On The Buses
- TV sitcom
- ITV1
- 1969 - 1973
- 74 episodes (7 series)
Comedy following workshy bus driver Stan and his family; his conductor, Jack; and their depot boss, Inspector Blake. Stars Reg Varney, Bob Grant, Stephen Lewis, Anna Karen, Cicely Courtneidge and more.
- Series 5, Episode 15 repeated tomorrow at 7:40am on ITV3
Streaming rank this week: 1,703
Press clippings
'Great sitcoms are missing from our TV screens and our lives - we need them in these times'
Even if "we're all doomed" under the Tories, as Dad's Army's Pte Frazer would say, shows like George And Mildred, Are You Being Served?, Robin's Nest and Three's Company still make us laugh.
Siobhan McNally, The Mirror, 24th January 2024Superfan of 70s sitcom On The Buses, 26, assembles biggest collection of memorabilia
George Darlow never tires of episodes of the ITV series and three spin-off films.
David Wilkes, Daily Mail, 4th January 2024On The Buses films get Blu-ray world premiere
The three hugely successful On The Buses feature films are to receive their world premiere Blu-ray release later this year.
British Comedy Guide, 4th October 2023On The Buses movies to be celebrated in new documentary film
A feature-length film documentary looking at the huge success of the On The Buses movies is in development. On The Buses At The Movies will focus on the three movies made between 1971 and 1973.
British Comedy Guide, 25th May 2021On The Buses at 50
Fifty years ago today, the gates of the Luxton and District Motor Traction Company were rolled back for the first time to admit, onto an unsuspecting world, the Number 11, a green and cream double decker bus crewed by driver Stan Butler and conductor Jack Harper. Their destination, that of all mortals: the Cemetery Gates.
Martin Cater, Network, 28th February 2019The Top 10 British sitcoms of the 60s
We all have favourite sitcoms that we love to watch and revisit. Something about the familiarity of the format that resets itself to zero for the start of each new episode makes for comforting viewing.
Greg Jameson, Entertainment Focus, 16th November 2018Watching unPC sitcoms should be part of the curriculum
The BBC's remakes of Till Death Us Do Part and Are You Being Served? are only to be appreciated through the filter of irony. But things like It Ain't Half Hot Mum weren't malicious.
James Delingpole, The Spectator, 1st September 2016Ronald Wolfe obituary
Co-writer of TV sitcoms On the Buses and The Rag Trade.
Anthony Hayward, The Guardian, 19th December 2011Vic and Bob plan to revive On the Buses
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer are planning to revive much-loved 1970s show On The Buses.
The Sun, 27th August 2011On the Buses: just like a Ken Loach film
It's set in a London of rusting Hillman Minxes and bare lightbulbs, but On the Buses was a huge hit in its time, and the fanclub is still going strong.
Andrew Roberts, The Guardian, 24th June 2011