[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e9/Onthebuses.jpg[/img]
Stan Butler (Reg Varney) works as a bus driver for the Luxton & District Traction Company. He lives with his smothering, fatuously sentimental widowed mother (Cicely Courtneidge, later Doris Hare from series 2),
his frumpy and whiny sister Olive Rudge (Anna Karen), and his lazy, hypocritical brother-in-law Arthur Rudge (Michael Robbins).
The bane of Stan's life is Inspector Cyril "Blakey" Blake (Stephen Lewis), who is often checking up on him and his conductor and friend, the cheerful, bucktoothed Jack Harper (Bob Grant). Blakey often threatens them with the sack for lateness and he sports a toothbrush moustache,
implying the image of Adolf Hitler. His long black mac style coat resembles an ominous cape, earning Blakey his nickname, Dracula. Blakey constantly referred to Stan and Jack as "twits", "morons" and his memorable catchprases were "I 'ate you Butler!" (and "That's made my day, that 'as." when something went his way) and "I'll get you for this Butler, you see if I don't". But when Stan moved to the Midlands he changed to "I'll get you for this Harper, you see if I don't".
In later years, the cast changed. Arthur left the series when actor Michael Robbins returned to the London stage to star with Tom Courtenay in Time and Time Again Later, Stan also left the series, Olive took a job with the bus company and Inspector Blake was evicted from his home and decides to take lodgings at the Butler house.
[u][b] Characters[/b][/u]
[b]Blakey[/b]
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The inspector everyone under appreciates.
[b]Stan[/b]
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The main character.
[b]Jack[/b]
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The one on the right Stans best bud.
[u][b]Videos[/b][/u]
The new conductor part 1.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vivzwnDSRSM&feature=related[/media]
The new conductor part 2.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqAfoQv6MLk&feature=related[/media]
The new conductor part 3.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibap9IHJr0Q&feature=related[/media]
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Can't find any other pictures of the Family characters
This, Hale and Pace, and Are you being Served? are great examples of comedy. More shows need to be like these.
I'm currently watching it all the way through
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