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 (7)
1. Dan Cruickshank and the Lost Treasure of Kabul
Aired 4 May 2002
2. Matisse: Paradise Found
Aired 11 May 2002
3. Matisse: Paradise Indulged
Aired 18 May 2002
4. Edna O'Brien: Murder in the Forest
Aired 1 June 2002
5. Who Killed Caravaggio?
Aired 8 June 2002
6. Spotlights & Saris: Making Bombay Dreams
Aired 18 June 2002
7. Anthony Hopkins: A Taste for Hannibal
Aired 3 July 2002