Status
Ended
Release
1967 - 2003
Seasons / Eps
42 / 784
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.
438 Cast Members
Peter Sallis
Mirbeau
1 Episodes
Eleanor Bron
Self
3 Episodes
John Gielgud
Self
3 Episodes
Ralph Richardson
Self
2 Episodes
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Self - Narrator
3 Episodes
André Previn
Self
3 Episodes
Michael Hordern
Professor Parkins
1 Episodes
Ken Russell
Self
3 Episodes
Eric Morecambe
Self
2 Episodes
Ernie Wise
Narrator
1 Episodes
Roger Waters
Self
2 Episodes
Claire Bloom
Self
3 Episodes
Ginger Baker
1 Episodes
John Bird
Self
2 Episodes
Tommy Steele
Self
2 Episodes
Sergei Diaghilev
Self
2 Episodes
J. B. Priestley
Self
2 Episodes
Jack Bruce
Self
2 Episodes
Adrian Boult
Self
2 Episodes
Noël Coward
Self
2 Episodes
