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On the Buses - The Early Shift
episode 1.1
UK 1969
produced by Stuart Allen for London Weekend Television/ITV
directed by Stuart Allen
starring Reg Varney, Cicely Courtneidge, Michael Robbins, Anna Karen, Bob Grant, Stephen Lewis, Fraser Kerr, Rudolph Walker, John M. East, Kevin Moore, Michael Slater
written by Ronald Wolfe, Ronald Chesney
TV series On the Buses
review by Mike Haberfelner
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It's an early morning for bus driver Stan (Reg Varney), and he makes
sure that he lets everybody in his household, his mum (Cicely
Courtneidge), his sister Olive (Anna Karen) and her husband Arthur
(Michael Robbins) how little he thinks of it. But what's really getting to
him is that he'll miss going to the canteen as he's on duty during opening
hours. And the strict inspector of the bus station (Stephen Lewis) sees to
it that he doesn't eat in the warm cabin of his bus either - which is when
his conductor Jack (Bob Grant) intervenes in his favour - and before you
know it the drivers and conductors have organized a strike. And somehow
Stan becomes the hero of the strike, as he's pretty much forced to lay
down in front of a bus the inspectors try to operate on their own. So the
canteen has longer opening hours now - only that now the cantine personnel
goes on strike ... Nothing special but a rather amusing
workplace comedy, and while most of the characters are little more than
caricatures (at least in this first episode), they work well and work well
together. Basically an amusing trip down memory lane.
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