i'm from Holland and we dutch love the british comedy's from the 70's and 80's. On the busses, are you being served, george and mildred, dad's army, allo allo, some mothers do ave em, keeping up appearances, blackadder, the young ones, bottom, and who knows i did forgot.
Hard to get anything complete in Holland though, I stick to UK imports most of the time. First half of Are you being served was released as the complete set for way too much money and they wondered why it didnt sell. :-)
You forgot only fools and horses,steptoe and son,father ted ,alan partridge, the I.t crowd, mr bean,Phoenix nights,red dwarf, men behaving badly, peepshow and the carry on movies I've probably missed a few aswel🤔
Love On the buses,...just clean situation comedy, with good scripts, great characters we grew to love , and look back on now with nostalgia and fondness, and realize what a more simpler uncomplicated Britain it was back then.....and comedies had an innocence , and a charm,.we sadly don't see in today's so called sitcoms........miss those great times
Michael Robbins played such a brilliant character as Arthur, he was just perfect for the part. I also think he was given the funniest scripts, everything he said was hillarious.
It's a sad fact, all these characters have gone up to the great stage in the sky. Real comedy is just not made like this anymore, good old London Weekend Television days. I miss them still.
Absolutely. Sometimes I just watch Arthur when he's not actually involved. For instance doing his spot the ball in the paper or such like. It was the first nail for sure, he was a vital cog in the show.
What are you talking about Fred. Of course you get beauties today. The way you are talking you think all young ladies today look like the wild woman of Borneo walking around like a bull chewing a wasp. Walk around any city centre or shopping mall or supermarket. Any city on a Saturday night. You will see loads of beautiful ladies like Sally. I think you need to get out more fella.
Greetings from America! I love watching "On the Buses." I agree with sutre7, it would be funny to see an episode with Blakey's sister visiting, and maybe go on a date with Jack!
Glad that you like On the Buses! An American version called 'Lotsa Luck' was made (check Wikipedia) with Dom DeLuise playing the role of Stan, but I don't think it was very successful. Have you watched the three On the Buses films? They're available from Amazon as a DVD box set
I just read that he was born in 1916 and played the role in 73-74 so he was 57-58 in those days. Imo he looked pretty young for his age, specialy back in the 70's, because men did look old very fast in those days. And Blakey was wearing alot of makeup to make him look older.
One of the best episodes, I love it when Stan calls mum, me ole darlin, my moms name was Doris as well, the way she gets all indignant towards Sally is just great defending her kids.
@@christown2827 actually Doris Hare who played the Mum was born March 1st 1905. Reg Varney who played Stan was born July 11th 1916. Only 11 years difference
There is a geeky continuity error in this episode. Olive mentions that she didn't know that Arthur was going to have an operation when they got married but in the episode 'Stan's Worse Day' there is a flashback to the day Olive first met Arthur and he mentions then that he is due to have an operation.
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Your opinion. I would suggest there are at least twenty sitcoms made in the same era that are far better, not to mention several earlier and later gems.
can someone else check this for me please as i am beginning to think i am seeing things, you have to slow the playback speed down to its slowest setting, at 2.05, press play and watch the guy behind jack on the right hand side and let me know what you see please.
Each to their own but in my opinion, frankly, this series was awful. Decent actors I grant you but wasted. I find the scripts are woeful. The jokes are telegraphed a mile off - maybe part of the "fun" is seeing things play out exactly as you can second guess, let's face it there a precious few surprises! Also, so much face-pulling for laughs - notably Blakey. The characters are so one dimensional, only the genuine warmth of the actors lifts anything they are given to do. Doris Hare has so many lines where she announces what she or someone else is about to do. This is not radio - show don't tell! "A classic" only in the minds of ITV executives. Anything by Eric Chappell: Rising Damp, Only When I Laugh, Duty Free, Home to Roost knocks this into a cocked hat. He was easily their best comedy writer. George and Mildred isn't very subtle but it is ten times funnier than this. I sometimes wonder how something this poor made it to the screen. In the days of three channels, the quality control would have been much stiffer. Arguably, BBC sitcoms of the 70s and 80s were the cream of the crop: Dad's Army, Whatever Happened to The Likely Lads, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Fawlty Towers, The Good Life, Citizen Smith, Yes Minister, Only Fools and Horses, Blackadder, Dear John. Are You Being Served and Allo Allo had a quality to the performances, even in the much weaker latter episodes. I admit I wasn't brought up on On the Buses but my family watched both BBC and ITV, back in the 70s so I'm not a comedy snob. I think many people love this because they were first aware of it as kids and it made them laugh. Many sitcoms had that ability - the slapstick of Dad's Army and Clive Dunn's antics amused me as a kid. However as an adult I really enjoy the examination of class and the interplay between Mainwaring and Wilson. I don't wish to deny anyone happy memories, but in retrospect it really is thin stuff that has dated badly and doesn't stand up very well at all.
It's the heavily outdated 70s humour with its misogynistic undertones (although popular among the audiences of the time) that makes it unpopular with modern critics and audiences. The critics at the time lambasted it for what they deemed as being "unfunny humour", even by the sexist opinions of the time.
Don't read too much in to it. It's just a comedy. It was of its time, yes it's a bit lewd and and a bit mysoginistic at times but that's how the world was then. Other sitcoms were guilty of it, rigsby baiting Philip in Rising damp about his colour, the sexism in Are you being served, Basil telling everyone in Fawlty towers It's alright Manuel is from Barcelona. To pick on this sitcom is daft. I love on the buses, it always cheers me up and think Reg varney was great, along with Stephen Lewis and Bob grant. It's easy to look back on these shows with sneering contempt through today's snowflake, holier than thou eyes.
i'm from Holland and we dutch love the british comedy's from the 70's and 80's. On the busses, are you being served, george and mildred, dad's army, allo allo, some mothers do ave em, keeping up appearances, blackadder, the young ones, bottom, and who knows i did forgot.
Hard to get anything complete in Holland though, I stick to UK imports most of the time.
First half of Are you being served was released as the complete set for way too much money and they wondered why it didnt sell. :-)
All the sitcoms you mention there are far better than On the Buses.
@Buffalo 66 mind my language? i don't get it?
@@3DPeter Just another show.
You forgot only fools and horses,steptoe and son,father ted ,alan partridge, the I.t crowd, mr bean,Phoenix nights,red dwarf, men behaving badly, peepshow and the carry on movies I've probably missed a few aswel🤔
The lovely Madeleine Mills (Sally) who sadly died in 2010 aged 69 RIP
The actress playing Sally is a real beauty !
She's beautiful but stuck up and nasty!
50 years ago but it feels like yesterday.The photo Blakey shares of his twin sister cracks me up every time
Love On the buses,...just clean situation comedy, with good scripts, great characters we grew to love , and look back on now with nostalgia and fondness, and realize what a more simpler uncomplicated Britain it was back then.....and comedies had an innocence , and a charm,.we sadly don't see in today's so called sitcoms........miss those great times
I miss when Terry Wogan did the breakfast show. That ginger nonce they replaced him with does my head in.
"Little Chick ??? More like a clapped out Old Rooster !!!" 🤣🤣🤣
Blakey and his "sister" photo, hilarious 😂😂😂
Michael Robbins played such a brilliant character as Arthur, he was just perfect for the part. I also think he was given the funniest scripts, everything he said was hillarious.
I love Sally as Christine! Im staaaaaarvinggg !!! 😂
Will never see the likes of this ever again brilliant
It's a sad fact, all these characters have gone up to the great stage in the sky.
Real comedy is just not made like this anymore, good old London Weekend Television days. I miss them still.
Well it's normal for people to die!
So do I, they were lovely
@@jr7845and it’s normal for people to miss them.
I luv the way there eating the mash & beans/ seventies forever ×××x
Those were when tv was worth watching loved it
Arthur is a brilliant character!
rip olive/anna had hours of laughter and still do watching on the buses x
O dear i wish these days could return real laughter.
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I like the banter between olive and author
Arthur tickles me 😂
Hahaha
He's brilliant
We never had a Sally dressed like that on our buses, mind you most of them had become one man operated buses by the early seventies
Arthur is brilliant!!!
He was Phil, great you mentioned that
Yes never same without out him first nail in coffin for show when he left.
Absolutely. Sometimes I just watch Arthur when he's not actually involved. For instance doing his spot the ball in the paper or such like. It was the first nail for sure, he was a vital cog in the show.
Mum's not bothered about Stan just his rent tight cow
What a great episode. Love the photo of Arthur and Olive on their wedding day, and Blackey and his mother. Cracked me up.
Blakey and his sister you meant to say , which as we all know was actually Blakey with a wig 😂😂😂😂
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"NONE OF MY CHILDREN ARE THE WRONG SHAPE !!! " Just brilliant 🤣🤣🤣
Sally was a fine girl alright
Stephen Lewis (bless him) never changed in 40 years did he?
Doris Hare was born in Bargoed 1905, Bargoed is a former mining town in Wales.
I'm not far from Bargoed
The look at 18:12 that stan and Arthur look at each other
Glad Arthur backed Stan
Sally was smoking hot , you don’t get beauty’s like that now a days
She was very pretty I agree with that then again I do have a weakness for red heads. But the attitude just no
What are you talking about Fred. Of course you get beauties today.
The way you are talking you think all young ladies today look like the wild woman of Borneo walking around like a bull chewing a wasp.
Walk around any city centre or shopping mall or supermarket. Any city on a Saturday night.
You will see loads of beautiful ladies like Sally.
I think you need to get out more fella.
The way they had each others back was amazing
Took ya five years to learn how to change gears on the bus!!! Poor stan....absolutely fantastic show!!
DIMPLES HA HA HA I can’t get that out my head 🤣
Olive looks amazing in that beige dress.
Brilliant, so funny, and well written!!!
Greetings from America! I love watching "On the Buses." I agree with sutre7, it would be funny to see an episode with Blakey's sister visiting, and maybe go on a date with Jack!
Glad that you like On the Buses! An American version called 'Lotsa Luck' was made (check Wikipedia) with Dom DeLuise playing the role of Stan, but I don't think it was very successful. Have you watched the three On the Buses films? They're available from Amazon as a DVD box set
Refreshing away from Woke TV whom are so intent in making our lives a misery. Also The Benny Hill which I love watching on UA-cam.
on the buses .one of the best comedies ever .
gotta love blakey
Olive is the only one 2020 who is still alive I wish I can go back to the 70s there was a best shows from England and America now so much crap
Loves these this one is a great one laughing all the way please put up holiday on the buses please that would make my day 😊
Glad the dutch bulb like on the buses.
watch over and over
Hell yeah
Jack tells Stan: "You're too young." When this was broadcast, Reg Varney was 53, ten years older than Stephen Lewis (Blakey).
I just read that he was born in 1916 and played the role in 73-74 so he was 57-58 in those days. Imo he looked pretty young for his age, specialy
back in the 70's, because men did look old very fast in those days. And Blakey was wearing alot of makeup to make him look older.
He was 53 when the series began in 1969.
@@robalexander8065 His character was supposed to be younger though, probably early-mid 30s.
There was only 10 years between him and Doris hare who played his mum.
@@bowers89 sugar load/ seventies forever fish &chips/brown ale& sugar food
I love these videos
Seventies - On the Buses (GB) and Archie Bunker (US) 🌹🌹
The best ever !
One of the best episodes, I love it when Stan calls mum, me ole darlin, my moms name was Doris as well, the way she gets all indignant towards Sally is just great defending her kids.
OLIVE?!
The irony is Reg Varney was actually older than Doris Hare who played mum from Series 3 onwards.
@@christown2827 actually Doris Hare who played the Mum was born March 1st 1905. Reg Varney who played Stan was born July 11th 1916.
Only 11 years difference
Lad liked reading that msge
This as well as aunt maud are my favorite episodes.
The best episode
Stan looks about 55 and Blakeys niece looks about 20 😂 edit he actually was! 😂 strange casting but a different time I suppose
Anna Karen - Olive - glamour model and croupier long before she made Olive's character.
She used to be a stripper - true
Lov on the buses
Love this serie !
Love it the best
Arthur with his quips too buttlerand his snotty niece ❤❤❤
Absolutely love the way that the family stick together 😀 👍
There is a geeky continuity error in this episode. Olive mentions that she didn't know that Arthur was going to have an operation when they got married but in the episode 'Stan's Worse Day' there is a flashback to the day Olive first met Arthur and he mentions then that he is due to have an operation.
Clive Jones true, great observational skills
Thankyou very much
Sally telling Stan there's a T in bit actually says "It's GO a T in it". drops her own T while correcting him.
She even said " She "Did" it especially for me, instead of "Made" it especially for me lol
Great comedy loved watching them .
Reg is 54 years and pulling 20 year old broads!!
so well written - today's writers can match it
Rosie. Mrs StaFF
You mean, they Can't match it, is more the point .
Never seen that side of Arthur, he actually does care about them
He's Funny
how many times i watch this
These are amazing and so fucking funny have you in bits all the time even when I feel like shit but these on and fucking cant stop😂😂😂😂
when stan hold the photo he holds it in his left hand but when we see the photo you see a right hand thumb
Yes, I noticed that; would have been filmed later, I guess, and lost continuity.
Stan and Jack slept in there uniforms
It's funny how Stan @ Jack alway's refer to the Inspector Dracula.💀👻😢😎🤓
Or Hitler.
In these days of political correctness it would be a big nono.
Shame really.
The writers missed a trick there. Would've been great to have Blakey's sister appear in an episode.
That would've been Hilarious x
He he.. she's telling poor Butler how to speak..she isn't saying anything to her Uncle Blakey who talks just as bad😆
Fijn dat je de serie aanbiedt in 720p50. Dat geeft goed het live gevoel van video weer op dit platform. Bijzonder prettig om naar te kijken (en de serie natuurlijk ook).
Thumbs up if ever had a snob of a burd like Sally! Sorry if you ever and Girl 😂
Nice reading the subtitles as I was brought up with Afrikaans so I can understand most of the Dutch although a lot more z's and no y's!
I would of loved to see a on the buses halloween 🎃 special.
With Blakey as Dracula in a nightmare Stan has :-)
Ha ha...brilliant idea !!! 🤣
The best
Your opinion. I would suggest there are at least twenty sitcoms made in the same era that are far better, not to mention several earlier and later gems.
@@robalexander8065 hahahaha your on fucking crack boy. Keep dreaming kid
Snogging lol 😆
Yes agree
Very good Laughter to watch
We never found out what the"operation" was.
I looked it up once. It was inferred to be either a hernia or a vasectomy.
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scott
That's because others can't understand FUN.
Prachtig!!!
Mean Blakey.
can someone else check this for me please as i am beginning to think i am seeing things,
you have to slow the playback speed down to its slowest setting, at 2.05, press play and watch the guy behind jack on the right hand side and let me know what you see please.
He seems to mouth the words Jack is saying, probably just weird coincidence!
When
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I LOVE 💖..ALl THERE SHOWZ!!!
Great American TV Show
Busrt
Was side parting and hitler moustache part of character????
Fancy haveing too sit round like that in your kitchen 😿😹
14:53
Hahahahahahaha
What's with yhe German subtitles ??!!
Dutch actually.
@@cupcakefairy87 Yeah, that's helpful 🤣🤣
Sally. You can buy so much better cake in the shops. She is wrong there.
You can't beat homemade cake. Specially sponge cake.
10:10
I will cut you a piece of cake . Not a bi t
Can I steal other people's stuff and make money from UA-cam even if it's really shitty quality too?
Yes
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Busses ? Do please check your spelling.
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Too young to get married? Lol he has wrinkles!!!
Each to their own but in my opinion, frankly, this series was awful. Decent actors I grant you but wasted. I find the scripts are woeful. The jokes are telegraphed a mile off - maybe part of the "fun" is seeing things play out exactly as you can second guess, let's face it there a precious few surprises! Also, so much face-pulling for laughs - notably Blakey. The characters are so one dimensional, only the genuine warmth of the actors lifts anything they are given to do. Doris Hare has so many lines where she announces what she or someone else is about to do. This is not radio - show don't tell!
"A classic" only in the minds of ITV executives. Anything by Eric Chappell: Rising Damp, Only When I Laugh, Duty Free, Home to Roost knocks this into a cocked hat. He was easily their best comedy writer. George and Mildred isn't very subtle but it is ten times funnier than this. I sometimes wonder how something this poor made it to the screen. In the days of three channels, the quality control would have been much stiffer. Arguably, BBC sitcoms of the 70s and 80s were the cream of the crop: Dad's Army, Whatever Happened to The Likely Lads, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Fawlty Towers, The Good Life, Citizen Smith, Yes Minister, Only Fools and Horses, Blackadder, Dear John. Are You Being Served and Allo Allo had a quality to the performances, even in the much weaker latter episodes. I admit I wasn't brought up on On the Buses but my family watched both BBC and ITV, back in the 70s so I'm not a comedy snob. I think many people love this because they were first aware of it as kids and it made them laugh. Many sitcoms had that ability - the slapstick of Dad's Army and Clive Dunn's antics amused me as a kid. However as an adult I really enjoy the examination of class and the interplay between Mainwaring and Wilson. I don't wish to deny anyone happy memories, but in retrospect it really is thin stuff that has dated badly and doesn't stand up very well at all.
It's the heavily outdated 70s humour with its misogynistic undertones (although popular among the audiences of the time) that makes it unpopular with modern critics and audiences. The critics at the time lambasted it for what they deemed as being "unfunny humour", even by the sexist opinions of the time.
Don't read too much in to it. It's just a comedy. It was of its time, yes it's a bit lewd and and a bit mysoginistic at times but that's how the world was then. Other sitcoms were guilty of it, rigsby baiting Philip in Rising damp about his colour, the sexism in Are you being served, Basil telling everyone in Fawlty towers It's alright Manuel is from Barcelona. To pick on this sitcom is daft. I love on the buses, it always cheers me up and think Reg varney was great, along with Stephen Lewis and Bob grant. It's easy to look back on these shows with sneering contempt through today's snowflake, holier than thou eyes.
@@paulheenan9098 I suggest you get a full understanding of the word misogynistic.
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