5.6/1067 votesLoading...#1 - The Nursery
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1971
The management at the depot has decided to open a staff nursery to enable the clippies to return to work. Stan and Arthur both agree that it would be a good idea if Olive took a job as a part time nurse's assistant. However an accident involving Olive's glasses leaves Stan and Jack holding the baby!
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
5.9/1071 votesLoading...#2 - What The Stars Foretell
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 4/29/1973
The Stars make good reading for Mum and Olive. It says romance is in the air. Who will be the unlucky victims?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.0/1066 votesLoading...#3 - The Perfect Clippie
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 3/4/1973
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..
Director: Bryan Izzard
Writer: N/A
6.2/1066 votesLoading...#4 - Aunt Maud
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 6/21/1969
Aunt Maud comes to stay and upsets the family home life. The little dog of Aunt Maud's has now grown into a huge animal and also upsets Stan's peaceful home
Director: N/A
Writer: Ronald Chesney
6.2/1073 votesLoading...#5 - Olive's Divorce
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 2/2/1973
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.3/1066 votesLoading...#6 - Stan's Worst Day
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 3/12/1972
It's been a pretty bad week for Stan, Arthur and Olive are constantly arguing and keeping him awake which also makes him late for work and so tired that he falls asleep and crashes the bus.
Director: Derrick Goodwin
Writer: N/A
6.4/1070 votesLoading...#7 - The Visit
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 4/22/1973
Blakey invites his mum over to the Butler home now that he is living there. Mrs. Butler is none to happy.
Director: Bryan Izzard
Writer: Jonathan Lynn
6.5/1079 votesLoading...#8 - Olive Takes a Trip (aka Olive's First Day)
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/14/1969
To help with the family income, Olive gets a job as a clippie. She gets put on Stan's bus, against his wishes. The trouble is Olive does not travel well!
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/1064 votesLoading...#9 - Not Tonight
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 2/21/1971
When Stella, the shapely new waitress in the cantenn, makes a pass at Stan, he's both pleased and surprised.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/1071 votesLoading...#10 - On The Omnibuses
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 4/1/1973
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/1078 votesLoading...#11 - No Smoke Without Fire
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 2/20/1972
After a carelessly discarded cigarette end causes a fire at the depot, it is decided that all the staff must undergo fire fighting training.
Director: Derrick Goodwin
Writer: N/A
6.6/1068 votesLoading...#12 - Love Is What You Make It
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 2/27/1972
Olive tries to make Arthur jealous by pretending to seduce another man.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jonathan Lynn
6.7/1073 votesLoading...#13 - The Darts Match
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/11/1969
Stan and Jack are challenged to a darts match by two clippies, Iris and Jenny. Stan feels he's a bit out of practice and so spends all his spare time practicing his darts playing. When he drops one of his darts in Olive's stew, he has to use a new set which he is not used to. His darts playing has the added problem of Iris' flirting during the match!
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/1064 votesLoading...#14 - The Ticket Machine
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 3/11/1973
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.7/1070 votesLoading...#15 - Gardening Time
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 5/20/1973
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.8/1062 votesLoading...#16 - Private Hire
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 3/5/1972
After a bit of unlucky gambling, Stan borrows some money off Basher, but when Basher wants it back Stan hasn't got it so Jack suggests that they borrow a bus to take the old folks out on a trip, as paying customers.
Director: Bryan Izzard
Writer: N/A
7.1/1069 votesLoading...#17 - Dangerous Driving
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 12/11/1970
When an article is printed in the paper saying that bus drivers are at risk from health problems, Mum decides to put Stan on a diet.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/1071 votesLoading...#18 - The Other Woman
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 12/18/1970
At the busman's social, Arthur is spending he time and money on one of the clippies, Wendy, much to Olive's chagrin. When Olive throws Arthur out, the family thinks he is staying with Wendy, but actually he spends the night in his motorbike sidecar!
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/1070 votesLoading...#19 - The Best Man
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1971
Stan has been asked to be best man for Bill's wedding to Blakey's niece. However after a boozy stag night, the Butler's have the problem of getting Bill to the altar despite him being the worst for wear!
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10102 votesLoading...#20 - The Early Shift
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/28/1969
The bus crews go on strike because of disagreements with the management. It causes no end of trouble at work and at home. Stan is hailed hero of the day.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/1076 votesLoading...#21 - The Canteen
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/4/1969
After complaints are made about it, the bus crews decide to take over the running of the canteen and make Olive the new cook.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ronald Chesney
7.2/1059 votesLoading...#22 - The Anniversary
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 1/17/1971
It's Arthur and Olive's tenth wedding anniversary and Aunt Maud has bought them a puppy as a present.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/1067 votesLoading...#23 - The Busmen's Ball
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1971
It's time for the annual Busman's Ball. Stan and Jack persuade the management to book a stripper instead of the usual magician for the caberet, while Olive is busy altering her posh frock for the night.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/1069 votesLoading...#24 - The Football Match
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 3/25/1973
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/1068 votesLoading...#25 - The Allowance
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 5/6/1973
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of On the Buses
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On the Buses is a British comedy series created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, broadcast in the United Kingdom from 1969 to 1973. The...
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Worst Episodes Summary
"The Nursery" is the worst rated episode of "On the Buses". It scored 5.6/10 based on 67 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/19/1971. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "What The Stars Foretell".