British Comedy Guide
Don't Drink The Water. Cyril Blake (Stephen Lewis). Copyright: London Weekend Television
Don't Drink The Water

Don't Drink The Water

  • TV sitcom
  • ITV1
  • 1974 - 1975
  • 13 episodes (2 series)

On The Buses' Inspector Cyril Blake has retired and bought a little flat in Spain with his sister, Dorothy. Stars Stephen Lewis, Derek Griffiths, Muguette de Braie, Frank Coda, Christine Shaw and Pat Coombs

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Press clippings

This was an absolutely dire spin-off of the hugely popular 1970s sitcom, On The Buses. Stephen Lewis' bus inspector Blakey ("I 'ate you, Butler!") goes to live in Spain with his spinster sister (played by 70s sitcom stalwart Pat Coombs). Although On The Buses is enjoying a renaissance on cable/satellite, Don't Drink The Water has disappeared...

Lorna Cooper, MSN Entertainment, 12th August 2008

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