On the Buses - Season 7

On the Buses - Season 7

Season 7

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Episodes13
DatesFeb 2, 1973 - May 20, 1973
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Episodes

Olive's Divorce
Season 7Episode 130 min

Olive's Divorce

It's six months since Arthur walked out on her so Olive,armed with a list of grievances prepared by Mum and Stan,goes to court and is granted her divorce.With Mum going to stay with Aunt Maud Olive is very much the gooseberry as she accompanies Stan and his girl-friend Sandra to the pictures - to see a sexy film about a recently divorced woman - where Olive sits next to a groper. Stan gets Blakey to see Olive home whilst he goes to Sandra's for some rumpy-pumpy but Olive turns up to interrupt him as she has forgotten her house key.
Feb 2, 1973
The Perfect Clippie
Season 7Episode 230 min

The Perfect Clippie

With money tight as ever in the Butler home Stan asks Blakey to employ Olive on the buses and eventually he relents. Olive's last excursion into being a conductress was a disaster but now she is completely in charge,super-efficient to the point of annoying, particularly as she has learnt the rule book off by heart and takes Stan to task for his rule-bending.It can't last..
Mar 4, 1973
The Ticket Machine
Season 7Episode 330 min

The Ticket Machine

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.
Mar 11, 1973
The Poster
Season 7Episode 430 min

The Poster

A poster of a faceless driver appears at the depot. It is a plan to boost falling passenger figures and advertises a competition with a prize of a hundred pounds to be ... The perfect driver.Jack secretly enters Stan though the other finalists are hunky sportsmen and Stan's family take him to the chemist to buy him a rejuvenating face pack to give him a chance. Will he beat off the well-toned opposition to get his face - and - name on the poster? Of course he will.
Mar 18, 1973
The Football Match
Season 7Episode 530 min

The Football Match

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.
Mar 25, 1973
On the Omnibuses
Season 7Episode 630 min

On the Omnibuses

t's a hundred years since the Luxton Bus Company came into being and fifty years since they got their first motor bus. To celebrate the good old days Blakey organizes an exhibition and,after showing Mum and Olive around some of the museum pieces, Stan falls asleep at the wheel of a bus from the turn of the century,imagining his present-day family and colleagues in previous incarnations. Olive is a militant suffragette,Mum a washerwoman and Blakey is still Blakey,except his nickname is the Kaiser.
Apr 1, 1973
Goodbye Stan
Season 7Episode 730 min

Goodbye Stan

Stan decides he can make more money if he heads North and gets work in a car factory but,rather than hand in his resignation, he gets Blakey to sack him so that he can get a week's wages. He celebrates his last night at home and is unable to eat the fry-up his Mum has cooked him so he sticks it in his uniform pocket,a fact that Blakey discovers when he comes around to collect the uniform. However,as he has been evicted from his own lodgings,he takes Stan's room and becomes the Butlers' new lodger
Apr 8, 1973
Hot Water
Season 7Episode 830 min

Hot Water

Jack and the inspector attempt to fix a water heater.
Apr 15, 1973
The Visit
Season 7Episode 930 min

The Visit

Blakey invites his mum over to the Butler home now that he is living there. Mrs. Butler is none to happy.
Apr 22, 1973
What the Stars Foretell
Season 7Episode 1030 min

What the Stars Foretell

The Stars make good reading for Mum and Olive. It says romance is in the air. Who will be the unlucky victims?
Apr 29, 1973
The Allowance
Season 7Episode 1130 min

The Allowance

There's a new clippie at the depot, the militant Jessie. Outraged that the female clippies have to pay to use the public conveniences, while the male staff don't, she lobbies the management for an allowance to cover the cost.
May 6, 1973
Friends in High Places
Season 7Episode 1230 min

Friends in High Places

When Mrs. Butler goes for a job at the depot's canteen, she is interviewed by an old boyfriend, Mr. Simpson who is one of the managers. After she gets the job, Jack and Olive try to use Mum's influence with Mr. Simpson to try and get one over on Blakey.
May 13, 1973
Gardening Time
Season 7Episode 1330 min

Gardening Time

Blakey and Jack have entered into the depot flower and vegtable competition. The rivalry is fierce as they both try to create the best garden.
May 20, 1973

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