Omnibus

Name: Omnibus
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Peter Sallis, Eleanor Bron, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Documentary

October 13, 1967 – January 8, 2003 (began 59 years ago)

1h / episode

7.2/10

Ended

42 Seasons

784 Episodes

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.