I know, but he's not an idiot, he's been a good friend of mine for years.
On The Buses - Happy 40th Anniversary Page 2
He's doing a pretty good act then. 
I'm leaving at this now, he's a friend of mine and we had a difference of opinion.
Well said for everyone defending On The Buses. I had a similar prolonged debate with a poster on the imdb.com forums about sexism and On The Buses. She just couldn't understand that it was a comedy and all harmless fun. She kept bringing up that the men were made to look like gods and the women like slags. I say what utter nonsense. In On The Buses (all 74 episodes and 3 spin-off films) not once was a swear word uttered and the one split second of nudity (at the start of Holiday On The Buses) was during a time when such things were all the rage as we saw in Carry Ons, Confessions films. Hardly what you could call crude for a split second of nudity.
As for my book I have written it is in the hands of potential publishers at the moment. If I get a refusal I will try another and another until I am successful and if all options run-out I will look to self-publish.
It is ridiculous though branding the show as sexist, when I watch it (well the first five series) I think it is a great analysis of working class life in the 1960s and 1970s.
I just thought I'd share the great news that a book I have written called On The Buses: The Complete Story now has a publisher in place and hopefully it will hit all leading bookstores by Christmas 2009. I will keep you informed with more details...
Yes please do as I will definitely be buying it.
Well Jack and all others interested here are some more details:-
http://www.apexpublishing.co.uk/pubdetails.asp?Num=206
The book is provisionally set to be released on the 6th of February 2010 and price is yet to be confirmed but have heard £12.99 being mentioned as price.
The name of the book is On The Buses: The Complete Story
Hope it sells well, I'll be buying a copy. Just out of interest Craig, is it the first book you've ever written?
Looks good. I'll probably get it at some point too. Best of luck with it.
Quote: Jack Massey @ April 4 2009, 12:42 PM BSTHope it sells well, I'll be buying a copy. Just out of interest Craig, is it the first book you've ever written?
Yes it is indeed the first book I have ever written.
Also I would like to add that the foreword is being written by none other than the great Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney as can be seen here:-
http://www.apexpubhing.co.uk/pubDetailsP2.asp?Num=206&List=4
It looks like it's On The Buses day at ITV3. Between now and 7pm it's solid with it: episodes, all three films and documentary. It takes a break for a couple of hours, then it's all through the night.
Not really a fan of On The Buses, or Please Sir! come to think of that. IMO the only decent early 1970s ITV comedy was Bless This House, and that was saved by Sid James's presence.
No, I can't find any humour in On The Buses either. To be honest the sight of the ugly old blokes leching after girls makes me feel a bit ill.
But we did used to have a On The Buses novelty record, with a weird B-side track about Blakey being tormented by a noisey neighbour. Does anyone else remember this song?