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REG VARNEY OPENED  AND WAS THE FIRST BANK CUSTOMER TO USE A CASH MACHINETHE IN THE UK. THE EVENT TOOK PLACE IN ENFIELD, JUNE 27 1967

      (to see a photo of this and find out more click on picture above)

 

BENNY HILL WAS ONCE REG VARNEYS STRAIGHT MAN.

THE MECHANIC IN THE BUS DEPOT (NOBBY) IS ANNA KARENS HUSBAND, TERRY DUGGAN.  HE ALSO APPEARED AS A SHOPKEEPER IN OTHER EPISODES (The Cistern being one such episode) 

 

MICHAEL ROBBINS PLAYED RICHARD MACE IN DOCTOR WHO.

 

REG VARNEY IS NOW A YOUNG 91 YEARS OF AGE.

 

MICHAEL ROBBINS WIFE APPEARED IN HOLIDAY ON THE BUSES. (HAL DYER)

 

.RONALD CHESNEY ONE OF THE WRITERS WAS A FAMOUS HARMONICA PLAYER.

 

REG VARNEY WAS A QUALIFIED DRIVER AND DROVE THE BUSES ON MANY OCCASIONS.

 

ON THE BUSES THEME TUNE IS ACTUALLY CALLED HAPPY LARRY.

WHEN THE ON THE BUSES SERIES WAS BEING FILMED SOME PEOPLE USED TO QUEUE AT THE PROP DEPARTMENT BUS STOPS USED ON LOCATION. EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD NO IDEA WHERE THE BUS MIGHT GO.

 OTHER PEOPLE WHO SAW LUXTON ON THE SIDE OF BUSES THOUGHT A NEW COMPANY HAD TAKEN OVER EASTERN AND NATIONAL BUS COMPANY.

DURING A BREAK DURING FILMING  ONE WOMEN BOARDED THE NUMBER 11  BUS AND SAT DOWN WAITING FOR IT TO GO TO THE CEMETERY GATES. WHEN STEPHEN LEWIS  SAW WHAT HAPPENED AND WENT  ON DRESSED AS BLAKEY AND TRIED TO GET HER OFF THE BUS SHE STARTED BASHING HIM WITH AN  UMBERELLA ARTHUR AND OLIVE'S SURNAME IS RUDGE.

 

ON THE BUSES WAS THE NUMBER 1 COMEDY IN YUGOSLAVIA. ALSO A HIT IN HOLLAND.

 

THE BBC REJECTED ON THE BUSES THINKING IT WOULD NOT BE A SUCCESS.

 

ON THE BUSES WAS PERFORMED ON STAGE IN CANADA.

ON THE BUSES WAS THE TOP BOX OFFICE MOVIE IN 1971 BEATING OO7 DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

REG VARNEY STARRED IN 13 OF HIS OWN VARIETY SHOWS (info needed)

AT THE END OF HOLIDAY ON THE BUSES YOU SEE STAN BUTLER SWINGING A BALL AND CHAIN DEMOLISHING A BUILDING.

THE BUILDING WAS INFACT A SOUND STUDIO AT ELSTREE FILM STUDIOS.

Did you know they used the bus staion exterior in the first episode of, "PLEASE SIR" DORIS HARE APPEARED IN AN EPISODE OF RANDELL AND HOPKIRK (DECEASED).

 




Doris Hare in an Episode of Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)