COLLECTION · Series · 1967
Omnibus
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.
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* 7.2 (9)DocumentaryUnited Kingdom
Countries
United Kingdom
Studios
BBC One · BBC
Runtime
60 min/ep
Release
13/10/1967
Score
7.2 / 10 (9)
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Seasons and episodes
Season 1
24 episodes · 1967
Episode 1. Everybody's Expo
1967-10-13 · 60 min
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.
Episode 2. Suliotis Sings
1967-10-20 · 50 min
The British debut of a new world opera star—at the age of twenty-four.
Episode 3. Beethoven Symphony No. 3, in E flat (Eroica)
1967-11-03
The first of three performances of Beethoven symphonies conducted by Colin Davis. BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Trevor Williams Part of a public concert in the Royal Festival Hall, London.
Episode 4. Tyger, Tyger
1967-11-10 · 50 min
An enquiry into the power of a familiar poem. Introduced by Henry Livings. "Tyger tyger burning bright In the forests of the night What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry" Why does this poem by William Blake 1757-1827…
Episode 5. Benjamin Britten and His Festival
1967-11-22
No synopsis
Episode 6. East of Bedlam
1967-12-08
No synopsis
Episode 7. Jacqueline
1967-12-15
No synopsis
Episode 8. The World of Coppard
1967-12-15
No synopsis
Episode 9. Dante's Inferno
1967-12-22
No synopsis
Episode 10. Diaghilev: The Years Abroad (1)
1967-12-28
No synopsis
Episode 11. Diaghilev: The Years in Exile (2)
1968-01-09
No synopsis
Episode 12. Edith Evans: A Birthday Tribute
1968-01-16
No synopsis
Episode 13. Top Brass
1968-01-23
No synopsis
Episode 14. Abelard and Heloise
1968-01-30
No synopsis
Episode 15. The Exile
1968-02-06
No synopsis
Episode 16. Tommy
1968-03-26
No synopsis
Episode 17. God's Tunes
1968-04-02
No synopsis
Episode 18. China and the Barbarians
1968-04-23
No synopsis
Episode 19. Whistle and I'll Come to You
1968-05-07
No synopsis
Episode 20. My Name Is Benvenuto Cellini
1968-05-21
No synopsis
Episode 21. The Charm of Dynamite!
1968-05-28
No synopsis
Episode 22. Corporal Jan
1968-06-18
No synopsis
Episode 23. The Ken Russell Festival (1)
1968-06-25
No synopsis
Episode 24. The Ken Russell Festival (2)
1968-07-02
No synopsis
Season 2
30 episodes · 1968
Episode 1. Song of Summer
1968-09-15
No synopsis
Episode 2. J.B. Priestley
1968-09-22
Tribute to J.B. Priestley on his 75th birthday, including extracts from his work.
Episode 3. Olympia 1936
1968-09-29
No synopsis
Episode 4. Blow The Wind Southerly
1968-10-06
No synopsis
Episode 5. All My Loving
1968-11-03 · 52 min
The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Pink Floyd, Cream, Donovan, Frank Zappa & Eric Burdon.
Episode 6. Rossini: The Long Farewell
1968-11-10
No synopsis
Episode 7. The Hunted Man
1968-11-17
No synopsis
Episode 8. Paul Gauguin: Quest For Silence
1968-11-24
No synopsis
Episode 9. Rubinstein Speaks
1968-12-01
No synopsis
Episode 10. Hadrian VII
1968-12-08
No synopsis
Episode 11. Tallulah Bankhead
1968-12-15
No synopsis
Episode 12. Make A Joyful Noise
1968-12-22
No synopsis
Episode 13. Eric Porter
1968-12-29
No synopsis
Episode 14. Cream Farewell Concert
1969-01-05
The historic Farewell Concert at Albert Hall in London by one of rock's greatest groups has been dynamically recorded in this film by Robert Stigwood. The group, composed of Eric Clapton on lead guitar, Jack Bruce on bass and lead vocals,…
Episode 15. The Man Who Dances
1969-01-12
No synopsis
Episode 16. Woman From The Shadows
1969-01-19
No synopsis
Episode 17. Makers of the Queen's Music
1969-01-26
No synopsis
Episode 18. From Today, Painting Is Dead
1969-02-02
No synopsis
Episode 19. Myrna Loy
1969-02-16
No synopsis
Episode 20. Malcolm Arnold
1969-03-02
No synopsis
Episode 21. Shostakovich
1969-03-09
No synopsis
Episode 22. A Couple of Brians
1969-03-23
No synopsis
Episode 23. 1969 Oscar Awards
1969-04-20
No synopsis
Episode 24. Down These Mean Streets A Man Must Go
1969-03-30
No synopsis
Episode 25. The More We Are Together
1969-05-04
No synopsis
Episode 26. Lawrence Durrell's Paris
1969-05-11
No synopsis
Episode 27. Margot Fonteyn: Birthday of a Ballerina
1969-05-18
No synopsis
Episode 28. Acting Styles in the 20th Century
1969-05-25
No synopsis
Episode 29. The Vital Juices Are Russian
1969-06-01
No synopsis
Episode 30. So What If It's Just Green Cheese?
1969-07-20
An improvised celebration of Apollo 11's landing on the Moon.
Season 3
35 episodes · 1969
Episode 1. Omnibus at the Proms
1969-08-03
No synopsis
Episode 2. Omnibus at the Proms: Sir Adrian Boult
1969-08-17
No synopsis
Episode 3. Sir Henry Wood
1969-09-07
No synopsis
Episode 4. J.B. Priestley
1969-09-14
No synopsis
Episode 5. George Robey
1969-09-28
No synopsis
Episode 6. Beautiful Beautiful
1969-10-05
No synopsis
Episode 7. Sir Malcolm Sargent
1969-10-12
No synopsis
Episode 8. What the Hell Ever Happens in Marlborough?
1969-10-19
No synopsis
Episode 9. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Dream Divided
1969-10-26
No synopsis
Episode 10. Christopher Isherwood: A Born Foreigner
1969-11-02
Documentary about author Christopher Isherwood, in which he is interviewed about his life and work and which features extracts from films of his novels and stories.
Episode 11. Richter
1969-11-09
No synopsis
Episode 12. The Confessions of Marian Evans/George Eliot
1969-11-23
No synopsis
Episode 13. Noel Coward
1969-12-07
No synopsis
Episode 14. Where Are You Going My Pretty Maid?
1969-12-14
No synopsis
Episode 15. Tommy Steele and Things
1969-12-21
No synopsis
Episode 16. Unashamed Accompanist: Gerald Moore
1969-12-28
No synopsis
Episode 17. Ian Fleming Creator of the James Bond Myth
1970-01-04
No synopsis
Episode 18. Virginia Woolf: A Day's Sail, a Night's Darkness
1970-01-18
No synopsis
Episode 19. Anna Pavlova: 1881 - 1931
1970-01-25
No synopsis
Episode 20. Rope Ladder to the Moon: Jack Bruce
1970-02-01
No synopsis
Episode 21. John Clare - I am
1970-02-08
No synopsis
Episode 22. Dance of the Seven Veils
1970-02-15
An imaginary portrait of composer Richard Strauss.
Episode 23. Who Will Buy a Bubble?
1970-02-22
A group of people with regular jobs (factory clerk, Lighterman,Inspector etc) take part in an experimental and improvised drama in which they are encouraged to writhe around the floor making strange noises and movements. The idea being…
Episode 24. Ralph Vaughan Williams
1970-03-01
No synopsis
Episode 25. On the Waltz
1970-03-15
No synopsis
Episode 26. The Wandsworth Sound
1970-04-05
No synopsis
Episode 27. 1970 Oscar Awards
1970-04-12
No synopsis
Episode 28. Kenneth More
1970-04-18
No synopsis
Episode 29. To Leningrad with Love
1970-04-26
No synopsis
Episode 30. The Hollywood Image-The Silent Era
1970-05-03
No synopsis
Episode 31. The Hollywood Image-The Talkies
1970-05-10
No synopsis
Episode 32. The Hollywood Image-The Post War Years
1970-05-17
No synopsis
Episode 33. A Vow Fulfilled: Oberammergau
1970-05-31
No synopsis
Episode 34. The Other Edward Heath
1970-06-28
No synopsis
Episode 35. Satchmo at 70
1970-07-05
No synopsis
Season 4
31 episodes · 1970
Episode 1. Omnibus at the Proms
1970-08-23
No synopsis
Episode 2. Ustinov's Expo
1970-09-13
No synopsis
Episode 3. Heart of Britain
1970-09-20
An examination of the life and work of Humphrey Jennings, scholar, writer painter but, above all, filmmaker.
Episode 4. Art Therapy-Shapes in the Wilderness
1970-09-27
No synopsis
Episode 5. Everything in the Garden 1
1970-10-11
The first part of this special documentary film traces the tempestuous history of the Royal Opera House from the time the first building opened its doors in 1732 up to the present day, 26 years after Sir David Webster 's appointment.
Episode 6. Everything in the Garden 2
1970-10-18
A programme in two parts on the past, present and future of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Episode 7. It'll Be All Live on the Night
1970-11-01
An investigation of regional theatre in Britain. Amongst the Theatres - and their Artistic Directors - discussed are the Northcott Theeatre, Exeter; Theatre Royal Windsor, Peter Cheeseman's Victoria Theatre Stoke on Trent and theatres in…
Episode 8. Robert Shaw: The Actor as Novelist
1970-11-15
No synopsis
Episode 9. A Requiem for Modigliani
1970-11-22
No synopsis
Episode 10. Rambert Remembers
1970-11-29
No synopsis
Episode 11. Eisenstein 1
1970-12-06
No synopsis
Episode 12. Eisenstein 2
1970-12-13
No synopsis
Episode 13. I Regret Nothing
1970-12-27
No synopsis
Episode 14. The Mysterious Mr Eliot
1971-01-03
No synopsis
Episode 15. George Orwell: The Road to the Left
1971-01-10
The film traces Orwell's life during 1936 when he spent time in the depressed north of England, married, set off for the Spanish Civil War and completed his book 'The Road to Wigan Pier', which marked his beginnings as a political author.
Episode 16. Chicago Blues
1971-01-24
No synopsis
Episode 17. In Prison: A World of Its Own
1971-03-14
No synopsis
Episode 18. The Making of Husbands
1971-03-28
No synopsis
Episode 19. Brendan Behan
1971-04-04
No synopsis
Episode 20. Henri Cartier Bresson
1971-04-11
No synopsis
Episode 21. In Search of Lost Time
1971-05-02
An Omnibus Arts documentary made to celebrate the centenary of the birth of author Marcel Proust. The film examines the creation of his autobiographical novel "A La Recherche du temps perdu".
Episode 22. This Was Richard Tauber
1971-05-09
No synopsis
Episode 23. The Passionate Hunter
1971-05-23
No synopsis
Episode 24. Ingrid Bergman Remembers
1971-05-30
No synopsis
Episode 25. Three Looms Waiting
1971-06-06
No synopsis
Episode 26. James Mossman: To Be a Witness
1971-06-20
No synopsis
Episode 27. TheTchaikovsky Competition
1971-06-27
No synopsis
Episode 28. Bream at Stratford
1971-07-04
No synopsis
Episode 29. Solzhenitsyn
1971-07-11
No synopsis
Episode 30. Hail and Farewell-George Moore
1971-07-18
No synopsis
Episode 31. Russell's Progress
1971-07-25
Portrait of the filmmaker Ken Russell.
Season 5
27 episodes · 1971
Episode 1. The Proms 71
1971-08-29
No synopsis
Episode 2. Happy Birthday Dear Albert
1971-09-12
No synopsis
Episode 3. Glenda Jackson: A Private Face in a Public Place
1971-10-19
No synopsis
Episode 4. The Young Platform
1971-09-26
No synopsis
Episode 5. David Lean
1971-10-03
No synopsis
Episode 6. There Was an Old Person Called Lear...
1971-10-10
No synopsis
Episode 7. Paul Klee: Heart of Creation
1971-10-17
No synopsis
Episode 8. Rap Her Te Bank
1971-10-24
An exploration of industrial Folksong in Britain from the birth of the Industrial Revolution through to contemporary events affecting us all.It was filmed in Folk Clubs across Britain.
Episode 9. Mind You I Live Here: Stan Barstow
1971-10-31
A portrait of Yorkshire writer and author Stan Barstow; includes contributions from his friends.
Episode 10. Will the real Mr Hogarth....
1971-10-31
A personal appraisal of the caricaturist William Hogarth.
Episode 11. Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
1971-11-14
No synopsis
Episode 12. Vive La Culture!
1971-11-28
A tour of the arts,dance and theatre of Amiens, a town that makes car tyres.
Episode 13. Instant Nostalgia
1971-12-05
No synopsis
Episode 14. Humphrey Bogart
1971-12-27
No synopsis
Episode 15. Paradise Restored
1972-01-02
No synopsis
Episode 16. A Modern Turn of Mind
1972-01-30
No synopsis
Episode 17. Sir John Barbirolli: Glorious John
1972-02-06
No synopsis
Episode 18. Bruno Walter: The Face of Music
1972-02-13
No synopsis
Episode 19. Rise Above It: Tyrone Guthrie
1972-02-20
No synopsis
Episode 20. Man at the Met: Sir Rudolf Bing
1972-02-27
No synopsis
Episode 21. The Fall of Venice
1972-03-19
No synopsis
Episode 22. Actor, I Said
1972-04-09
No synopsis
Episode 23. The Great American Dream Machine
1972-04-16
No synopsis
Episode 24. Leningrad Reborn
1972-04-30
No synopsis
Episode 25. Born Black Born British
1972-06-11
Young West Indians give an impression of their life in this country through their paintings, music, and writing.
Episode 26. A Dignified Comic Set-to: Groucho Marx
1972-07-02
No synopsis
Episode 27. The Man Behind the Mask: Marcel Marceau
1972-07-23
No synopsis
Season 6
25 episodes · 1972
Episode 1. Leeds International Piano Competition
1972-09-17
No synopsis
Episode 2. The Last Samurai
1972-09-24
No synopsis
Episode 3. The Wit & World of George Bernard Shaw
1972-10-01
Christopher Plummer invites the audience into the world of great playwright, George Bernard Shaw, at his home with fellow actors and an actress playing St. Joan.
Episode 4. Vincent the Dutchman
1972-10-15
No synopsis
Episode 5. Who Needs a Conductor?
1972-10-22
No synopsis
Episode 6. The Performers-Goya
1972-10-29
No synopsis
Episode 7. Artists in Wartime
1972-11-12
No synopsis
Episode 8. Great Orchestras: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra
1972-11-19
No synopsis
Episode 9. Ned Kelly Country: The Paintings of Sidney Nolan
1972-11-26
A journey across Australia through the paintings of Sidney Nolan. Earlier this year Sidney Nolan revisited the country where he was born. He likes long journeys and cannot help painting pictures, and every picture tells a story. In this…
Episode 10. Max Beerbohm Remembers
1972-12-10
No synopsis
Episode 11. Judy: Impressions of Garland
1972-12-24
Memories of Judy Garland, from people who knew and worked with her.
Episode 12. The Savage Image
1973-01-14
No synopsis
Episode 13. Why Culture?
1973-01-21
No synopsis
Episode 14. But the People Are Beautiful: Andy Warhol
1973-02-04
No synopsis
Episode 15. Fools Rush In: Morecambe and Wise
1973-02-18 · 49 min
This film for Omnibus follows the two weeks of rehearsal that led up to the recording of a Morecambe and Wise Show that aired on 16 February 1973. 'Fools Rush In' was Eric and Ernie's billing in their early days. Thirty years later, they…
Episode 16. The Name Grierson: The Word Documentary
1973-02-25
No synopsis
Episode 17. Master of the Cello
1973-03-11
No synopsis
Episode 18. It Must Be Something in the Water
1973-03-18
No synopsis
Episode 19. Sir Noel Coward
1973-03-25
No synopsis
Episode 20. Colette 1873-1954: A Window in the War
1973-04-15
No synopsis
Episode 21. That's My Little Masterpiece
1973-05-06
No synopsis
Episode 22. The Passing of the Year
1973-05-13
An Omnibus calendar of tribal England. This film traces how the passing of the seasons is still celebrated with folk song, dance and-ritual. For 12 months cameras have been recording the genuinely surviving ceremonies associated with May…
Episode 23. British Jazz
1973-06-03
No synopsis
Episode 24. Leonardo-To Know How to See
1973-07-08
No synopsis
Episode 25. Ginger Baker in Africa
1973-07-15
The former Cream drummer travels to Nigeria to build a recording studio.
Season 7
35 episodes · 1973
Episode 1. The Proms 1
1973-07-29
No synopsis
Episode 2. The Proms 2
1973-08-05
No synopsis
Episode 3. The Proms 3
1973-08-12
No synopsis
Episode 4. The Proms 3
1973-08-26
No synopsis
Episode 5. The Proms
1973-09-02
No synopsis
Episode 6. A Question of Feeling
1973-09-09
No synopsis
Episode 7. André Previn-The Other LSO
1973-09-16
No synopsis
Episode 8. The Sydney Opera House
1973-09-23
No synopsis
Episode 9. Sir Robert Helpmann
1973-09-30
No synopsis
Episode 10. The British Hero
1973-10-07 · 60 min
A tongue-in-cheek look at how heroes have been depicted through the ages.
Episode 12. George Stubbs: Make the Knife Go with the Pencil
1973-10-21
No synopsis
Episode 13. Hollywood on Trial
1973-11-04
No synopsis
Episode 14. The Runaway
1973-11-18
No synopsis
Episode 15. François Truffaut
1973-12-02
No synopsis
Episode 16. Bejart+Boulez = Ballet
1973-12-09
No synopsis
Episode 17. It's Fantastic, It's Futuristic, It's Fatalistic, It's Science Fiction
1973-12-16
No synopsis
Episode 18. Marcel Marceau: A Christmas Carol
1973-12-23
A Dickens favourite as interpreted by Marcel Marceau the mime artist.
Episode 19. Gershwin's Porgy
1973-12-24
No synopsis
Episode 20. Nureyev
1974-01-27
No synopsis
Episode 21. Great Orchestras: The London Symphony
1974-02-03
No synopsis
Episode 22. Acting a Part?
1974-02-10
No synopsis
Episode 23. The Art of the Potter
1974-02-17
No synopsis
Episode 24. Don't Take It for Granted
1974-02-24
No synopsis
Episode 25. Claire Bloom
1974-03-03
No synopsis
Episode 26. Kafka's Castle
1974-03-17
No synopsis
Episode 28. Beethoven's 9th Symphony
1974-03-31
No synopsis
Episode 29. The Invasion of Space: Novgorod Father of Russia
1974-04-14
No synopsis
Episode 30. Wish You Were Here
1974-04-15
Stars of British Music Hall and Variety take a look back at traditional seaside entertainment.
Episode 31. Ella Fitzgerald at Ronnie Scott's
1974-04-28
Omnibus presents a unique opportunity to see this highly acclaimed performance by Ella Fitzgerald with Tommy Flannagan (piano) Joe Pass (guitar) Bobby Durham (drums) Keeter Betts (double bass) Introduced by Benny Green
Episode 32. Ella Fitzgerald's Other Show
1974-05-04
Omnibus presents Ella Fitzgerald in performance at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. This second show confirms yet again all the superlatives which critics have lavished on her in recent weeks.
Episode 33. Crystal Palace-The Great Glass Hive
1974-05-05
No synopsis
Episode 34. Alan Price: Between Today & Yesterday
1974-05-26
No synopsis
Episode 35. W.B.Yeats and the Coming Times
1974-06-02
No synopsis
Episode 36. Dame Ninette De Valois
1974-06-09
No synopsis
Episode 37. Ernest Brown: Pioneer Photographer
1974-07-07
No synopsis
Episode 38. Words by Johnny Mercer
1974-07-14
No synopsis
Season 8
26 episodes · 1974
Episode 1. Tommy Steele: My Life, My Song
1974-10-08
No synopsis
Episode 2. The Goldwyn Touch
1974-10-20
No synopsis
Episode 3. Joseph Conrad
1974-10-27
No synopsis
Episode 4. Music from the Flames
1974-11-10
This film is a documentary about Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
Episode 5. The O De Cologne Show
1974-11-17
No synopsis
Episode 6. The Jean Rhys Woman
1974-11-24
No synopsis
Episode 7. Oscar Peterson & André Previn
1974-12-01
No synopsis
Episode 8. Find Me
1974-12-08
No synopsis
Episode 9. The Need for Nightmare
1974-12-15
How nightmares inspired the greatest horror writers of the 19th Century
Episode 10. Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy
1974-12-22
Documentary about the classic comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, featuring many film clips and reminiscences from entertainers and associates. Narrated by Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise.
Episode 11. A Circus for a School
1974-12-29
No synopsis
Episode 12. Cathedral
1975-01-05
No synopsis
Episode 13. Cracked Actor
1975-01-26
BBC documentary showing David Bowie looking back on his Ziggy Stardust character during his Diamond Dogs tour.
Episode 14. Auguste Rodin: Changes
1975-02-02
A partially dramatized arts programme about the life and work of Auguste Rodin
Episode 15. 21 Not Out
1975-02-16
No synopsis
Episode 16. Alphabets, Wild Things, Peter and a Golden Canary
1975-02-23
No synopsis
Episode 17. Charles Chaplin: Tramp & Philosopher
1975-03-02
No synopsis
Episode 18. The Friendly Invasion from Stephen Foster to Ragtime
1975-03-09
No synopsis
Episode 19. Fidelio Finke: Where Are You Now?
1975-03-16
No synopsis
Episode 20. African Sanctus
1975-03-30
No synopsis
Episode 21. Nijinsky: God of the Dance
1975-04-06
No synopsis
Episode 22. The Grierson Award
1975-04-13
No synopsis
Episode 23. Great Orchestras: The Vienna Philharmonic
1975-04-27
No synopsis
Episode 24. Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years
1975-05-04
No synopsis
Episode 25. Irving Berlin
1975-05-11
Presented by Benny Green and Roy Castle this is a delightful song-filled affectionate tribute to the career of Irving Berlin
Episode 28. A Step in the Jungle: Ronald Searle
1975-06-15
No synopsis
Season 9
34 episodes · 1975
Episode 1. Exton, Stoppard and Co at the Eleventh Hour
1975-09-21
No synopsis
Episode 2. The Great Orchestras: The Boston Symphony
1975-09-28
No synopsis
Episode 3. Big Ware
1975-10-05
No synopsis
Episode 4. Anatomies: Images in the Work of John Donne
1975-10-12
No synopsis
Episode 5. Honore De Balzac: Torrents of the Mind
1975-10-19
No synopsis
Episode 6. Thomas Mann: The Fight Against Death
1975-10-26
No synopsis
Episode 7. Shafts of Sunlight
1975-11-02
No synopsis
Episode 8. The Friendly Invasion: 2 from Jazz to Swing
1975-11-23
No synopsis
Episode 9. The Friendly Invasion: 3 the Road to Rock & Roll
1975-11-30
No synopsis
Episode 10. Family Scenes: Ivy Compton - The Burne Household
1975-12-07
No synopsis
Episode 11. Jane Austen
1975-12-14
A celebration of the novelist, who was born 200 years ago.
Episode 12. Come and Dance with Busby Berkeley
1975-12-21
No synopsis
Episode 13. Scenes from a Geordie Ceilidh/Overture/Closed on Mondays
1975-12-21
No synopsis
Episode 14. The Golden Age of Spanish Painting
1976-01-15
No synopsis
Episode 15. The Waltz
1976-01-22
No synopsis
Episode 16. Omnibus in Ireland
1976-01-29
No synopsis
Episode 17. All Clouds Are Clocks
1976-02-05
An Arts Documentary about the Composer Gyorgy Ligeti whose music became popular after having been used in Kubrick's 2001
Episode 18. A Matter of Life & Death
1976-02-12
No synopsis
Episode 19. Constable Exhibition
1976-02-19
No synopsis
Episode 20. Charles Marowitz
1976-02-26
No synopsis
Episode 21. A Kind of Innocence
1976-03-04
No synopsis
Episode 22. Placido Domingo
1976-03-11
No synopsis
Episode 23. Portraits
1976-03-18
No synopsis
Episode 24. The Honourable Out -Of- Step
1976-03-25
No synopsis
Episode 25. Richard Avendon
1976-04-01
No synopsis
Episode 26. The Spirit of the Land
1976-04-08
No synopsis
Episode 27. Monsieur Hulot's Work
1976-05-13
No synopsis
Episode 29. Far Away
1976-05-27
No synopsis
Episode 30. John Constable
1976-06-03
No synopsis
Episode 31. The Sound of Islam
1976-06-10
No synopsis
Episode 32. The Green Table- Around the Green Table
1976-06-17
No synopsis
Episode 33. An Evening with Gene Kelly
1976-06-24
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
Episode 34. Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
1976-07-01
An account of the events that led up to the American War of Independence from Britain, filmed in the locations where they took place.
Episode 35. Beyond a Boundary
1976-07-08
No synopsis
Season 10
38 episodes · 1976
Episode 1. All the Superlatives - Anthony Dowell
1976-10-21
No synopsis
Episode 2. Omnibus USA: Dave Brubeck
1976-10-28
No synopsis
Episode 3. My Homeland
1976-11-03
No synopsis
Episode 4. Art - To a Degree
1976-11-11
No synopsis
Episode 5. Culture - Who Needs It?
1976-11-11
No synopsis
Episode 6. Omnibus USA: Have a Nice Day
1976-11-25
No synopsis
Episode 7. Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976-12-02
No synopsis
Episode 8. Benjamin Britten
1976-12-05
No synopsis
Episode 9. The First 70 Years Are the Worst-Two Lives in Music
1976-12-09
No synopsis
Episode 10. New York, New York
1976-12-16 · 49 min
Various artists and musicians at work, and performing, throughout a day in the SoHo district of New York City.
Episode 11. The Story of Pantomime
1976-12-23
No synopsis
Episode 12. Pleasure at Her Majesty's
1976-12-29
No synopsis
Episode 13. The Song of Mandelay
1977-01-03
No synopsis
Episode 14. A White Wall in Alentejo
1977-01-13
No synopsis
Episode 15. Omnibus USA: Doc, Charlie and the Painters
1977-01-20
No synopsis
Episode 16. Colour Positive - The Poster Man
1977-01-27
No synopsis
Episode 17. Paintings by El Greco
1977-02-03
No synopsis
Episode 18. Paintings by Titian
1977-02-10
No synopsis
Episode 19. Paintings by Velazquez
1977-02-17
No synopsis
Episode 20. Omnibus USA: LA - My Home Town
1977-02-24
No synopsis
Episode 21. Toccata at the Plaza
1977-03-03
A fun documentary in which Organist Robin Richmond demonstrates the power, and tells the history, of Cinema Organs. The film was shown as part of an Omnibus programme on Nostalgia
Episode 22. Omnibus USA: New York Real, New York Abstract
1977-03-10
No synopsis
Episode 23. Orpheus and His Flute
1977-03-17
No synopsis
Episode 24. Walton No.1
1977-03-24
No synopsis
Episode 25. Stan Tracey: The Original
1977-03-31
No synopsis
Episode 26. Omnibus USA: Documentary America
1977-04-07
No synopsis
Episode 27. Seeds of a New Life
1977-04-14
No synopsis
Episode 28. The Lindsays/Half a Mile from Stoke
1977-04-21
No synopsis
Episode 29. The Human Face
1977-04-28
No synopsis
Episode 30. Walk to the Moon
1977-05-05
No synopsis
Episode 31. The National Youth Jazz Orchestra -Stan's Band
1977-05-12
Introduced by Humphrey Burton the Stan Kenton Band perform Jazz classics. Stan Kenton, Shelly Manne and Bud Shank are interviewed.
Episode 32. Italia: Florence After the Flood
1977-05-26
No synopsis
Episode 33. Italia: The Madonna & the Volcano
1977-06-02
No synopsis
Episode 34. Italia: A Line Through the Labrynth
1977-06-09
No synopsis
Episode 35. Victims and Survivors: Whose Colour Is White?
1977-06-23
No synopsis
Episode 36. Conductor's Eye View: Little Train
1977-06-30
No synopsis
Episode 37. Unita- Bach at Tilford
1977-07-07
No synopsis
Episode 38. The Santa Fe Opera
1977-07-14
No synopsis
Season 11
16 episodes · 1977
Episode 1. Music of a Thousand Autumns
1977-10-13
'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…
Episode 2. The Nat Gonella Story
1977-10-20
No synopsis
Episode 3. Big Band Jazz
1977-10-27
No synopsis
Episode 4. Pure Radio
1977-11-03
No synopsis
Episode 5. A Day in the Garden/A Piano's Story
1977-11-10
No synopsis
Episode 6. The Garden Beyond
1977-11-17
No synopsis
Episode 7. Poetry
1977-11-24
No synopsis
Episode 8. For Love or Money 1
1977-12-01
No synopsis
Episode 9. For Love or Money 2
1977-12-08
No synopsis
Episode 10. Jeanne Moreau
1978-01-12
No synopsis
Episode 11. Gustev Courbit/Engine of Revolution
1978-01-19
No synopsis
Episode 12. Voices of Children/Profile of a Dancer
1978-02-02
No synopsis
Episode 13. Everyone Is a Special Kind of Artist
1978-02-02
No synopsis
Episode 14. Marevna & Marika
1978-02-09
No synopsis
Episode 15. The Song of the White Horse
1978-02-16
No synopsis
Episode 16. Warsaw Autumn
1978-02-23
No synopsis
Season 12
26 episodes · 1978
Episode 1. The Art Show of Ed Kienholz
1978-08-02
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.
Episode 2. The People's Park: Disco Delight or What a Way to End It All
1978-08-09
No synopsis
Episode 3. Leos Janacek: 1854-1928
1978-08-16
No synopsis
Episode 4. The Pilgrimage of Ti-Jean
1978-08-30
No synopsis
Episode 5. The Record Machine
1978-10-12
John Peel Interviews The Mekons, Sham 69, Alternative TV, The Slits, and UK Subs.
Episode 6. Living Room
1978-10-19
No synopsis
Episode 7. Paul Gauguin: The Savage and the Construction of Paradise
1978-10-26
No synopsis
Episode 8. Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision
1978-11-02 · 50 min
A look at "Gonzo journalist", Hunter S. Thompson with his collaborator, British illustrator, Ralph Steadman.
Episode 9. 628-E8
1978-12-27
No synopsis
Episode 10. Its Stolen Your Face
1978-11-23
No synopsis
Episode 11. After the Dream
1978-11-30
No synopsis
Episode 12. Getting Away with Murder: The Childhood of Claude Chabrol
1978-12-07
No synopsis
Episode 13. She Must Be Joking!
1978-12-21 · 60 min
A look at stand-up comediennes.
Episode 14. Lillian Hellman
1979-02-08
No synopsis
Episode 15. Rene Magritte
1979-02-05
No synopsis
Episode 16. Words Fail Me
1979-02-22
No synopsis
Episode 17. Brian Clarke: The Story So Far
1979-03-15
TV documentary about a packed and unpredictable year in the life of 25 year-old artist in stained-glass, Brian Clarke.
Episode 18. Natalia Makarova
1979-03-29
No synopsis
Episode 19. Drawn & Quartered
1979-05-10
No synopsis
Episode 20. Kiss Me, Petruchio
1979-05-17
No synopsis
Episode 21. Lotte Lenya
1979-05-24
Documentary on the widow of Kurt Weill, the legendary actress and singer Lotte Lenya.
Episode 22. The Brothers Grimm
1979-05-30
No synopsis
Episode 23. Dread, Beat N'Blood
1979-06-07
No synopsis
Episode 24. The Long Walk of Fred Young
1979-06-14
No synopsis
Episode 25. Pig Earth
1979-06-21
No synopsis
Episode 26. Gold on Ice
1979-06-27
No synopsis
Season 13
14 episodes · 1979
Episode 1. Schalcken the Painter
1979-12-23
No synopsis
Episode 2. Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man
1980-01-15
No synopsis
Episode 3. Johnny Be Good
1980-01-29
No synopsis
Episode 4. Blue Moon
1980-02-05
No synopsis
Episode 5. Tuning In
1980-02-26
No synopsis
Episode 6. Parting Shots From Animals
1980-03-04
No synopsis
Episode 7. Graham Sutherland: The Artist On Film
1980-03-11
No synopsis
Episode 8. Hollywood's Wild Angel
1980-03-18
No synopsis
Episode 9. Home Movies
1980-03-25
No synopsis
Episode 10. Windhover
1980-04-01
No synopsis
Episode 11. Bugs and Daffy and Chuck and Porky
1980-04-08
No synopsis
Episode 12. Coming Alive
1980-04-22
No synopsis
Episode 13. Quinn Running
1980-05-08
No synopsis
Episode 14. We Think The World of You
1980-05-15
No synopsis
Season 14
14 episodes · 1981
Episode 1. Judy Chicago's Dinner Party
1981-01-13
No synopsis
Episode 2. But The Client Loved It...
1981-01-20
No synopsis
Episode 3. When The Dancing Had to Stop
1981-01-27
No synopsis
Episode 4. The First Freedom
1981-02-03
No synopsis
Episode 5. The Story of G...
1981-02-10
No synopsis
Episode 6. Dallas The Big Store
1981-02-24
No synopsis
Episode 7. Punch & Judy
1981-03-03
No synopsis
Episode 8. Stevie Wonder: Innervisions
1981-03-17
No synopsis
Episode 9. Norman Foster: Watch This Space
1981-03-24
No synopsis
Episode 10. An Actor's Life For Me
1981-03-31
No synopsis
Episode 11. Parrots, Bees, Ducks and Finches
1981-04-07
Documentary which looks at the history of the English Stage Company and its base, the Royal Court Theatre in London. Past triumphs and failures are reviewed with the aid of Sir John Gielgud, John Osborne, Max Stafford-Clark, Arnold…
Episode 12. Mark Gertler
1981-04-14
No synopsis
Episode 13. We Ask the Questions
1981-04-21
No synopsis
Episode 14. Landseer: A Victorian Comedy
1981-06-02
No synopsis
Season 15
17 episodes · 1982
Episode 1. La Ronde / Frankie Howerd / Great Japan Exhibition
1982-01-10
No synopsis
Episode 2. Cats / Holy Blood and The Holy Grail
1982-01-17
No synopsis
Episode 3. Alan Ayckbourn / Humphrey Jennings / Labeque Sisters
1982-01-24
No synopsis
Episode 4. Sir Anton Dolin / Susan Hill
1982-01-31
No synopsis
Episode 5. Bad Apple / James Joyce's Ulysses
1982-02-07
No synopsis
Episode 6. Lucie Rie
1982-02-14
No synopsis
Episode 7. Paganini / Jonathan Miller / Brian Aldiss
1982-02-21
No synopsis
Episode 8. The Cortege / Barbican / Nureyev and Brind
1982-02-28
No synopsis
Episode 9. Berlin Requiem / Art and Architecture
1982-03-07
No synopsis
Episode 10. Claire Bloom / Masquerade
1982-03-14
No synopsis
Episode 11. The Oldest Dance in the World
1982-03-21
No synopsis
Episode 12. Academy Awards / Julian Bream
1982-03-28
No synopsis
Episode 13. Macbeth RSC / Welsh National Opera
1982-04-04
No synopsis
Episode 14. Bernstein - Enigma Variations / Mary Renault
1982-04-18
No synopsis
Episode 15. Susan Hill/Beagley Dances/Anton Dolin
1982-05-02
No synopsis
Episode 16. Bob Hoskins - South Bank / Stephen Games / Dame Janet Baker
1982-05-09
No synopsis
Episode 17. Maurice Sendak / Dennis Potter - Pennies From Heaven
1982-05-16
No synopsis
Season 16
23 episodes · 1982
Episode 1. Milan
1982-10-10
No synopsis
Episode 2. Poppy - Monty Norman / John Sell Cotman
1982-10-17
No synopsis
Episode 3. Apocalypse: Enrico Baj / Pas De Deux / Forss
1982-10-24
No synopsis
Episode 4. Freya Stark in Italy
1982-10-31
No synopsis
Episode 5. Brits on Broadway: The American Dance Machine
1982-11-07
No synopsis
Episode 6. Photography / John Morley
1982-11-14
No synopsis
Episode 7. The Folies Bergeres / Van Dyck in England
1982-11-21
No synopsis
Episode 8. Raymond Mason in Paris / Pekinel Sisters
1982-11-28
No synopsis
Episode 9. Wayne Sleep - Dash / Richard Payne Knight / Count Panza
1982-12-05
No synopsis
Episode 10. Gardens / Ligeti
1982-12-12
No synopsis
Episode 11. David Puttnam
1982-12-19
No synopsis
Episode 12. Peter Pan RSC
1983-01-16
No synopsis
Episode 13. Cecile Ousset
1983-01-23
No synopsis
Episode 14. Jonathan Miller - Magic Flute / Steven Berkoff
1983-01-30
No synopsis
Episode 15. Raymond Briggs and The Bomb / Sutton Place
1983-02-06
No synopsis
Episode 16. The Elgin Marbles/Tim White
1983-02-13
No synopsis
Episode 17. Alasdair Gray/Cimabue
1983-02-20
No synopsis
Episode 18. Richard Long/Landscapes
1983-02-27
No synopsis
Episode 19. Writers on the Right
1983-03-06
No synopsis
Episode 20. Patrick Heron
1983-03-13
No synopsis
Episode 21. Dirk Bogarde
1983-03-27
No synopsis
Episode 22. Celibidache and Faure's Requiem
1983-04-03
No synopsis
Episode 23. Peter Ustinov
1983-04-10
No synopsis
Season 17
10 episodes · 1983
Episode 1. Franco Zeffirelli
1983-10-16
No synopsis
Episode 2. Roger Daltrey/The Taste Exhibition
1983-10-23
No synopsis
Episode 3. The Old Vic
1983-10-30
No synopsis
Episode 4. War Artists
1983-11-06
No synopsis
Episode 5. Jean Seberg
1983-11-13
No synopsis
Episode 6. Dimitris Sgouros/Eileen Agar
1983-11-20
Tonight Omnibus features two artists separated by more than 60 years. The first is the 14-year-old Greek pianist, Dimitris Sgouros. Already a renowned performer on the international stage, this child prodigy has been compared to Mozart.…
Episode 7. The Genius of Venice
1983-11-27
No synopsis
Episode 8. Martin Bloch/Philip Core
1983-12-11
No synopsis
Episode 9. St George's Chapel/Live Music Now
1983-12-18
No synopsis
Episode 10. Dolin, Friends and Memories
1983-12-27
No synopsis
Season 18
11 episodes · 1984
Episode 1. Haydn's Lost Mass/Mr Broadway
1984-06-24
No synopsis
Episode 2. Goodnight Vienna
1984-07-01
No synopsis
Episode 3. A Londoner in New York
1984-07-08
No synopsis
Episode 4. The Sound of Musak/Michael Clark
1984-07-15
The sound of Muzak, investigates the background music that we always hear but to which we never listen. Featuring Alan Freeman , Neil Innes (with robots), Brian Eno, Joseph Cooper (at the dummy keyboard) and the music critics of the…
Episode 5. Wharfedale Revisited/Squeezing the Frog
1984-07-22
No synopsis
Episode 6. The Westmores of Hollywood
1984-07-29
No synopsis
Episode 7. Episode 7
No synopsis
Episode 8. Episode 8
No synopsis
Episode 9. Episode 9
No synopsis
Episode 10. Episode 10
No synopsis
Episode 11. Episode 11
No synopsis
Season 19
10 episodes · 1984
Episode 1. The Quest for Reginald Goodall
1984-09-16 · 74 min
No synopsis
Episode 2. Wells and His Women
1984-09-23
No synopsis
Episode 3. The Bristol Showboat Saga
1984-09-30
No synopsis
Episode 4. The Face of Christ
1984-10-07
No synopsis
Episode 5. Tuscany Revisited
1984-10-14
No synopsis
Episode 6. Pennington on Chekov
1984-10-21
No synopsis
Episode 7. Lord Gowrie/The Dance Umbrella
1984-10-28
No synopsis
Episode 8. New Art
1984-11-04
No synopsis
Episode 9. The Classiest Juke-Box in the World
1984-11-11
No synopsis
Episode 10. The Killing Fields
1984-11-18
No synopsis
Season 20
21 episodes · 1985
Episode 1. From East Cheam to Earls Court
1985-04-26
No synopsis
Episode 2. Malcolm Morley: The Outsider
1985-05-03
No synopsis
Episode 3. Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story
1985-05-10
No synopsis
Episode 4. The Battle for Mansion House Square
1985-05-17
No synopsis
Episode 5. The Ritz and the Cotton Club
1985-05-24 · 60 min
No synopsis
Episode 6. Klemperer
1985-05-31
No synopsis
Episode 7. Studs Terkel's Chicago
1985-06-07
No synopsis
Episode 8. Saga on the South Bank
1985-06-14
No synopsis
Episode 9. The Treble
1985-06-21
No synopsis
Episode 10. The Salesman Goes to China
1985-07-12
No synopsis
Episode 11. Quickly Up the Thames
1985-07-19
No synopsis
Episode 12. Luck & Flaw's Illustrated Guide to Caricature
1985-07-26
No synopsis
Episode 13. At the Proms 1
1985-08-02
No synopsis
Episode 14. At the Proms 2
1985-08-09
No synopsis
Episode 15. At the Proms 3
1985-08-16
No synopsis
Episode 16. At the Proms 4
1985-07-23
No synopsis
Episode 17. At the Proms 5
1985-08-30
No synopsis
Episode 18. At the Proms 6
1985-09-06
No synopsis
Episode 19. At the Proms 7
1985-09-13
No synopsis
Episode 20. Episode 20
No synopsis
Episode 21. Episode 21
No synopsis
Season 21
7 episodes · 1986
Episode 1. Huw Wheldon by His Friends
1986-04-11
No synopsis
Episode 2. Lawrence and Arabia
1986-04-18
No synopsis
Episode 3. Comic Relief
1986-04-25
No synopsis
Episode 4. Made in Ealing
1986-05-02
A look at the films produced at Ealing Film Studios in London.
Episode 5. Video Jukebox
1986-05-09 · 395 min
The story of rock video in this Omnibus history presented by John Peel and John Walters. The roots of rock video are traced through the musicals and promotional shorts of the 30s, the jazz soundies of the 40s, the rock 'n' roll films and…
Episode 6. Alice Walker & the Color Purple
1986-05-16
No synopsis
Episode 7. The Last Moguls
1986-05-23
Israeli Go-Go Boys Golan and Globus at the height of their careers - everybody is working for Cannon!
Season 22
11 episodes · 1986
Episode 1. The Proms -1
1986-08-08
No synopsis
Episode 3. The Bolshoi Ballet
1986-08-28 · 39 min
No synopsis
Episode 4. Jessye Norman
1986-09-12
No synopsis
Episode 5. Meetings with Ambler
1986-09-19
No synopsis
Episode 6. Hitchcock: Its Only A Movie
1986-09-26
No synopsis
Episode 7. Hitchcock: Sex, Murder and Mayhem
1986-10-03
No synopsis
Episode 8. Courtney Pine and the New Jazz
1986-10-10
No synopsis
Episode 9. The Mission
1986-10-17 · 70 min
A documentary that chronicles the making of the movie. It looks at the process of casting real Indians in the film and their importance in adding authenticity to the story, their performances and involvement in the intricacies of the…
Episode 11. Ray Charles
1986-10-31
No synopsis
Episode 12. Cannon in Flowers
1986-11-07
No synopsis
Episode 13. Rodin 1840-1917
1986-11-14
No synopsis
Season 23
10 episodes · 1987
Episode 1. George Grosz: Enemy of the State
1987-05-05
Dramatized documentary about the life of the painter George Grosz.
Episode 2. Real Dreams
1987-05-12
No synopsis
Episode 3. James Stirling
1987-05-22
No synopsis
Episode 4. Michelangelo
1987-05-29
No synopsis
Episode 5. A US Journey with Isaac Bashevis
1987-06-05
No synopsis
Episode 6. Aretha Franklin
1987-06-12
No synopsis
Episode 7. The Big Bang in the Book World
1987-06-19
No synopsis
Episode 8. George Gershwin Remembered
1987-07-10
No synopsis
Episode 9. The Hackney Way
1987-07-17
No synopsis
Episode 10. Eudora Welty
1987-07-24
No synopsis
Season 24
7 episodes · 1987
Episode 1. Getting to Dylan
1987-09-19
Todays theme is Getting to Dylan.
Episode 2. Towards Antara
1987-09-25
No synopsis
Episode 3. Omnibus: 20th Anniversary Show
1987-10-02
No synopsis
Episode 4. The Arts & Glasnost: Cinema
1987-10-09
No synopsis
Episode 5. The Arts & Glasnost: Artists
1987-10-16
No synopsis
Episode 6. The Arts & Glasnost: Writers
1987-10-23
No synopsis
Episode 7. Arthur Miller
1987-10-30
No synopsis
Season 25
10 episodes · 1988
Episode 1. Irving Berlin - The Voice of the City
1988-05-06
No synopsis
Episode 2. A Poisoned Chalice?
1988-05-13
No synopsis
Episode 3. Lucien Freud
1988-05-20
No synopsis
Episode 4. Memories of a Musical Dog
1988-05-27
A celebration of a century of recording history as seen through the eyes of Nipper the 'His Master's Voice' dog for ever seen listening to a gramophone horn in the world famous trademark. In the programme there are extracts from nearly…
Episode 5. The Cinema of Satyajit Ray
1988-06-03
No synopsis
Episode 6. My Homeland
1988-06-10
No synopsis
Episode 7. Pablo Picasso: The Last Years
1988-06-17
No synopsis
Episode 8. From Bitter Earth - Artists of the Holocaust
1988-07-08
No synopsis
Episode 9. Songs from the Life of Leonard Cohen
1988-07-15
No synopsis
Episode 10. Whale Nation
1988-07-22
No synopsis
Season 26
16 episodes · 1988
Episode 1. Korea - A House Divided
1988-09-23
No synopsis
Episode 2. Sir Fred- a Celilbration
1988-09-30
No synopsis
Episode 3. Gwen: A Juliet Remembered
1988-10-07
No synopsis
Episode 4. Eisenstein: Little Boy from Riga
1988-10-14
A study of the life and work of the Russian film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein.
Episode 5. Harold Pinter
1988-10-21
Anna Ford speak to Harold Pinter about how life experience had politicized his work.
Episode 6. Charles: A Vision of Britain
1988-10-28
No synopsis
Episode 7. Caryl Churchill
1988-11-04
No synopsis
Episode 8. Paul Simon
1988-11-11
Paul Simon is interviewed by Mark Steyn a couple of years after he released his Graceland album. In response to Steyn's thoughtful questions, Simon reflects on his music, his songwriting and his influences.
Episode 9. Episode 9
No synopsis
Episode 10. Episode 10
No synopsis
Episode 11. Episode 11
No synopsis
Episode 12. Episode 12
No synopsis
Episode 13. Episode 13
No synopsis
Episode 14. Episode 14
No synopsis
Episode 15. Episode 15
No synopsis
Episode 16. Episode 16
No synopsis
Season 27
18 episodes · 1989
Episode 1. Tribute to Laurence Olivier
1989-07-14
No synopsis
Episode 2. Jessye Norman Sings Carmen
1989-07-21
No synopsis
Episode 3. A Second Chance
1989-09-08
No synopsis
Episode 4. Rape - That's Entertainment?
1989-09-15
No synopsis
Episode 5. Raymond Carver
1989-09-22
No synopsis
Episode 6. Butterfly
1989-09-29
No synopsis
Episode 7. Art in the Ring
1989-10-06
No synopsis
Episode 8. Art in the Third Reich- Power
1989-10-13
No synopsis
Episode 9. Art in the Third Reich- Propaganda
1989-10-20
No synopsis
Episode 10. Ronnie Scott and All That Jazz
1989-10-27
No synopsis
Episode 11. Tim Rollins & Kos: The Art of Survival
1989-11-03
No synopsis
Episode 12. The Kirov Ballet: Leningrad Legend
1989-11-10
No synopsis
Episode 13. Pipe Dreams
1989-11-24
No synopsis
Episode 14. My Most Difficult Book - The Story of 'Lolita'
1989-12-01
How Vladimir Nabokov wrote his most famous novel, and why it is one of the greatest novels ever written.
Episode 15. Alan Ayckbourn: Sex and Politics
1990-02-13
Michael Billington, drama critic of The Guardian newspaper, explores the life and work of Alan Ayckbourn, including his latest play due to open in London - Man of the Moment - and also conducts an interview with the playwright and director.
Episode 16. Sunday in the Park with Stephen
1990-03-20
No synopsis
Episode 17. The Novelist Who Would Be President
1990-03-27
No synopsis
Episode 18. Van Gogh
1990-06-20
Vincent Van Gogh [played by Linus Roache] meets Roulin, [played by Jim Broadbent]and Gaughin [played by Jack Shepherd]
Season 28
20 episodes · 1990
Episode 1. Malkovich
1990-09-07
No synopsis
Episode 2. Plunder - The Stolen Kanakaria Mosaics
1990-09-14
No synopsis
Episode 3. King of the Blues
1990-09-21
BBC documentary directed by Iann Potts. Follows BB King's home-coming playing a concert in his home town of Indianola, to Parchman Prison bull ring where he gives a concert to inmates.
Episode 4. Jorge Amado and his Tent of Miracles
1990-09-28
No synopsis
Episode 5. Life of Python
1990-10-05
No synopsis
Episode 6. Building for a New Age - A Romanian Story
1990-10-12
No synopsis
Episode 7. L.B - A Portrait of Leonard Bernstein
1990-10-19
No synopsis
Episode 8. Antoni Tapies
1990-10-26
No synopsis
Episode 9. Garrison Keillor - The Wide Open Page
1990-11-02
No synopsis
Episode 10. The Return of the Green Man
1990-11-11
No synopsis
Episode 11. Tales of Ordinary Murder - Rian Mala in South Africa
1990-11-30
No synopsis
Episode 12. Behind the American Dream
1990-12-07
No synopsis
Episode 13. A Profile of Michael Andrews
1991-01-29
No synopsis
Episode 14. Inside the Russia House
1991-02-19
No synopsis
Episode 15. Sidney Lumet
1991-01-26
No synopsis
Episode 16. Tom Jones - The Voice Made Flesh
1991-03-29
No synopsis
Episode 17. Episode 17
No synopsis
Episode 18. Episode 18
No synopsis
Episode 19. Episode 19
No synopsis
Episode 20. Episode 20
No synopsis
Season 29
24 episodes · 1991
Episode 1. La Stupenda - A Retrospective of Dam
1991-07-11
No synopsis
Episode 2. The Proms/Pictures at an Exhibition
1991-08-30
No synopsis
Episode 3. Peter Greenaway
1991-09-13
No synopsis
Episode 4. Pablo Casals: Song of the Birds
1991-09-20
No synopsis
Episode 5. Don Delillo/The Word, the Image, the Gun
1991-09-27
About the American novelist Don Delillo who is obsessed by violent images and what they can do to the soul of a 20th century culture like his, is dazzlingly, nay blindingly, assembled.
Episode 6. Torvill & Dean: Bladerunners
1991-10-04
No synopsis
Episode 7. Malcolm Arnold at 70
1991-10-11
No synopsis
Episode 8. Martha Gellhorn
1991-10-18
No synopsis
Episode 9. Against Pornography: The Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
1991-10-25
Radical feminist Andrea Dworkin's expose on the pornography industry.
Episode 10. Irek Mukhamedov
1991-10-11
No synopsis
Episode 11. Eric Hebborn: Portrait of a Master Forger
1991-11-08
No synopsis
Episode 12. Ulster Says Ho Ho Ho
1991-11-15
No synopsis
Episode 13. Joseph Cornel: Worlds in a Box
1991-11-29
No synopsis
Episode 14. Shakespeare: A Year with the RSC
1991-12-06
No synopsis
Episode 15. The Prince of Paisley Park
1991-12-12
No synopsis
Episode 16. Benny Hill: Clown Imperial
1991-12-20
No synopsis
Episode 17. Signs of the City
1992-01-21
No synopsis
Episode 18. Episode 18
No synopsis
Episode 19. Episode 19
No synopsis
Episode 20. Episode 20
No synopsis
Episode 21. Episode 21
No synopsis
Episode 22. Episode 22
No synopsis
Episode 23. Episode 23
No synopsis
Episode 24. Episode 24
No synopsis
Season 30
16 episodes · 1992
Episode 1. Barcelona with Robert Hughes
1992-07-16
No synopsis
Episode 2. Angela Carter's Curious Room
1992-09-15
No synopsis
Episode 3. Disney: The Fairy-Tale Years
1992-09-22
No synopsis
Episode 4. The Piero Trail
1992-09-29
No synopsis
Episode 5. Lost Paradise -The Gardens of Burlemarx
1992-10-06
No synopsis
Episode 6. Eye of the Storm: Ridley Scott
1992-10-13
No synopsis
Episode 7. Who's This Nobody from Quebec?
1992-10-20
No synopsis
Episode 8. Avigdor Arikha
1992-10-27
No synopsis
Episode 9. Gunter Grass: Fiction at the Frontier
1992-11-03
No synopsis
Episode 10. Leonora Carrington: The House of Fear
1992-11-10
No synopsis
Episode 11. Horst: Sixty Years and Still in Vogue
1992-11-17
No synopsis
Episode 12. John Ford: Part One
1992-12-01
No synopsis
Episode 13. John Ford 2
1992-12-08
No synopsis
Episode 14. The King's College Choir
1992-12-15
No synopsis
Episode 15. Rudolf Nureyev
1993-01-12
No synopsis
Episode 16. Vittorio Storaro: Writing with Light
1993-03-02
No synopsis
Season 31
26 episodes · 1993
Episode 1. Wild Swans
1993-09-28
No synopsis
Episode 2. Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One
1993-10-05
No synopsis
Episode 3. Nina Simone -The Legend
1993-10-12
No synopsis
Episode 4. Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part Two
1993-10-12
No synopsis
Episode 5. Sweet Home Chicago
1993-10-19 · 46 min
When southern blues musicians moved north in the years after the war Chicago was an obvious destination, offering day jobs in Industry and night work in the clubs. Of the record labels reflecting this migration the most successful was…
Episode 6. Houdini
1993-10-26
No synopsis
Episode 7. The Magic Lantern
1993-11-02
No synopsis
Episode 8. The Russian Striptease
1993-11-09
No synopsis
Episode 9. Everything You Wanted to Know About Conductors But Were Afraid to Ask
1993-11-23
No synopsis
Episode 10. The Boy Next Door
1993-11-30
A portrait of Boy George. UK telly. Early 90s. Crying Game US release era.
Episode 11. Who Killed Tchaikovsky
1993-12-07
A hundred years ago Tchaikovsky died suddenly In St Petersburg, within days of conducting the work many consider to be his greatest, the Pathétique Symphony. How did the great composer meet his death? Officially, he died of cholera, but a…
Episode 12. Sebastião Salgado: Looking Back at You
1993-12-14 · 51 min
A documentary that visits Brazil, India and Paris to explore the work of photojournalist Sebastião Salgado, who had been working for seven years on a huge project recording the lives of manual workers throughout the world.
Episode 13. Sunset Boulevard
1993-12-21
A look behind the scenes of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of the classic movie 'Sunset Boulevard'
Episode 14. Freeze, But Is It Art?
1994-02-22
No synopsis
Episode 15. The Piero Trail 1
1994-02-23
No synopsis
Episode 17. Mister Abbott's Broadway
1994-03-01
No synopsis
Episode 18. The Piero Trail 2
1994-03-02
No synopsis
Episode 19. Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy
1994-03-08
Profile of the novelist Vikram Seth, including footage from a family reunion in Delhi.
Episode 20. Hildegard
1994-03-29
No synopsis
Episode 21. Bill T Jones
1994-04-05
No synopsis
Episode 22. Gielgud: Scenes from 9 Decades
1994-04-12
No synopsis
Episode 23. Joan Littlewood's Lovely War
1994-04-19
No synopsis
Episode 24. Sir John Betjeman
1994-04-26
No synopsis
Episode 25. Duke Ellington 1: Reminiscing in Tempo
1994-05-03
No synopsis
Episode 26. Duke Ellington 2
1994-05-10
No synopsis
Episode 27. Robert Stephens: Every Inch a King
1994-05-24
No synopsis
Season 32
20 episodes · 1994
Episode 1. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
1994-10-11
No synopsis
Episode 2. Doris Lessing: A Part of Me
1994-10-18
No synopsis
Episode 3. Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder
1994-10-25
No synopsis
Episode 4. About Face
1994-11-01
No synopsis
Episode 5. The Trials of Dominick Dunne
1994-11-08
No synopsis
Episode 6. Pink Floyd: The Story
1994-11-15
A look back at the band's 30 year career.
Episode 7. Henri Cartier-Bresson: Question for a Question
1994-11-22
No synopsis
Episode 8. Stevenson's Travels 1
1994-11-29
First part of a two part doc on Robert Louis Stevenson, tracing his life from his childhood in Edinburgh through teenage travels with his father to his time as a wild student in Edinburgh.
Episode 9. Stevenson's Travels 2
1994-12-06
Part 2 covers last 14 years of his life and work, including his return to America, touring the South Pacific, and settling in Samoa. Also a newly discovered 1940's interview with step-daughter Belle Strong.
Episode 10. The Greatest Living Painter: De Kooning
1995-02-21
Documentary about abstract expressionist artist Willem de Kooning. This explores his late work and the allegations that they have been kept off the market to inflate their value.
Episode 11. Carnival: The Biggest Party in the World
1995-02-28
No synopsis
Episode 12. Joshua Bell
1995-03-07
No synopsis
Episode 13. Ready When You Are, Mr Patel
1995-03-14
No synopsis
Episode 14. Darker Than Blue: Curtis Mayfield
1995-03-21
Soul legend Curtis Mayfield talks to writer Caryl Phillips about his life, career and contribution to the Civil Rights Movement in America. Program includes archive footage and contributions from family, friends and colleagues.
Episode 15. Jean Renoir: From La Belle Epoque to WW1
1995-04-04
No synopsis
Episode 16. Jean Renoir: Hollywood & Beyond
1995-04-11
No synopsis
Episode 17. Perry & Croft: The Sitcoms
1995-04-18
A look at the work of television comedy writers David Croft and Jimmy Perry, featuring interviews with the men themselves, the many stars of the shows they created and other famous admirers.
Episode 18. Divas
1995-04-25
No synopsis
Episode 19. Ginger Rogers: A Tribute
1995-04-30
Hollywood star Ginger Rogers, who died at her California home on 25 April, began her career as a teenage vaudeville dancer and became the world's highest paid film actress. Above all, she is remembered for her dancing partnership with…
Episode 20. Dave Stewart: Greetings from the Gutter
1995-05-02
No synopsis
Season 33
12 episodes · 1995
Episode 1. Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
1995-09-03
No synopsis
Episode 3. Listen, Paula...
1995-09-18
No synopsis
Episode 4. Enigma: The Making of a Hardback Hero
1995-09-25
Robert Harris's Fatherland was a publishing phenomenon, the most successful first novel by a British author in 20 years. Now he's writing his 2nd novel, Enigma, which looks like being the publishing event of the year. Can he do it? Is he…
Episode 6. Gore Vidal's Gore Vidal Part 1
1995-10-09
No synopsis
Episode 7. Gore Vidal's Gore Vidal Part 2
1995-10-16
No synopsis
Episode 10. A Foundation Course in Art
1995-11-11
No synopsis
Episode 12. Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
1995-12-19
No synopsis
Episode 13. Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood
1996-01-08
No synopsis
Episode 17. A Day on the Mountain
1996-02-05
No synopsis
Episode 19. Written on Water: A Film About Budapest
1996-04-22
No synopsis
Episode 21. Eve Arnold in Retrospect
1996-05-13
Documentary about a pioneering American photojournalist Eve Arnold.
Episode 22. Degas: The Old Man Mad About Art
1996-05-20
No synopsis
Season 34
13 episodes · 1996
Episode 1. The Royal Court Diaries
1996-11-05
No synopsis
Episode 2. Dancing Through Darkness
1997-01-14
A moving look at the legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev through the final decade of his life, when he struggled to continue in his role as artistic director of the Paris Opera Ballet even as he tried to keep his battle against AIDS a secret.
Episode 3. The Wanderer
1997-01-22
No synopsis
Episode 4. Sir Walter Scott: Wizard of the North
1997-02-10
No synopsis
Episode 5. Balthus the Painter
1997-03-02
Documentary about the famed Polish-French painter Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, known as Balthus.
Episode 6. Stars and their Mas
1997-03-09
Mother's Day special.
Episode 7. Milos Forman
1997-03-16
No synopsis
Episode 8. George Lucas - Flying Solo
1997-03-23
No synopsis
Episode 9. Episode 9
No synopsis
Episode 10. Episode 10
No synopsis
Episode 11. Episode 11
No synopsis
Episode 12. Episode 12
No synopsis
Episode 13. Episode 13
No synopsis
Season 35
25 episodes · 1997
Episode 1. Jack Rosenthal: Jack the Lad
1997-06-23
No synopsis
Episode 2. Anthony Green Ra - 57 Up
1997-06-30
No synopsis
Episode 3. Dame Henrietta's Dream
1997-07-07
Focuses on the Hampstead Garden Suburb set up by Dame Henrietta Barnett to rescue people from East End.
Episode 4. Michael Redgrave - My Father
1997-07-13
No synopsis
Episode 5. Whatever Happened to Clement & LaFrenais?
1997-07-20
No synopsis
Episode 6. East of Eastenders
1997-07-27
No synopsis
Episode 7. Mayibuye I Afrika: Let Africa Come Home
1997-08-03
No synopsis
Episode 8. If: A Film About Rudyard Kipling
1997-08-10
No synopsis
Episode 9. Brit Art at the Royal Academy
1997-09-14
No synopsis
Episode 10. Reeves & Mortimer: The Film
1997-09-21
No synopsis
Episode 11. Sir George Solti: The Making of a Maestro
1997-09-29
No synopsis
Episode 12. Antony Sher
1997-10-05
No synopsis
Episode 13. Oscar
1997-10-12
No synopsis
Episode 14. Salvador Dali: The Fame and the Shame1
1997-10-20
No synopsis
Episode 15. Salvador Dali: The Fame and the Shame1
1997-10-21
No synopsis
Episode 16. Citizen Kay
1997-10-26
No synopsis
Episode 17. Lewis Carroll: Curiouser and Curiouser
1998-01-04
Celebrating the centenary of Lewis Carroll.
Episode 18. Pierre Bonnard: A Love Exposed
1998-02-10
No synopsis
Episode 19. Jim Sheridan
1998-02-22
No synopsis
Episode 20. André Previn
1998-03-01
No synopsis
Episode 21. The Pied Piper of Harlem
1998-03-08
No synopsis
Episode 22. Gilbert and Sullivan: Instant Merriment
1998-03-15
A look at the Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Berkeley California, which was conceived by Halifax entrepreneur Ian Smith, who took considerable financial risks on the venture.
Episode 23. Nick Hornby: Man of the Match
1998-04-21
No synopsis
Episode 24. Jeffrey Archer: The Self Made Man
1998-05-13
No synopsis
Episode 25. Stars and Their Pas
1998-06-21
No synopsis
Season 36
15 episodes · 1998
Episode 1. The Art of Diana
1998-08-30
No synopsis
Episode 2. Alan McGee: The Man Who Discovered Oasis
1998-09-14
No synopsis
Episode 3. Zizi je t'aime
1998-09-21
No synopsis
Episode 4. Cat People
1998-09-28
No synopsis
Episode 5. Darcey Bussell
1998-10-05
No synopsis
Episode 6. Billy Fury: Halfway to Paradise
1998-10-12
No synopsis
Episode 7. The Whirl of Vanity Fair
1998-11-25
No synopsis
Episode 8. Julie Andrews
1998-12-15
No synopsis
Episode 9. Starring - Animals
1998-12-20
No synopsis
Episode 10. Bring Me Sunshine: The Heart and Soul of Eric Morecambe
1998-12-23
No synopsis
Episode 11. Mad About Monet
1999-01-28
No synopsis
Episode 12. Episode 12
No synopsis
Episode 13. Episode 13
No synopsis
Episode 14. Episode 14
No synopsis
Episode 15. Episode 15
No synopsis
Season 37
9 episodes · 1999
Episode 1. Laughter in the House-The Sitcom 1
1999-03-24
No synopsis
Episode 2. Laughter in the House-The Sitcom 2
1999-03-31
No synopsis
Episode 3. Laughter in the House-The Sitcom 3
1999-04-07
No synopsis
Episode 4. Louis Armstrong's Wonderful World
1999-05-10
No synopsis
Episode 5. Chopin with Andras Schiff
1999-05-17
No synopsis
Episode 6. Dino
1999-05-24
No synopsis
Episode 7. Our Julie
1999-06-06
No synopsis
Episode 8. Rebuilding the Reichstag
1999-06-07
No synopsis
Episode 9. A Long Time Ago... The Story of Star Wars
1999-06-09
On the eve of the release of the new Star Wars movie, Omnibus goes behind-the-scenes during its making and looks back at the saga's origin and impact.
Season 38
17 episodes · 1999
Episode 1. Van Dyck Undressed
1999-09-13
No synopsis
Episode 2. Roddy Doyle: Ha Ha Ha
1999-09-20
No synopsis
Episode 3. Steve Martin: Seriously Funny
1999-09-27
No synopsis
Episode 4. Blondie: Beneath the Bleach
1999-10-04
No synopsis
Episode 5. Yes, Sir Nigel
1999-10-15
No synopsis
Episode 6. Who the Dickens Is Mrs Gaskell?
1999-11-29
No synopsis
Episode 7. Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
1999-12-06
No synopsis
Episode 8. Jennifer Saunders at the Barre
1999-12-13
No synopsis
Episode 9. John Ruskin
2000-03-13
No synopsis
Episode 10. Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
2000-03-20
No synopsis
Episode 11. The Naked Sculptor
2000-03-27
Omnibus about British artist Anthony Gormley best known for The Angel of the North, a huge sculpture outside Newcastle. This profile follows Gormley at work in his studio and installing a sculpture in Norway. Interviews include Jake…
Episode 12. The Great Gatsby
2000-04-03
A profile from 2000 of writer F Scott Fitzgerald on the 75th anniversary of the publication of his most enduring achievement, The Great Gatsby.
Episode 13. Elizabeth Taylor: England's Other Elizabeth
2000-04-04
A documentary on the life and career of actress Elizabeth Taylor, with clips from her films and interviews with friends and co-workers.
Episode 14. The Shock of the Old
2000-06-11
No synopsis
Episode 16. Wallace & Gromit Go Chicken
2000-06-28
No synopsis
Episode 17. Vinnie Goes to Hollywood
2000-07-12
No synopsis
Episode 18. The Piero Trail
2000-08-03
No synopsis
Season 39
14 episodes · 2000
Episode 1. William Blake
2000-11-06
No synopsis
Episode 2. John Barry: Licence to Thrill
2000-11-13
No synopsis
Episode 3. Dame Alicia Markova: The People's Ballerina
2000-11-20
No synopsis
Episode 4. Kingsley Amis
2000-11-27
No synopsis
Episode 5. Dudley Moore: After the Laughter
2000-12-04
No synopsis
Episode 6. Nancy Mitford
2001-02-07
No synopsis
Episode 7. Placido Domingo: The King Of Opera
2001-02-17
No synopsis
Episode 8. Fascinatin' Rhythm: The History of Tap
2001-02-24
No synopsis
Episode 9. Stanley Spencer
2001-03-03
No synopsis
Episode 10. Stanley Spencer and Neil Macgregor: Private View
2001-03-09
No synopsis
Episode 11. My Fair Lady: Loverly
2001-03-10
Ever since the 1914 production of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion (based on Greek myth), the story of Eliza Doolittle's transformation from Cockney flower girl to society lady has fascinated readers and audiences. And of all the…
Episode 12. Botticelli: Visions of Violence and Beauty
2001-03-17
No synopsis
Episode 13. Sebastian Faulks
2001-03-24
No synopsis
Episode 14. Dino De Laurentiis
2001-03-24
No synopsis
Season 40
15 episodes · 2001
Episode 1. Douglas Adams: The Man Who Blew Up the World
2001-08-04
No synopsis
Episode 2. David Hockney: A Secret Knowledge
2001-10-13
No synopsis
Episode 3. Empire of the Nude
2001-10-27
No synopsis
Episode 4. Joan Plowright: When Larry Met Joan
2001-11-03
No synopsis
Episode 5. The 'Billy Elliot' Boy
2001-11-06
Recording Jamie Bell's progress from unknown schoolboy to award-winning star of "Billy Elliot".
Episode 6. Frank Auerbach
2001-11-10
No synopsis
Episode 7. Anthony Trollope
2001-11-13
No synopsis
Episode 8. Chuck Jones: Mr Bugs Bunny
2001-11-17
A UK broadcast of Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation (2000).
Episode 9. Lucille Ball Queen of Comedy
2001-11-20
No synopsis
Episode 10. Syd Barrett: Crazy Diamond
2001-11-24
"The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story" (video release title) tells the full bizarre, tragic, but also celebratory story of Syd Barrett, the co-founder of Pink Floyd. With contributions from friends, managers, lovers and of course the…
Episode 11. Tolkien: The Master of Middle Earth
2001-12-22
No synopsis
Episode 12. J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and Me
2001-12-28
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.
Episode 13. Mario Testino: Diana's Favourite Photographer
2002-01-30
No synopsis
Episode 14. Robert Altman in England
2002-02-02
No synopsis
Episode 15. Sir Nigel Hawthorne: Remembered
2002-02-03
No synopsis
Season 41
7 episodes · 2002
Episode 1. Dan Cruickshank and the Lost Treasure of Kabul
2002-05-04
No synopsis
Episode 2. Matisse: Paradise Found
2002-05-11
No synopsis
Episode 3. Matisse: Paradise Indulged
2002-05-18
No synopsis
Episode 4. Edna O'Brien: Murder in the Forest
2002-06-01
No synopsis
Episode 5. Who Killed Caravaggio?
2002-06-08
No synopsis
Episode 6. Spotlights & Saris: Making Bombay Dreams
2002-06-18
No synopsis
Episode 7. Anthony Hopkins: A Taste for Hannibal
2002-07-03
No synopsis
Season 42
4 episodes · 2002
Episode 1. Les Miserables Goes to China
2002-10-23
No synopsis
Episode 2. Patricia Cornwell: Stalking the Ripper
2002-10-30
Crime novelist Patricia Cornwell attempts to prove that Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper.
Episode 3. Lord Byron: Exile on Fame Street
2002-11-06
Dubbed "mad, bad and dangerous to know" by one of his many lovers, Lord Byron was a prototype celebrity whose legend has not diminished with the passage of time. Omnibus looks at the man behind the myth and his legacy.
Episode 4. Annie Proulx: Way Out West
2003-01-08
No synopsis
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