On the Buses - Season 7 - Eps 5: The Football Match

Name: Eps 5: The Football Match
Released: 1973-03-25
Rating: 3.7

1973-03-25 • 30 min • ⭐ 7.3/10

The bus crews are encouraged to form their own staff football team,to take on the Basildon Bashers. Jack and Stan are not enthusiastic but there is a five pound bonus on offer. The depot only has one star player,young Bob,and Stan injures him in training,so he asks Blakey if he can field a substitute - Olive. Blakey feels that women and football do not mix - until he sees the Basildon Bashers. They are an all-female team and they contrive by fair means and foul to give Stan's team a good pasting.

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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.