Omnibus

Synopsis

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.

Season 40 Episodes

EP 1

Douglas Adams: The Man Who Blew Up the World

EP 2

David Hockney: A Secret Knowledge

EP 3

Empire of the Nude

EP 4

Joan Plowright: When Larry Met Joan

EP 5

The 'Billy Elliot' Boy

Recording Jamie Bell's progress from unknown schoolboy to award-winning star of "Billy Elliot".

EP 6

Frank Auerbach

EP 7

Anthony Trollope

EP 8

Chuck Jones: Mr Bugs Bunny

A UK broadcast of Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation (2000).

EP 9

Lucille Ball Queen of Comedy

EP 10

Syd Barrett: Crazy Diamond

"The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story" (video release title) tells the full bizarre, tragic, but also celebratory story of Syd Barrett, the…

EP 11

Tolkien: The Master of Middle Earth

EP 12

J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and Me

For the first time J.K. Rowling tells in her own words the story of how the bestselling books of Harry Potter came to life.

EP 13

Mario Testino: Diana's Favourite Photographer

EP 14

Robert Altman in England

EP 15

Sir Nigel Hawthorne: Remembered