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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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Episode 1 - Song of Summer
Release Date: 1968-09-15 -
Episode 2 - J.B. Priestley
Release Date: 1968-09-22 -
Episode 3 - Blow The Wind Southerly
Release Date: 1968-10-06 -
Episode 4 - Olympia 1936
Release Date: 1968-10-29 -
Episode 5 - All My Loving
Release Date: 1968-11-03The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Pink Floyd, Cream, Donovan, Frank Zappa & Eric Burdon.
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Episode 6 - Rossini: The Long Farewell
Release Date: 1968-11-10 -
Episode 7 - The Hunted Man
Release Date: 1968-11-17 -
Episode 8 - Paul Gauguin: Quest For Silence
Release Date: 1968-11-24 -
Episode 9 - Rubinstein Speaks
Release Date: 1968-12-01 -
Episode 10 - Hadrian VII
Release Date: 1968-12-08 -
Episode 11 - Tallulah Bankhead
Release Date: 1968-12-15 -
Episode 12 - Make A Joyful Noise
Release Date: 1968-12-22 -
Episode 13 - Eric Porter
Release Date: 1968-12-29 -
Episode 14 - Cream
Release Date: 1969-01-05 -
Episode 15 - The Man Who Dances
Release Date: 1969-01-12 -
Episode 16 - Woman From The Shadows
Release Date: 1969-01-19 -
Episode 17 - Makers of the Queen's Music
Release Date: 1969-01-26 -
Episode 18 - From Today, Painting Is Dead
Release Date: 1969-02-02 -
Episode 19 - Myrna Loy
Release Date: 1969-02-16 -
Episode 20 - Malcolm Arnold
Release Date: 1969-03-02 -
Episode 21 - Shostakovich
Release Date: 1969-03-06 -
Episode 22 - A Couple of Brians
Release Date: 1969-03-23 -
Episode 23 - Down These Mean Streets A Man Must Go
Release Date: 1969-03-30 -
Episode 24 - The Vital Juices Are Russian
Release Date: 1969-04-13 -
Episode 25 - 1969 Oscar Awards
Release Date: 1969-04-20 -
Episode 26 - The More We Are Together
Release Date: 1969-05-04 -
Episode 27 - Lawrence Durrell's Paris
Release Date: 1969-05-11 -
Episode 28 - Margot Fonteyn: Birthday of a Ballerina
Release Date: 1969-05-18 -
Episode 29 - Acting Styles in the 20th Century
Release Date: 1969-05-25