Omnibus - Season 9 Episode 6 : Thomas Mann: The Fight Against Death
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.
First Air Date : Oct 13, 1967
Last Air Date : Jan 28, 1999
Runtime : 60 min.
Genre : Documentary
Stars :
Quality :
- Eps. 3 : Big Ware1975-10-05
- Eps. 7 : Shafts of Sunlight1975-11-02
- Eps. 11 : Jane Austen1975-12-14
- Eps. 15 : The Waltz1976-01-22
- Eps. 16 : Omnibus in Ireland1976-01-29
- Eps. 17 : All Clouds Are Clocks1976-02-05
- Eps. 18 : A Matter of Life & Death1976-02-12
- Eps. 19 : Constable Exhibition1976-02-19
- Eps. 20 : Charles Marowitz1976-02-26
- Eps. 21 : A Kind of Innocence1976-03-04
- Eps. 22 : Placido Domingo1976-03-11
- Eps. 23 : Portraits1976-03-18
- Eps. 24 : The Honourable Out -Of- Step1976-03-25
- Eps. 25 : Richard Avendon1976-04-01
- Eps. 26 : The Spirit of the Land1976-04-08
- Eps. 27 : Monsieur Hulot's Work1976-05-13
- Eps. 29 : Far Away1976-05-27
- Eps. 30 : John Constable1976-06-03
- Eps. 31 : The Sound of Islam1976-06-10
- Eps. 33 : An Evening with Gene Kelly1976-06-24
- Eps. 35 : Beyond a Boundary1976-07-08