
Omnibus
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.
Seasons
1. Everybody's Expo
Air Date: 1967-10-13
The first edition of a regular weekly programme about the creative world of art and artists. Introduced by Henry Livings. Tonight: Everybody's Expo - An account of a world event.
2. Suliotis Sings
Air Date: 1967-10-20
The British debut of a new world opera star—at the age of twenty-four.
3. Beethoven Symphony No. 3, in E flat (Eroica)
Air Date: 1967-11-03
The first of three performances of Beethoven symphonies conducted by Colin Davis. BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Trevor Williams Part of a public concert in the Royal Festival Hall, London.
4. Tyger, Tyger
Air Date: 1967-11-10
An enquiry into the power of a familiar poem. Introduced by Henry Livings. "Tyger tyger burning bright In the forests of the night What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry" Why does this poem by William Blake 1757-1827 stick in the mind, and seize the imagination of so many different people?
5. Benjamin Britten and His Festival
Air Date: 1967-11-22
6. East of Bedlam
Air Date: 1967-12-08
7. Jacqueline
Air Date: 1967-12-15
8. The World of Coppard
Air Date: 1967-12-15
9. Dante's Inferno
Air Date: 1967-12-22
10. Diaghilev: The Years Abroad (1)
Air Date: 1967-12-28
11. Diaghilev: The Years in Exile (2)
Air Date: 1968-01-09
12. Edith Evans: A Birthday Tribute
Air Date: 1968-01-16
13. Top Brass
Air Date: 1968-01-23
14. Abelard and Heloise
Air Date: 1968-01-30
15. The Exile
Air Date: 1968-02-06
16. Tommy
Air Date: 1968-03-26
17. God's Tunes
Air Date: 1968-04-02
18. China and the Barbarians
Air Date: 1968-04-23
19. Whistle and I'll Come to You
Air Date: 1968-05-07
20. My Name Is Benvenuto Cellini
Air Date: 1968-05-21
21. The Charm of Dynamite!
Air Date: 1968-05-28
22. Corporal Jan
Air Date: 1968-06-18
23. The Ken Russell Festival (1)
Air Date: 1968-06-25
24. The Ken Russell Festival (2)
Air Date: 1968-07-02
1. Song of Summer
Air Date: 1968-09-15
2. J.B. Priestley
Air Date: 1968-09-22
3. Olympia 1936
Air Date: 1968-09-29
4. Blow The Wind Southerly
Air Date: 1968-10-06
5. All My Loving
Air Date: 1968-11-03
The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Pink Floyd, Cream, Donovan, Frank Zappa & Eric Burdon.
6. Rossini: The Long Farewell
Air Date: 1968-11-10
7. The Hunted Man
Air Date: 1968-11-17
8. Paul Gauguin: Quest For Silence
Air Date: 1968-11-24
9. Rubinstein Speaks
Air Date: 1968-12-01
10. Hadrian VII
Air Date: 1968-12-08
11. Tallulah Bankhead
Air Date: 1968-12-15
12. Make A Joyful Noise
Air Date: 1968-12-22
13. Eric Porter
Air Date: 1968-12-29
14. Cream Farewell Concert
Air Date: 1969-01-05
The historic Farewell Concert at Albert Hall in London by one of rock's greatest groups has been dynamically recorded in this film by Robert Stigwood. The group, composed of Eric Clapton on lead guitar, Jack Bruce on bass and lead vocals, and Ginger Baker on drums, give an electrifying performance that is as exciting to watch as it is to hear. Each of the musicians has gone on to become a superstar in his own right, and we get to see fascinating backstage interviews with all of them. Highlights include the long version of "Sunshine of Your Love" and "White Room" along with other Cream hits.
15. The Man Who Dances
Air Date: 1969-01-12
16. Woman From The Shadows
Air Date: 1969-01-19
17. Makers of the Queen's Music
Air Date: 1969-01-26
18. From Today, Painting Is Dead
Air Date: 1969-02-02
19. Myrna Loy
Air Date: 1969-02-16
20. Malcolm Arnold
Air Date: 1969-03-02
21. Shostakovich
Air Date: 1969-03-09
22. A Couple of Brians
Air Date: 1969-03-23
23. 1969 Oscar Awards
Air Date: 1969-04-20
24. Down These Mean Streets A Man Must Go
Air Date: 1969-03-30
25. The More We Are Together
Air Date: 1969-05-04
26. Lawrence Durrell's Paris
Air Date: 1969-05-11
27. Margot Fonteyn: Birthday of a Ballerina
Air Date: 1969-05-18
28. Acting Styles in the 20th Century
Air Date: 1969-05-25
29. The Vital Juices Are Russian
Air Date: 1969-06-01
30. So What If It's Just Green Cheese?
Air Date: 1969-07-20
An improvised celebration of Apollo 11's landing on the Moon.
1. Omnibus at the Proms
Air Date: 1969-08-03
2. Omnibus at the Proms: Sir Adrian Boult
Air Date: 1969-08-17
3. Sir Henry Wood
Air Date: 1969-09-07
4. J.B. Priestley
Air Date: 1969-09-14
5. George Robey
Air Date: 1969-09-28
6. Beautiful Beautiful
Air Date: 1969-10-05
7. Sir Malcolm Sargent
Air Date: 1969-10-12
8. What the Hell Ever Happens in Marlborough?
Air Date: 1969-10-19
9. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Dream Divided
Air Date: 1969-10-26
10. Christopher Isherwood: A Born Foreigner
Air Date: 1969-11-02
Documentary about author Christopher Isherwood, in which he is interviewed about his life and work and which features extracts from films of his novels and stories.
11. Richter
Air Date: 1969-11-09
12. The Confessions of Marian Evans/George Eliot
Air Date: 1969-11-23
13. Noel Coward
Air Date: 1969-12-07
14. Where Are You Going My Pretty Maid?
Air Date: 1969-12-14
15. Tommy Steele and Things
Air Date: 1969-12-21
16. Unashamed Accompanist: Gerald Moore
Air Date: 1969-12-28
17. Ian Fleming Creator of the James Bond Myth
Air Date: 1970-01-04
18. Virginia Woolf: A Day's Sail, a Night's Darkness
Air Date: 1970-01-18
19. Anna Pavlova: 1881 - 1931
Air Date: 1970-01-25
20. Rope Ladder to the Moon: Jack Bruce
Air Date: 1970-02-01
21. John Clare - I am
Air Date: 1970-02-08
22. Dance of the Seven Veils
Air Date: 1970-02-15
An imaginary portrait of composer Richard Strauss.
23. Who Will Buy a Bubble?
Air Date: 1970-02-22
A group of people with regular jobs (factory clerk, Lighterman,Inspector etc) take part in an experimental and improvised drama in which they are encouraged to writhe around the floor making strange noises and movements. The idea being that returning to a primitive state may help them better cope with the modern world. This experiment is then taken to their familiar local streets and landmarks and casual observers are invited to comment or join in.
24. Ralph Vaughan Williams
Air Date: 1970-03-01
25. On the Waltz
Air Date: 1970-03-15
26. The Wandsworth Sound
Air Date: 1970-04-05
27. 1970 Oscar Awards
Air Date: 1970-04-12
28. Kenneth More
Air Date: 1970-04-18
29. To Leningrad with Love
Air Date: 1970-04-26
30. The Hollywood Image-The Silent Era
Air Date: 1970-05-03
31. The Hollywood Image-The Talkies
Air Date: 1970-05-10
32. The Hollywood Image-The Post War Years
Air Date: 1970-05-17
33. A Vow Fulfilled: Oberammergau
Air Date: 1970-05-31
34. The Other Edward Heath
Air Date: 1970-06-28
35. Satchmo at 70
Air Date: 1970-07-05
1. Omnibus at the Proms
Air Date: 1970-08-23
2. Ustinov's Expo
Air Date: 1970-09-13
3. Heart of Britain
Air Date: 1970-09-20
An examination of the life and work of Humphrey Jennings, scholar, writer painter but, above all, filmmaker.
4. Art Therapy-Shapes in the Wilderness
Air Date: 1970-09-27
5. Everything in the Garden 1
Air Date: 1970-10-11
The first part of this special documentary film traces the tempestuous history of the Royal Opera House from the time the first building opened its doors in 1732 up to the present day, 26 years after Sir David Webster 's appointment.
6. Everything in the Garden 2
Air Date: 1970-10-18
A programme in two parts on the past, present and future of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
7. It'll Be All Live on the Night
Air Date: 1970-11-01
An investigation of regional theatre in Britain. Amongst the Theatres - and their Artistic Directors - discussed are the Northcott Theeatre, Exeter; Theatre Royal Windsor, Peter Cheeseman's Victoria Theatre Stoke on Trent and theatres in Nottingham and Hull.
8. Robert Shaw: The Actor as Novelist
Air Date: 1970-11-15
9. A Requiem for Modigliani
Air Date: 1970-11-22
10. Rambert Remembers
Air Date: 1970-11-29
11. Eisenstein 1
Air Date: 1970-12-06
12. Eisenstein 2
Air Date: 1970-12-13
13. I Regret Nothing
Air Date: 1970-12-27
14. The Mysterious Mr Eliot
Air Date: 1971-01-03
15. George Orwell: The Road to the Left
Air Date: 1971-01-10
The film traces Orwell's life during 1936 when he spent time in the depressed north of England, married, set off for the Spanish Civil War and completed his book 'The Road to Wigan Pier', which marked his beginnings as a political author.
16. Chicago Blues
Air Date: 1971-01-24
17. In Prison: A World of Its Own
Air Date: 1971-03-14
18. The Making of Husbands
Air Date: 1971-03-28
19. Brendan Behan
Air Date: 1971-04-04
20. Henri Cartier Bresson
Air Date: 1971-04-11
21. In Search of Lost Time
Air Date: 1971-05-02
An Omnibus Arts documentary made to celebrate the centenary of the birth of author Marcel Proust. The film examines the creation of his autobiographical novel "A La Recherche du temps perdu".
22. This Was Richard Tauber
Air Date: 1971-05-09
23. The Passionate Hunter
Air Date: 1971-05-23
24. Ingrid Bergman Remembers
Air Date: 1971-05-30
25. Three Looms Waiting
Air Date: 1971-06-06
26. James Mossman: To Be a Witness
Air Date: 1971-06-20
27. TheTchaikovsky Competition
Air Date: 1971-06-27
28. Bream at Stratford
Air Date: 1971-07-04
29. Solzhenitsyn
Air Date: 1971-07-11
30. Hail and Farewell-George Moore
Air Date: 1971-07-18
31. Russell's Progress
Air Date: 1971-07-25
Portrait of the filmmaker Ken Russell.
1. The Proms 71
Air Date: 1971-08-29
2. Happy Birthday Dear Albert
Air Date: 1971-09-12
3. Glenda Jackson: A Private Face in a Public Place
Air Date: 1971-10-19
4. The Young Platform
Air Date: 1971-09-26
5. David Lean
Air Date: 1971-10-03
6. There Was an Old Person Called Lear...
Air Date: 1971-10-10
7. Paul Klee: Heart of Creation
Air Date: 1971-10-17
8. Rap Her Te Bank
Air Date: 1971-10-24
An exploration of industrial Folksong in Britain from the birth of the Industrial Revolution through to contemporary events affecting us all.It was filmed in Folk Clubs across Britain.
9. Mind You I Live Here: Stan Barstow
Air Date: 1971-10-31
A portrait of Yorkshire writer and author Stan Barstow; includes contributions from his friends.
10. Will the real Mr Hogarth....
Air Date: 1971-10-31
A personal appraisal of the caricaturist William Hogarth.
11. Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
Air Date: 1971-11-14
12. Vive La Culture!
Air Date: 1971-11-28
A tour of the arts,dance and theatre of Amiens, a town that makes car tyres.
13. Instant Nostalgia
Air Date: 1971-12-05
14. Humphrey Bogart
Air Date: 1971-12-27
15. Paradise Restored
Air Date: 1972-01-02
16. A Modern Turn of Mind
Air Date: 1972-01-30
17. Sir John Barbirolli: Glorious John
Air Date: 1972-02-06
18. Bruno Walter: The Face of Music
Air Date: 1972-02-13
19. Rise Above It: Tyrone Guthrie
Air Date: 1972-02-20
20. Man at the Met: Sir Rudolf Bing
Air Date: 1972-02-27
21. The Fall of Venice
Air Date: 1972-03-19
22. Actor, I Said
Air Date: 1972-04-09
23. The Great American Dream Machine
Air Date: 1972-04-16
24. Leningrad Reborn
Air Date: 1972-04-30
25. Born Black Born British
Air Date: 1972-06-11
Young West Indians give an impression of their life in this country through their paintings, music, and writing.
26. A Dignified Comic Set-to: Groucho Marx
Air Date: 1972-07-02
27. The Man Behind the Mask: Marcel Marceau
Air Date: 1972-07-23
1. Leeds International Piano Competition
Air Date: 1972-09-17
2. The Last Samurai
Air Date: 1972-09-24
3. The Wit & World of George Bernard Shaw
Air Date: 1972-10-01
Christopher Plummer invites the audience into the world of great playwright, George Bernard Shaw, at his home with fellow actors and an actress playing St. Joan.
4. Vincent the Dutchman
Air Date: 1972-10-15
5. Who Needs a Conductor?
Air Date: 1972-10-22
6. The Performers-Goya
Air Date: 1972-10-29
7. Artists in Wartime
Air Date: 1972-11-12
8. Great Orchestras: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Air Date: 1972-11-19
9. Ned Kelly Country: The Paintings of Sidney Nolan
Air Date: 1972-11-26
A journey across Australia through the paintings of Sidney Nolan. Earlier this year Sidney Nolan revisited the country where he was born. He likes long journeys and cannot help painting pictures, and every picture tells a story. In this adventure through myth and imagery Nolan looks again at the Australia of Ned Kelly, Mrs Fraser and the convicts, Burke and Wills.
10. Max Beerbohm Remembers
Air Date: 1972-12-10
11. Judy: Impressions of Garland
Air Date: 1972-12-24
Memories of Judy Garland, from people who knew and worked with her.
12. The Savage Image
Air Date: 1973-01-14
13. Why Culture?
Air Date: 1973-01-21
14. But the People Are Beautiful: Andy Warhol
Air Date: 1973-02-04

15. Fools Rush In: Morecambe and Wise
Air Date: 1973-02-18
This film for Omnibus follows the two weeks of rehearsal that led up to the recording of a Morecambe and Wise Show that aired on 16 February 1973. 'Fools Rush In' was Eric and Ernie's billing in their early days. Thirty years later, they had become Britain's best-known comedians, with regular audiences of nearly 20 million people. Producer John Ammonds, writer Eddie Braben, as well as Eric and Ernie talk about the skill and sheer hard work of comedy.
16. The Name Grierson: The Word Documentary
Air Date: 1973-02-25
17. Master of the Cello
Air Date: 1973-03-11
18. It Must Be Something in the Water
Air Date: 1973-03-18
19. Sir Noel Coward
Air Date: 1973-03-25
20. Colette 1873-1954: A Window in the War
Air Date: 1973-04-15
21. That's My Little Masterpiece
Air Date: 1973-05-06
22. The Passing of the Year
Air Date: 1973-05-13
An Omnibus calendar of tribal England. This film traces how the passing of the seasons is still celebrated with folk song, dance and-ritual. For 12 months cameras have been recording the genuinely surviving ceremonies associated with May Day marches. Summer Dances, Harvest Festivals, Christmas, New Year and Easter.
23. British Jazz
Air Date: 1973-06-03
24. Leonardo-To Know How to See
Air Date: 1973-07-08
25. Ginger Baker in Africa
Air Date: 1973-07-15
The former Cream drummer travels to Nigeria to build a recording studio.
1. The Proms 1
Air Date: 1973-07-29
2. The Proms 2
Air Date: 1973-08-05
3. The Proms 3
Air Date: 1973-08-12
4. The Proms 3
Air Date: 1973-08-26
5. The Proms
Air Date: 1973-09-02
6. A Question of Feeling
Air Date: 1973-09-09
7. André Previn-The Other LSO
Air Date: 1973-09-16
8. The Sydney Opera House
Air Date: 1973-09-23
9. Sir Robert Helpmann
Air Date: 1973-09-30
10. The British Hero
Air Date: 1973-10-07
A tongue-in-cheek look at how heroes have been depicted through the ages.
12. George Stubbs: Make the Knife Go with the Pencil
Air Date: 1973-10-21
13. Hollywood on Trial
Air Date: 1973-11-04
14. The Runaway
Air Date: 1973-11-18
15. François Truffaut
Air Date: 1973-12-02
16. Bejart+Boulez = Ballet
Air Date: 1973-12-09
17. It's Fantastic, It's Futuristic, It's Fatalistic, It's Science Fiction
Air Date: 1973-12-16
18. Marcel Marceau: A Christmas Carol
Air Date: 1973-12-23
A Dickens favourite as interpreted by Marcel Marceau the mime artist.
19. Gershwin's Porgy
Air Date: 1973-12-24
20. Nureyev
Air Date: 1974-01-27
21. Great Orchestras: The London Symphony
Air Date: 1974-02-03
22. Acting a Part?
Air Date: 1974-02-10
23. The Art of the Potter
Air Date: 1974-02-17
24. Don't Take It for Granted
Air Date: 1974-02-24
25. Claire Bloom
Air Date: 1974-03-03
26. Kafka's Castle
Air Date: 1974-03-17
28. Beethoven's 9th Symphony
Air Date: 1974-03-31
29. The Invasion of Space: Novgorod Father of Russia
Air Date: 1974-04-14
30. Wish You Were Here
Air Date: 1974-04-15
Stars of British Music Hall and Variety take a look back at traditional seaside entertainment.
31. Ella Fitzgerald at Ronnie Scott's
Air Date: 1974-04-28
Omnibus presents a unique opportunity to see this highly acclaimed performance by Ella Fitzgerald with Tommy Flannagan (piano) Joe Pass (guitar) Bobby Durham (drums) Keeter Betts (double bass) Introduced by Benny Green
32. Ella Fitzgerald's Other Show
Air Date: 1974-05-04
Omnibus presents Ella Fitzgerald in performance at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. This second show confirms yet again all the superlatives which critics have lavished on her in recent weeks.
33. Crystal Palace-The Great Glass Hive
Air Date: 1974-05-05
34. Alan Price: Between Today & Yesterday
Air Date: 1974-05-26
35. W.B.Yeats and the Coming Times
Air Date: 1974-06-02
36. Dame Ninette De Valois
Air Date: 1974-06-09
37. Ernest Brown: Pioneer Photographer
Air Date: 1974-07-07
38. Words by Johnny Mercer
Air Date: 1974-07-14
1. Tommy Steele: My Life, My Song
Air Date: 1974-10-08
2. The Goldwyn Touch
Air Date: 1974-10-20
3. Joseph Conrad
Air Date: 1974-10-27
4. Music from the Flames
Air Date: 1974-11-10
This film is a documentary about Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
5. The O De Cologne Show
Air Date: 1974-11-17
6. The Jean Rhys Woman
Air Date: 1974-11-24
7. Oscar Peterson & André Previn
Air Date: 1974-12-01
8. Find Me
Air Date: 1974-12-08
9. The Need for Nightmare
Air Date: 1974-12-15
How nightmares inspired the greatest horror writers of the 19th Century
10. Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy
Air Date: 1974-12-22
Documentary about the classic comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, featuring many film clips and reminiscences from entertainers and associates. Narrated by Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise.
11. A Circus for a School
Air Date: 1974-12-29
12. Cathedral
Air Date: 1975-01-05
13. Cracked Actor
Air Date: 1975-01-26
BBC documentary showing David Bowie looking back on his Ziggy Stardust character during his Diamond Dogs tour.
14. Auguste Rodin: Changes
Air Date: 1975-02-02
A partially dramatized arts programme about the life and work of Auguste Rodin
15. 21 Not Out
Air Date: 1975-02-16
16. Alphabets, Wild Things, Peter and a Golden Canary
Air Date: 1975-02-23
17. Charles Chaplin: Tramp & Philosopher
Air Date: 1975-03-02
18. The Friendly Invasion from Stephen Foster to Ragtime
Air Date: 1975-03-09
19. Fidelio Finke: Where Are You Now?
Air Date: 1975-03-16
20. African Sanctus
Air Date: 1975-03-30
21. Nijinsky: God of the Dance
Air Date: 1975-04-06
22. The Grierson Award
Air Date: 1975-04-13
23. Great Orchestras: The Vienna Philharmonic
Air Date: 1975-04-27
24. Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years
Air Date: 1975-05-04
25. Irving Berlin
Air Date: 1975-05-11
Presented by Benny Green and Roy Castle this is a delightful song-filled affectionate tribute to the career of Irving Berlin
28. A Step in the Jungle: Ronald Searle
Air Date: 1975-06-15
1. Exton, Stoppard and Co at the Eleventh Hour
Air Date: 1975-09-21
2. The Great Orchestras: The Boston Symphony
Air Date: 1975-09-28
3. Big Ware
Air Date: 1975-10-05
4. Anatomies: Images in the Work of John Donne
Air Date: 1975-10-12
5. Honore De Balzac: Torrents of the Mind
Air Date: 1975-10-19
6. Thomas Mann: The Fight Against Death
Air Date: 1975-10-26
7. Shafts of Sunlight
Air Date: 1975-11-02
8. The Friendly Invasion: 2 from Jazz to Swing
Air Date: 1975-11-23
9. The Friendly Invasion: 3 the Road to Rock & Roll
Air Date: 1975-11-30
10. Family Scenes: Ivy Compton - The Burne Household
Air Date: 1975-12-07
11. Jane Austen
Air Date: 1975-12-14
A celebration of the novelist, who was born 200 years ago.
12. Come and Dance with Busby Berkeley
Air Date: 1975-12-21
13. Scenes from a Geordie Ceilidh/Overture/Closed on Mondays
Air Date: 1975-12-21
14. The Golden Age of Spanish Painting
Air Date: 1976-01-15
15. The Waltz
Air Date: 1976-01-22
16. Omnibus in Ireland
Air Date: 1976-01-29
17. All Clouds Are Clocks
Air Date: 1976-02-05
An Arts Documentary about the Composer Gyorgy Ligeti whose music became popular after having been used in Kubrick's 2001
18. A Matter of Life & Death
Air Date: 1976-02-12
19. Constable Exhibition
Air Date: 1976-02-19
20. Charles Marowitz
Air Date: 1976-02-26
21. A Kind of Innocence
Air Date: 1976-03-04
22. Placido Domingo
Air Date: 1976-03-11
23. Portraits
Air Date: 1976-03-18
24. The Honourable Out -Of- Step
Air Date: 1976-03-25
25. Richard Avendon
Air Date: 1976-04-01
26. The Spirit of the Land
Air Date: 1976-04-08
27. Monsieur Hulot's Work
Air Date: 1976-05-13
29. Far Away
Air Date: 1976-05-27
30. John Constable
Air Date: 1976-06-03
31. The Sound of Islam
Air Date: 1976-06-10
32. The Green Table- Around the Green Table
Air Date: 1976-06-17
33. An Evening with Gene Kelly
Air Date: 1976-06-24
Dancer, choreographer, director and father of the 'new' American musical of the 1940s. He talks to Gavin Millar about his early life, the struggles to become a dancer and the great days at MGM when a new form of 'cinema-dance' was invented
34. Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
Air Date: 1976-07-01
An account of the events that led up to the American War of Independence from Britain, filmed in the locations where they took place.
35. Beyond a Boundary
Air Date: 1976-07-08
1. All the Superlatives - Anthony Dowell
Air Date: 1976-10-21
2. Omnibus USA: Dave Brubeck
Air Date: 1976-10-28
3. My Homeland
Air Date: 1976-11-03
4. Art - To a Degree
Air Date: 1976-11-11
5. Culture - Who Needs It?
Air Date: 1976-11-11
6. Omnibus USA: Have a Nice Day
Air Date: 1976-11-25
7. Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Air Date: 1976-12-02
8. Benjamin Britten
Air Date: 1976-12-05
9. The First 70 Years Are the Worst-Two Lives in Music
Air Date: 1976-12-09

10. New York, New York
Air Date: 1976-12-16
Various artists and musicians at work, and performing, throughout a day in the SoHo district of New York City.
11. The Story of Pantomime
Air Date: 1976-12-23
12. Pleasure at Her Majesty's
Air Date: 1976-12-29
13. The Song of Mandelay
Air Date: 1977-01-03
14. A White Wall in Alentejo
Air Date: 1977-01-13
15. Omnibus USA: Doc, Charlie and the Painters
Air Date: 1977-01-20
16. Colour Positive - The Poster Man
Air Date: 1977-01-27
17. Paintings by El Greco
Air Date: 1977-02-03
18. Paintings by Titian
Air Date: 1977-02-10
19. Paintings by Velazquez
Air Date: 1977-02-17
20. Omnibus USA: LA - My Home Town
Air Date: 1977-02-24
21. Toccata at the Plaza
Air Date: 1977-03-03
A fun documentary in which Organist Robin Richmond demonstrates the power, and tells the history, of Cinema Organs. The film was shown as part of an Omnibus programme on Nostalgia
22. Omnibus USA: New York Real, New York Abstract
Air Date: 1977-03-10
23. Orpheus and His Flute
Air Date: 1977-03-17
24. Walton No.1
Air Date: 1977-03-24
25. Stan Tracey: The Original
Air Date: 1977-03-31
26. Omnibus USA: Documentary America
Air Date: 1977-04-07
27. Seeds of a New Life
Air Date: 1977-04-14
28. The Lindsays/Half a Mile from Stoke
Air Date: 1977-04-21
29. The Human Face
Air Date: 1977-04-28
30. Walk to the Moon
Air Date: 1977-05-05
31. The National Youth Jazz Orchestra -Stan's Band
Air Date: 1977-05-12
Introduced by Humphrey Burton the Stan Kenton Band perform Jazz classics. Stan Kenton, Shelly Manne and Bud Shank are interviewed.
32. Italia: Florence After the Flood
Air Date: 1977-05-26
33. Italia: The Madonna & the Volcano
Air Date: 1977-06-02
34. Italia: A Line Through the Labrynth
Air Date: 1977-06-09
35. Victims and Survivors: Whose Colour Is White?
Air Date: 1977-06-23
36. Conductor's Eye View: Little Train
Air Date: 1977-06-30
37. Unita- Bach at Tilford
Air Date: 1977-07-07
38. The Santa Fe Opera
Air Date: 1977-07-14
1. Music of a Thousand Autumns
Air Date: 1977-10-13
'Gagaku' is the ancient Court music of Japan. In this film dancers and musicians discuss and demonstrate the traditional movements, styles and the sounds of an art culture little known in the West. Master players of the Sho and Kyoto demonstrate the special meaning of performance techniques.
2. The Nat Gonella Story
Air Date: 1977-10-20
3. Big Band Jazz
Air Date: 1977-10-27
4. Pure Radio
Air Date: 1977-11-03
5. A Day in the Garden/A Piano's Story
Air Date: 1977-11-10
6. The Garden Beyond
Air Date: 1977-11-17
7. Poetry
Air Date: 1977-11-24
8. For Love or Money 1
Air Date: 1977-12-01
9. For Love or Money 2
Air Date: 1977-12-08
10. Jeanne Moreau
Air Date: 1978-01-12
11. Gustev Courbit/Engine of Revolution
Air Date: 1978-01-19
12. Voices of Children/Profile of a Dancer
Air Date: 1978-02-02
13. Everyone Is a Special Kind of Artist
Air Date: 1978-02-02
14. Marevna & Marika
Air Date: 1978-02-09
15. The Song of the White Horse
Air Date: 1978-02-16
16. Warsaw Autumn
Air Date: 1978-02-23
1. The Art Show of Ed Kienholz
Air Date: 1978-08-02
Edward Kienholz was an American artist known for his found-object assemblages and installations he referred to as tableauxs. In one of his most controversial works, The State Hospital (1966), Kienholz provided a grisly account.
2. The People's Park: Disco Delight or What a Way to End It All
Air Date: 1978-08-09
3. Leos Janacek: 1854-1928
Air Date: 1978-08-16
4. The Pilgrimage of Ti-Jean
Air Date: 1978-08-30
5. The Record Machine
Air Date: 1978-10-12
John Peel Interviews The Mekons, Sham 69, Alternative TV, The Slits, and UK Subs.
6. Living Room
Air Date: 1978-10-19
7. Paul Gauguin: The Savage and the Construction of Paradise
Air Date: 1978-10-26
8. Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision
Air Date: 1978-11-02
A look at "Gonzo journalist", Hunter S. Thompson with his collaborator, British illustrator, Ralph Steadman.
9. 628-E8
Air Date: 1978-12-27
10. Its Stolen Your Face
Air Date: 1978-11-23
11. After the Dream
Air Date: 1978-11-30
12. Getting Away with Murder: The Childhood of Claude Chabrol
Air Date: 1978-12-07
13. She Must Be Joking!
Air Date: 1978-12-21
A look at stand-up comediennes.
14. Lillian Hellman
Air Date: 1979-02-08
15. Rene Magritte
Air Date: 1979-02-05
16. Words Fail Me
Air Date: 1979-02-22
17. Brian Clarke: The Story So Far
Air Date: 1979-03-15
TV documentary about a packed and unpredictable year in the life of 25 year-old artist in stained-glass, Brian Clarke.
18. Natalia Makarova
Air Date: 1979-03-29
19. Drawn & Quartered
Air Date: 1979-05-10
20. Kiss Me, Petruchio
Air Date: 1979-05-17
21. Lotte Lenya
Air Date: 1979-05-24
Documentary on the widow of Kurt Weill, the legendary actress and singer Lotte Lenya.
22. The Brothers Grimm
Air Date: 1979-05-30
23. Dread, Beat N'Blood
Air Date: 1979-06-07
24. The Long Walk of Fred Young
Air Date: 1979-06-14
25. Pig Earth
Air Date: 1979-06-21
26. Gold on Ice
Air Date: 1979-06-27
1. Schalcken the Painter
Air Date: 1979-12-23
2. Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man
Air Date: 1980-01-15
3. Johnny Be Good
Air Date: 1980-01-29
4. Blue Moon
Air Date: 1980-02-05
5. Tuning In
Air Date: 1980-02-26
6. Parting Shots From Animals
Air Date: 1980-03-04
7. Graham Sutherland: The Artist On Film
Air Date: 1980-03-11
8. Hollywood's Wild Angel
Air Date: 1980-03-18
9. Home Movies
Air Date: 1980-03-25
10. Windhover
Air Date: 1980-04-01
11. Bugs and Daffy and Chuck and Porky
Air Date: 1980-04-08
12. Coming Alive
Air Date: 1980-04-22
13. Quinn Running
Air Date: 1980-05-08
14. We Think The World of You
Air Date: 1980-05-15
1. Judy Chicago's Dinner Party
Air Date: 1981-01-13
2. But The Client Loved It...
Air Date: 1981-01-20
3. When The Dancing Had to Stop
Air Date: 1981-01-27
4. The First Freedom
Air Date: 1981-02-03
5. The Story of G...
Air Date: 1981-02-10
6. Dallas The Big Store
Air Date: 1981-02-24
7. Punch & Judy
Air Date: 1981-03-03
8. Stevie Wonder: Innervisions
Air Date: 1981-03-17
9. Norman Foster: Watch This Space
Air Date: 1981-03-24
10. An Actor's Life For Me
Air Date: 1981-03-31
11. Parrots, Bees, Ducks and Finches
Air Date: 1981-04-07
Documentary which looks at the history of the English Stage Company and its base, the Royal Court Theatre in London. Past triumphs and failures are reviewed with the aid of Sir John Gielgud, John Osborne, Max Stafford-Clark, Arnold Wesker, Dennis Waterman, Oscar Lewenstein, Nigel Williams and E.A. Whitehead.
12. Mark Gertler
Air Date: 1981-04-14
13. We Ask the Questions
Air Date: 1981-04-21
14. Landseer: A Victorian Comedy
Air Date: 1981-06-02
1. La Ronde / Frankie Howerd / Great Japan Exhibition
Air Date: 1982-01-10
2. Cats / Holy Blood and The Holy Grail
Air Date: 1982-01-17
3. Alan Ayckbourn / Humphrey Jennings / Labeque Sisters
Air Date: 1982-01-24
5. Bad Apple / James Joyce's Ulysses
Air Date: 1982-02-07
6. Lucie Rie
Air Date: 1982-02-14
7. Paganini / Jonathan Miller / Brian Aldiss
Air Date: 1982-02-21
8. The Cortege / Barbican / Nureyev and Brind
Air Date: 1982-02-28
9. Berlin Requiem / Art and Architecture
Air Date: 1982-03-07
10. Claire Bloom / Masquerade
Air Date: 1982-03-14
11. The Oldest Dance in the World
Air Date: 1982-03-21
12. Academy Awards / Julian Bream
Air Date: 1982-03-28
13. Macbeth RSC / Welsh National Opera
Air Date: 1982-04-04
14. Bernstein - Enigma Variations / Mary Renault
Air Date: 1982-04-18
4. Sir Anton Dolin / Susan Hill
Air Date: 1982-01-31
15. Susan Hill/Beagley Dances/Anton Dolin
Air Date: 1982-05-02
16. Bob Hoskins - South Bank / Stephen Games / Dame Janet Baker
Air Date: 1982-05-09
17. Maurice Sendak / Dennis Potter - Pennies From Heaven
Air Date: 1982-05-16
1. Milan
Air Date: 1982-10-10
2. Poppy - Monty Norman / John Sell Cotman
Air Date: 1982-10-17
3. Apocalypse: Enrico Baj / Pas De Deux / Forss
Air Date: 1982-10-24
4. Freya Stark in Italy
Air Date: 1982-10-31
5. Brits on Broadway: The American Dance Machine
Air Date: 1982-11-07
6. Photography / John Morley
Air Date: 1982-11-14
7. The Folies Bergeres / Van Dyck in England
Air Date: 1982-11-21
8. Raymond Mason in Paris / Pekinel Sisters
Air Date: 1982-11-28
9. Wayne Sleep - Dash / Richard Payne Knight / Count Panza
Air Date: 1982-12-05
10. Gardens / Ligeti
Air Date: 1982-12-12
11. David Puttnam
Air Date: 1982-12-19
12. Peter Pan RSC
Air Date: 1983-01-16
13. Cecile Ousset
Air Date: 1983-01-23
14. Jonathan Miller - Magic Flute / Steven Berkoff
Air Date: 1983-01-30
15. Raymond Briggs and The Bomb / Sutton Place
Air Date: 1983-02-06
16. The Elgin Marbles/Tim White
Air Date: 1983-02-13
17. Alasdair Gray/Cimabue
Air Date: 1983-02-20
18. Richard Long/Landscapes
Air Date: 1983-02-27
19. Writers on the Right
Air Date: 1983-03-06
20. Patrick Heron
Air Date: 1983-03-13
21. Dirk Bogarde
Air Date: 1983-03-27
22. Celibidache and Faure's Requiem
Air Date: 1983-04-03
23. Peter Ustinov
Air Date: 1983-04-10
1. Franco Zeffirelli
Air Date: 1983-10-16
2. Roger Daltrey/The Taste Exhibition
Air Date: 1983-10-23
3. The Old Vic
Air Date: 1983-10-30
4. War Artists
Air Date: 1983-11-06
5. Jean Seberg
Air Date: 1983-11-13
6. Dimitris Sgouros/Eileen Agar
Air Date: 1983-11-20
Tonight Omnibus features two artists separated by more than 60 years. The first is the 14-year-old Greek pianist, Dimitris Sgouros. Already a renowned performer on the international stage, this child prodigy has been compared to Mozart. What is it like to have so much talent so young and what pressures must this boy prodigy endure? The second artist is the painter Eileen Agar. Once described as the 'darling of the Surrealists' she talks tonight about her life and work, recalling the holiday with Picasso, and friendships with Ezra Pound and Evelyn Waugh.
7. The Genius of Venice
Air Date: 1983-11-27
8. Martin Bloch/Philip Core
Air Date: 1983-12-11
9. St George's Chapel/Live Music Now
Air Date: 1983-12-18
10. Dolin, Friends and Memories
Air Date: 1983-12-27
1. Haydn's Lost Mass/Mr Broadway
Air Date: 1984-06-24
2. Goodnight Vienna
Air Date: 1984-07-01
3. A Londoner in New York
Air Date: 1984-07-08
4. The Sound of Musak/Michael Clark
Air Date: 1984-07-15
The sound of Muzak, investigates the background music that we always hear but to which we never listen. Featuring Alan Freeman , Neil Innes (with robots), Brian Eno, Joseph Cooper (at the dummy keyboard) and the music critics of the Bristol Babies Forum. Also in this programme, 22 year old British dancer Michael Clark's work that he and his newly-formed company are preparing for their launch in London and the Edinburgh Festival.
5. Wharfedale Revisited/Squeezing the Frog
Air Date: 1984-07-22
6. The Westmores of Hollywood
Air Date: 1984-07-29
7. Pennington's Chekhov
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10. The Classiest Juke-Box in the World
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11. The Killing Fields
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1. The Quest for Reginald Goodall
Air Date: 1984-09-16
2. Wells and His Women
Air Date: 1984-09-23
3. The Bristol Showboat Saga
Air Date: 1984-09-30
4. The Face of Christ
Air Date: 1984-10-07
5. Tuscany Revisited
Air Date: 1984-10-14
6. Pennington on Chekov
Air Date: 1984-10-21
7. Lord Gowrie/The Dance Umbrella
Air Date: 1984-10-28
8. New Art
Air Date: 1984-11-04
9. The Classiest Juke-Box in the World
Air Date: 1984-11-11
10. The Killing Fields
Air Date: 1984-11-18
1. From East Cheam to Earls Court
Air Date: 1985-04-26
2. Malcolm Morley: The Outsider
Air Date: 1985-05-03
3. Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story
Air Date: 1985-05-10
4. The Battle for Mansion House Square
Air Date: 1985-05-17
5. The Ritz and the Cotton Club
Air Date: 1985-05-24
6. Klemperer
Air Date: 1985-05-31
7. Studs Terkel's Chicago
Air Date: 1985-06-07
8. Saga on the South Bank
Air Date: 1985-06-14
9. The Treble
Air Date: 1985-06-21
10. The Salesman Goes to China
Air Date: 1985-07-12
11. Quickly Up the Thames
Air Date: 1985-07-19
12. Luck & Flaw's Illustrated Guide to Caricature
Air Date: 1985-07-26
13. At the Proms 1
Air Date: 1985-08-02
14. At the Proms 2
Air Date: 1985-08-09
15. At the Proms 3
Air Date: 1985-08-16
16. At the Proms 4
Air Date: 1985-07-23
17. At the Proms 5
Air Date: 1985-08-30
18. At the Proms 6
Air Date: 1985-09-06
19. At the Proms 7
Air Date: 1985-09-13
20. Cannon in Flowers
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21. Rodin 1840-1917
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1. Huw Wheldon by His Friends
Air Date: 1986-04-11
2. Lawrence and Arabia
Air Date: 1986-04-18
3. Comic Relief
Air Date: 1986-04-25
4. Made in Ealing
Air Date: 1986-05-02
A look at the films produced at Ealing Film Studios in London.
5. Video Jukebox
Air Date: 1986-05-09
6. Alice Walker & the Color Purple
Air Date: 1986-05-16
7. The Last Moguls
Air Date: 1986-05-23
Israeli Go-Go Boys Golan and Globus at the height of their careers - everybody is working for Cannon!
1. The Proms -1
Air Date: 1986-08-08
3. The Bolshoi Ballet
Air Date: 1986-08-28
4. Jessye Norman
Air Date: 1986-09-12
5. Meetings with Ambler
Air Date: 1986-09-19
6. Hitchcock: Its Only A Movie
Air Date: 1986-09-26
7. Hitchcock: Sex, Murder and Mayhem
Air Date: 1986-10-03
8. Courtney Pine and the New Jazz
Air Date: 1986-10-10
9. The Mission
Air Date: 1986-10-17
A documentary that chronicles the making of the movie. It looks at the process of casting real Indians in the film and their importance in adding authenticity to the story, their performances and involvement in the intricacies of the filmmaking process, Native culture today in South America, the history of Jesuit missions, the film's set construction, action scene construction, the picture's story and themes, the presence of the modern-day Colombian Army on the set and the resultant parallels to the film, and much more.
11. Ray Charles
Air Date: 1986-10-31
12. Cannon in Flowers
Air Date: 1986-11-07
13. Rodin 1840-1917
Air Date: 1986-11-14
1. George Grosz: Enemy of the State
Air Date: 1987-05-05
Dramatized documentary about the life of the painter George Grosz.
2. Real Dreams
Air Date: 1987-05-12
3. James Stirling
Air Date: 1987-05-22
4. Michelangelo
Air Date: 1987-05-29
5. A US Journey with Isaac Bashevis
Air Date: 1987-06-05
6. Aretha Franklin
Air Date: 1987-06-12
7. The Big Bang in the Book World
Air Date: 1987-06-19
8. George Gershwin Remembered
Air Date: 1987-07-10
9. The Hackney Way
Air Date: 1987-07-17
10. Eudora Welty
Air Date: 1987-07-24
1. Getting to Dylan
Air Date: 1987-09-19
Todays theme is Getting to Dylan.
2. Towards Antara
Air Date: 1987-09-25
3. Omnibus: 20th Anniversary Show
Air Date: 1987-10-02
4. The Arts & Glasnost: Cinema
Air Date: 1987-10-09
5. The Arts & Glasnost: Artists
Air Date: 1987-10-16
6. The Arts & Glasnost: Writers
Air Date: 1987-10-23
7. Arthur Miller
Air Date: 1987-10-30
1. Irving Berlin - The Voice of the City
Air Date: 1988-05-06
2. A Poisoned Chalice?
Air Date: 1988-05-13
3. Lucien Freud
Air Date: 1988-05-20
4. Memories of a Musical Dog
Air Date: 1988-05-27
A celebration of a century of recording history as seen through the eyes of Nipper the 'His Master's Voice' dog for ever seen listening to a gramophone horn in the world famous trademark. In the programme there are extracts from nearly 100 recordings.
5. The Cinema of Satyajit Ray
Air Date: 1988-06-03
6. My Homeland
Air Date: 1988-06-10
7. Pablo Picasso: The Last Years
Air Date: 1988-06-17
8. From Bitter Earth - Artists of the Holocaust
Air Date: 1988-07-08
9. Songs from the Life of Leonard Cohen
Air Date: 1988-07-15
10. Whale Nation
Air Date: 1988-07-22
1. Korea - A House Divided
Air Date: 1988-09-23
2. Sir Fred- a Celilbration
Air Date: 1988-09-30
3. Gwen: A Juliet Remembered
Air Date: 1988-10-07
4. Eisenstein: Little Boy from Riga
Air Date: 1988-10-14
A study of the life and work of the Russian film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein.
5. Harold Pinter
Air Date: 1988-10-21
Anna Ford speak to Harold Pinter about how life experience had politicized his work.
6. Charles: A Vision of Britain
Air Date: 1988-10-28
7. Caryl Churchill
Air Date: 1988-11-04
8. Paul Simon
Air Date: 1988-11-11
Paul Simon is interviewed by Mark Steyn a couple of years after he released his Graceland album. In response to Steyn's thoughtful questions, Simon reflects on his music, his songwriting and his influences.
9. Episode 9
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1. Tribute to Laurence Olivier
Air Date: 1989-07-14
2. Jessye Norman Sings Carmen
Air Date: 1989-07-21
3. A Second Chance
Air Date: 1989-09-08
4. Rape - That's Entertainment?
Air Date: 1989-09-15
5. Raymond Carver
Air Date: 1989-09-22
6. Butterfly
Air Date: 1989-09-29
7. Art in the Ring
Air Date: 1989-10-06
8. Art in the Third Reich- Power
Air Date: 1989-10-13
9. Art in the Third Reich- Propaganda
Air Date: 1989-10-20
10. Ronnie Scott and All That Jazz
Air Date: 1989-10-27
11. Tim Rollins & Kos: The Art of Survival
Air Date: 1989-11-03
12. The Kirov Ballet: Leningrad Legend
Air Date: 1989-11-10
13. Pipe Dreams
Air Date: 1989-11-24
14. My Most Difficult Book - The Story of 'Lolita'
Air Date: 1989-12-01
How Vladimir Nabokov wrote his most famous novel, and why it is one of the greatest novels ever written.
15. Alan Ayckbourn: Sex and Politics
Air Date: 1990-02-13
Michael Billington, drama critic of The Guardian newspaper, explores the life and work of Alan Ayckbourn, including his latest play due to open in London - Man of the Moment - and also conducts an interview with the playwright and director.
16. Sunday in the Park with Stephen
Air Date: 1990-03-20
17. The Novelist Who Would Be President
Air Date: 1990-03-27
18. Van Gogh
Air Date: 1990-06-20
Vincent Van Gogh [played by Linus Roache] meets Roulin, [played by Jim Broadbent]and Gaughin [played by Jack Shepherd]
1. Malkovich
Air Date: 1990-09-07
2. Plunder - The Stolen Kanakaria Mosaics
Air Date: 1990-09-14
3. King of the Blues
Air Date: 1990-09-21
BBC documentary directed by Iann Potts. Follows BB King's home-coming playing a concert in his home town of Indianola, to Parchman Prison bull ring where he gives a concert to inmates.
4. Jorge Amado and his Tent of Miracles
Air Date: 1990-09-28
5. Life of Python
Air Date: 1990-10-05
6. Building for a New Age - A Romanian Story
Air Date: 1990-10-12
7. L.B - A Portrait of Leonard Bernstein
Air Date: 1990-10-19
8. Antoni Tapies
Air Date: 1990-10-26
9. Garrison Keillor - The Wide Open Page
Air Date: 1990-11-02
10. The Return of the Green Man
Air Date: 1990-11-11
11. Tales of Ordinary Murder - Rian Mala in South Africa
Air Date: 1990-11-30
12. Behind the American Dream
Air Date: 1990-12-07
13. A Profile of Michael Andrews
Air Date: 1991-01-29
14. Inside the Russia House
Air Date: 1991-02-19
15. Sidney Lumet
Air Date: 1991-01-26
16. Tom Jones - The Voice Made Flesh
Air Date: 1991-03-29
17. Episode 17
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1. La Stupenda - A Retrospective of Dam
Air Date: 1991-07-11
2. The Proms/Pictures at an Exhibition
Air Date: 1991-08-30
3. Peter Greenaway
Air Date: 1991-09-13
4. Pablo Casals: Song of the Birds
Air Date: 1991-09-20
5. Don Delillo/The Word, the Image, the Gun
Air Date: 1991-09-27
About the American novelist Don Delillo who is obsessed by violent images and what they can do to the soul of a 20th century culture like his, is dazzlingly, nay blindingly, assembled.
6. Torvill & Dean: Bladerunners
Air Date: 1991-10-04
7. Malcolm Arnold at 70
Air Date: 1991-10-11
8. Martha Gellhorn
Air Date: 1991-10-18
9. Against Pornography: The Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
Air Date: 1991-10-25
Radical feminist Andrea Dworkin's expose on the pornography industry.
10. Irek Mukhamedov
Air Date: 1991-10-11
11. Eric Hebborn: Portrait of a Master Forger
Air Date: 1991-11-08
12. Ulster Says Ho Ho Ho
Air Date: 1991-11-15
13. Joseph Cornel: Worlds in a Box
Air Date: 1991-11-29
14. Shakespeare: A Year with the RSC
Air Date: 1991-12-06
15. The Prince of Paisley Park
Air Date: 1991-12-12
16. Benny Hill: Clown Imperial
Air Date: 1991-12-20
17. Signs of the City
Air Date: 1992-01-21
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1. Barcelona with Robert Hughes
Air Date: 1992-07-16
2. Angela Carter's Curious Room
Air Date: 1992-09-15
3. Disney: The Fairy-Tale Years
Air Date: 1992-09-22
4. The Piero Trail
Air Date: 1992-09-29
5. Lost Paradise -The Gardens of Burlemarx
Air Date: 1992-10-06
6. Eye of the Storm: Ridley Scott
Air Date: 1992-10-13
7. Who's This Nobody from Quebec?
Air Date: 1992-10-20
8. Avigdor Arikha
Air Date: 1992-10-27
9. Gunter Grass: Fiction at the Frontier
Air Date: 1992-11-03
10. Leonora Carrington: The House of Fear
Air Date: 1992-11-10
11. Horst: Sixty Years and Still in Vogue
Air Date: 1992-11-17
12. John Ford: Part One
Air Date: 1992-12-01
13. John Ford 2
Air Date: 1992-12-08
14. The King's College Choir
Air Date: 1992-12-15
15. Rudolf Nureyev
Air Date: 1993-01-12
16. Vittorio Storaro: Writing with Light
Air Date: 1993-03-02
1. Wild Swans
Air Date: 1993-09-28
2. Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One
Air Date: 1993-10-05
3. Nina Simone -The Legend
Air Date: 1993-10-12
4. Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part Two
Air Date: 1993-10-12
5. Sweet Home Chicago
Air Date: 1993-10-19
6. Houdini
Air Date: 1993-10-26
7. The Magic Lantern
Air Date: 1993-11-02
8. The Russian Striptease
Air Date: 1993-11-09
9. Everything You Wanted to Know About Conductors But Were Afraid to Ask
Air Date: 1993-11-23
10. The Boy Next Door
Air Date: 1993-11-30
A portrait of Boy George. UK telly. Early 90s. Crying Game US release era.
11. Who Killed Tchaikovsky
Air Date: 1993-12-07
A hundred years ago Tchaikovsky died suddenly In St Petersburg, within days of conducting the work many consider to be his greatest, the Pathétique Symphony. How did the great composer meet his death? Officially, he died of cholera, but a Russian emigre living in America has produced evidence to show that he was forced to commit suicide. Anthony Holden conducts an investigation into the mystery, and the film follows clues in New York, St Petersburg and Moscow, clues within the music and the known facts of Tchaikovsky's life, in search of the facts behind the composer's untimely death.
12. Looking Back at You
Air Date: 1993-12-14
13. Sunset Boulevard
Air Date: 1993-12-21
A look behind the scenes of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of the classic movie 'Sunset Boulevard'
14. Freeze, But Is It Art?
Air Date: 1994-02-22
15. The Piero Trail 1
Air Date: 1994-02-23
17. Mister Abbott's Broadway
Air Date: 1994-03-01
18. The Piero Trail 2
Air Date: 1994-03-02
19. Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy
Air Date: 1994-03-08
Profile of the novelist Vikram Seth, including footage from a family reunion in Delhi.
20. Hildegard
Air Date: 1994-03-29
21. Bill T Jones
Air Date: 1994-04-05
22. Gielgud: Scenes from 9 Decades
Air Date: 1994-04-12
23. Joan Littlewood's Lovely War
Air Date: 1994-04-19
24. Sir John Betjeman
Air Date: 1994-04-26
25. Duke Ellington 1: Reminiscing in Tempo
Air Date: 1994-05-03
26. Duke Ellington 2
Air Date: 1994-05-10
27. Robert Stephens: Every Inch a King
Air Date: 1994-05-24
1. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
Air Date: 1994-10-11
2. Doris Lessing: A Part of Me
Air Date: 1994-10-18
3. Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder
Air Date: 1994-10-25
4. About Face
Air Date: 1994-11-01
5. The Trials of Dominick Dunne
Air Date: 1994-11-08
6. Pink Floyd: The Story
Air Date: 1994-11-15
A look back at the band's 30 year career.
7. Henri Cartier-Bresson: Question for a Question
Air Date: 1994-11-22
8. Stevenson's Travels 1
Air Date: 1994-11-29
First part of a two part doc on Robert Louis Stevenson, tracing his life from his childhood in Edinburgh through teenage travels with his father to his time as a wild student in Edinburgh.
9. Stevenson's Travels 2
Air Date: 1994-12-06
Part 2 covers last 14 years of his life and work, including his return to America, touring the South Pacific, and settling in Samoa. Also a newly discovered 1940's interview with step-daughter Belle Strong.
10. The Greatest Living Painter: De Kooning
Air Date: 1995-02-21
Documentary about abstract expressionist artist Willem de Kooning. This explores his late work and the allegations that they have been kept off the market to inflate their value.
11. Carnival: The Biggest Party in the World
Air Date: 1995-02-28
12. Joshua Bell
Air Date: 1995-03-07
13. Ready When You Are, Mr Patel
Air Date: 1995-03-14
14. Darker Than Blue: Curtis Mayfield
Air Date: 1995-03-21
Soul legend Curtis Mayfield talks to writer Caryl Phillips about his life, career and contribution to the Civil Rights Movement in America. Program includes archive footage and contributions from family, friends and colleagues.
15. Jean Renoir: From La Belle Epoque to WW1
Air Date: 1995-04-04
16. Jean Renoir: Hollywood & Beyond
Air Date: 1995-04-11
17. Perry & Croft: The Sitcoms
Air Date: 1995-04-18
A look at the work of television comedy writers David Croft and Jimmy Perry, featuring interviews with the men themselves, the many stars of the shows they created and other famous admirers.
18. Divas
Air Date: 1995-04-25
19. Ginger Rogers: A Tribute
Air Date: 1995-04-30
Hollywood star Ginger Rogers, who died at her California home on 25 April, began her career as a teenage vaudeville dancer and became the world's highest paid film actress. Above all, she is remembered for her dancing partnership with Fred Astaire. This film, screened as an Omnibus special on 30 April, shortly after her death, looks at how the legendary musicals were made, with anecdotes by Ginger herself, and clips from Astaire's last television interview.
20. Dave Stewart: Greetings from the Gutter
Air Date: 1995-05-02
1. Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
Air Date: 1995-09-03
3. Listen, Paula...
Air Date: 1995-09-18
4. Enigma: The Making of a Hardback Hero
Air Date: 1995-09-25
Robert Harris's Fatherland was a publishing phenomenon, the most successful first novel by a British author in 20 years. Now he's writing his 2nd novel, Enigma, which looks like being the publishing event of the year. Can he do it? Is he a one-hit wonder or a hardback hero?
6. Gore Vidal's Gore Vidal Part 1
Air Date: 1995-10-09
7. Gore Vidal's Gore Vidal Part 2
Air Date: 1995-10-16
10. A Foundation Course in Art
Air Date: 1995-11-11
12. Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
Air Date: 1995-12-19
13. Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood
Air Date: 1996-01-08
17. A Day on the Mountain
Air Date: 1996-02-05
19. Written on Water: A Film About Budapest
Air Date: 1996-04-22
21. Eve Arnold in Retrospect
Air Date: 1996-05-13
Documentary about a pioneering American photojournalist Eve Arnold.
22. Degas: The Old Man Mad About Art
Air Date: 1996-05-20
1. The Royal Court Diaries
Air Date: 1996-11-05
2. Dancing Through Darkness
Air Date: 1997-01-14
A moving look at the legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev through the final decade of his life, when he struggled to continue in his role as artistic director of the Paris Opera Ballet even as he tried to keep his battle against AIDS a secret.
3. The Wanderer
Air Date: 1997-01-22
4. Sir Walter Scott: Wizard of the North
Air Date: 1997-02-10
5. Balthus the Painter
Air Date: 1997-03-02
Documentary about the famed Polish-French painter Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, known as Balthus.
6. Stars and their Mas
Air Date: 1997-03-09
Mother's Day special.
7. Milos Forman
Air Date: 1997-03-16
8. George Lucas - Flying Solo
Air Date: 1997-03-23
9. Episode 9
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1. Jack Rosenthal: Jack the Lad
Air Date: 1997-06-23
2. Anthony Green Ra - 57 Up
Air Date: 1997-06-30
3. Dame Henrietta's Dream
Air Date: 1997-07-07
Focuses on the Hampstead Garden Suburb set up by Dame Henrietta Barnett to rescue people from East End.
4. Michael Redgrave - My Father
Air Date: 1997-07-13
5. Whatever Happened to Clement & LaFrenais?
Air Date: 1997-07-20
6. East of Eastenders
Air Date: 1997-07-27
7. Mayibuye I Afrika: Let Africa Come Home
Air Date: 1997-08-03
8. If: A Film About Rudyard Kipling
Air Date: 1997-08-10
9. Brit Art at the Royal Academy
Air Date: 1997-09-14
10. Reeves & Mortimer: The Film
Air Date: 1997-09-21
11. Sir George Solti: The Making of a Maestro
Air Date: 1997-09-29
12. Antony Sher
Air Date: 1997-10-05
13. Oscar
Air Date: 1997-10-12
14. Salvador Dali: The Fame and the Shame1
Air Date: 1997-10-20
15. Salvador Dali: The Fame and the Shame1
Air Date: 1997-10-21
16. Citizen Kay
Air Date: 1997-10-26
17. Lewis Carroll: Curiouser and Curiouser
Air Date: 1998-01-04
Celebrating the centenary of Lewis Carroll.
18. Pierre Bonnard: A Love Exposed
Air Date: 1998-02-10
19. Jim Sheridan
Air Date: 1998-02-22
20. André Previn
Air Date: 1998-03-01
21. The Pied Piper of Harlem
Air Date: 1998-03-08
22. Gilbert and Sullivan: Instant Merriment
Air Date: 1998-03-15
A look at the Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Berkeley California, which was conceived by Halifax entrepreneur Ian Smith, who took considerable financial risks on the venture.
23. Nick Hornby: Man of the Match
Air Date: 1998-04-21
24. Jeffrey Archer: The Self Made Man
Air Date: 1998-05-13
25. Stars and Their Pas
Air Date: 1998-06-21
1. The Art of Diana
Air Date: 1998-08-30
2. Alan McGee: The Man Who Discovered Oasis
Air Date: 1998-09-14
3. Zizi je t'aime
Air Date: 1998-09-21
4. Cat People
Air Date: 1998-09-28
5. Darcey Bussell
Air Date: 1998-10-05
6. Billy Fury: Halfway to Paradise
Air Date: 1998-10-12
7. The Whirl of Vanity Fair
Air Date: 1998-11-25
8. Julie Andrews
Air Date: 1998-12-15
9. Starring - Animals
Air Date: 1998-12-20
10. Bring Me Sunshine: The Heart and Soul of Eric Morecambe
Air Date: 1998-12-23
11. Mad About Monet
Air Date: 1999-01-28
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Rating
7.2/10
Release Date
1967-10-13
Episodes
717 (36 seasons)
Status
Canceled
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