On The Buses - Series 1

Starring: Michael Robbins, Reg Varney Dvd Release: 20th February, 2006 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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On The Buses was a British sitcom created by Ronald Wolfe & Ronald Chesney. The pair had already had successes with The Two Ronnies, The Rag Trade & Meet The Wife for the BBC. The BBC rejected this offering & so the pair turned to ITV. The show was accepted & although the critics disliked it, the show was a huge hit with the viewers. In the series Stan Butler works as a bus driver for the Luxton & District Bus Company. He lives at home with his bingo loving, widowed & overbearing mother, his frumpy sister Olive & his lazy brother in law Arthur. The bane of Stans life is Inspector Blakey Blake who is often checking up of them & threatening them with the sack for lateness & untidyness. His catchphrase is I ate you Butler!. On The Buses was a primetime ITV sitcom & 74 half-hour episodes were made. Also popular were the spin-off feature films made by Hammer. Holiday On The Buses was Britains top box-office film at the time, surpassing even the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever.

Michael Robbins was a British actor known for his television work. Formerly a bank clerk, he became an actor after appearing in Amateur Dramatic performances. Primarily a comedy actor, he is best known for the role of Arthur Rudge in the popular sitcom On the Buses. This led to spin-offs & film roles in the same character. His other comedy credits include non-recurring roles in One Foot in the Grave The New Statesman & You Rang, MLord?. His straight roles included parts in some of the major British television shows of the 1970s including Minder, The Sweeney. Z Cars, The Avengers, Dixon of Dock Green & the Doctor Who story The Visitation. He died of cancer.

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