"On the Buses" The Kids' Outing (TV Episode 1971) Poster

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(1971)

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The Busman's Danny Leroux
Sleepin_Dragon10 October 2022
Stan and Jack are tasked with looking after the local kids, who are having a day out from school, the family agree to help and do the sandwiches.

It's a really bawdy episode, it funny, it's something different. It's an episode that took me right back to my childhood, I can remember raucous days out, with dodgy sandwiches, cheap squash and broken down buses.

Lots of laughs from start to finish, from Blakey's horrible nephew, to Olive feeling unwell, but the highlight of course was Stan's drag act, an interesting way to entertain the kids, but hilarious, and it has to be said, it's a moment that shows off Varney's undoubted skills and talents, shown off incredibly well here.

Maybe my favourite episode of this series so far,

9/10.
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A Little Bit of the Bus In Action
richard.fuller117 March 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Most episodes I've seen will have the bus still and only the camera will be moving as the screen fades, to give the impression of the bus being driven out of the garage.

But this episode does have some exterior shots of the bus driving down the streets.

The kids sabotage it as well.

Fun seeing little nippers about my age running around, or how old I would have been back then.

The kids are quite a handful.

Reg Varney, Anna Karen, Michael Robbins and Doris Hare display how well they work with one another in the usual mindless rambling bit while blowing up balloons.

Much like the bed bit in "The L Bus" they really functioned like a real family, inconsiderate but concerned about the other one.

"The Best Man" episode also has good exterior shots of the bus, but I don't think we see as much moving about as we do here.
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