's Gore Vidal Part 2
Aired 16 October 1995
10. A Foundation Course in Art
Aired 11 November 1995
12. Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
Aired 19 December 1995
13. Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood
Aired 8 January 1996
17. A Day on the Mountain
Aired 5 February 1996
19. Written on Water: A Film About Budapest
Aired 22 April 1996
21. Eve Arnold in Retrospect
Aired 13 May 1996
Documentary about a pioneering American photojournalist Eve Arnold.
22. Degas: The Old Man Mad About Art
Aired 20 May 1996