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Omnibus

Season 1974 1974

  • 1974-04-27T23:00:00Z on BBC One
  • 50m
  • 3h 20m (4 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
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.

4 episodes

Another opportunity to see this highly acclaimed performance by Ella Fitzgerald with TOMMY FLANAGAN (piano) JOE PASS (guitar), BOBBY DURHAM (drums), KEETER BETTS (double-bass), She was magnificent . . . unmissable, honestly (SUNDAY TIMES)
Executive producer MIKE WOOLLER Producer ALAN YENTOB
(Ella Fitzgerald appears by arrangement with Norman Granz and Harold Davison )

In the 1930s they were the movies' regular ' Full Supporting Programme ': we loved them, we all imitated them. In Germany they were known as Dick and Dorf; in Italy, Crick and Crok; in Poland, Flip and Flap. Churchill loved their films; so did Stalin. They are the eternal Fat and the Thin, the Fiddle and the Bow. Today their films are perhaps more popular than ever before. What makes their humour tick? What kind of human beings were they?

Tonight's Omnibus celebrates Stan and Ollie-Laurel and Hardy: their innocence, their dumbness, their zany logic - and the working companionship of two gentle men.
With extracts from a great many of their vintage comedies; some rare film; and contributions from Jerry Lewis , Marcel Marceau

Spike Milligan , Bob Monkhouse Dilys Powell , Hal Roach
Kenneth Tynan , Dick Van Dyke and many others.
Commentary spoken by Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise

Oscar Peterson and Andre Previn look at some of the styles and personalities involved in the development of piano jazz. 'It's years since I made jazz records,' says Previn, ' so don't expect a text-book history. I have always been Oscar's most ardent fan so tonight is very much a personal programme.'

In 1964 Alan Price was a member of the Newcastle pop group The Animals. Now he has become one of Britain's most sought-after singer/composers. Recently he won the Anthony Asquith Memorial Award for his film music for "O Lucky Man!"
In this "Omnibus" musical documentary he revisits the North East, which has inspired much of his work, and in London he rehearses, records and performs new songs which reflect the changes in his life and attitudes after ten years as a professional musician.

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