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Stan and Jack plan a naughty night in with two sexy clippies whilst Mum, Arthur and Olive are at Aunt Maud's. There's just one snag - Arthur's motorbike is in urgent need of repair. In desperation, Stan smuggles into the depot the bracket used to hold the bike to the sidecar so that Jack can perform an impromptu welding job. But will the bracket hold?

'On The Buses' kicked off its fourth season with this amiable episode. By now the cast were well acquainted with their characters and viewers knew just what to expect. As a result of its success, the cast were invited onto other shows; for instance, Anna Karen appeared as 'Olive' on 'The Max Bygraves Show', while Stephen Lewis' 'Blakey' ( rather improbably ) sang a duet with Cilla Black on her B.B.C.-1 series! Mike Yarwood included 'Blakey' as part of his repertoire for a time.

Funniest moment - Stan trying to fit Mum's plant in the sidecar. Closing the door, he lops the heads off!

Seeing the elderly mother put in the sidecar of Arthur's motorbike like that would have been outrageous in America, but this was the norm in the UK. It was convenient and economical.

On "Happy Days" it was such a big laugh just thinking about Mrs. Cunningham riding on the back of Fonzie's motorbike, as Olive was going to do here with Arthur, her husband.

The last motorbike with a sidecar I could think of was on "The Andy Griffith show". I couldn't imagine Aunt Bea (Frances Bavier) being put in that one. Of course, the design was different. The English show had a sidecar with a door that opened up.

The flower being slammed in the roof of the sidecar like that brought back a then-unhappy childhood memory for those of us who have watched it.

Nice to laugh about it now.

Watch the welding bit. Stephen Lewis, as the Inspector, grabs the piece of metal that Stan and Jack had just welded on. There is no camera break or a closeup change or anything. It had to still be quite hot.

The wreck was so campy, it wasn't funny, but Anna Karen's bizarre whine managed to get a final laugh out of the situation.

Much of the discussion about her water bottle was amusing.

Would love to see this thing on American television sometime, just to hear people complain about how awful it is, if nothing else.

Americans love to complain.