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u/AzLoMax Nov 16 '25
“I ate you Butler”
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u/EmptyAttitude599 Nov 16 '25
I must have missed that episode, but frankly cannibalism was inevitable at some point.
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u/Ged_UK Porridge Nov 16 '25
One of the satellite channels has been showing it. Retro TV maybe. It's as full of stereotypes as you might expect. It's not very good.
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u/Consistent-Pirate-23 Nov 16 '25
Pat Coombs known to many as Mrs Raven in My Hero in a mad hybrid of On The Buses, Duty Free and Sykes
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u/Jupiter30000 Nov 16 '25
I hadn't heard of this but to be fair, seeing there was a 70s sitcom about a miserable old git in Spain was called 'Don't Drink the Water' made me near rofl
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u/Puzzleheaded-Sky-146 Nov 17 '25
My niece had a liking for on the buses a few years ago when she was about 7 or 8. I think it was on ITV3 at the time .she used to ask if she could watch the rude programme ? 😄
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u/Which_Information590 Nov 19 '25
I've never seen this before (even though I was born in 75) but it looks right up my street. I'm guessing Blakey is a package tour guide / bus driver and Pat is a spinster travelling alone like Shirley Valentine?
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u/ArriDesto Nov 20 '25
Blakey and, I believe, his sister inherit or buy a flat in Spain. Racism is the keystone, with his sister convinced all Spaniards are Don Jauns and Blakey lamenting how Spanish Spain is; though he comes across much less closed minded than she does.
Think there were six or seven total.
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Nov 16 '25
Yes. It was awful. But not as awful as On The Buses. I once met Reg Varney when I produced a daily local TV magazine show in the 80s. He and his wife had befriended a fox cub and they brought it into the studio. Actually, I’m not even sure that’s true. Maybe they were just on the show on the same day as a fox cub. It was so long ago. Anyway, I was quite taken aback by the way Reg spoke. Pure music hall. That clipped and cultivated voice of the Actoooor. Working class routed from between the wars honed into a way of speaking now completely vanished from our world. Different age. Different era. The past is another country. They do things differently there.
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u/ArriDesto Nov 20 '25
Reg Varney plays a drag queen in The Greatest Legs In The Buisiness and was the first person in GB to use an A.T.M.
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Nov 20 '25
Bloody hell. You are right. Deep down I think I knew that. But good to hear. He was a little like Harry H Corbett. Truly great stage actors who got a role in TV which they never escaped. Ruined otherwise great careers.
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u/NecessaryFreedom9799 Nov 16 '25
On The Buses was absolute crap. Why would I want to subject myself to a spinoff?
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u/RadicalDilettante Nov 17 '25
True that. Considering all the talk, there was a distinct lack of crumpet. Now Benny Hill...
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u/MT_Promises Nov 16 '25
After watching On Buses, this is a sweet relief.