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EP1 Olive's Divorce Feb 02, 1973

It's six months since Arthur walked out on her so Olive,armed with a list of grievances prepared by Mum and Stan,goes to court and is granted her divorce.With Mum going to stay with Aunt Maud Olive is very much the gooseberry as she accompanies Stan and his girl-friend Sandra to the pictures - to see a sexy film about a recently divorced woman - where Olive sits next to a groper. Stan gets Blakey to see Olive home whilst he goes to Sandra's for some rumpy-pumpy but Olive turns up to interrupt him as she has forgotten her house key.

EP2 The Perfect Clippie Mar 04, 1973

With money tight as ever in the Butler home Stan asks Blakey to employ Olive on the buses and eventually he relents. Olive's last excursion into being a conductress was a disaster but now she is completely in charge,super-efficient to the point of annoying, particularly as she has learnt the rule book off by heart and takes Stan to task for his rule-bending.It can't last..

EP3 The Ticket Machine Mar 11, 1973

Mum and Olive run up debts of fifty pounds when they buy things to sell on from a catalogue firm only for Olive to break them. When Blakey refuses to give him his bonus Stan warms to Jack's idea of using a stolen ticket machine to charge for fares that will not be recorded so they can pocket the profits. After Blakey has come to the house and almost sat on the machine Stan decides to confess about the machine but Blakey gives him his bonus.However he has found out about the ticket machine and makes Stan donate the money to the bus crews' charity organization.

EP4 The Poster Mar 18, 1973

A poster of a faceless driver appears at the depot. It is a plan to boost falling passenger figures and advertises a competition with a prize of a hundred pounds to be ... The perfect driver.Jack secretly enters Stan though the other finalists are hunky sportsmen and Stan's family take him to the chemist to buy him a rejuvenating face pack to give him a chance. Will he beat off the well-toned opposition to get his face - and - name on the poster? Of course he will.

EP5 The Football Match Mar 25, 1973

The bus crews are encouraged to form their own staff football team,to take on the Basildon Bashers. Jack and Stan are not enthusiastic but there is a five pound bonus on offer. The depot only has one star player,young Bob,and Stan injures him in training,so he asks Blakey if he can field a substitute - Olive. Blakey feels that women and football do not mix - until he sees the Basildon Bashers. They are an all-female team and they contrive by fair means and foul to give Stan's team a good pasting.

EP6 On The Omnibuses Apr 01, 1973

t's a hundred years since the Luxton Bus Company came into being and fifty years since they got their first motor bus. To celebrate the good old days Blakey organizes an exhibition and,after showing Mum and Olive around some of the museum pieces, Stan falls asleep at the wheel of a bus from the turn of the century,imagining his present-day family and colleagues in previous incarnations. Olive is a militant suffragette,Mum a washerwoman and Blakey is still Blakey,except his nickname is the Kaiser.

EP7 Goodbye Stan Apr 08, 1973

Stan decides he can make more money if he heads North and gets work in a car factory but,rather than hand in his resignation, he gets Blakey to sack him so that he can get a week's wages. He celebrates his last night at home and is unable to eat the fry-up his Mum has cooked him so he sticks it in his uniform pocket,a fact that Blakey discovers when he comes around to collect the uniform. However,as he has been evicted from his own lodgings,he takes Stan's room and becomes the Butlers' new lodger

EP8 Hot Water Apr 15, 1973

Jack and the inspector attempt to fix a water heater.

EP9 The Visit Apr 22, 1973

Blakey invites his mum over to the Butler home now that he is living there. Mrs. Butler is none to happy.

EP10 What The Stars Foretell Apr 29, 1973

The Stars make good reading for Mum and Olive. It says romance is in the air. Who will be the unlucky victims?

EP11 The Allowance May 06, 1973

There's a new clippie at the depot, the militant Jessie. Outraged that the female clippies have to pay to use the public conveniences, while the male staff don't, she lobbies the management for an allowance to cover the cost.

EP12 Friends In High Places May 13, 1973

When Mrs. Butler goes for a job at the depot's canteen, she is interviewed by an old boyfriend, Mr. Simpson who is one of the managers. After she gets the job, Jack and Olive try to use Mum's influence with Mr. Simpson to try and get one over on Blakey.

EP13 Gardening Time May 20, 1973

Blakey and Jack have entered into the depot flower and vegtable competition. The rivalry is fierce as they both try to create the best garden.

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Released: 28 February 1969 Ended

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Country: United Kingdom

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On the Buses is a British comedy series created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, broadcast in the United Kingdom from 1969 to 1973. The writers' previous successes with The Rag Trade and Meet the Wife were for the BBC, but the corporation rejected On the Buses, not seeing much comedy potential in a bus depot as a setting. The comedy partnership turned to a friend, Frank Muir, Head of Entertainment at London Weekend Television, who loved the idea; the show was accepted and despite a poor critical reception became a hit with viewers.

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flyingleerdamer-1 An excellent comedy series from 1969 - 1973 starring Reg varney as the clippie chasing Stan and his conductor, Jack.Inspector Blake is the jobs-worthy inspector who excels at any chance to report, ban and sack his bus crews for immoral behaviour, being a 'puppy' or usually just sex-mad and depraved.On the buses won an award for best show of 1971 and it is clear to see why.Together with a great cast including Micael Robbins, Bob Grant and Stephen lewis - On the buses is a legend among sitcoms! The DVD box-set is well worth a buy, containing extras and archive footage of the team opening housing estates in Braintree, opening a tailors, and a car park. There is also segments from the other Reg Varney and the first episode of the spin-off with Blakey - don't drink the water.Another treat in the DVD is the play, the best pair of legs in the business, with Reg Varney.And like, if me you are an avid fan - the on the buses forum is at www.otbfanforum.4umer.net .

naseby Two lecherous, skiving Busmen, Stan Butler, (Reg Varney) and Jack Harper (the late Bob Grant) are always at odds with their bus Inspector, Blakey (Stephen Lewis) who played an excellent role as the hard-pressed butt of the boys' jokes. (He looked like Hitler, but hadn't the same type of application in taming the two!).Although they're the main characters, they have able support from Stan's family at home, mostly causing him problems, one way or the other. As great as the first three are, an excellent character in the support role, it has to be said, is Stan's morose brother-in-law, Arthur, (Michael Robbins) who's always at odds with Stan/his family. So although there are plenty of comic exploits 'on the buses', it shows madcap situations in Stan's home and with the family. (Who ALL live in the same house incidentally!). Olive, (Anna Karen) Stan's dowdy, podgy, dim sister is married to Arthur and the butt of his jokes about her being less than sexy, stupid and gluttonous (Though I take his point - she was seen eating pickled onions in bed!) Although she aptly bit back at times with her famous catchphrase "Don't be such a pig!" There was also Doris Hare as 'Mum' though it should be said that's not a lot more than what she was, pretty non-descript.At times though, the script had very little to do with the buses - one where they're buying a new loo springs to mind, or a snake loose in the house, were thinly tied into anything to do with the buses! Stan and Jack (The latter, the shop steward incidentally, happy to call 'everyone out' and down tools as it were!) are always chasing the mini-skirted 'clippies' (female bus conductors), calling them in typical '70's fashion 'birds'.Also, they used the bus as their private 'run-around', so were constantly late in doing so and treated the passengers' delays as secondary to their own agenda! (Unless of course, it had anything to do with chatting up a 'bird'!) This is another comedy along with likes of the 'Carry-Ons', 'Benny Hill Show', 'Love Thy Neighbour', ''til Death Us Do Part' etc where 'Political correctness' wasn't entertained - so we were! Old-fashioned it may be, but there were plenty of funny lines in it nonetheless, even if at other times it may have struggled. That said, it seemed a little poor when strangely, Reg Varney as Stan left, an odd situation keeping it running with 'Blakey' lodging at the Butlers' house. Also, Arthur moved on at some point and this is when I think, the series showed it was definitely tired by this time.One of my favourite lines was at Christmas, Stan noticed the Inspector's Nephew's present of a toy bus, with an equally plastic toy bus crew. Stan says: "Oh, look, this one must be the Inspector - you can see the seam where they stuck his head on!"Another one berating poor Blakey, where he's being checked out by the company nurse. Nurse: "Perhaps you'll feel better sucking on something." Stan:"Yeah, he will, that's why we call him 'Dracula'!"

Graham Watson A huge cult like following way back then. In the days when there was only three TV channels "on the buses" was a gimmie when up against "Songs with praise" and some 1940's movie on BBC 2. Despite it being over 30 years old the last time I saw it a couple of years back I still found it reasonably amusing , although very dated and obviously politically incorrect. If you love political incorrectness this is the stuff for you! Let's just add it all up.The flirting and groping of mini skirted female staff, (who for what ever reason were labeled as 'clippy's), the endless helpings of cholesterol laden food in the form of chips, eggs, bacon, meat pies and sausages in the canteen. Smoking cigarettes, no female bus drivers, a west Indian employee called 'Chalky' .( I cringe when you think that people were still laughing at the gag "I hope your head get's better" to an Indian employee wearing a turban). Lastly, Butlers tormentor Inspector Blakey who they insulted all the time, whose image was obviously based on Adolf Hitler with his mustache. I tell you it does not get any better than this.It's hard to imagine today a comedy series being made about bus conductors in general let alone two homely looking middle aged men flirting with young women. In addition the average age of the cast in this series was probably 45 you would never get that nowadays! Yet it has to be said that there have been a number of comedy duffers that have long since come and gone that in no way can stand up to this one.Memorable episodes, well, Stans new uniform getting ruined, getting radios for the buses that interfered with the airlines, Stan getting drunk on his home brew and Jack and Stan trying to impress the birds with their snazzy new uniforms claiming they were airline pilots. It's a credit to the writers that it is still watchable today!

jamesraeburn2003 On The Buses was the creation of the writing duo Ronald Wolfe & Ronald Chesney. It was rejected by the BBC, but it's extraordinary success on ITV makes the former's decision rather foolish. Indeed some found it vulgar in that Reg Varney's Stan Butler was chasing after young clippie's young enough to be his daughters, and it was cheeply made but this didn't deter audiences from loving it. It ran for four years from 1969 to 1973. A testament to the enormous populartity of the series is that three big-screen spin-offs were produced by Hammer. They were On The Buses (1971), Mutiny On The Buses (1972)and Holiday On The Buses (1973). They all retained the regular TV cast and the first of the films became the most popular British film of 1971. Made for only £97,000, it's takings even outgrossed the James Bond film of that year, Diamonds Are Forever.The situation comedy revolved around the home life of bus driver Stan Butler (Reg Varney)who lived with is overly devoted mother (played by Cicely Courtneige in the first series, but replaced by Doris Hare at the start of the second series and remained thereafter), his none-to-bright sister Olive (Anna Karen) and his idle brother-in-law Arthur (Michael Robbins). The situation comedy also focused on his friendship with his lechurous conductor Jack (Bob Grant) and their uneasy relationship with their petty and miserable Inspector Blake (Stephen Lewis), known to them as Blakey. Then there was the womanising antics of both Stan and Jack, quite often it would go all wrong for Stan because his family never approved of the girls he brought home.Michael Robbins left the series just prior to the last series, the writers came up with the scenario that Arthur finally walked out on Olive, and that they were looking to divorce. Reg Varney would soon leave with the hope of becoming a star of films in specials, but this turned out to be unsuccessful and little was heard of him after that. In the story Stan went to work in a bus factory in the Midlands, and Inspector Blakey became the main attraction as he moved in to the Butler household as a lodger. Towards the end, Ronald Wolfe & Ronald Chesney gave up their position as the series' house writers, and later scripts were supplied by cast members Bob Grant and Stephen Lewis as well as people like George Layton.On The Buses is my favourite sitcom because it's one of the very few which have made me laugh. I also like the way it portrayed the working class background and the characters, especially Arthur (Michael Robbins) were marvelous, I will never forget them!