Uncredited: Four workers playing cards behind the pallets. Grant is on the left and nearest the camera. The other three card players were played by David Lodge, Keith Smith, and Kenneth J. Warren Watson, Albert (10 May 1975). "Off the buses and on to the milk float". Newcastle Evening Chronicle. p.5. ISSN 0960-3573 . Retrieved 5 April 2021– via British Newspaper Archive. Here We Go Again!: After Susy leaves him, Stan falls in love with Gloria and proposes to her, starting up the trouble of having to save up for a flat all over again.

Byrne, Dymphna (19 December 1978). "Anna's Jolly Bus Ride to Success". The Birmingham Post . Retrieved 18 June 2021. Grant had by now started to make film appearances, including Sparrows Can't Sing (1963), [9] [b] and the film version of Till Death Us Do Part (1969). [11] [c] He returned to the Theatre Royal, Stratford, in 1967, and starred in the satirical play Mrs Wilson's Diary as George Brown, the Foreign Secretary in Harold Wilson's Labour government; this play later transferred to the West End. [12] After George Brown's resignation from the Government on 15 March 1968, [13] the character of George Brown was switched with Barbara Castle, as the plot required a cabinet minister. [14] Grant, Bob (26 January 1959). Quatermass and the Pit — Hob ( Television). BBC. Event occurs at 2 minutes 12 seconds. Archived from the original on 10 March 2020 . Retrieved 5 April 2021. Has been electrocuted Walters, Matthew (March 1986). "On the Air". Plays and Players. No.390. London: Brevet Publishing Limited. p.40. ISSN 0032-1559. OCLC 2243805. Walker, Craig (2009). On the Buses: The Complete Story. Apex Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-906358-69-3.Among the best scenes were the cat-fight between Olive and 'Nymphie Norah' ( a clippie who Arthur seems to have a thing going with, played by Pat Asthon ), which culminates in Norah getting a jug of water tipped over her head by Mrs. Butler, a botched fire drill at the depot in which the whole depot is engulfed in foam, Stan reversing into the bus company's new van, crushing it like a beer can and Olive falling off of Arthur's bike and down a manhole. The film's catchy theme tune was an accordion arrangement composed by Ron Grainer.

Arthur loses his job and Stan trains him to become a bus driver, which creates more problems than benefits for the family; Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly (1970) Sexy, immature teenager Girly (Vanessa Howard) and her camera-wielding brother Sonny (Howard Trevor) bring home unsuspecting bums and hippies to… Stan's usual buses, AVW399F and AEV811F, are both still extant; one is in Lille, France, the other in Los Angeles, California. [4] Following the tremendous success of the first On The Buses feature film,Hammer put out this sequel that made it to No. 17 in the Box Office top 20 of 1972. Holiday On The Buses followed in 1973. The title was chosen via a competition in The Sun newspaper, which offered a cash prize to whoever came up with the best and it went to - guess who? - a bus driver! I am ashamed to say that there were actually parts of this film that I laughed at. I don't know if it was because I was now familiar with the characters and enjoyed some of the situations, knowing how they would react. I found Blakey particularly funny, although I could swear at no point in the trilogy does he say his catchphrase, "I'll get you Butler".

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Grant started to write his first note to Kim, intending her to receive it after he had killed himself. "Tears streamed down my face as I wrote", he recalled. After hours of pounding the streets of Birmingham, Grant instead caught the ferry to Dublin, "It was a horrible night on that boat", he continued. "I'd been to Dublin before and it seemed such a nice place. I wanted to end it all, either by jumping in the River Liffey or ironically under a bus." Grant stayed at a guesthouse in Dublin to think things over. He called Kim, but there was no answer; she was at the time filming an appeal to find him. On the strength of the appeal, Grant eventually returned to England, where his absence had caused a small stir, which allowed him to gain a few more acting jobs. [21] [22] Madeleine Mills and Sandra Miller as the inspector's niece. She was played twice by Mills and twice by Miller. In her first two appearances, she and Stan are in a relationship; in the second they are engaged, but split up after a tea party at Stan's house. In her third appearance she married Bill, a bus driver at the depot. She also appeared in the episode "The New Nurse". Peter Waymark. "Richard Burton top draw in British cinemas." Times [London, England] 30 Dec. 1971: 2. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 11 July 2012. The fire in the depot was all Stan's fault. If he never got fish and chips on duty and tried to hide them on the bus' engine, they would've never caught alight, while if he never decided to throw them into the inspection pit, the fire wouldn't have broken out.

Despite the popularity of On the Buses with sections of the public, TV reviewers and historians have generally held the show in lower regard. [7] In its section on situation comedies, The Guinness Book of Classic British TV describes On the Buses as ITV's "longest running and most self-consciously unfunny series". [7] TV reviewer Victor Lewis-Smith later criticised the then head of London Weekend Television, Frank Muir, for green-lighting the programme, which Lewis-Smith called "the wretched On the Buses". [8] The Daily Telegraph journalist Max Davidson, discussing 1970s British comedy, listed On the Buses as one of the "unfunny sitcoms of the time", [9] while The Guardian 's David Stubbs referred to On the Buses as "a byword for 70s sitcom mediocrity". [10] Windsor, Barbara (2000). All of Me: My Extraordinary Life. Headline Book Publishing. p.165. ISBN 978-0-7472-7007-2. Marriott, Anthony; Grant, Bob (1978). Darling Mr. London: a farce. London: Samuel French. ISBN 978-0-573-11113-6. OCLC 1038431648. a b The Guinness Book of Classic British TV, by Paul Cornell, Martin Day and Keith Topping, second edition. Guinness Publishing Ltd., 1996 (p.66). Despite Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross, comedy still needs to risk giving offence" Daily Telegraph, 1 November 2008. Retrieved 20 March 2014.

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Lady Drunk: While Arthur gets friendly with Nymphy Norah, Olive and Mrs. Butler get very drunk to help Olive get over her sadness. The film was made on location and at Elstree Studios at Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. [8] Stage 5 at Elstree was used for the exteriors of the bus station both in this film and in the later sequels. [9]

If Stan didn't try to show off the emergency door to Susy, he would've never broken the handle and so the bus would've never been able to get a lion onboard. This not only costs Stan a raise in pay but also the bus company a large revenue stream. All There in the Script: Another one of the clippies' names isn't given in the film but is given in the credits as "Gladys". Theatre Royal, Carfax, Horsham". West Sussex County Times. 1 May 1953. p.4. OCLC 469839222 . Retrieved 15 May 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.

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The screenplay is by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney. It’s a terrible film and the comedy is crueller and more bitter than the TV series ever was. Shortly after 22:30 GMT on 22 February 2022, the London Fire Brigade were called to a fire at Karen's Ilford home, where she was pronounced dead at the scene. She was 85. [36] [5] [37] Metropolitan Police said her death was not suspicious and later concluded that the fire started after she fell asleep with a lit cigarette. [29] Stan's usual buses, AVW 399F and AEV 811F, are both still extant; one is in Lille, France, the other in Los Angeles, California.