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ON THE BUSES was the UK's top sitcom in the early 1970's,but this extraordinary fact is hard to believe 3 decades later.What's even more astonishing is despite this (1971) being the year of THE FRENCH CONNECTION,A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and GET CARTER,the film was the most successful at the UK box office this year.

The very thin plot is carried along further by Reg Varney and Bob Grant laughing at their own(mostly feeble) puns and double entendres,a leering,grotesquely stereotyped view of the young women in view,and a script that makes even the most sub-standard CARRY ON film seem like Shakespeare.

The TV show itself lasted until 1973,and two further film sequels followed,but the bawdy traditions of this first ON THE BUSES effort continued with even more excess with the CONFESSIONS series starring Robin Askwith;again the first of this series topped the UK box office in 1974.

As a Briton,I can assure the US we've all grown up and matured since those days!