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 (4)
1. Les Miserables Goes to China
Aired 23 October 2002
2. Patricia Cornwell: Stalking the Ripper
Aired 30 October 2002
Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell attempts to prove that Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper.
3. Lord Byron: Exile on Fame Street
Aired 6 November 2002
Dubbed "mad, bad and dangerous to know" by one of his many lovers, Lord Byron was a prototype celebrity whose legend has not diminished with the passage of time. Omnibus looks at the man behind the myth and his legacy.
4. Annie Proulx: Way Out West
Aired 8 January 2003