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.
Everybody's expo
Suliotis sings
Beethoven symphony no. 3, in e flat (eroica)
Tyger, tyger
Benjamin britten and his festival
East of bedlam
Jacqueline
The world of coppard
Dante's inferno
Diaghilev: the years abroad (1)
Diaghilev: the years in exile (2)
Edith evans: a birthday tribute
Top brass
Abelard and heloise
The exile
Tommy
God's tunes
China and the barbarians
Whistle and i'll come to you
My name is benvenuto cellini
The charm of dynamite!
Corporal jan
The ken russell festival (1)
The ken russell festival (2)
Song of summer
J.b. priestley
Olympia 1936
Blow the wind southerly
All my loving
Rossini: the long farewell
The hunted man
Paul gauguin: quest for silence
Rubinstein speaks
Hadrian vii
Tallulah bankhead
Make a joyful noise
Eric porter
Cream farewell concert
The man who dances
Woman from the shadows
Makers of the queen's music
From today, painting is dead
Myrna loy
Malcolm arnold
Shostakovich
A couple of brians
1969 oscar awards
Down these mean streets a man must go
The more we are together
Lawrence durrell's paris
Margot fonteyn: birthday of a ballerina
Acting styles in the 20th century
The vital juices are russian
So what if it's just green cheese?
Omnibus at the proms
Omnibus at the proms: sir adrian boult
Sir henry wood
J.b. priestley
George robey
Beautiful beautiful
Sir malcolm sargent
What the hell ever happens in marlborough?
F. scott fitzgerald: the dream divided
Christopher isherwood: a born foreigner
Richter
The confessions of marian evans/george eliot
Noel coward
Where are you going my pretty maid?
Tommy steele and things
Unashamed accompanist: gerald moore
Ian fleming creator of the james bond myth
Virginia woolf: a day's sail, a night's darkness
Anna pavlova: 1881 - 1931
Rope ladder to the moon: jack bruce
John clare - i am
Dance of the seven veils
Who will buy a bubble?
Ralph vaughan williams
On the waltz
The wandsworth sound
1970 oscar awards
Kenneth more
To leningrad with love
The hollywood image-the silent era
The hollywood image-the talkies
The hollywood image-the post war years
A vow fulfilled: oberammergau
The other edward heath
Satchmo at 70
Omnibus at the proms
Ustinov's expo
Heart of britain
Art therapy-shapes in the wilderness
Everything in the garden 1
Everything in the garden 2
It'll be all live on the night
Robert shaw: the actor as novelist
A requiem for modigliani
Rambert remembers
Eisenstein 1
Eisenstein 2
I regret nothing
The mysterious mr eliot
George orwell: the road to the left
Chicago blues
In prison: a world of its own
The making of husbands
Brendan behan
Henri cartier bresson
In search of lost time
This was richard tauber
The passionate hunter
Ingrid bergman remembers
Three looms waiting
James mossman: to be a witness
Thetchaikovsky competition
Bream at stratford
Solzhenitsyn
Hail and farewell-george moore
Russell's progress
The proms 71
Happy birthday dear albert
Glenda jackson: a private face in a public place
The young platform
David lean
There was an old person called lear...
Paul klee: heart of creation
Rap her te bank
Mind you i live here: stan barstow
Will the real mr hogarth....
Duke ellington and his orchestra
Vive la culture!
Instant nostalgia
Humphrey bogart
Paradise restored
A modern turn of mind
Sir john barbirolli: glorious john
Bruno walter: the face of music
Rise above it: tyrone guthrie
Man at the met: sir rudolf bing
The fall of venice
Actor, i said
The great american dream machine
Leningrad reborn
Born black born british
A dignified comic set-to: groucho marx
The man behind the mask: marcel marceau
Leeds international piano competition
The last samurai
The wit & world of george bernard shaw
Vincent the dutchman
Who needs a conductor?
The performers-goya
Artists in wartime
Great orchestras: the chicago symphony orchestra
Ned kelly country: the paintings of sidney nolan
Max beerbohm remembers
Judy: impressions of garland
The savage image
Why culture?
But the people are beautiful: andy warhol
Fools rush in: morecambe and wise
The name grierson: the word documentary
Master of the cello
It must be something in the water
Sir noel coward
Colette 1873-1954: a window in the war
That's my little masterpiece
The passing of the year
British jazz
Leonardo-to know how to see
Ginger baker in africa
The proms 1
The proms 2
The proms 3
The proms 3
The proms
A question of feeling
André previn-the other lso
The sydney opera house
Sir robert helpmann
The british hero
George stubbs: make the knife go with the pencil
Hollywood on trial
The runaway
François truffaut
Bejart+boulez = ballet
It's fantastic, it's futuristic, it's fatalistic, it's science fiction
Marcel marceau: a christmas carol
Gershwin's porgy
Nureyev
Great orchestras: the london symphony
Acting a part?
The art of the potter
Don't take it for granted
Claire bloom
Kafka's castle
Beethoven's 9th symphony
The invasion of space: novgorod father of russia
Wish you were here
Ella fitzgerald at ronnie scott's
Ella fitzgerald's other show
Crystal palace-the great glass hive
Alan price: between today & yesterday
W.b.yeats and the coming times
Dame ninette de valois
Ernest brown: pioneer photographer
Words by johnny mercer
Tommy steele: my life, my song
The goldwyn touch
Joseph conrad
Music from the flames
The o de cologne show
The jean rhys woman
Oscar peterson & andré previn
Find me
The need for nightmare
Cuckoo: a celebration of mr. laurel and mr. hardy
A circus for a school
Cathedral
Cracked actor
Auguste rodin: changes
21 not out
Alphabets, wild things, peter and a golden canary
Charles chaplin: tramp & philosopher
The friendly invasion from stephen foster to ragtime
Fidelio finke: where are you now?
African sanctus
Nijinsky: god of the dance
The grierson award
Great orchestras: the vienna philharmonic
Claes oldenburg: the formative years
Irving berlin
A step in the jungle: ronald searle
Exton, stoppard and co at the eleventh hour
The great orchestras: the boston symphony
Big ware
Anatomies: images in the work of john donne
Honore de balzac: torrents of the mind
Thomas mann: the fight against death
Shafts of sunlight
The friendly invasion: 2 from jazz to swing
The friendly invasion: 3 the road to rock & roll
Family scenes: ivy compton - the burne household
Jane austen
Come and dance with busby berkeley
Scenes from a geordie ceilidh/overture/closed on mondays
The golden age of spanish painting
The waltz
Omnibus in ireland
All clouds are clocks
A matter of life & death
Constable exhibition
Charles marowitz
A kind of innocence
Placido domingo
Portraits
The honourable out -of- step
Richard avendon
The spirit of the land
Monsieur hulot's work
Far away
John constable
The sound of islam
The green table- around the green table
An evening with gene kelly
Give me liberty or give me death
Beyond a boundary
All the superlatives - anthony dowell
Omnibus usa: dave brubeck
My homeland
Art - to a degree
Culture - who needs it?
Omnibus usa: have a nice day
Signs of vigorous life: the new german cinema
Benjamin britten
The first 70 years are the worst-two lives in music
New york, new york
The story of pantomime
Pleasure at her majesty's
The song of mandelay
A white wall in alentejo
Omnibus usa: doc, charlie and the painters
Colour positive - the poster man
Paintings by el greco
Paintings by titian
Paintings by velazquez
Omnibus usa: la - my home town
Toccata at the plaza
Omnibus usa: new york real, new york abstract
Orpheus and his flute
Walton no.1
Stan tracey: the original
Omnibus usa: documentary america
Seeds of a new life
The lindsays/half a mile from stoke
The human face
Walk to the moon
The national youth jazz orchestra -stan's band
Italia: florence after the flood
Italia: the madonna & the volcano
Italia: a line through the labrynth
Victims and survivors: whose colour is white?
Conductor's eye view: little train
Unita- bach at tilford
The santa fe opera
Music of a thousand autumns
The nat gonella story
Big band jazz
Pure radio
A day in the garden/a piano's story
The garden beyond
Poetry
For love or money 1
For love or money 2
Jeanne moreau
Gustev courbit/engine of revolution
Voices of children/profile of a dancer
Everyone is a special kind of artist
Marevna & marika
The song of the white horse
Warsaw autumn
The art show of ed kienholz
The people's park: disco delight or what a way to end it all
Leos janacek: 1854-1928
The pilgrimage of ti-jean
The record machine
Living room
Paul gauguin: the savage and the construction of paradise
Fear and loathing in gonzovision
628-e8
Its stolen your face
After the dream
Getting away with murder: the childhood of claude chabrol
She must be joking!
Lillian hellman
Rene magritte
Words fail me
Brian clarke: the story so far
Natalia makarova
Drawn & quartered
Kiss me, petruchio
Lotte lenya
The brothers grimm
Dread, beat n'blood
The long walk of fred young
Pig earth
Gold on ice
Schalcken the painter
Ray bradbury: the illustrated man
Johnny be good
Blue moon
Tuning in
Parting shots from animals
Graham sutherland: the artist on film
Hollywood's wild angel
Home movies
Windhover
Bugs and daffy and chuck and porky
Coming alive
Quinn running
We think the world of you
Judy chicago's dinner party
But the client loved it...
When the dancing had to stop
The first freedom
The story of g...
Dallas the big store
Punch & judy
Stevie wonder: innervisions
Norman foster: watch this space
An actor's life for me
Parrots, bees, ducks and finches
Mark gertler
We ask the questions
Landseer: a victorian comedy
La ronde / frankie howerd / great japan exhibition
Cats / holy blood and the holy grail
Alan ayckbourn / humphrey jennings / labeque sisters
Bad apple / james joyce's ulysses
Lucie rie
Paganini / jonathan miller / brian aldiss
The cortege / barbican / nureyev and brind
Berlin requiem / art and architecture
Claire bloom / masquerade
The oldest dance in the world
Academy awards / julian bream
Macbeth rsc / welsh national opera
Bernstein - enigma variations / mary renault
Sir anton dolin / susan hill
Susan hill/beagley dances/anton dolin
Bob hoskins - south bank / stephen games / dame janet baker
Maurice sendak / dennis potter - pennies from heaven
Milan
Poppy - monty norman / john sell cotman
Apocalypse: enrico baj / pas de deux / forss
Freya stark in italy
Brits on broadway: the american dance machine
Photography / john morley
The folies bergeres / van dyck in england
Raymond mason in paris / pekinel sisters
Wayne sleep - dash / richard payne knight / count panza
Gardens / ligeti
David puttnam
Peter pan rsc
Cecile ousset
Jonathan miller - magic flute / steven berkoff
Raymond briggs and the bomb / sutton place
The elgin marbles/tim white
Alasdair gray/cimabue
Richard long/landscapes
Writers on the right
Patrick heron
Dirk bogarde
Celibidache and faure's requiem
Peter ustinov
Franco zeffirelli
Roger daltrey/the taste exhibition
The old vic
War artists
Jean seberg
Dimitris sgouros/eileen agar
The genius of venice
Martin bloch/philip core
St george's chapel/live music now
Dolin, friends and memories
Haydn's lost mass/mr broadway
Goodnight vienna
A londoner in new york
The sound of musak/michael clark
Wharfedale revisited/squeezing the frog
The westmores of hollywood
Pennington's chekhov
Lord gowrie / dance umbrella
New art
The classiest juke-box in the world
The killing fields
The quest for reginald goodall
Wells and his women
The bristol showboat saga
The face of christ
Tuscany revisited
Pennington on chekov
Lord gowrie/the dance umbrella
New art
The classiest juke-box in the world
The killing fields
From east cheam to earls court
Malcolm morley: the outsider
Leonard bernstein's west side story
The battle for mansion house square
The ritz and the cotton club
Klemperer
Studs terkel's chicago
Saga on the south bank
The treble
The salesman goes to china
Quickly up the thames
Luck & flaw's illustrated guide to caricature
At the proms 1
At the proms 2
At the proms 3
At the proms 4
At the proms 5
At the proms 6
At the proms 7
Cannon in flowers
Rodin 1840-1917
Huw wheldon by his friends
Lawrence and arabia
Comic relief
Made in ealing
Video jukebox
Alice walker & the color purple
The last moguls
The proms -1
The bolshoi ballet
Jessye norman
Meetings with ambler
Hitchcock: its only a movie
Hitchcock: sex, murder and mayhem
Courtney pine and the new jazz
The mission
Ray charles
Cannon in flowers
Rodin 1840-1917
George grosz: enemy of the state
Real dreams
James stirling
Michelangelo
A us journey with isaac bashevis
Aretha franklin
The big bang in the book world
George gershwin remembered
The hackney way
Eudora welty
Getting to dylan
Towards antara
Omnibus: 20th anniversary show
The arts & glasnost: cinema
The arts & glasnost: artists
The arts & glasnost: writers
Arthur miller
Irving berlin - the voice of the city
A poisoned chalice?
Lucien freud
Memories of a musical dog
The cinema of satyajit ray
My homeland
Pablo picasso: the last years
From bitter earth - artists of the holocaust
Songs from the life of leonard cohen
Whale nation
Korea - a house divided
Sir fred- a celilbration
Gwen: a juliet remembered
Eisenstein: little boy from riga
Harold pinter
Charles: a vision of britain
Caryl churchill
Paul simon
Episode 9
Episode 10
Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13
Episode 14
Episode 15
Episode 16
Tribute to laurence olivier
Jessye norman sings carmen
A second chance
Rape - that's entertainment?
Raymond carver
Butterfly
Art in the ring
Art in the third reich- power
Art in the third reich- propaganda
Ronnie scott and all that jazz
Tim rollins & kos: the art of survival
The kirov ballet: leningrad legend
Pipe dreams
My most difficult book - the story of 'lolita'
Alan ayckbourn: sex and politics
Sunday in the park with stephen
The novelist who would be president
Van gogh
Malkovich
Plunder - the stolen kanakaria mosaics
King of the blues
Jorge amado and his tent of miracles
Life of python
Building for a new age - a romanian story
L.b - a portrait of leonard bernstein
Antoni tapies
Garrison keillor - the wide open page
The return of the green man
Tales of ordinary murder - rian mala in south africa
Behind the american dream
A profile of michael andrews
Inside the russia house
Sidney lumet
Tom jones - the voice made flesh
Episode 17
Episode 18
Episode 19
Episode 20
La stupenda - a retrospective of dam
The proms/pictures at an exhibition
Peter greenaway
Pablo casals: song of the birds
Don delillo/the word, the image, the gun
Torvill & dean: bladerunners
Malcolm arnold at 70
Martha gellhorn
Against pornography: the feminism of andrea dworkin
Irek mukhamedov
Eric hebborn: portrait of a master forger
Ulster says ho ho ho
Joseph cornel: worlds in a box
Shakespeare: a year with the rsc
The prince of paisley park
Benny hill: clown imperial
Signs of the city
Episode 18
Episode 19
Episode 20
Episode 21
Episode 22
Episode 23
Episode 24
Barcelona with robert hughes
Angela carter's curious room
Disney: the fairy-tale years
The piero trail
Lost paradise -the gardens of burlemarx
Eye of the storm: ridley scott
Who's this nobody from quebec?
Avigdor arikha
Gunter grass: fiction at the frontier
Leonora carrington: the house of fear
Horst: sixty years and still in vogue
John ford: part one
John ford 2
The king's college choir
Rudolf nureyev
Vittorio storaro: writing with light
Wild swans
Korda: i don't grow on trees: part one
Nina simone -the legend
Korda: i don't grow on trees: part two
Sweet home chicago
Houdini
The magic lantern
The russian striptease
Everything you wanted to know about conductors but were afraid to ask
The boy next door
Who killed tchaikovsky
Looking back at you
Sunset boulevard
Freeze, but is it art?
The piero trail 1
Mister abbott's broadway
The piero trail 2
Vikram seth: a suitable boy
Hildegard
Bill t jones
Gielgud: scenes from 9 decades
Joan littlewood's lovely war
Sir john betjeman
Duke ellington 1: reminiscing in tempo
Duke ellington 2
Robert stephens: every inch a king
The gentle art of making enemies
Doris lessing: a part of me
Quentin tarantino: hollywood's boy wonder
About face
The trials of dominick dunne
Pink floyd: the story
Henri cartier-bresson: question for a question
Stevenson's travels 1
Stevenson's travels 2
The greatest living painter: de kooning
Carnival: the biggest party in the world
Joshua bell
Ready when you are, mr patel
Darker than blue: curtis mayfield
Jean renoir: from la belle epoque to ww1
Jean renoir: hollywood & beyond
Perry & croft: the sitcoms
Divas
Ginger rogers: a tribute
Dave stewart: greetings from the gutter
Brian wilson: i just wasn't made for these times
Listen, paula...
Enigma: the making of a hardback hero
Gore vidal's gore vidal part 1
Gore vidal's gore vidal part 2
A foundation course in art
Some interesting facts about peter cook
Paul verhoeven: from holland to hollywood
A day on the mountain
Written on water: a film about budapest
Eve arnold in retrospect
Degas: the old man mad about art
The royal court diaries
Dancing through darkness
The wanderer
Sir walter scott: wizard of the north
Balthus the painter
Stars and their mas
Milos forman
George lucas - flying solo
Episode 9
Episode 10
Episode 11
Episode 12
Episode 13
Jack rosenthal: jack the lad
Anthony green ra - 57 up
Dame henrietta's dream
Michael redgrave - my father
Whatever happened to clement & lafrenais?
East of eastenders
Mayibuye i afrika: let africa come home
If: a film about rudyard kipling
Brit art at the royal academy
Reeves & mortimer: the film
Sir george solti: the making of a maestro
Antony sher
Oscar
Salvador dali: the fame and the shame1
Salvador dali: the fame and the shame1
Citizen kay
Lewis carroll: curiouser and curiouser
Pierre bonnard: a love exposed
Jim sheridan
André previn
The pied piper of harlem
Gilbert and sullivan: instant merriment
Nick hornby: man of the match
Jeffrey archer: the self made man
Stars and their pas
The art of diana
Alan mcgee: the man who discovered oasis
Zizi je t'aime
Cat people
Darcey bussell
Billy fury: halfway to paradise
The whirl of vanity fair
Julie andrews
Starring - animals
Bring me sunshine: the heart and soul of eric morecambe
Mad about monet
Episode 12
Episode 13
Episode 14
Episode 15
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