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Stan gets a little annoyed when his Mum and Sister keep buying expensive items on hire purchase, but the money he earns for overtime working as a bus driver means that he can afford it
Bus driver Stan Butler agrees to marry Suzy, much to the anguish of Mum, her son-in-law, Arthur, and daughter Olive. How, they wonder, will they ever manage without Stan's money coming in?
Sacked by the bus company Stan and Jack get jobs as drivers ferrying punters to and from a holiday camp and arrange for the rest of the family to come and stay
If ever there was a case of love it or loathe it, Seventies comedy On The Buses must surely be it. Some praise its bawdy hilarity, raucous British humour and characterisation; others wonder how anyone could bear to watch it. Here, those involved tell how it all came together, and famous faces jump on board to explain why they're fans of Reg Varney and co.
DVD Extra showing clips from the spin-off show "The Other Reg Varney"
DVD Extra Archive news clips showing the popularity of the show
DVD Extra - Comedy Drama starring Reg Varney
DVD Extra. First episode of spin-off series "Don't Drink The Water"
The bus crews go on strike because of disagreements with the management. It causes no end of trouble at work and at home. Stan is hailed hero of the day.
When Stan sees his new clippie Iris all his nervousness goes, and they end up on a date together. He tells mum he is working an extra shift so he can take Iris out. What will Arthur and Mum think when he takes her home after the pub?
To help with the family income, Olive gets a job as a clippie. She gets put on Stan's bus, against his wishes. The trouble is Olive does not travel well!
Sitting on the bus engine all day has given Stan an over acidic stomach, known at the depot as 'bus drivers stomach'. When Blakey announces medical checks for the staff, Stan has to try and get himself fit to pass the medical, even if it means giving up greasy fried food!
Stan is in need of some extra cash, so he applies for a position as an Inspector, but soon starts to worry about what the other lads will think of him.
After complaints are made about it, the bus crews decide to take over the running of the canteen and make Olive the new cook.
Stan and Jack are challenged to a darts match by two clippies, Iris and Jenny. Stan feels he's a bit out of practice and so spends all his spare time practicing his darts playing. When he drops one of his darts in Olive's stew, he has to use a new set which he is not used to. His darts playing has the added problem of Iris' flirting during the match!
Mum and Olive are in bed with the flu and it is not long before Arthur joins then. Stan is rushed off his feet looking after them and doing his shifts at the depot. To recover, the family go to stay with Aunt Maud. Stan and Jack plan a party in their absence, if Stan can stay fit!
Arthur's motorcycle and side car are in desperate need of repairs. Stan says that he can get the spare parts from the bus depot, if he can sneak them out past anyone in particular who might be watching.
After a number of assaults on bus staff, the management introduce judo lessons. Enter Blakey as the judo instructor!
Aunt Maud comes to stay and upsets the family home life. The little dog of Aunt Maud's has now grown into a huge animal and also upsets Stan's peaceful home
Stan is burning the candle at both ends, what with his new girlfriend keeping him out late at night and then having to do the early shift at the depot.
Stan and Jack are going on holiday but first there is the small matter of getting a suntan before they go. What better place to sunbathe than at the Cemetery Gates terminus but, having their uniforms stolen whilst sunning themselves is going to prove difficult to explain away back at the depot.
Stan fibs his way past the First Aid test but how will he cope with a real emergency?
Attempting to fix his noisy WC, Stan manages to put a spanner in the works...
A new clippie hides a terrible secret - she's Blakey's niece!
Jack leads Stan astray when he convinces him to start home brewing beer.
Olive wants to redecorate her bedroom but the only paint to hand is Bus Green...
The Indian busman hold a social evening at the depot canteen with an attractive samke dancer...
When Mum uses kiss-proof lipstick and stays out untill 1.30am, everyone suspects the worst.
Blakey installs a two-way radio in Stan and Jack's cab, but should he believe all he hears?
Freezing fog forces Stan to pull off the road, with Mum, Arthur, Olive and Blakey on board...
Stan and Jack try the new uniforms out but they have an unforeseen effect on the opposite sex.
Stan has been going steady with Sally. There's only one snag - she's Blakey's niece.
Stan investigates ways to increasing his income... and decides to sell some of his assets to Blakey.
Stan's intentions are less than honourable when he offers Edna a place to stay when her landlady throws her out.
Stan and Jack have nowhere to take their girls except the back seats of the bus. Can they avoid Blakey...?
Blakey's Plan to marry and raise chickens please Jack and Stan until they meet the new inspector.
Jack reads about the high mortality rate of overweight busmen - can Stan lose weight?
Arthur is thrown out of the house by Olive when she discovers he fancies one of the clippies.
Stan and Jack are lumbered with Christmas Day duty in the Depot.
Stan and Jack are placed in charge of the L.., or 'Learner' bus...
Much to his disgust, this year it is Stan's turn to drive the bus for the children's annual outing.
Stan and his family are celebrating Olive and Arthur's 10th wedding Anniversary.
Stan offers to re-cover Mum's upholstery but he can only get hold of the material used for bus seats.
Stan and Jack's interpretation of new safety regulations causes more accidents than they were designed to prevent.
Stan has a plan to help his family cope with inflation - he decides to take in a lodger.
When Stan injures his foot, Jack is ready with plenty of good advice.
Stella makes a pass at Stan, but are her intentions honourable..?
A nursery is set up for the clippies' children, and the Sister in charge requires an assistant.
When Stan brings Doreen,a clippie, home for a cuddle on the sofa he finds the family are up watching a late film.
The Inspector's niece is getting married. Much to Blakey's alarm, Stan is to be Best Man...
It's goodbye to the depot for a while for Blakey - he and his mum are going on holiday. But they can't find anyone to look after the dachsund and the tropical fish...
It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good, but even an ill wind can bring benefits when it's carrying flu germs...
The annual Busman's Ball comes round once again - and Arthur has decided that he and Olive will not be going. Then he discovers what this year's cabaret is going to be...
Suzy in the canteen is very good to Stan and Jack When serving their meals - and charging for them! Naturally, this upsets Blakey, who is determined to beat Jack and Stan at their own game...
Mary, the new nurse at the depot, comes to live with the Butlers as their lodger.
Stan and Jack find some fish and chips on their bus and, to cut a long story short, eat them. Then a woman comes into the depot to report the loss to Blakey...
While Stan is trying to paint the kitchen chairs, he manages to decorate his uniform as well...
Stan tries to prove his strength by picking up his girlfriend with one hand. In doing so, he strains his back and has to wear a surgical corset...
When the Luxton and District Traction Co. have their Christmas Club payout, Stan and the family decide to buy a colour television. But they have a problem disposing of their old telly...
Inspector Blake decides to devide and rule by promoting Stan's pal Jack, to the rank of Inspector...
Arthur is attracted to Beryl, who is the clippie on his regular bus. But Beryl has only two interests in life - men with a fondness for athletics and those with a good head hair...
When Jack suggests to Stan that Arthur's sister Linda should be invited to the Boxing Day Social at the depot, Arthur maintains that she's above such events...
After a carelessly discarded cigarette end causes a fire at the depot, it is decided that all the staff must undergo fire fighting training.
Olive tries to make Arthur jealous by pretending to seduce another man.
After a bit of unlucky gambling, Stan borrows some money off Basher, but when Basher wants it back Stan hasn't got it so Jack suggests that they borrow a bus to take the old folks out on a trip, as paying customers.
It's been a pretty bad week for Stan, Arthur and Olive are constantly arguing and keeping him awake which also makes him late for work and so tired that he falls asleep and crashes the bus.
When the management sacks Elsie the canteen lady, Stan stages a one man hunger strike.
Stan and Jack mistakenly think that Blakey might be dying, after he has a medical at the depot.
When the raffle ticket that Stan buys for Mum wins second prize of a holiday for two in Spain, the family are extra nice to her, in an effort to be the one picked to go on holiday with her.
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.
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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Jack and the inspector attempt to fix a water heater.
Blakey invites his mum over to the Butler home now that he is living there. Mrs. Butler is none to happy.
The Stars make good reading for Mum and Olive. It says romance is in the air. Who will be the unlucky victims?
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.
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.
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.
