User Reviews

Stan is showing Mum and Olive around a local transport museum. He falls asleep at the wheel of a vintage omnibus, and dreams that he is living 100 years in the past, and still a bus driver. Olive is a would-be suffragette, Mum is a washerwoman, Jack is a Luddite opposed to the fitting of engines in the omnibuses, while Blakey is...as appalling as ever.

Did you think 'Life On Mars' was original? Well, here, its Stan Butler who goes the Sam Tyler route of waking up in the past. The change of setting makes this an unusual and enjoyable episode from the pens of Bob Grant and Stephen Lewis. Nice period flavour too.

Funniest moment - Stan driving under a low bridge and leaving Blakey suspended by his fingertips!

Blakey has arranged an exhibition display of vintage buses at the depot to commemorate Luxton & District's 100th anniversary. Whilst showing Mum and Olive around, Stan falls asleep in the cab of a vintage bus. What follows is a dream sequence in which Stan is working as a Busman back in the 1800's, with him and Jack being in charge of horse drawn buses. Mum and Olive scrape a living by taking in washing, though Olive later tries becoming a suffragette, chaining herself to railings and demanding jobs for women. Blakey's nickname here is the Kaiser instead of Hitler.

'On The Omnibuses' is by far the worst of all 'On The Buses' episodes. The period setting for me was boring and did not work at all. Bob Grant and Stephen Lewis indulged themselves far too much here.

Funniest bit - Stan hungrily tucking into Olive's homemade stew, only to find that by accident she has put washing soda in it instead of salt. He had been enjoying it until then!