The series was created and written mainly by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney. The main cast was the happy go luck bus driver Stan (Reg Varney). Stan's best pal, the lecherous conductor Jack (Bob Grant) and Inspector Blakey (Stephen Lewis).
Driver Stan lived at home with sister the delectable Olive (Anna Karen) and her layabout husband Arthur (Michael Robbins) plus of course dear old Mum. (Cicely Courtniedge) series 1, (Doris Hare) from series 2 onwards.
The series followed the exploits of Stan and Jacks lives. Their day to day living, how they dealt with authority and of course the all important job of chasing the opposite sex known as Birds. The cast won the ITV personality of the year in 1970.
Critics hated and even the BBC had turned down the show when offered as they thought it was not a winner.
However ITV took it on and by 1971 on the buses was a firm favourite across the nation and ended up being watched globally by audiences of 22 million. The show ended up being exported to 38 countries around the world and is still being given reruns on TV to this day.