On the Buses - Celebration of classic film series with Reg Varney, Anna Karen, Stephen Lewis

[@errol8000]

Holiday on the buses is my absolute favourite.

[@debbieanne7962]

I'm 61, my partner 56. We love 'On the Buses' have the series on DVD plus the 3 movies. Have watched them all multiple times. I don't care much for people who say it's political incorrect. It makes us laugh and I understand it for what it's worth. A lot of fun!

[@Truckergunners]

Me to ,snowflakes would slit their wrists today lol

[@jamieeedden777]

Same here I love it I'm only 25 tho but use to watch it with my grandad and I also watched it with both great grandparents some happy memories of times spent with them watching old movies and programs on the busses is one of the best if not the best

[@royw250]

I do agree with you Debbie it’s politically incorrect but so what so is the world incorrect

[@clivegetliff1293]

Here, Here

[@johnpatrickcole]

Most of these shows were not pc but who cares made people laugh my grandfather was coloured he loved this show and love thy neighbour he liked because he could see the bigger picture of two friends took the piss out each other and that's what life is these days you can't say boo to someone without offending someone

[@ianw1935]

The Good old days. Loved On the Buses.

[@colinwestwood921]

Its a randy life on the buses. What a superb comedy. Loved it.......my favourite character. Arthur..........he made the show.......no disrespect to the other brilliant artists. Simply outstanding.........times when you could have a loff without upsetting anyone....⭐🇬🇧👍🙋‍♂️. Now then........where's my time machine.....🙇‍♂️.

[@debbieanne7962]

I agree, loved Arthur!!!

[@simonwinter8839]

I've been working on the buses since I was seventeen back in 1974 .At the time of posting this comment I'm 64 and I'm still working as a bus driver. Back in the seventies when On the buses was made although it was a comedy it was like a documentary. Working on the actual buses was more true to the fiction ,complete with the comedy, than you might think. It's not the same nowadays but back in the seventies we got up to things that would make this programme/film look tame. I once used a bus as a removal lorry to move home !! Happy days !!

[@xanadudawn]

I was on the buses from 1975 to 1994. 3 different companies and I agree. Few would believe the fun we had, and the brilliant social life. I managed to stay a conductor all through, until they tried to force me to go driving then OPO. Went lorry driving then. For some reason bus driving never appealed

[@rayaspo4893]

They don’t make them like this anymore. Absolute quality and brilliantly cast.

[@annettefowler4704]

i agree with you!

[@colinwilliams553]

I never get tired of watching "on the buses" Such a classic British T.V show.I have the box set when it was available here in the states.Glad I got it.It was worth it.

[@leeatkin9583]

I find that also, even if the same Episode was on 8 weeks before, I still just watch it! Good times, the like we will never see again.

[@happyfeet4506]

Brilliant. No matter how many times you watch these there still brilliant

[@markc1990]

Loved watching this, watched On the buses repeats on ITV3 not long ago... Brilliant even 50 years on.

[@paulmartin4971]

Absolutely fantastic comedy. There's not a lot of shows that can still make you laugh out loud no matter how many times you watch it but this one can. Great times great cast.

[@mikehudson8884]

I never get tired of watching the On The Buses films, they're of a time and they're GREAT.

[@davescopes249]

In my opinion one of the funniest comedies ever and one of my favourite. Right up there with Only fools and horses and Rising damp. So funny. 🤣🤣🤣👍

[@N1cole.X]

Rip Anna Karen ❤️

[@leodurkin8539]

Still classics today and still pulling in viewer numbers

[@MegaGordyboy]

holiday on the buses is on itv 3 at this very moment.great cast ,people have forgotten how to laugh these days.

[@tombridge1225]

Been a fan since the beginning. Still watching them today, indeed, they are currently being screened on ITV3! Amazing.

[@jamesjackson-df1hi]

CLASSIC COMEDY FROM MY GROWING UP DAYS. SUCH GREAT MEMORIES.

[@mickharrison9004]

Again just like porridge and many more these were the great old days ,hard to describe in words just much better than these days .

[@paulwild3676]

Comparing OTB with Porridge? That is like comparing Crossroads with Boys from the Blackstuff.

[@luklukproductions]

So takes me back to my youth. My dad was a bus driver at the time. I remember reading that Reg Varney was the first person filmed using a cash machine. Happy memories.

[@vassabatielos4740]

Enfielid town

[@danw1374]

He was a great pianist as well.

[@Andy-wx4wx]

My dad was on the Birmingham buses between 50s & 80s so this is really nostalgic!

[@Andy-wx4wx]

Never heard Blakey with his normal voice, what a nice chap!

[@RABBITANDSNAIL]

A wonderful fella, down to earth and a very talented actor and writer too.

[@162sam]

Love On The Buses, they were all great but I have to admit that Reg Varney was and still is my favourite!!!!!

[@thecelticdruid.6681]

I'm very proud that Doris Hare spent her formative years in my home town of Bargoed, Wales.

[@will-wf6sb]

wow i didnt know that, just up the road from caerphilly., she was so good in o t buses.

[@thecelticdruid.6681]

@@will-wf6sb it's a well know fact, she lived in Bargoed in Factory Road by the viaduct until she was 7. It was mentioned in a documentary about her. Check it on her bio.

[@jackfoley5108]

Reg is a great actor love on the buses

[@stephenmiles8424]

this is a wonderfull video all these people who gave us so many laughs i have every series and treasure them god bless them and thank you

[@daddyd7351]

Thank you for a great watch. Fantastic memories of a great British institution. Brilliant 🙂💖

[@Uftonwood2]

What a world it was then, what star of today would drive the bus to the locations. Reg was an all-right decent man

[@mickharrison9004]

Them old double decker buses were nearly impossible to turn over ,so much weight at the bottom .

[@rangefourharry7226]

Best sitcom ever

[@sarahperry7431]

Love on the buses

[@GeorgeFairbrother]

A really enjoyable and fascinating piece. Thank you for sharing it with us.

[@chrimorhen4585]

Perhaps there could be a musical stage version of On the buses? Can't get enough

[@paulwild3676]

Kate Williams as the nurse in the film from Love thy neighbour. She was also in Widows in the 80s and Family Affairs, the Channel 5 Sitcom. A lot of jobbing actors. Also Queenie Watts and Arthur Mullard and Wilfred Bramble from Steptoe. A slice of British life long gone.,

[@mandysmith5275]

Love all off the on the buses 🤣🤣

[@neilgilbert369]

One of my favourite programs

[@trevorthompson7604]

I loved Reg Varney such an amazing character

[@nigel1823]

I absolutely love on the buses

[@garysmith291]

JUST FAB LOVE IT THE BEST. XXX

[@paperchain1239]

RIP Anna Karen.

[@peterkirgan6850]

Great casting absolutely brilliant In their day like are you being served? Dave Allen morcombe& wise Benny hill Kenny Everett the goodies love thy neighbor Blackadder bean etc the list goes on!!! I'll get you Butler !!!!

[@MrROTD]

I love this show even if it was before my time it was a real treat on CBC in Canada which mostly sucked.

[@janeeccleston9196]

Loved -Hammer House of Horrors as a kid -Come in from playing out and watched it with my nan from behind the settee

[@DRAINPIPE57]

Saw this brilliant and best Sitcom ever made recorded at LWT studios Tbis was soo funny

[@GeoffsPhilsInfo]

Thanks, this is a great talk about On the Buses, I can add this to my collection.

[@coleendoughty4948]

Sugar Bertie, Sugar Bertie, come in, Sugar Bertie!

[@robertparkes4982]

From the days when we still had a Country......

[@johnpolo4544]

Loved Olive.

[@user-lx5ue4wm5k]

RIP OLLIVE SADLY MISSED 😥

[@mariacrumble-hulme8674]

God Bless them all 🕊🙏😇✝️💔

[@jeremyhaines4481]

Brilliant love On The Buses

[@tonymoruzzi]

Debbie I agree with you entirely. You can’t analyse theses things too closely, just enjoy them.

[@annettefowler4704]

Thank you!

[@jimmac715]

Reg Varney actually took lessons and sat his PSV test so he could be seen to drive the buses for the show.

[@andyrob3259]

Stephen Lewis has hit the nail on the head: Comedy is Medicine. Many of today's so called 'woke comedians' that go round denigrating those that came before then ought to remember that as most of them are as funny as an enema.

[@chrisp2653]

So so sad to watch them age and see their health slowly decline. So grateful tho to see such a classic show on tv................ Thanks Guys

[@davidfrost779]

R.I.P Anna Karen

[@Uftonwood2]

What star of today would drive a bus to the filming locations? Reg was an all-right decent man.

[@neilmarktaylor4386]

Not seen this film in years

[@RABBITANDSNAIL]

It's a bit dated in some respects, but worth watching all the same.

[@wasntme20]

Those were the days when the actors and actresses the writers etc etc made us laugh didn’t have to worry about being politically correct real entertainment not like today where they think what they say is funny and laugh at their own jokes just to make the audience laugh and they worked hard back then on small salaries. RIP all our old timers who entertained us.

[@RABBITANDSNAIL]

It was a calssic TV series and three great films too. The first was the biggest British box office film of 1971.

[@barneyrubbles2485]

watching that show give me bad habbits< hopping on the bus for a free ride between STOPS, CHANGING THE BUS ROUTE SO PEOPLE WOULD MISS THERE BUS ALOT LMAO..

[@pikemeredith5604]

Great to see but weren't the buses green not red, that always confused me why that was. Reg Varney looked good right till the end dying at a remarkable 92.

[@michaelreed6849]

It is a sad reflection on our culture that people in the media always feel the need to ‘qualify’ their enjoyment of shows like ‘On the Buses’. The irony of them appearing in a documentary about a TV show still loved more than 50 years after it first aired, and making remarks about ‘thankfully’ things not being the same today, seems to be lost on them. The reason people enjoyed Stan and Jack ‘chasing birds’ in their 40s and 50s was precisely because it was ridiculous. That was the joke.

[@andyrob3259]

Yes I picked up on that. It gets tiring listening to them as if they are condescendingly looking down on everyone that found them funny and thereby seeing themselves are morally superior. The funny thing is shows like OTB are remembered fondly 50 years later - these 2 no one knows now - never mind in 50 years. And yes the joke was that we all knew in reality the young clippies would never really pay them attention. We knew they were 'dirty old men' .

[@DRAINPIPE57]

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[@bigfoot-g4i]

it wasn't reg varney who made on the buses, it was stephen lewis as inspector blake.

[@jnuttso1]

It is still funny today' it's just a bit of slap stick comedy, people take things to literally nowadays.

[@mashibinbin]

One more comment...get that DVD out! ;)

[@ronmccullock1407]

Reg drove buses in the TV series and had a PSV License

[@sambwoy3]

I think I had Carry On Confidential which Morris co-wrote. It pains me to part with it, but had to make ruthless sacrifices in my clearout. Hoping it will find a good home to a Crry On aficionado

[@blackcountrywalker]

It's sad that you can't make stereotype based comedies on everyday life, lifestyles and political comments of the day. because everyone gets to offended these days, but back then everyone laughed at everything and no one took anything too serious. but if you watch these british comedy films of the 1970s they are a brilliant social record of britian at those times. it was grim but people still laughed it all away.

[@slyfox1157]

ELSTREE STUDIOS is in the middle of Borehamwood so it was made in Borehamwood

[@bernadettecampbell8929]

R i p olive

[@demon27dan]

Great video, but a shame you had to repeat the oft-told myth about the first 'On The Buses' film beating' Diamonds Are Forever' at the UK box office in 1971. I mean, technically it's true, but 'Diamonds Are Forever' was only released in London on December 14th and then nationwide on December 30th! It had only been at cinemas across the country for one day!! 'On The Buses' was released in July of the year, so it's a bit cheeky to compare it to a film that had only been out for a single day. The total gross of 'Diamonds Are Forever' far dwarfed what 'On The Buses' took.

[@peterkirgan6850]

Only good thing about diamond's are forever was the music!! Shirley bassey!!!!! The movie itself was bs!!!!!

[@clairemooney3969]

On. The. Buses. Is. The. Best. Comedy. Ever. Better. Than. The. Rubbish. Of. Today.

[@peterkirgan2921]

I'll get u Butler ! U & arper!!

[@bokhans]

Question from a foreigner: why wasn’t there a proper budgets on these very popular movies. I know the Carry on movies was super budget and here they talk about On the Buses being the same, super budget.

[@jessiejames7492]

i saw that recruitment poster. anyone knows how much these busmen were paid in those days a month?

[@donmackay7610]

Spencer Moon! Youre aving a Giraffe! (Larf) Know what I mean Spencer?

[@markpaulo269]

misery and gloom 😂😂😂

[@29brendus]

"thankfully it's different now"...I mean, who is that guy?

[@bbutton]

With the amount of location footage on these three films, they just scream to be released on Blu-Ray!

[@tonyhancock9671]

Something not right. Varney said he trained in Australia to drive buses, the bald chap is saying they did it in the studio. I'm pretty sure that was the case.

[@adrinathegreat3095]

£75-£80,000 next to nothing to make in 1971.. A 3 bedroom house cost about £4000. Allowing for inflation that's about 1-1.2 million in today's money. All filmed nearby, no long distance location shots. So about 90% of that money was the actors wages. So it was an expensive for the time cheap movie.

[@martinburke362]

The truth about on the buses was it was a snap shot of British working class life, alas no more!!

[@paulwild3676]

Spot on. Stan giving his wage to his Mother.

[@martinburke362]

@@paulwild3676 one of my favourite, was Stan and Arthur arguing at breakfast time about who had been given the biggest sausage😂😂

[@macca1146]

It was a not miss comedy when i was a kid, i don't even possess a tv today that's how bad tv is today, political correctness has killed comedy especially on tv.

[@timbayliss4153]

I reckon if Inspector Blake had been the real "Hitler" as he was called, he would have been a nicer Hitler. Although the real Hitler is an enigmatic person. Before he persecuted certain people and invaded Poland, he apparently banned fox hunting, got all the trains on time, and won a democratic election. He was also a corporal and a painter, so he should have stuck to those things maybe, to be a nicer person, or only made gay people wear pink triangles, to protect one another.

[@ideaphile]

Could have done without the woke commentary. It was all good and remains all good! Understanding context is key!

[@johnrroberts7900]

7:51- Yes, thankfully it's different now with entertainment. Where ladies can appear on an island, sweating, red-faced and not made up, stinking from lack of proper hygiene, freely letting the F-word rip, with witty humour not being in their repertoire anything making them laugh has to be churlish or R-rated, talking about their sanitary products and how many other women they've bedded. Is it any wonder men are turning away.

[@MisterAndrewBuckley]

Louis Walsh has lost his accent 😁

[@TokyoJoe703]

@Wendy Williams Think he’s referring to that fella on the left at 01:27

[@chamkaur1160]

Preferred alf garnet, Bernard manning, and love thy neighbour

[@tonybernard9826]

Reg vardy cudnt drive a bus he didn’t pass his test,, he tried to pass his test so he cud do 😂all the driving scenes, snd he didn’t pass all driving was done by a stunt double

[@bigtwit799]

I was very keen on the sexism. I still am but the woke PC brigade will get on my case! FACT!

[@faystalker5711]

Love on the buses