Omnibus (1967)

Show Info

Status
Ended
Show Type
Documentary
First Aired
13th October 1967
Runtime
50 minutes
Network
BBC One
Air Time
00:00:00
Air Day
Rating

Overview

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. The series was replaced by Imagine hosted by Alan Yentob.

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Season 2012

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1 24th Jun 2012 Ray Bradbury - The Illustrated Man
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Season 2011

Episode Airdate Name  
2 31st Mar 2011 Elizabeth Taylor - England's Other Elizabeth
1 11th Feb 2011 Antony Gormley - The Iron Man
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Season 2009

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4 30th Oct 2009 Ronnie Scott and All That Jazz
3 5th Oct 2009 Life, the Universe and Douglas Adams
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Season 2004

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1 23rd May 2004 Syd Barrett: Crazy Diamond
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Season 2002

Episode Airdate Name  
12 30th Oct 2002 Patricia Cornwell: Stalking the Ripper
11 23rd Oct 2002 Les Misérables Goes to China
5 8th Jun 2002 Who Killed Caravaggio?
2 30th Jan 2002 Mario Testino: Diana's Favourite Photographer
1 23rd Jan 2002 Iris Murdoch: Strange Love
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Season 2001

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21 28th Dec 2001 JK Rowling: Harry Potter and Me
20 22nd Dec 2001 JRR Tolkien: Master Of Middle Earth
19 24th Nov 2001 Syd Barrett: Crazy Diamond
18 20th Nov 2001 Lucille Ball: Queen Of Comedy
17 17th Nov 2001 Chuck Jones: Mr Bugs Bunny
16 13th Nov 2001 Anthony Trollope: Toffs and Tiaras
15 10th Nov 2001 Frank Auerbach: To The Studio
14 6th Nov 2001 The Billy Elliott Boy
13 3rd Nov 2001 When Larry Met Joan
12 27th Oct 2001 Empire Of The Nude
11 13th Oct 2001 David Hockney: Secret Knowledge
10 4th Aug 2001 Douglas Adams - The Man Who Blew Up The Earth
9 31st Mar 2001 Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
8 24th Mar 2001 Sebastian Faulks: The Fatal Century
7 17th Mar 2001 Botticelli: Visions of Violence and Beauty
6 10th Mar 2001 My Fair Lady: Wouldn't It Be Loverly
5 Never Episode 5
4 3rd Mar 2001 Stanley Spencer
3 24th Feb 2001 Fascinatin' Rhythm: The History Of Tap
2 17th Feb 2001 Placido Domingo
1 7th Feb 2001 Nancy Mitford: The Big Tease
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Season 2000

Episode Airdate Name  
14 4th Dec 2000 Dudley Moore: After the Laughter
13 27th Nov 2000 Kingsley Amis
12 20th Nov 2000 Dame Alicia Markova: The People's Ballerina
11 13th Nov 2000 John Barry: Licence to Thrill
10 6th Nov 2000 William Blake: Singing for England
9 3rd Aug 2000 The Piero Trail
8 12th Jul 2000 Vinnie Goes To Hollywood
7 28th Jun 2000 Wallace and Gromit Go Chicken
6 11th Jun 2000 Shock Of The Old
5 26th May 2000 Elizabeth Taylor - England's Other Elizabeth
4 3rd Apr 2000 The Great Gatsby: Midnight In Manhattan
3 27th Mar 2000 Antony Gormley: The Naked Sculptor
2 20th Mar 2000 Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
1 13th Mar 2000 John Ruskin: The Last Visionary
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Season 1999

Episode Airdate Name  
14 13th Dec 1999 Jennifer Saunders at the Barre
13 6th Dec 1999 Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
12 29th Nov 1999 Who the Dickens is Mrs Gaskell?
11 15th Oct 1999 Yes, Sir Nigel
10 4th Oct 1999 Blondie: Beneath the Bleach
9 27th Sep 1999 Steve Martin: Seriously Funny
8 20th Sep 1999 Roddy Doyle Ha Ha Ha
7 13th Sep 1999 Van Dyck Undressed
6 7th Jul 1999 A Long Time Ago: The Story of Star Wars
5 7th Jun 1999 Rebuilding the Reichstag
4 2nd Jun 1999 Our Julie
3 24th May 1999 Dino
2 17th May 1999 Chopin with Andras Schiff
1 10th May 1999 Louis Armstrong's Wonderful World
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Season 1998

Episode Airdate Name  
16 15th Dec 1998 Julie Andrews
15 25th Nov 1998 The Whirl of Vanity Fair
14 12th Oct 1998 Billy Fury: Half Way to Paradise
13 5th Oct 1998 Darcey Bussell
12 28th Sep 1998 Cat People
10 21st Sep 1998 Zizi Je T'Aime
9 14th Sep 1998 Alan McGee - The Man Who Discovered Oasis
8 13th May 1998 Jeffrey Archer: The Self-Made Man
7 21st Apr 1998 Man of the Match: Nick Hornby
6 15th Mar 1998 Gilbert and Sullivan: Instant Merriment
5 8th Mar 1998 The Pied Piper of Harlem
4 1st Mar 1998 Andre Previn
3 22nd Feb 1998 Jim Sheridan
2 10th Feb 1998 Pierre Bonnard: A Love Exposed
1 4th Jan 1998 Curiouser and Curiouser: Lewis Carroll 1898-1998
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Season 1997

Episode Airdate Name  
23 26th Oct 1997 Citizen Kay
22 21st Oct 1997 The Fame and Shame of Salvador Dali - Part Two
21 20th Oct 1997 The Fame and Shame of Salvador Dali - Part One
20 12th Oct 1997 Oscar
19 5th Oct 1997 Antony Sher
18 28th Sep 1997 Solti: The Making Of A Maestro
17 21st Sep 1997 The Film of Reeves and Mortimer
16 14th Sep 1997 Brit Art At The Royal Academy
15 10th Aug 1997 If: A Film About Rudyard Kipling
14 3rd Aug 1997 Mayibuye I Afrika: Let Africa Come Home
13 27th Jul 1997 East Of Eastenders
12 20th Jul 1997 Whatever Happened To... Clement and La Frenais?
11 13th Jul 1997 Michael Redgrave: My Father
10 7th Jul 1997 Dame Henrietta's Dream: A Year In The Life Of Hampstead Garden Suburb
9 30th Jun 1997 Anthony Green RA, 57 Up
8 23rd Jun 1997 Jack, The Lad
7 23rd Jun 1997 George Lucas - Flying Solo
6 16th Mar 1997 Milos Forman
5 9th Mar 1997 Stars and Mas
4 2nd Mar 1997 Balthus The Painter
3 10th Feb 1997 The Wizard of the North
2 22nd Jan 1997 The Wanderer
1 14th Jan 1997 Dancing Through Darkness
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Season 1996

Episode Airdate Name  
99 Never INCORRECT - DELETE
11 5th Nov 1996 Royal Court Diaries
10 20th May 1996 Degas: the Old Man Mad about Art
9 13th May 1996 Eve Arnold In Retrospect
8 29th Apr 1996 What a Relief! Ten Years of Comic Relief
7 22nd Apr 1996 Written on Water: a Film about Budapest
6 15th Apr 1996 Spike (Spike Milligan)
5 5th Feb 1996 A Day on the Mountain
4 23rd Jan 1996 Theft of the Century
3 22nd Jan 1996 The Ploughboy of the Western World
2 15th Jan 1996 Through Many Dangers: the Story of Gospel Music
1 8th Jan 1996 Paul Verhoeven : from Holland to Hollywood
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Season 1995

Episode Airdate Name  
22 19th Dec 1995 Some Interesting Facts about Peter Cook
21 13th Nov 1995 Norman Foster
20 6th Nov 1995 Foundation Course in Art
19 30th Oct 1995 The Last Journey of John Keats
18 23rd Oct 1995 Presumption: The Life Of Jane Austen
17 16th Oct 1995 Gore Vidal's Gore Vidal Part Two
16 9th Oct 1995 Gore Vidal's Gore Vidal Part One
15 2nd Oct 1995 Artist Unknown
14 25th Sep 1995 Enigma: The Making of a Hardback Hero
13 18th Sep 1995 Listen, Paula...
12 11th Sep 1995 One Prom Short of a Season
11 2nd May 1995 Dave Stewart: Greetings From The Gutter
10 30th Apr 1995 Ginger Rogers: A Tribute
9 25th Apr 1995 Divas
8 18th Apr 1995 Croft and Perry: The Sitcoms
7 11th Apr 1995 Jean Renoir: Hollywood and Beyond
6 4th Apr 1995 Jean Renoir: From Belle Époque To World War II
5 21st Mar 1995 Darker Than Blue: Curtis Mayfield
4 14th Mar 1995 Ready When You Are, Mr Patel
3 7th Mar 1995 Joshua Bell
2 28th Feb 1995 Carnaval: The Biggest Party in the World
1 21st Feb 1995 The Greatest Living Painter
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Season 1994

Episode Airdate Name  
19 6th Dec 1994 Stevenson's Travels (2)
18 29th Nov 1994 Stevenson's Travels (1)
17 22nd Nov 1994 Henri Cartier-Bresson
16 15th Nov 1994 Pink Floyd: The Story
15 8th Nov 1994 The Trials of Dominick Dunne
14 1st Nov 1994 About Face
13 25th Oct 1994 Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder
12 18th Oct 1994 Doris Lessing: A Part of Me
11 11th Oct 1994 The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
10 24th May 1994 Every Inch a King
9 26th Apr 1994 Sir John Betjeman
8 19th Apr 1994 Joan Littlewood's Lovely War
7 12th Apr 1994 Gielgud: Scenes from Nine Decades
6 5th Apr 1994 Bill T Jones
5 29th Mar 1994 Hildegard
4 15th Mar 1994 The Performers: Goya
3 8th Mar 1994 A Suitable Boy: Vikram Seth
2 1st Mar 1994 Mister Abbott's Broadway
1 22nd Feb 1994 Freeze: But is it Art?
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Season 1993

Episode Airdate Name  
14 21st Dec 1993 Sunset Boulevard
11 30th Nov 1993 The Boy Next Door
8 17th Nov 1993 Jean Renoir: Part Two - Hollywood and Beyond
7 17th Nov 1993 Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
6 26th Oct 1993 Houdini
5 19th Oct 1993 Sweet Home Chicago
1 2nd Mar 1993 Vittorio Storaro: Writing with Light
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Season 1992

Episode Airdate Name  
15 15th Dec 1992 King's College Choir, Cambridge
13 1st Dec 1992 John Ford: Part One
12 17th Nov 1992 Horst: 60 Years and Still in Vogue
7 13th Oct 1992 Eye of the Storm: Ridley Scott
4 22nd Sep 1992 Disney The Fairytale Years
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Season 1991

Episode Airdate Name  
18 20th Dec 1991 Benny Hill: Clown Imperial
17 13th Dec 1991 The Prince of Paisley Park
16 6th Dec 1991 Living Shakespeare: A Year with the RSC
15 29th Nov 1991 Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
14 15th Nov 1991 Ulster Says Ho Ho Ho
13 8th Nov 1991 Eric Hebborn: Portrait of a Master Forger
12 1st Nov 1991 Irek Mukhamedov
11 25th Oct 1991 Against Pornography - The Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
10 18th Oct 1991 Martha Gellhorn
9 4th Oct 1991 Bladerunners with Torvill and Dean
8 27th Sep 1991 Don Delillo: The Word, the Image, the Gun
7 20th Sep 1991 Song of the Birds: A Portrait of Pablo Casals
6 13th Sep 1991 Peter Greenaway: Anatomy of a Film-Maker
5 11th Jul 1991 La Stupenda: A Retrospective of Dame Joan Sutherland
4 29th Mar 1991 Tom Jones: The Voice Made Flesh
3 26th Feb 1991 Sidney Lumet
2 19th Feb 1991 Inside the Russia House
1 29th Jan 1991 A Profile of Michael Andrews
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Season 1990

Episode Airdate Name  
22 20th Mar 1990 Sunday in the Park with Stephen
21 7th Dec 1990 Madonna - Behind The American Dream
19 16th Nov 1990 The Return of the Green Man
17 19th Oct 1990 L.B - A Portrait of Leonard Bernstein
15 5th Oct 1990 Life of Python
4 15th Mar 1990 Van Gogh
2 2nd Mar 1990 Sunday in the Park with Stephen
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Season 1989

Episode Airdate Name  
14 1st Dec 1989 My Most Difficult Book - The Story of Lolita
11 22nd Sep 1989 Raymond Carver
10 27th Oct 1989 Ronnie Scott ... and All That Jazz
1 14th Jul 1989 Laurence Olivier
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Season 1988

Episode Airdate Name  
9 15th Jul 1988 Leonard Cohen - Songs from a Life
7 17th Jun 1988 The Bull In Winter: The Last Years of Pablo Picasso
5 3rd Jun 1988 The Cinema of Satyajit Ray
3 20th May 1988 Lucian Freud
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Season 1987

Episode Airdate Name  
7 30th Oct 1987 Arthur Miller
2 19th Sep 1987 Getting to Dylan
1 8th May 1987 George Grosz: Enemy of the State
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Season 1986

Episode Airdate Name  
15 28th Aug 1986 The Bolshoi Ballet
14 23rd May 1986 The Last Moguls
13 14th Nov 1986 Rodin 1840-1917
8 12th Sep 1986 Jessye Norman - Singer
7 3rd Oct 1986 Hitchcock : Part Two. 'Sex, Murder and Mayhem'
6 26th Sep 1986 Hitchcock : Part One. 'It's Only A Movie'
5 9th May 1986 Video Jukebox
4 2nd May 1986 Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios
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Season 1985

Episode Airdate Name  
8 26th Jul 1985 Luck & Flaw's Illustrated Guide To Caricature
7 7th Jun 1985 Studs Terkel's Chicago
1 26th Apr 1985 Tony Hancock: From East Cheam to Earls Court
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Season 1984

Episode Airdate Name  
6 21st Oct 1984 Pennington on Chekhov
1 30th Sep 1984 The Bristol Showboat Saga
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Season 1983

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1 16th Jan 1983 Peter Pan, and Bernard MacLaverty
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Season 1982

Episode Airdate Name  
1 10th Jan 1982 La Ronde, Frankie Howerd in 'Die Fledermaus' at the English National Opera & The Great Japan Exhibition
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Season 1981

Episode Airdate Name  
1 13th Jan 1981 Judy Chicago's Dinner Party
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Season 1980

Episode Airdate Name  
3 15th Sep 1980 We Think the World of You
2 22nd Apr 1980 Coming Alive
1 15th Jan 1980 Ray Bradbury - The Illustrated Man
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Season 1979

Episode Airdate Name  
19 21st Jun 1979 Pig Earth
18 7th Jun 1979 Dread, Beat an' Blood
17 5th Feb 1979 Rene Magritte
3 23rd Dec 1979 Schalcken the Painter
1 8th Feb 1979 Lillian Hellman
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Season 1978

Episode Airdate Name  
15 16th Feb 1978 Song of the White Horse
2 26th Oct 1978 The Savage: Paul Gauguin and the Construction of Paradise
1 2nd Nov 1978 Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision
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Season 1977

Episode Airdate Name  
17 30th Jun 1977 Conductor's Eye View
16 21st Apr 1977 The Lindsays/Half a Mile from Stoke
15 14th Apr 1977 Seeds of a New Life
14 7th Apr 1977 Omnibus USA: Documentary America
13 31st Mar 1977 Stan Tracey: The Original
12 23rd Mar 1977 Walton No.1
11 17th Mar 1977 Orpheus and His Flute
10 10th Mar 1977 Omnibus USA: New York Real, New York Abstract
9 3rd Mar 1977 Toccata at the Plaza
8 24th Feb 1977 Omnibus USA: LA - My Home Town
7 17th Feb 1977 Paintings by Velasquez
6 10th Feb 1977 Paintings by Titian
5 3rd Feb 1977 Paintings by El Greco
4 27th Jan 1977 Colour Positive - The Poster Man
3 20th Jan 1977 Omnibus USA: Doc, Charlie and the Painters
2 13th Jan 1977 A White Wall in Alentejo
1 3rd Jan 1977 The Song of Mandelay
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Season 1976

Episode Airdate Name  
35 8th Jul 1976 Beyond a Boundary
32 23rd Dec 1976 The Story of Pantomime
31 16th Dec 1976 New York, New York
30 2nd Dec 1976 Signs of Vigorous Life
27 13th May 1976 Monsieur Hulot's Work
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Season 1975

Episode Airdate Name  
23 9th Nov 1975 Shafts of Sunlight
2 26th Jan 1975 Cracked Actor: David Bowie
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Season 1974

Episode Airdate Name  
14 26th May 1974 Alan Price: Between Today and Yesterday
13 1st Dec 1974 Oscar Peterson and Andre Previn
12 22nd Dec 1974 Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy
11 28th Apr 1974 Ella Fitzgerald at Ronnie Scott's
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Season 1973

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42 7th Oct 1973 The British Hero
26 15th Jul 1973 Ginger Baker in Africa
7 18th Feb 1973 Fools Rush in: Morecambe and Wise
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Season 1972

Episode Airdate Name  
28 24th Dec 1972 Judy: Impressions of Garland
6 29th Oct 1972 The Performers - Goyra
5 22nd Oct 1972 Who Needs a Conductor?
3 1st Oct 1972 The Wit & World of George Bernard Shaw
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Season 1971

Episode Airdate Name  
5 28th Mar 1971 The Making of Husbands
1 3rd Jan 1972 The Mysterious Mr Eliot
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Season 1970

Episode Airdate Name  
20 Never Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy
19 Never Jack the Ripper: Case Closed
18 28th Jun 1970 The Other Edward Heath
6 15th Feb 1970 Dance of the Seven Veils
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Season 1969

Episode Airdate Name  
29 2nd Feb 1969 From Today, Painting Is Dead
28 7th Dec 1969 Noel Coward
25 2nd Nov 1969 Christopher Isherwood - A Born Foreigner
18 4th May 1969 The More We Are Together
4 26th Jan 1969 Makers of the Queen's Music
3 19th Jan 1969 The Woman from the Shadows
2 12th Jan 1969 Man Who Dances
1 4th Jan 1969 Cream's Farewell Concert
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Season 1968

Episode Airdate Name  
26 23rd May 1968 All My Loving
25 5th Jul 1968 Whistle and I'll Come to You
22 17th Nov 1968 Graham Green: The Hunted Man
20 3rd Nov 1968 All My Loving
16 15th Sep 1968 Song of Summer: Frederick Delius
13 7th May 1968 Whistle and I'll come to you
2 9th Jan 1968 Diaghilev 1872-1929: Part 2: The Years in Exile
1 2nd Jan 1968 Diaghilev 1872-1929: Part 1: The Years Abroad
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Season 1967

Episode Airdate Name  
10 22nd Dec 1967 Dante's Inferno
9 15th Dec 1967 The World Of Coppard
8 8th Dec 1967 Jacqueline
7 1st Dec 1967 Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, in F (Pastoral)
6 24th Nov 1967 East Of Bedlam
5 17th Nov 1967 Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, in C minor
4 10th Nov 1967 Tyger Tyger
3 3rd Nov 1967 Beethoven Symphony No. 3, in E flat (Eroica)
2 20th Oct 1967 Suliotis Sings
1 13th Oct 1967 Everybody's Expo
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Season 22

Episode Airdate Name  
5 19th Sep 1986 Meetings with Ambler

Specials

Episode Airdate Name  
10 9th Apr 1999 Laughter in the House: The Story of British Sitcom: Modern Times
9 31st Mar 1999 Laughter in the House: The Story of British Sitcom: The Sensational Seventies
8 24th Mar 1999 Laughter in the House: The Story of British Sitcom: Early Days
7 28th Jan 1999 Mad About Monet
6 23rd Dec 1998 Bring Me Sunshine: The Heart and Soul of Eric Morecambe
5 20th Dec 1998 Starring Animals
4 30th Aug 1998 The Art of Diana
3 11th Jun 1987 Video Jukebox
2 8th Jan 2003 Annie Proulx; Way Out West
1 2nd Aug 2002 Omnibus Special: Life, The Universe and Douglas Adams

Stars

Kirsty Wark
Self - Presenter