It's strange how the atmosphere of this programme reminds me of coming home for tea after a long day

@wolfpackiwi

6 күн бұрын

That's when I watch it. After work for a few hours while eating my tea. It's the best time

53 years ago werr do the years go?All these actors have all passed now so sad that we don't get comedy like this in 2024...when am down i watch this it always makes me laugh..

what a laugh😂😂best SITCOM EVER, STILL IN 2023

@jameswalker7459

3 ай бұрын

2024 now brilliant entertainment wish they brought it back to our TV sets.

@BlueEcho-

5 күн бұрын

@@jameswalker7459 They did show it on a uk channel ITV plus one i think but they had edited it so much it was rubbish ! all the funny bits cut out ffs 😡 I live in Spain but get uk channels and i was disgusted the uk rules everything.. what we eat ( taking sugar etc out of stuff we love), what we say, and what we watch and laugh at.. people dont realise how controlling the uk is now.. 😊 x

Loved this show since I was a kid. I’m 64 now.

@gazzertrn

28 күн бұрын

Me too same age . Hated it at the time , but how i missed out . Great too watch it now , fantastic programme .

@heath2510ok

27 күн бұрын

Me too same age

@smithpm81

24 күн бұрын

i am 58 and i still love it sooooo much

@jandedick7519

22 күн бұрын

Me too but I’m 61.

@BlueEcho-

5 күн бұрын

Its just a number, if you can laugh at stuff like this then you got more spark and life in you than these dried up kids of 16 today…❤

RIP Anna Karen. Died February 2022 aged 85

Great stuff miss the old days

Brilliant how tv should be

We always watched this as a family in the 70s. Great old show.

This was a great show, with such wonderful actors. Can't get enough of it and love the movies too. Pure class.

@nigel1823

Жыл бұрын

I only wish they made stuff like this nowadays

@pisstakecentral

Жыл бұрын

@@nigel1823 impossible to recapture the humanity in a broken world today

@eliotreader8220

Жыл бұрын

@@pisstakecentral I am a bit surprised to hear the cast talking about old money given how close the UK was to go over to the new money

@Neville60001

Жыл бұрын

@@pisstakecentral, don't be stupid; this sitcom wasn't that highly regarded in England to begin with, and is considered one of the worst British sitcoms ever (although I liked it when I saw it here in Canada as a kid.) Nobody would make a show like it today because of how dated most of the humour is and how sexist it is.

@johnchurch4705

Жыл бұрын

@@eliotreader8220 in later episodes ( 1971) they start to use new money 💴 and display the new costs in the canteen.

Essential part of the golden era of British comedy.

Better days!!

Love it the old films happiness filled nothing to laugh at today is orful

Canadian here! A favourite from my childhood. I used to watch it with my dad, good memories.

@EmmaJo-e

7 ай бұрын

🇨🇦

“Never mind about your teapot mate. You want to come and see what they done to your bus.” Always love that line

@allanjoseph5601

4 ай бұрын

I know what you mean. That line was probably one of the funniest lines in any comedy throughout the entire history of television. Just superb!

Great scripts and memorable characters. Can't ask for more.

sad to hear that all the cast are now gone

So glad ifound this so glad IAM British the best of the best UK comedy 😂

Perfect humor! What a time that was!👍💞😘

@Curi0u50ne

4 ай бұрын

Less urope ians and Muzlamics

@user-vg5rv5xf4u

25 күн бұрын

OI! WHAT U ON ABOUT EH?

I can’t get enough of this show , Some of the best I have ever seen ever!

@davehelgason4548

10 ай бұрын

U😊0

Just love what we grew up in, them were the days. Getting old now 👎 but this cheers me up 😂

@suzannemills7920

Жыл бұрын

Same here 🤗

The best of British comedy 😅

I remember when I lived in Birmingham during the nineties you couldn’t get a bus at all on Xmas day , so we used to stop over whoever’s place we had the Xmas party at .👍👍

@Westy1971

2 жыл бұрын

You still can't!

@AnthonySmith-fv5iv

2 жыл бұрын

Hello from Handsworth 🤗

@flight101

2 жыл бұрын

its still like that now in cornwall... but all year round.. glad i left that dump

@susanmccormick6022

Жыл бұрын

@@flight101 I take exception to your comments about Cornwall.I made a bad decision yrs ago & now will never get back to the West Country.Kernow Kensa.

@ernestarthurst9090

Жыл бұрын

Birmingham is a horrible city.

I'm Dutch and have many of the episodes on DVD. First saw it in here in the Netherlands in the seventies were it was a big hit. Always found that Arthur and Olive should have a series of their own. To me they are the funniest in the series.

@COLEEN322

2 жыл бұрын

Very true.

@flight101

2 жыл бұрын

they are.. stan was aggravating, hate him, bad manners and always making the same old jokes while looking round at everyone as if tu say '. ' ,laugh at my shit jokes

@helencampbell2064

2 жыл бұрын

Aristolelezz : I found Olive and Arthur really funny too. I thought Blakey was too exaggerated. Didn't really like the bus garage stuff that much. Preferred the scenes in the family kitchen with mum, Stan, Olive and Arthur. Salesmen always rang the front bell whereas Jack always came in through the back door into the cosy kitchen. I remember as a child that friends and neighbours always entered the house via the back door which was never locked 😃.

@Aristotelezz

2 жыл бұрын

@@helencampbell2064 You always wonder why Olive and Arthur were married in the first place. What made them do it? There's no love between them, but Olive is nice to Arthur, but everything about her angers him.

@helencampbell2064

2 жыл бұрын

@@Aristotelezz I suppose couples often drift apart and fall out of love. As you know the series was set in the 1970s and ordinary working class people rarely got divorced. Couples often stayed in a stale marriage. Arthur doesn't seem happy. He's always miserable. Olive still loves him a little though. Anna Karen played the short sighted, dim and frumpy housewife very well. After years of marriage, she has let herself go. I do, as a child, remember women who looked exactly like Olive. Arthur is awful. A complete chauvinist, rude and socially inexperienced. No charisma whatsoever. He doesn't know how to treat women and yet, as a tv couple, both were hilarious😄. All the family gatherings seemed to be centered around the table in the very cluttered kitchen. Britain in a bygone era. Great stuff.

Whilst other kids in the 90s were watching cartoons, I was watching this!

@suzannemills7920

Жыл бұрын

Me to 😁

@vykkye

Жыл бұрын

Same. I was watching alf garnett before I was in double digits. I was born old lol

@michellefalleur960

6 ай бұрын

​@@vykkye Good on you !!

@chucky2316

4 ай бұрын

Alf is the best

I used watch this my dad bless him. 🙏🏼 Bring back some memories.

Golden age, of British comedy.

I wish there had been a full Christmas Special. Or even a Christmas Movie And always cook the turkey upside down till the last half hour! Won’t dry out .

I just heard that Anna Karen passed away in a house fire. Damn I'm sad

@petergerritgroen3157

Жыл бұрын

Yes, life sucks.

@johnchurch4705

Жыл бұрын

My friend conducted the funeral 😢.

@fishandchips1762

Жыл бұрын

​@@johnchurch4705 😟

I love British comedy! I love British people!

@wilmaflinstone7650

Жыл бұрын

We love you too Karen Joslyn. You have great taste as well. 👍👍👍

@karenjoslyn4051

Жыл бұрын

@@wilmaflinstone7650 c'mon over and visit us in Wine Country in upstate NY!!

@retrobilly1986

Жыл бұрын

The other question would be, how did Stan get to work in the first place

@compostcorner5934

9 ай бұрын

​@@retrobilly1986Bus 🤣

loved this show over here in Canada

Christmas Day 1970 landed on a Friday, this meant that London Weekend Television who made On The Buses controlled the network output from 7pm on Christmas night, as it was a Friday. This is why On The Buses got a Christmas Day slot. It was given a 8.30pm slot, however it was up against Morecambe and Wise on BBC One, with Eric and Ernie beating them by a large margin in the ratings.

@jr7845

6 ай бұрын

Never cared for Morecombe and wise

@cathymartens7478

16 күн бұрын

​@@jr7845I loved them. Eric looked like my dad😂

@BlueEcho-

5 күн бұрын

@@jr7845i vaguely recall them later on as they were before my time but i never thought them funny at all..bumbling idiots.

Old good old class British people in a good old class British show.. rip

Don't think I have ever seen this episode. Love on the buses. Cannot beat British comedy.

@helencampbell2064

2 жыл бұрын

You certainly can't beat the great situation comedy of yesterday. Olive makes me laugh. She often seems to be yelling and screaming. You can't mistake her voice.

@debbieanne7962

Жыл бұрын

I'm not British but yes their comedy is astounding

I remember watching this back in the 70's. Still love it.

Love this Christmas episode. Happy Christmas everyone 🌲🎅🎄🍺🍷

@flight101

Жыл бұрын

I loved xmas but sadly can’t do it anymore. I have such terrrianxiety/ heart palpitations I never leave my bed.. been here 4 years . I used to love xmas shopping, the xmas songs etc.. etc😢😢😢😢 merry xmas anyway

@beverlygannon4141

Жыл бұрын

@@flight101 awww sorry. I get like it too❤️🙏

@suzannemills7920

Жыл бұрын

So sorry to hear that 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@flight101

Жыл бұрын

@@beverlygannon4141 oh bless. Just seen your reply, it’s horrible, like a demon. I stayed in bed all xmas checking my pulse etc. i miss life.. 😢 are you ok. Xx

@flight101

Жыл бұрын

@@suzannemills7920 thank you so much.. 😢 restores my faith in people when someone is nice to me. Just closed my TikTok account as I was bullied. Sending 🤗 xx❤

Merry xmas everyone in 2023😂

Like all great comedy every one of them is a character. Never fails to make me laugh.

Really enjoy these episodes life seemed so much easier in some ways ....🙂

@flight101

8 ай бұрын

Nobody was bothered about social media and all the invading my personal space rubbish.. i refuse to become like Americans.. x

Love these old classics There is different sense of comedy in each decade every episode made I’ll get you Butler you see I don’t 😮

Thanks Matt Spanner! I've never seen this one before!

@10beanz

3 жыл бұрын

Me neither. Never watched the b/w ones, and not sure if they ever got repeated.

As a bus driver I can confirm this to be true

Love how the episode included a commercial for the On the Buses bus toy.

Never the same after Reg Varney left the series..

@BlueEcho-

22 күн бұрын

I hated the sleazy git but youre right. Same with Benidorm when the took the Garveys out.

Love this series today as I did back when I was in primary school.

I think Arthur’s character was truly brilliant 🎉 I love his attitude towards Olive 😂 lol , he was my favourite 😂

@flight101

9 ай бұрын

And mine ! It was awful when he left, Olive went all normal after and totally changed character.

@vanessalouise8988

5 ай бұрын

​@@flight101if Olive had been a beautiful 😍 woman she got a another man after Arthur had left and divorce her because she wasn't beautiful you never saw her going on dates.

@edgein7892

5 ай бұрын

@@vanessalouise8988 Using beautiful and Olive in the same sentence, just wow 😁

@vanessalouise8988

5 ай бұрын

Arthur was a horrible husband 🙄 he always kept mocking Olive he was hardly perfect himself he wouldn't have been allowed now to say those things about her now 😡 Olive couldn't see he faults they never spent time together alone they always were stuck in that house 🏡 with olive mother and brother Stan.

@allanjoseph5601

4 ай бұрын

You do realise this show and the characters in it, are fictional right? 😂

I need a time machine to go bk them days 🎉🎉🎉

@pinkfloyd870

6 күн бұрын

believe me... you don't

Thanks Matt

I wish they had done longer "Christmas specials"

@SamuelBlack84

Жыл бұрын

Considering they were filmed in October they had plenty of time

@suzannemills7920

Жыл бұрын

Me to

@michellefalleur960

6 ай бұрын

Yes

Awesome show!!

“We didn’t need one then, did we Arthur”? “No”! You brought your hot water bottle!😂😂😂 I loved Arthur and Olive.

@helencampbell2064

Жыл бұрын

If only all married couples were as funny and as likeable as Arthur and Olive were😅. Hilarious 🤣

Thank you for sharing, love this show🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🦘😃😀

No political correctness. No woke. Gor Blimey bleedin' marvellous. Blinding! 👉🇬🇧👈

All my family love to watch this even after all this time 🎉 ❤manchester England 🇬🇧 🎉

Those days life was so easy

@joemcconnell2674

6 ай бұрын

If you lived in Northern Ireland it wasn't.

@joemcconnell2674

6 ай бұрын

Visit Belfast and Northern Ireland. People live there told me life is a lot easier now than it was in the seventies and eighties.

@SeeYouEnTee666

6 ай бұрын

And..?? I bet loads of places might say that 🤷‍♀️

Bring back on the buses. Especially this one on xmas day. I love all the guys in the programme. I was only 8 years old when this one came on the tv every Sunday. Happy Christmas to all you guys on this website.

@edgein7892

Жыл бұрын

Not a chance sadly, not in this pc society.

@beverlygannon4141

Жыл бұрын

Happy Christmas and New year to you 👍

@joemcconnell2674

6 ай бұрын

Thankfully ITV3 still shows them. But the way things are today they show them in the small hours.

@jr7845

6 ай бұрын

​@@joemcconnell2674 with 65 adverts

@SamuelBlack84

21 күн бұрын

Steptoe still gets shown on TV, and it comes with a warning 😄

Awesome upload Matt. Nice to see this great episode in colour!

@alexlazebat839

3 ай бұрын

i think the colour a bit rubbish as the rest of this series was in colour plus the previous series we know wat the actors wear wat colour things are more likely to be

Absolute classic viewing 👌

Funny enough I am working this Xmas so I really enjoyed this episode

I was just about to post a complaint about the poor quality sound - and then I realised this episode is 52 years old! Sounding good, I reckon! "I 'ate you Butler". xx

Happy Christmas 🎄 2022 to all in the world 🌎. Great to watch this episode 😀

Another Canadian here.

Magical thanks ... But I wonder why mum didn't stay at home to look after the grub!

Happy 2023 new year to everybody

Great.love this programme but never seen this episode before.thanks.

As a night security officer across the pond I can appreciate working on Christmas. I haven't had a Christmas or Thanksgiving off in almost a decade. Working 1900-0700 Christmas Eve and Christmas this year. What is this "paid time off" I've heard so much about? LOL.

@mchlbk

Ай бұрын

I loved working on Christmas. New Years too.

@BaronFeydRautha

Ай бұрын

@@mchlbk Don't get me wrong. I like the OT pay and all. I just didn't realize how many holidays I've missed in the past decade. I love night shift. I'm on the west coast of Florida and I watch all the launches from the East Coast on the roof of the 5 story building I work in. I just have to put the building's property manager in his place. Dingus is getting a bit too big for his britches.

@konewone361

Ай бұрын

I know what you mean. In the industry I was on it was a 24/7 365 days of the year business. Depending on the roster you either worked it or had it off. Usually worked out you got about 1 in 4 off. Just part of life. I enjoyed the job so never really worried about it. Good on pay day too. Retired after 30 plus years .😊

Really enjoying this episode. Thank you for posting this video. I love On the Buses its one of my favourite ever sitcoms. I have the 3 films and the boxset of the series. Very funny

@lauriemcphee1971

7 ай бұрын

Lynn Mcphee and Baby boy zak and I will get back to you and you can see the year of the university of time to be in touch with you 😀😀 I am so sorry 😐😐 I have a great day and U can you uuru you have 💘 on a bit late for you to get the same as I was in the year and I am 😂😂 I t know the rest 😉😊😊😊

Thanks for upload 👌love this show ❤️

Thank you. I have reasons to love OTB that aren't worth going into here, but thank you. I love what you have done here. I honestly, really appreciate seeing these episodes like this. Thank you. This series means a lot to me.

@flight101

2 жыл бұрын

see what a great comment.. no sentimental crap and an essay to read.. glad this has good memories for you

@johnandrade3773

2 жыл бұрын

Dearly held memories. I understand.

@nigel1823

Жыл бұрын

This ended before I was born but I’m glad my Nan used to watch it and even though she’s gone we both watched

@vykkye

Жыл бұрын

Same here. I'm young and have the best memories with my nan watching these x

@mikegallagher3700

8 күн бұрын

Me ad all my family friends All watch OTB regularly Absolutely brilliant written By r.wolfe + r Chesney Love from Manchester England 🇬🇧 ❤🎉❤🎉

Great show the last of the cast of died Anna Karen

Loved em then even more now,gr8 cast,loved em all but Blakey did it for me every time👌💋god bless em all,🙏😍👌😘

As much as I adore this show I can't but think that Jacks breath must have been rough as hell. Between those teeth and the cig smoke. Yikes

@BlueEcho-

6 ай бұрын

And stan never ever washed or bathed, bet he stank to high heaven..that greasy hair n his filthy underpants. Olive and the mq

Love on buses so funny

Brilliant. Loved this show back in the day and still do !

Great show.A reminder of a different time👍!

This is sad episode as Anna Karen died in a fire. ☹️☹️☹️☹️

brilliant matt looks great in colour

This is a great comedy show from the 70s. Thanks for the uploads matt

@beverlygannon4141

Жыл бұрын

70s was so great. All the shows too. Crap now

@lindarowe8550

Жыл бұрын

@@beverlygannon4141 absolutely right

Thank you x

this has been considerd by some sexist .but it goes two ways. Olive is always talking about Arthur, his bald head ,and how he could not perform. It always made me giggle🤣

@SamuelBlack84

2 жыл бұрын

It was the time they were made too

@flight101

2 жыл бұрын

Never hurt anyone, male or female to say it how it is... Olive was a greedy lazy pig. Stan was a mummys boy who was terrified of women and Jack was fantastic

@jr7845

6 ай бұрын

But they way the treat women, and the inappropriate comments are awful, I remember those days myself

@colincarroll7954

6 ай бұрын

Arthur had a vasectomy but it couldn't be mentioned then.

@colincarroll7954

6 ай бұрын

Blakey the dim witted inspector. Sex mad Jack Harper the conductor and Driver Stan Butler. All the cast are now departed.

outstanding show

Thanks ☺

Love on the buses watch it on ITV 3 met reg varney years ago when I was working as a security guard I was looking after a car show room on Xmas day a jaguar turned up I went out to open the gate the car drove in the car door opened it was reg varney 😲😲😲😲😲 he said are you here on your own m8 I said yes reg he went back to his car went to the boot opened it and pulled out 2 bags one was a 3 course Xmas dinner and the other one was a crate of lager he also gave me an envelope don't open till you get home thanks reg happy xmas Joe he said same to you reg I said I finished the next morning as it was a 12 hour shifts got home opened the envelope and there was £500 in it 😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲 with a note saying all the best for Xmas and have a great. new year reg

@vykkye

Жыл бұрын

What a beautiful little story. What a nice person

Olive never had a baby in this so why did stan say the toy bus was for his nephew? I wish they had made a xmas special of this, a proper xmas episode. Would have been nice.

@BlueEcho-

6 ай бұрын

A lot of inconsistency in these

@carolwalmsley3362

5 ай бұрын

Olive had a baby in one or two of the film's they made .

@SeeYouEnTee666

5 ай бұрын

And…???😂

@heleng6968

16 күн бұрын

Didn't Arthur have a sister, maybe she had a kid.

this made my christmas thanks just perfect

One the buses is fantastic especially when they have to work on Christmas Day

Aurther is brilliant

Brilliant! I think Barbara Windsor was in the audience when they recorded this! 😂😂😂

@beverlygannon4141

Жыл бұрын

Really?

@fintimwhimbim

Жыл бұрын

@@beverlygannon4141 yes, just listen! 😂😂😂😂

@RoughJustice2k18

Жыл бұрын

@@fintimwhimbim Babs WIndsor did a brief scene with Anna Karen in 'Carry On Camping' the previous year (they had a fight in the dorm), so it may explain why she was in the audience for this episode. 😎

@fintimwhimbim

Жыл бұрын

@@RoughJustice2k18 I have to be honest, I made my original comment because the audience laughter on the show was "dominated" by one female laugh.....which to me "sounded" like Babs :-) I have no proof she was there but what you just said is now making me wonder! Either way, I really love the classic programs and Carry on Films, I know OTB is a bit dated but that kind of comedy never wears thin...reminds me of a happy and less serious time!

@cupcakefairy87

4 ай бұрын

Who's to say it wasn't Barbara Windsor laughing in the studio audience? After all, her and Anna Karen were lifelong best friends in real life.

Thanks Matt!

Great episode, thank you for uploading 👍🏻😁🎄

From the 1970s to 2022, the Great Replacement is fact.

Great work again Matt! Would love to colorize myself but not a clue what to do

why not let Stan borrow the motorbike to go work and come back lol

Thanks Matt 🙂

You fixed the colour strike 😄

Thanks for The Upload Matt love otb I could watch it all day

Really enjoyed this. Thanks for posting 👍

Never seen this episode in colour before

On the buses is the biggest comedy series. Poor Stan @ jack have to work Xmas day. Arthur goes @ have a few to many at the pub they all go to pick Stan up with olive driving the scooter but can’t stop straight in to a bus Hillarious they come home to find the place covered in foam no Xmas dinner. I still watch on the buses 2021 wish the series would come back 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@jameshaywood878

Жыл бұрын

If it came back, it would only be rubbish, compered to the original, they don't know how to make good tv programs anymore.

Great laughs indeed! Real fun.

love this show ...life should be like the 70s and early 80s ....the 2000s are freaking crap...