Britcom Goes to the Movies is back! We begin our third, yes, THIRD series with an absolute classic of the genre... of sorts. On The Buses was one of the most popular British sitcoms ever made, so midway through its run, Hammer decided to take it to the big screen, the first of many such ventures for the studio, and it paid off, literally! With box office numbers, a Marvel movie would kill for in 1971.

But On The Buses the Movie has become a byword for terrible sitcom to movie spin-offs, by which all subsequent examples would be judged. You could say we have this movie to blame for the short shrift and general disdain a lot of British comedies get critically. Without this film, we’d probably have no podcast. 

It’s reputation therefore preceded it, and Rob and Guy were in no hurry to cover it, but once writer, funnyman, host of SMERSH Pod, and all-round On The Buses apologist John Rain expressed an interest in joining us to discuss the film, how could we say no?

So join Guy, Rob, and John on an odyssey of crass jokes, old men playing 30-year-old lotharios, the world’s first ATM, pencil-moustached knicker-snatchers, and rolling left to right pecking. Finally, it’s time for On The Buses.

On the Buses – First Colour Episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFV3aAMPTgg&list=PLgD5-qNnzSa5nAynMx58UWJsetOvWgyfk&index=2

On The Buses – The Cistern

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1ghggVZOs4

On The Buses – Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRmkh8tMB9k

On The Buses – Skid Test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvV8jjvI42o

On The Buses cast on Wogan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2fVCJ0_0HE

Reg Varney uses world’s first ATM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9mwgKMrZ1U

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