On the Buses Cast & Crew Talk Blakey & Stephen Lewis
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- Опубліковано 11 бер 2022
- On the Buses cast and crew, including Reg Varney, Anna Karen, Stephen Lewis, writers Ronnies Chesney and Wolfe, production supervisor Roy Skeggs, Hammer Films runners Brian Reynolds and Phil Campbell, and author Morris Bright MBE, celebrate Stephen Lewis and his iconic Buses character, Inspector Blake, 'Blakey'.
Our video uses clips from interviews used in our recent feature length documentary, On the Buses at the Movies that celebrates the 50th anniversaries of the classic British comedy film series, On the Buses, Mutiny on the Buses and Holiday On the Buses. The documentary goes behind the scenes, looks at the making of the films and reflects on the their enduring appeal.
Special thanks to Morris Bright MBE for allowing us access to his archive interviews with Anna, Reg, Stephen, Roy and the two Ronnies that were recorded in 2002.
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I worked 40years on the busses in Birmingham and believe me you wouldn’t believe what went on and how close the series was to real life.
I worked for only one year in 1968 -1969 for Oldham Corporation Transport. In that year I personally did things I don't think "On the Buses" series ever covered. For example there was a certain bus route that went up a rather steep hill and I used to have a laugh by ringing off the bus at every stop then jumping off the bus and running up past the bus (I was a fit 18yr old lad back then) waving at the driver as I passed him then got back on at the back of the queue at the next stop and so to the top. I also once died my hair jet black for a £5 bet (a lot of money back then) . I had just been issued a new uniform and decided to go buy the hair dye by continuing on the same bus I had just finished my shift and had a changeover on. The Chemists shop was half-way between two long stops on Moston Broadway (for those that know it) - not wanting to have the driver fully stop so i could get off when near the Chemist to told the driver to slow the bus down and I would then jump off backwards when I gauged it safe to do so. my last sight as I jumped off backwards was glancing at the speedometer and seeing the bus was still going at 35mph which was substantially slower than it had been going but not exactly a safe speed to pull that trick off on! I then arrived in the Chemists shop with my brand new uniform torn in some places and somewhat bloody too (after doing somersaults on pavements and tarmacadam!). My cvoncentration wasn't what it could have been and therefore I did not notice that I had bought a permanent jet black hair dye instead of a rinse! After I had dyed my hair and realised my mistake (I looked very pale indeed because my natural hair colour is ginger!) I had the "brainwave" of putting a red rinse of top to make my hair colour at least uniform. What actually happened is that the rinse seemed to react chemically with the permanent hair dye and so in the summer of 1968 I was possibly the first guy with multi coloured hair well before the punks later in the 70's!! I was also a bit of a hippy back then and used to put lit joss sticks all over the bus.
I also loved to play little practical jokes on the passengers. One day for example I was the clippie on the Upermill to Manchester bus service - this was in a very cold December early morning back then - what made things worse is that the bus passenger heater system has broken down resulting in icy windows (it was well below zero then) so I had a brainwave I took off my overcoat, Tunic and tie and started to take fares with my top shirt buttons open and pretending to be profusely sweating as I took their fares. The driver later confessed to almost coming a cropper when glancing in the mirror to see the passengers reactions.
There is a lot more too but I missed the best bit - I was 18 yrs old in that Summer of 1968 and mini skirts were still the height of fashion. Those were the daze!
Stephen Lewis was so natural for Blakey even watching him on this video still makes me laugh.
When he said about them following a bus in the car and then the furniture being unloaded from the bus I could just see him going up to them in full Blakey character "I've gotcha now haven't I eh? I've gotcha! You'll get the sack for this Oh gawd this has made my day!
A few weeks ago, I was on a bus in Sunderland, and an inspector was waiting at the stop. A loud voice from the back said, “Oh Christ, it’s Blakey!”, and we all laughed as we rummaged in our bags for our tickets.
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🤣🤣 sounds really funny
@@oldfatbastad6053 love your name 🤣🤣
On The Buses = Masterpiece comedy series/films.
Big love and God bless for all these brilliant actors from my childhood. 💚
Blakey is the absolute best he’s my most favourite comic out of everything and any comedy program.
Blakey represents a very laudable characteristic - ie someone who doesn't just "go through the motions" but someone who wants to feel at end of their working week that they have actually earned their wages. Others less scrupulous are virtue signalling hypocrites! I was clippie for one of the latter kind during my stint as a clippie.
He was a bus driver when I first worked with him but he was very shrewd and understood "optics" very well. If you ended up on a shift with him he would come and "have word" with you in advance. He would demand you wore a clean white shirt and tie in return he would absolve you from bell ringing as he would keep a close eye and those alighting and departing so that all you had to do was focus on collecting the fares. That said he knew every trick in the book for dodging a route he didn't feel like doing on a particular day! Before I got fired (another story for another time) he succeeded in getting promotion to inspector. He made Blakey look like a real pussy cat because that bar steward knew every trick in the book!
the shot of him rising from the foam in one of the on the buses films along with the blakey laugh will forever be one of the funniest moments i have ever seen in any comedy.
on the buses was the best comedy ever made i have got the box set and its my favourite
One of my favourite scenes from the movies
That was in Mutiny on the Buses
Brilliant man. Loved him in this show. Taken too soon.
Stephen Lewis played Blakey brilliant had many a tear of laughter with him and still today
In my last year at school, "on the buses" was being discussed, my mate was asked would he like to be a bus inspector, he replied that he would prefer to be a bust inspector.
After this, Stephen Lewis appeared in "Last of the Summer Wine" as Smiler, using the same "voice" he used in "Buses." I didn't know what Stephen's real voice sounded like until recently.
I was born in 1984 so years after the final episode was broadcast. But this show is much better then anything I grew up watching. Rest in peace all the cast and crew.
Brings back childhood memories.
i will forever love❤
"On The Buses"
i have it on dvd boxset .
i watched it a while back.
They dont make brilliant shows like this no more 😔Also i loved the "On the buses Films . "Holiday" and "Mutiny on the buses" .
RIP to all those we lost who stared in this show.😔
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Anna Karen🤍🕯️🤍
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( aka Olive )
Stephen Lewis was a Good Actor and Writer
A very nice and informative video on a British comedy legend, and one of my favourite actors. Good job. 👍 🏅
When is this man going to be Knighted?
Absolutely a British gem.
So sad to see them old 😢
I love ❤ the fact that he has a very pronounced voice in real life 🤣🤣
stephen was brilliant as blakey i love him
Thought Steven was brilliant thanks for sharing.
Saw him once in 1984 I think. Came out of the chip shop in Wednesfield and there he was on the back of an open top bus waving. Still think I may of dreamt it.
Thanks for putting this up..loved OTB's
Easily my favourite character and what was a delight to hear is how he created the perfect back story for his character and also welded it with his own life history (i.e. ex army etc). I was a "clippie" back in 1968 and I can tell you there is nothing in that series that we hadn't done or worse in real life!
Brilliant
not only was Stephen Lewis a brilliant actor he was a skillful writer too . for example he wrote the film sparrows cant sing. didn't know he wrote some of the episodes with Bob Grant
All reunited on the bus in heaven
Come on get that bus out!
Fantastic cast god bless them all
The proper days that we can't go back to
I lived in Johnstone, Scotland, and were across the road from the double decker bus station in 1970 just before we immigrated . And the buses had a lever on the outside of the double doors which we turned the other way to open the doors and pinch the rolls of tickets to throw over the trees by the Cart river , pointless but great fun at the time..🤣
Today stan and Jack would have been sack as bus drivers for not doing their job properly and not getting buses out on time.
RIP
when stan is doing the skid water pan in the first movie the bigger man (inspector) not blakey he was the real man who taught my daddy to drive the buses he was a bus driver for over 40 years :) rip daddy
Oh wow, how he 100% morphs into Blakey at the end of the interview😯
I wonder how many times a day Mr Lewis had people come up to him , pull a face and say ' I hate you Butler...hate ya ! ' ?
Stephen Lewis and Bob Grant wrote some of the later episodes of OTB 🙂
GET THAT BUS OUT 😁🤣
"I 'ate you Butler" must have been in the later shows. I've just watched the first two series, and he never says that or anything like it. Series Two is very good stuff, Series One very average.
🔹️ They're all dead now, except for the actress who played Olive. But it was over 50 years ago when it was made. How times have changed since then ❗👀👍❕
Unfortunately the actress who player Olive - anna karen died in Feb 2022
Just because, how Blakey and Smilier spoke, I thought Lewis spoke like that as well, rather than put on a voice.
Sadly us Brits have got so stuck up lardy da etc you can't make comedy's like they did in the 70s 80s 90s from Little Britain Plus the Young Ones and On The Buses you get one person make a complaint so let's change it, grrrrrr I hate you moaning do gooders lol even my kids in there teens thought comedy's in my days was better even the music. Still life goes on. We must please the lardy dars and watch your P&Qs. I mean look at our Government who needs comedy when you got Boris who is like Blakey from On the Buses lol.
It was rubbish comedy really....and the funniest !!!!!...I still watch it and it still makes me laugh, they were proper comic actors who are so sadly missed nowadays...BLESS THEM ALL....
Richard Smith NO not rubbish comedy it was brilliant British comedy at its best.
Stephen Lewis was funnyman
It is so sad now the entire cast has all sadly passed away. There is absolutley no person not only talented enough will fit in to replace any of them. The original cast was so unique it would be crime to try to do it with a new line-up again. They was all made for each other. & when comedy was comedy at it's very best back in the 70's although On the buses started in late 60's ( sorry can't remember as to exact when not that it really matters ) & went on for some years. Only a few other great comedy shows was just as good ALLO, ALLO, ON THE UP, SOME MOTHERS DO AV THEM & a few others the titles escape me for now. But, the Americans tried to bring their so called humour out with such RUBBISH!!! as Cheers, Sienfeld , Frazer & other 💩 I thought what a load of 💩 not in the slightest bit funny. But, maybe i am pejudice so what I still think that ourcBRITISH comedies from around the 70's was the best that could & still is just not with the same insanity as it was then ( due to the 💩 red tape far too much of it😠😡👎). Best way is is either on DVD or if possible re-runs. But, sadly no DVD recorders anymore😠😡👎
They're all dead now !
Worse luck
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I always felt sorry for blakey
Would have love to have met all the cast and just say thank u for making me laugh
I always wished i grew up the butler family and worked with blakey
I always watch it on itv 3 my eyes light up when i see its on and get excited cos i know im in for a treat and it just warms my heart and makes me feel homely