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26 December 1973 (UK)
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Brand New "On the Buses" Comedy! more
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Don't expect too much and you'll have a good time.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Reg Varney | ... | Stan Butler |
| Stephen Lewis | ... | Inspector 'Blakey' Blake |
| Doris Hare | ... | Mrs. Mabel Butler |
| Michael Robbins | ... | Arthur Rudge |
| Anna Karen | ... | Olive Rudge |
| Bob Grant | ... | Jack Harper |
| Wilfrid Brambell | ... | Bert Thompson |
| Kate Williams | ... | Red Cross Nurse |
| Arthur Mullard | ... | Wally Briggs |
| Queenie Watts | ... | Mrs. Briggs |
| Henry McGee | ... | Holiday Camp Manager |
| Adam Rhodes | ... | Little Arthur |
| Michael Sheard | ... | Depot Manager |
| Hal Dyer | ... | Mrs. Coombs |
| Franco De Rosa | ... | Luigi (as Franco Derosa) |
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85 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Last Cinema film of Reg Varney.
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Continuity: When Luigi lifts Stan up to drop him on the tray of eggs frying in the kitchen, Stan's trousers are already covered in egg yolk from an earlier take.
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Jack:
I've been telling the girls about that mystery tour we're going to take them on tonight.
Stan Butler: What mystery tour?
Jack: You know, that one at 9'o clock, on the beach.
Stan Butler: Oh that mystery tour.
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Stan Butler: What mystery tour?
Jack: You know, that one at 9'o clock, on the beach.
Stan Butler: Oh that mystery tour.
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References Carry on Loving (1970)
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If you were growing up in Britain in the 1970s or early 80s, then Holiday On The Buses will provide you with a very potent hit of nostalgia that will doubtless get you talking about "the good old days". It's nobody's idea of sophisticated, and the arthouse crowd should avoid it like the plague, but if you approach it with an open mind you'll probably have a good time.
It's all very predictable, of course, but it fits in nicely with a sub-genre of British comedy best described as "everything goes wrong" where it sits alongside Fawlty Towers and Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em. There are plenty of minor stars on display soon, such as Grange Hill's Mr Bronson, regular Benny Hill sidekick Henry McGee, Joan from Love Thy Neighbour and the inimitable Arthur Mullard.
It's not quite Carry On, but it passes the time painlessly.