Omnibus

Name: Omnibus
Genre: Documentary
Rating: 7.2

1967

★★★★☆ 7.2/10

📺 36 Seasons

🎬 718 Episodes

📅 Canceled

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⏱️ 60 min/ep

Documentary

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.

Seasons

Season 1

1967 • 24 Episodes

The first edition of a regular weekly programme about the creative world of art and artists. Introduced by Henry Livings. Tonight: Everybody's Expo - An account of a world event.

Season 2

1968 • 30 Episodes

Season 3

1969 • 35 Episodes

Season 4

1970 • 31 Episodes

Season 5

1971 • 27 Episodes

Season 6

1972 • 25 Episodes

Season 7

1973 • 36 Episodes

Season 8

1974 • 26 Episodes

Season 9

1975 • 34 Episodes

Season 10

1976 • 38 Episodes

Season 11

1977 • 16 Episodes

'Gagaku' is the ancient Court music of Japan. In this film dancers and musicians discuss and demonstrate the traditional movements, styles and the sounds of an art culture little known in the West. Master players of the Sho and Kyoto demonstrate the special meaning of performance techniques.

Season 12

1978 • 26 Episodes

Edward Kienholz was an American artist known for his found-object assemblages and installations he referred to as tableauxs. In one of his most controversial works, The State Hospital (1966), Kienholz provided a grisly account.

Season 13

1979 • 14 Episodes

Season 14

1981 • 14 Episodes

Season 15

1982 • 17 Episodes

Season 16

1982 • 23 Episodes

Season 17

1983 • 10 Episodes

Season 18

1984 • 11 Episodes

Season 19

1984 • 10 Episodes

Season 20

1985 • 21 Episodes

Season 21

1986 • 7 Episodes

Season 22

1986 • 11 Episodes

Season 23

1987 • 10 Episodes

Dramatized documentary about the life of the painter George Grosz.

Season 24

1987 • 7 Episodes

Todays theme is Getting to Dylan.

Season 25

1988 • 10 Episodes

Season 26

1988 • 16 Episodes

Season 27

1989 • 18 Episodes

Season 28

1990 • 20 Episodes

Season 29

1991 • 24 Episodes

Season 30

1992 • 16 Episodes

Season 31

1993 • 26 Episodes

Season 32

1994 • 20 Episodes

Season 33

1995 • 12 Episodes

Season 34

1996 • 13 Episodes

Season 35

1997 • 25 Episodes

Season 36

1998 • 15 Episodes

Network

BBC One

Production

BBC