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There was always something faintly dirty about On The Buses--and not just the humour, which was simply more of the polite strand of "blue" that British audiences had come to expect in the mid-1970s. It was the whole look: grey and miserable. And the setting: a dismal suburban bus depot, and an equally decrepit family home. Or perhaps it had something to do with Olive, and her lank greasy hair, and the knowing leer of Jack, Stan's lecherous fellow conductor and partner-in-crime. A working-class comedy, one step up from the Beckett-like squalor of Steptoe And Son, it starred Reg Varney as Butler, a larrikin bus conductor with a hopeless romantic track record, and Stephen Lewis as "Blakey", the inspector who tries valiantly to bring him undone. Like most British comedies of the 70s, the entire series --all 74 episodes!--was essentially built around four jokes: The Blakey Joke (the lads play a prank which results in Blakey suffering some horrific injury, and uttering his timeless catchphrase, "Oi 'ate you, Butler!"); The Olive Joke (husband Arthur commenting wryly on her ugliness); The Canteen Joke (Blakey's cost-cutting results in the canteen's closure); and The Clippie Joke (Jack pulls a bird). Fractional variations on these basic themes provided hours of distinctly un-PC fun for viewers of all ages. Look back in wonder. --Andrew McGuire
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Four comical episodes from the 1970s TV comedy series. 'Going Steady', 'The New Uniforms', 'Brew It Yourself' and 'The Cistern'.
There was always something faintly dirty about On The Buses--and not just the humour, which was simply more of the polite strand of "blue" that British audiences had come to expect in the mid-1970s. It was the whole look: grey and miserable. And the setting: a dismal suburban bus depot, and an equally decrepit family home. Or perhaps it had something to do with Olive, and her lank greasy hair, and the knowing leer of Jack, Stan's lecherous fellow conductor and partner-in-crime. A working-class comedy, one step up from the Beckett-like squalor of Steptoe And Son, it starred Reg Varney as Butler, a larrikin bus conductor with a hopeless romantic track record, and Stephen Lewis as "Blakey", the inspector who tries valiantly to bring him undone. Like most British comedies of the 70s, the entire series --all 74 episodes!--was essentially built around four jokes: The Blakey Joke (the lads play a prank which results in Blakey suffering some horrific injury, and uttering his timeless catchphrase, "Oi 'ate you, Butler!"); The Olive Joke (husband Arthur commenting wryly on her ugliness); The Canteen Joke (Blakey's cost-cutting results in the canteen's closure); and The Clippie Joke (Jack pulls a bird). Fractional variations on these basic themes provided hours of distinctly un-PC fun for viewers of all ages. Look back in wonder. --Andrew McGuire
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Four comical episodes from the 1970s TV comedy series. 'Going Steady', 'The New Uniforms', 'Brew It Yourself' and 'The Cistern'.
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