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 (34)
1. Exton, Stoppard and Co at the Eleventh Hour
Aired 21 September 1975
2. The Great Orchestras: The Boston Symphony
Aired 28 September 1975
3. Big Ware
Aired 5 October 1975
4. Anatomies: Images in the Work of John Donne
Aired 12 October 1975
5. Honore De Balzac: Torrents of the Mind
Aired 19 October 1975
6. Thomas Mann: The Fight Against Death
Aired 26 October 1975
7. Shafts of Sunlight
Aired 2 November 1975
8. The Friendly Invasion: 2 from Jazz to Swing
Aired 23 November 1975
9. The Friendly Invasion: 3 the Road to Rock & Roll
Aired 30 November 1975
10. Family Scenes: Ivy Compton - The Burne Household
Aired 7 December 1975
11. Jane Austen
Aired 14 December 1975
A celebration of the novelist, who was born 200 years ago.
12. Come and Dance with Busby Berkeley
Aired 21 December 1975
13. Scenes from a Geordie Ceilidh/Overture/Closed on Mondays
Aired 21 December 1975
14. The Golden Age of Spanish Painting
Aired 15 January 1976
15. The Waltz
Aired 22 January 1976
16. Omnibus in Ireland
Aired 29 January 1976
17. All Clouds Are Clocks
Aired 5 February 1976
An Arts Documentary about the Composer Gyorgy Ligeti whose music became popular after having been used in Kubrick's 2001
18. A Matter of Life & Death
Aired 12 February 1976
19. Constable Exhibition
Aired 19 February 1976
20. Charles Marowitz
Aired 26 February 1976
21. A Kind of Innocence
Aired 4 March 1976
22. Placido Domingo
Aired 11 March 1976
23. Portraits
Aired 18 March 1976
24. The Honourable Out -Of- Step
Aired 25 March 1976
25. Richard Avendon
Aired 1 April 1976
26. The Spirit of the Land
Aired 8 April 1976
27. Monsieur Hulot's Work
Aired 13 May 1976
29. Far Away
Aired 27 May 1976
30. John Constable
Aired 3 June 1976
31. The Sound of Islam
Aired 10 June 1976
32. The Green Table- Around the Green Table
Aired 17 June 1976
33. An Evening with Gene Kelly
Aired 24 June 1976
Dancer, choreographer, director and father of the 'new' American musical of the 1940s. He talks to Gavin Millar about his early life, the struggles to become a dancer and the great days at MGM when a new form of 'cinema-dance' was invented
34. Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
Aired 1 July 1976
An account of the events that led up to the American War of Independence from Britain, filmed in the locations where they took place.
35. Beyond a Boundary
Aired 8 July 1976