`This site is dedicated to those who created and starred in on the buses and it is in memory to those who are sadly no longer with us. Thank you for making us all laugh.`

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Welcome to my tribute to on the buses, i first seen some of the on the buses in the 1980`s, i watched the on the buses film on tv and instantly loved it. I then watched the other two films which i loved too, it wasnt until i seen the re-runs on some sky tv channels that i was really hooked. Now i own all the dvd releases of the series, there is a boxset of all the series available from the 13th of November 2006.

I made this website purely as a tribute, it`s my intention to use or make my own images and text if i can. If i have used anyone`s text or images i have put direct links to the site or sites and full copyright signatures to the respectful owners. I do not intend to make any income from this site, it is purely a personal reference and tribute to the on the buses crew. Thank you for taking the time to read this, ding ding and enjoy!!!

First commissioned by then Head of Comedy for LWT, Frank Muir, and written by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe, rejected by the BBC, this was typical 1970's fare of vulgar innuendo and corny situations played to perfection by its colourful cast. Former music hall variety man Reg Varney, played downtrodden but ever hopeful Stan Butler, a bus driver for the Luxton Bus Company working the Number 11 route to the cemetery gates.

Together with his bus conductor partner Jack (Bob Grant), the plots usually revolved around the twosomes attempts to woo the mini skirted, big-busted female employees who worked as 'Clippies' (Bus Conductresses) for the same company. Bain of their life was the humourless Inspector Blake (Stephen Lewis), who tried in vain to catch the chirpy pair up to no good so he could dismiss them. Blakey's catchphrase "I 'ate you, Butler" was quickly adopted by the viewing public.

At home Stan's life was not much better, living with his mother (Cicely Courtneidge), later replaced by mum version 2 (Doris Hare), his dowdy sister Olive (Anna Karen), and her layabout husband Arthur (Michael Robbins). When Olive became pregnant she told Arthur that the doctor had informed her that her husband would have to go without his 'little pleasures' for a while, to which Arthur replied, Oh no, I'm not going without my television!

A bus garage owned by the Eastern National Bus Company in London's Wood Green area provided exterior shots after London Transport refused to cooperate, stating in a letter to the producers that they felt it might damage their image. The series became a smash hit for LWT and the letter was framed and hung in the production office by original director Stuart Allen. The series success spilled over to the big screen and no less than three feature films were given cinema releases, the first of which was the highest earning British film of 1971.

A number of cast members left before the end of the seventh and final series. Michael Robbins quit at the end of series 6, his character was said to have finally walked out on Olive and even the main star, Reg Varney, bowed out half way through the final excursion as Stan found new employment in the Midlands. His place in the diminishing Butler household was taken by a lodger - Inspector Blake.

Enjoy! Ding ! Ding !!!