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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 - Huw Wheldon: By His Friends
Release Date: 1986-04-11 -
Episode 2 - Lawrence and Arabia
Release Date: 1986-04-18 -
Episode 3 - Comic Relief
Release Date: 1986-04-25 -
Episode 4 - Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios
Release Date: 1986-05-02 -
Episode 5 - Video Jukebox
Release Date: 1986-05-09The 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 scorpitones of the 50s and the television pop programmes of the 60s to the first true videos in the 70s and the cable TV channels of rock videos in the 80s.
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Episode 6 - Alice Walker and the Color Purple
Release Date: 1986-05-16 -
Episode 7 - The Last Moguls
Release Date: 1986-05-23 -
Episode 8 - Omnibus at the Proms (1)
Release Date: 1986-08-08 -
Episode 9 - Omnibus at the Proms (2)
Release Date: 1986-08-15 -
Episode 10 - The Bolshoi Ballet
Release Date: 1986-08-28 -
Episode 11 - Jessye Norman
Release Date: 1986-09-12 -
Episode 12 - Last Night of The Proms: BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
Release Date: 1986-09-13 -
Episode 13 - Meetings With Ambler
Release Date: 1986-09-19 -
Episode 14 - Hitchcock: It's Only A Movie (1)
Release Date: 1986-09-26 -
Episode 15 - Hitchcock: Sex, Murder and Mayhem (2)
Release Date: 1986-10-03 -
Episode 16 - Courtney Pine and The New Jazz
Release Date: 1986-10-10 -
Episode 17 - The Mission
Release Date: 1986-10-17 -
Episode 18 - The Most Beautiful Lies
Release Date: 1986-10-24 -
Episode 19 - Ray Charles
Release Date: 1986-10-31 -
Episode 20 - Cannon in Flowers
Release Date: 1986-11-07 -
Episode 21 - Rodin 1840-1917
Release Date: 1986-11-14