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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   6.3/10(80 votes)

   #1 - Olive's Divorce

   S7:E12/2/1973

   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.

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   6.1/10(73 votes)

   #2 - The Perfect Clippie

   S7:E23/4/1973

   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..

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   6.6/10(72 votes)

   #3 - The Ticket Machine

   S7:E33/11/1973

   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.

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   7.5/10(73 votes)

   #4 - The Poster

   S7:E43/18/1973

   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.

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   7.2/10(77 votes)

   #5 - The Football Match

   S7:E53/25/1973

   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.

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   6.5/10(80 votes)

   #6 - On The Omnibuses

   S7:E64/1/1973

   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.

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   7.9/10(81 votes)

   #7 - Goodbye Stan

   S7:E74/8/1973

   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

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   7.6/10(76 votes)

   #8 - Hot Water

   S7:E84/15/1973

   Jack and the inspector attempt to fix a water heater.

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   6.3/10(77 votes)

   #9 - The Visit

   S7:E94/22/1973

   Blakey invites his mum over to the Butler home now that he is living there. Mrs. Butler is none to happy.

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    5.8/10(78 votes)

    #10 - What The Stars Foretell

    S7:E104/29/1973

    The Stars make good reading for Mum and Olive. It says romance is in the air. Who will be the unlucky victims?

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    7.1/10(74 votes)

    #11 - The Allowance

    S7:E115/6/1973

    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.

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    7.7/10(78 votes)

    #12 - Friends In High Places

    S7:E125/13/1973

    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.

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    6.6/10(75 votes)

    #13 - Gardening Time

    S7:E135/20/1973

    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.

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