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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 - Barcelona With Robert Hughes
Release Date: 1992-07-16 -
Episode 2 - Angela Carter's Curious Room
Release Date: 1992-09-15 -
Episode 3 - Disney: The Fairy Tale Years
Release Date: 1992-09-22 -
Episode 4 - The Piero Trail
Release Date: 1992-09-29 -
Episode 5 - The Lost Paradise
Release Date: 1992-10-06 -
Episode 6 - Eye of the Storm: Ridley Scott
Release Date: 1992-10-13 -
Episode 7 - Who's This Nobody from Quebec?
Release Date: 1992-10-20 -
Episode 8 - Avigdor Arikha
Release Date: 1992-10-27 -
Episode 9 - Gunter Grass: Fiction at the Frontier
Release Date: 1992-11-03 -
Episode 10 - Leonora Carrington and The House of Fear
Release Date: 1992-11-10 -
Episode 11 - Horst: 60 Years and Still in Vogue
Release Date: 1992-11-17 -
Episode 12 - John Ford (1)
Release Date: 1992-12-01 -
Episode 13 - John Ford (2)
Release Date: 1992-12-08 -
Episode 14 - King's College Choir
Release Date: 1992-12-15 -
Episode 15 - The Russian Striptease
Release Date: 1993-01-09 -
Episode 16 - Writing With Light: Vittorio Storaro
Release Date: 1993-03-02