On the Buses - Season 7 - Eps 3: The Ticket Machine

Name: Eps 3: The Ticket Machine
Released: 1973-03-11
Rating: 3.7

1973-03-11 • 30 min • ⭐ 7.3/10

Mum and Olive run up debts of fifty pounds when they buy things to sell on from a catalogue firm only for Olive to break them. When Blakey refuses to give him his bonus Stan warms to Jack's idea of using a stolen ticket machine to charge for fares that will not be recorded so they can pocket the profits. After Blakey has come to the house and almost sat on the machine Stan decides to confess about the machine but Blakey gives him his bonus.However he has found out about the ticket machine and makes Stan donate the money to the bus crews' charity organization.

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About On the Buses

Title: On the Buses

First Air Date: 1969-02-28

Last Air Date: 1973-05-20

Status: Ended

Rating: 7.3/10 (from 24 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 8

Total Episodes: 74

Network: ITV1 London Weekend Television

Genres: Comedy

Production Companies: LWT

Synopsis

On the Buses is a British comedy series created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, broadcast in the United Kingdom from 1969 to 1973. The writers' previous successes with The Rag Trade and Meet the Wife were for the BBC, but the corporation rejected On the Buses, not seeing much comedy potential in a bus depot as a setting. The comedy partnership turned to a friend, Frank Muir, Head of Entertainment at London Weekend Television, who loved the idea; the show was accepted and despite a poor critical reception became a hit with viewers.