On the Buses (1969)
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This TV Show Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Anna Karen
Olive Rudge
Bob Grant
Jack Harper
Stephen Lewis
Inspector Cyril 'Blakey' Blake
Reg Varney
Stan Butler
Doris Hare
Mum
Michael Robbins
Arthur Rudge
Zachary Wolfe
Little Arthur
Cicely Courtneidge
Mum
Ursula Mohan
Joyce
Michael Sheard
Manager
Ronald Chesney
Writer
Ronald Wolfe
Writer
Bryan Izzard
Director
Derrick Goodwin
Director
Jonathan Lynn
Writer
Brian Grellis
John Crocker
Shirley Steedman
Norman Mitchell
Larry Martyn
Sandra Bryant
Gwendolyn Watts
Ruth Kettlewell
Kate Williams
Claire Davenport
Arthur Lovegrove
Terry Duggan
John Lyons
Nosher Powell
Patricia Shakesby
Ishaq Bux
Yutte Stensgaard
Garfield Morgan
Lucy Griffiths
Roger Avon
Campbell Singer
Lynn Dalby
Julia Breck
Hugh Walters
Wendy Richard
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On the Buses is a British television sitcom that was broadcast on ITV from 1969 to 1973. It was created by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe, who wrote most of the episodes. It spawned three spin-off feature films and a stage version. Despite the writers' previous successes with The Rag Trade and Meet the Wife with the BBC, the corporation rejected On the Buses, not seeing much comedy potential in a bus depot as a setting. The comedy partnership turned to Frank Muir, Head of Entertainment at London Weekend Television (LWT), who loved the idea; the show was accepted, and despite a poor critical reception became a hit with viewers.
The series is centred on the working-class life of Stan Butler and Jack Harper, who are the crew of the Number 11 bus at the Luxton and District Motor Traction Company. The action mostly takes place at the Butler home and at the bus depot. Network On Air describes the show as having a "bawdy, comic postcard humour and resolutely working-class outlook", and notes the series became "one of the most popular British comedy series of its era, if not all time."