Hylda Baker

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.

In Colne, Lancashire, in the North West of England, Nellie and Eli Pledge may be siblings, but their personalities are polar opposites. If not for inheritance, they would never even think of becoming business partners for five years.

L'orfano Oliver Twist raggiunge Londra dove fa amicizia con "il Dritto" che lo conduce nella sua casa, una vecchia soffitta. Qui vivono i ragazzi, comandati dal vecchio Fagin, che si serve di loro per compiere una serie di furti. Accusato di un furto commesso dai suoi compagni, Oliver viene preso sotto la protezione di un ricco signore, ma nel timore che il ragazzo possa denunciare tutti, Fagin lo rapisce riportandolo nella soffitta...

When Jed Pickersgill finds himself too ill to run his Chelsea pub, The Brown Cow, he calls upon his middle-aged daughter Nellie for help. Nellie moves from Bolton to London to help, despite being a teetotal.

A group of very different people pool together their funds and buy a house large enough to accommodate them all. Characters include librarian Georgina Ruddy, council official Simon Willow, unemployable Daisy Burke, Yorkshire sea dog Captain Illiffe and his French singing wife, newlywed Hattons and law student Gordon Brent.

Jimmy, un operaio di Nottingham, ha una vita sentimentale molto disordinata. Innamoratosi della moglie di un amico, la mette incinta e la costringe ad abortire. Scoperto e punito dal marito tradito, finisce per sposare la giovane Dorren.

A young woman trades her upper-class existence for a new life in an economically depressed suburb of London.

The perfect middle-class couple are holding a dinner party when Nicholas gets a telephone call from Sheila, the mother of his teenage daughter Joan, saying that she can no longer stand to be with her and he must look after her now.