kittenkongshow I always will associate this with Summer holidays from school, Saw this long before I saw the TV series and absolutely love it.By far the best of the 3 Buses films.Note that the Film continuity is different to the TV series in several ways (The last series of the TV show was broadcast earlier that year) as Olive and Arthur are still married and have a child and Stan hasn't left for a Car factory Job.Plot you can read elsewhere but for once the opening out of the show works, The Guest stars are excellent.Stan & Jack Still do well with the ladies - Never worked out how, well, apart from the script says so!. Even Blakey has a fling with the lovely Kate Williams.Always on ITV3 it's a classic look back at the 1970's holiday scene - It is of it's time and that's what I love.TV versions do edit the brief nudity.

PathetiCinema New York, 1973. Unknown film student Martin Scorcese was sitting in a darkened Manhattan cinema. He was watching Brian Izzard's Holiday On The Buses. It was this experience that made him the filmmaker that he became.Scorcese was devastated at the beauty of Izzard's vision, his glorious understanding of photographing a scene, his eye for detail, his ability to coax incredible performances from Reg Varney and Bob Grant. Scorcese was wildly impressed at Izzard's ability to put on film a coherent, realistic portrayal of an underclass struggling amidst poverty and work pressures. This was one of Scorcese's favourite themes.Indeed, Scorcese immediately ran home and penned Mean Streets as a response to Holiday On The Buses. His Mean Streets script originally included a character called Blakey but Scorcese edited it at the last moment to avoid plagiarism. Indeed, Scorcese's Taxi Driver was initially to be called Bus Driver, with it's central character of Stan Bickle spiralling into insanity amid a sea of bare breasts and exploding toilets. Scorcese did try to secure Varney for the role of Bickle but Varney turned him down, citing that if Scorcese wanted him he would have to come to the UK to film Bus Driver.This film had a profound effect on Scorcese. Holiday On The Buses deserves a 10/10 and I shall give it a 10/10.

Andrew-1589 The film is a third film, after On The Buses, Muninty On The Buses. Story Line: Stan & Jack also Inspector Blake loose there jobs, when Stan its the manager's car also causes damages to the bus as the Inspector Blake gets in trouble for not telling him about the bus coming. but Inspector Blake gets a job, why Stan & Jack cannot get a job. Why Arthur as to figure away for to get money for the hole family, but Lucky Jack finds a job in the paper, when it says busmen wanted for Pontings holiday camp, in Wales.& they both get jobs as busmen at pontings, but Inspector Blake as got a new job there as well as security guard, they met as Stan tries to get out of through the gates.but at the time Inspector Blake his going out with the nurse, but Jack his sneaking the nurse room, & benting to have broken his leg. but Blake must not find out because he would kill Jack, also the butler family stay with Stan at Pontings as well oh no trouble.-but I don't understand I thought Stan had went to work in the midlands in a factory, Arthur had divorced Olive, & Olive in Munity was excepting a baby in that, but there was only little Arthur.

highnumbers Vastly underrated 60's comedy. Ostensibly a light hearted saucey romp away from the confines of the bus depot 'holiday' has an often overlooked subtext questioning British values in a time of looming crisis. The relationship between lovable rogues Jack and Stan and the tragi-comic figure of Blakey hints at industrial strife and a questioning of the class structure in post 60's UK (note how Blakey's 'status' fails to save him in the face of the wrath of his Oxbridge educated bosses). Olive's brave but ultimately doomed attempts at addressing the marital imbalance with husband Arthur is deeply moving and a bleak vision of the gains made by feminists a decade earlier. The film features possibly the finest performance of character actor Arthur Mullard's career. His role as Wally Briggs culminating in the dance tutor scene with Blakey is laden with homo-erotic imagery, a brave move given the intended audience. Excellent stuff.