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.
Omnibus (Season 9)
Exton, Stoppard and Co at the Eleventh Hour (Episode 1)
Air date: 1975-09-21
The Great Orchestras: The Boston Symphony (Episode 2)
Air date: 1975-09-28
Big Ware (Episode 3)
Air date: 1975-10-05
Anatomies: Images in the Work of John Donne (Episode 4)
Air date: 1975-10-12
Honore De Balzac: Torrents of the Mind (Episode 5)
Air date: 1975-10-19
Thomas Mann: The Fight Against Death (Episode 6)
Air date: 1975-10-26
Shafts of Sunlight (Episode 7)
Air date: 1975-11-02
The Friendly Invasion: 2 from Jazz to Swing (Episode 8)
Air date: 1975-11-23
The Friendly Invasion: 3 the Road to Rock & Roll (Episode 9)
Air date: 1975-11-30
Family Scenes: Ivy Compton - The Burne Household (Episode 10)
Air date: 1975-12-07
Jane Austen (Episode 11)
Air date: 1975-12-14
Overview: A celebration of the novelist, who was born 200 years ago.
Come and Dance with Busby Berkeley (Episode 12)
Air date: 1975-12-21
Scenes from a Geordie Ceilidh/Overture/Closed on Mondays (Episode 13)
Air date: 1975-12-21
The Golden Age of Spanish Painting (Episode 14)
Air date: 1976-01-15
The Waltz (Episode 15)
Air date: 1976-01-22
Omnibus in Ireland (Episode 16)
Air date: 1976-01-29
All Clouds Are Clocks (Episode 17)
Air date: 1976-02-05
Overview: An Arts Documentary about the Composer Gyorgy Ligeti whose music became popular after having been used in Kubrick's 2001
A Matter of Life & Death (Episode 18)
Air date: 1976-02-12
Constable Exhibition (Episode 19)
Air date: 1976-02-19
Charles Marowitz (Episode 20)
Air date: 1976-02-26
A Kind of Innocence (Episode 21)
Air date: 1976-03-04
Placido Domingo (Episode 22)
Air date: 1976-03-11
Portraits (Episode 23)
Air date: 1976-03-18
The Honourable Out -Of- Step (Episode 24)
Air date: 1976-03-25
Richard Avendon (Episode 25)
Air date: 1976-04-01
The Spirit of the Land (Episode 26)
Air date: 1976-04-08
Monsieur Hulot's Work (Episode 27)
Air date: 1976-05-13
Far Away (Episode 28)
Air date: 1976-05-27
John Constable (Episode 29)
Air date: 1976-06-03
The Sound of Islam (Episode 30)
Air date: 1976-06-10
The Green Table- Around the Green Table (Episode 31)
Air date: 1976-06-17
An Evening with Gene Kelly (Episode 32)
Air date: 1976-06-24
Overview: 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
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (Episode 33)
Air date: 1976-07-01
Overview: An account of the events that led up to the American War of Independence from Britain, filmed in the locations where they took place.
Beyond a Boundary (Episode 34)
Air date: 1976-07-08
