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Season 7

Season 7

Season 7

Season 7

Season 7

  • Air date:1973-02-02
  • User score:
    7.0
  • Number of episodes:13

List of Episodes

Olive's Divorce
S7E1
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Air date: 1973-02-02

Runtime: 30 min

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.

The Perfect Clippie
S7E2
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Air date: 1973-03-04

Runtime: 30 min

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..

The Ticket Machine
S7E3
0.0

Air date: 1973-03-11

Runtime: 30 min

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.

The Poster
S7E4
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Air date: 1973-03-18

Runtime: 30 min

A poster of a faceless driver appears at the depot. It is a plan to boost falling passenger figures and advertises a competition with a prize of a hundred pounds to be ... The perfect driver.Jack secretly enters Stan though the other finalists are hunky sportsmen and Stan's family take him to the chemist to buy him a rejuvenating face pack to give him a chance. Will he beat off the well-toned opposition to get his face - and - name on the poster? Of course he will.

The Football Match
S7E5
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Air date: 1973-03-25

Runtime: 30 min

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.

On The Omnibuses
S7E6
0.0

Air date: 1973-04-01

Runtime: 30 min

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.

Goodbye Stan
S7E7
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Air date: 1973-04-08

Runtime: 30 min

Stan decides he can make more money if he heads North and gets work in a car factory but,rather than hand in his resignation, he gets Blakey to sack him so that he can get a week's wages. He celebrates his last night at home and is unable to eat the fry-up his Mum has cooked him so he sticks it in his uniform pocket,a fact that Blakey discovers when he comes around to collect the uniform. However,as he has been evicted from his own lodgings,he takes Stan's room and becomes the Butlers' new lodger

Hot Water
S7E8
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Air date: 1973-04-15

Runtime: 30 min

Jack and the inspector attempt to fix a water heater.

The Visit
S7E9
0.0

Air date: 1973-04-22

Runtime: 30 min

Blakey invites his mum over to the Butler home now that he is living there. Mrs. Butler is none to happy.

What The Stars Foretell
S7E10
0.0

Air date: 1973-04-29

Runtime: 30 min

The Stars make good reading for Mum and Olive. It says romance is in the air. Who will be the unlucky victims?

The Allowance
S7E11
7.0

Air date: 1973-05-06

Runtime: 30 min

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.

Friends In High Places
S7E12
7.0

Air date: 1973-05-13

Runtime: 30 min

When Mrs. Butler goes for a job at the depot's canteen, she is interviewed by an old boyfriend, Mr. Simpson who is one of the managers. After she gets the job, Jack and Olive try to use Mum's influence with Mr. Simpson to try and get one over on Blakey.

Gardening Time
S7E13
7.0

Air date: 1973-05-20

Runtime: 30 min

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.

Top Cast

Reg Varney

Reg Varney

Stan Butler

Bob Grant

Bob Grant

Jack Harper

Stephen Lewis

Stephen Lewis

Inspector Cyril 'Blakey' Blake

Doris Hare

Doris Hare

Mum

Michael Robbins

Michael Robbins

Arthur Rudge

Anna Karen

Anna Karen

Olive Rudge

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