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 (25)
1. Jack Rosenthal: Jack the Lad
Aired 23 June 1997
2. Anthony Green Ra - 57 Up
Aired 30 June 1997
3. Dame Henrietta's Dream
Aired 7 July 1997
Focuses on the Hampstead Garden Suburb set up by Dame Henrietta Barnett to rescue people from East End.
4. Michael Redgrave - My Father
Aired 13 July 1997
5. Whatever Happened to Clement & LaFrenais?
Aired 20 July 1997
6. East of Eastenders
Aired 27 July 1997
7. Mayibuye I Afrika: Let Africa Come Home
Aired 3 August 1997
8. If: A Film About Rudyard Kipling
Aired 10 August 1997
9. Brit Art at the Royal Academy
Aired 14 September 1997
10. Reeves & Mortimer: The Film
Aired 21 September 1997
11. Sir George Solti: The Making of a Maestro
Aired 29 September 1997
12. Antony Sher
Aired 5 October 1997
13. Oscar
Aired 12 October 1997
14. Salvador Dali: The Fame and the Shame1
Aired 20 October 1997
15. Salvador Dali: The Fame and the Shame1
Aired 21 October 1997
16. Citizen Kay
Aired 26 October 1997
17. Lewis Carroll: Curiouser and Curiouser
Aired 4 January 1998
Celebrating the centenary of Lewis Carroll.
18. Pierre Bonnard: A Love Exposed
Aired 10 February 1998
19. Jim Sheridan
Aired 22 February 1998
20. André Previn
Aired 1 March 1998
21. The Pied Piper of Harlem
Aired 8 March 1998
22. Gilbert and Sullivan: Instant Merriment
Aired 15 March 1998
A look at the Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Berkeley California, which was conceived by Halifax entrepreneur Ian Smith, who took considerable financial risks on the venture.
23. Nick Hornby: Man of the Match
Aired 21 April 1998
24. Jeffrey Archer: The Self Made Man
Aired 13 May 1998
25. Stars and Their Pas
Aired 21 June 1998