On the Buses S01E01 The early shifts
Original air date - (28th February 1969)
nspector Blake gives Stan and Jack a new work schedule, which has them both working on the early morning buses with no canteen facilities. An unofficial strike takes place at the bus company with no strike pay. Stan takes part in an early picketing protest and a television crew arrives at the bus depot, giving the strike publicity
Original air date - (28th February 1969)
nspector Blake gives Stan and Jack a new work schedule, which has them both working on the early morning buses with no canteen facilities. An unofficial strike takes place at the bus company with no strike pay. Stan takes part in an early picketing protest and a television crew arrives at the bus depot, giving the strike publicity
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00:00On the bus is number one, part one, production number 0157, recording date 14-269, take one.
00:30Over his head, please.
01:00Morning, Mum.
01:13Hello, love.
01:14Oh, these new schedules are murder, aren't they?
01:16Don't you happen to get up this time in the morning?
01:19No morning papers.
01:24Look at that, even Tony Blackburn ain't up.
01:27There's your breakfast, eat it up.
01:29I'm not going to eat it in me socks, Mum.
01:31Where's me shoes? I put them here last night.
01:33I've got them here.
01:34They're in the oven to keep warm.
01:36Oh.
01:39Time up.
01:40Here you are, love.
01:41I don't know what they wanted to order them for.
01:43I was all right as they were.
01:45Oh!
01:46Oh, I say.
01:48Are you all right?
01:49Yeah.
01:50Going all right?
01:51Yeah, next time give me another five minutes of number six and send a recipe to Jimmy Young.
01:55Now, look here, Stan.
01:57You've gone right through the soul again.
01:59Mum, I can't help that.
02:00It's the brake pedal that does it.
02:02Well, you shouldn't press it down so hard.
02:04Don't be daft.
02:05If I don't press it down so hard, I'll go right through a brick wall.
02:07Come on, come on, eat up your breakfast.
02:09You're looking very pale, you know.
02:10Oh, turn it in, will you?
02:11Oh, just the same when you was a lad.
02:13Always, always pale-faced and thin.
02:16Mum, Mum, can I have a cup of tea, please?
02:18Oh, yes, of course, of course.
02:21There we are.
02:23Just because you're on the early shift, you don't have to get the whole house older.
02:27Me and Olive's haven't been up since five o'clock.
02:29Oh, I'm sorry about that.
02:31Oh, you needn't have bothered to come down.
02:33Stan would have got you a nice cup of tea.
02:34Aye.
02:35He married my sister, not me.
02:37Yeah, well, since I'm up, I'll have me breakfast.
02:40Now, will you have to wait, dear?
02:41I've got to get Stan's lunch ready first.
02:43Stan's lunch?
02:44I thought you always had it in the canteen.
02:46I did, but with these new schedules, I'm never back in the depot in time.
02:49You stand for that.
02:51Every man is entitled to canteen facilities.
02:53Your union should have done something about it.
02:55They did.
02:56They agreed.
02:57I suppose you was...
02:59I suppose you was too frightened to stand up at the meeting and say anything.
03:02Oh, no, I wasn't.
03:03Well, why don't you speak up for yourself?
03:05I wasn't there.
03:06It was my bingo night.
03:09Typical.
03:10No wonder the unions are getting infiltrated.
03:12You should have spent the evening with your brother members.
03:14I did.
03:15We had more at the bingo than we had at the meeting.
03:17Oh, that's graceful.
03:19I pride myself on the fact that I've never missed a union meeting.
03:2212 years I've been Treasurer of the Railway Union,
03:24and every member comes to every meeting.
03:26With you as Treasurer, I'm not surprised.
03:28Are you trying to suggest that I've missed a meeting?
03:30Here, now then, you two, now then, now then.
03:32Here, they smell nice.
03:33I'll have a couple of those sausages for me breakfast.
03:35Oh, I'm sorry, there's no more left.
03:36These are for Stan's lunch.
03:37I don't like cold bangers, Mum.
03:39Oh, you're not going to have them cold, love.
03:41I'm putting them in the thermos.
03:46How the hell am I supposed to get them out there?
03:47Oh, don't worry.
03:48Pour them on a plate or something?
03:50Well, have you got any bacon?
03:51I'm afraid not.
03:52Are you using that for Stan's sandwiches?
03:57Here, Harper, try a bit of fried bread.
03:59Fried bread?
04:00That's no good for a working man.
04:02Working man?
04:03You're a working man.
04:04A booking clerk at Crossley Junction,
04:06three trains a day, two of them cancelled.
04:10The amount of work you get through, mate,
04:12you could survive on a cream cracker.
04:15Well, I suppose I can fill up with cornflakes.
04:17Hey, where's the milk, Mum?
04:19Oh, dear, I am sorry.
04:21It's finished.
04:22Not Stan's lunch again.
04:24Oh, no.
04:25Rusty's breakfast.
04:26Come on, love.
04:29You'll have to wait till the milkman comes.
04:31Time for water.
04:35Morning, Olive.
04:37Morning, Mum.
04:38How are you?
04:39Not very well.
04:40I had a terrible night.
04:41Oh, dear, I'm sorry.
04:42Oh, God, here we go again.
04:43Morning, Stan.
04:45Oh, come on, say good morning to your sister.
04:47Morning, Olive.
04:48Coughing better?
04:50She had me awake all night with that chest of hers,
04:52weaving and puffing away,
04:54like being in bed with a steam engine.
04:57Watch it, love, watch it.
04:58You'll burst your boiler.
04:59Oh, no.
05:00Stop fussing.
05:01Well, it's murder, Mum.
05:02Olive can't help it.
05:03All this carry-on about her wheezes.
05:05It's only when she breathes.
05:07That's right, love.
05:08You take the soup.
05:09It'll do you good.
05:10It's always the same when there was children.
05:12You know, mate, you always have a fun, weak chest.
05:14That reminds me, have you got your vest on?
05:16Yes, I have.
05:17Leave me alone.
05:18There you are.
05:19Now, you've got a cough now.
05:20Come on, you'd better have some of this creosote.
05:22Creosote wipes out coughs.
05:23It wipes out dry, rotten oil.
05:26I don't want to take nothing back, mate.
05:28I'm telling you.
05:29Look, I get poisoned enough from the cab fumes
05:31without having to take that,
05:32and good look at the time.
05:33I'll be late, Mum.
05:34I'll have to borrow your bike, Olive.
05:35Here, wait a minute.
05:36Here's your lunch.
05:37All right.
05:38Here you are.
05:39Here's your sandwiches.
05:40Sorry, Mum.
05:41Your banners.
05:42That's it.
05:43And there's your tea.
05:44Oh, don't do that.
05:45It leaks.
05:47That's it.
05:48So long, Mum.
05:49I've got to go now.
05:50Here, wait.
05:51Here's your tea.
05:52Oh, better not drink that.
05:53Only on the number 11 route,
05:54I've got nowhere to stop.
05:55There's a stop in the middle of the high street.
05:58I didn't mean that.
05:59I mean, if I drink too much liquid,
06:00it goes right...
06:01Oh, never mind.
06:02Come on.
06:12LAUGHTER
06:29You've decided to come, then, have you?
06:31Here comes our new cliffie.
06:33Why don't you write, say, Sadler?
06:35Why don't you belt up, mate?
06:37Come on, hurry up and sign in.
06:38We're due out in a minute.
06:39Yeah, all right, then.
06:41Good, sir, we are.
06:42Hello, mate, how are you?
06:43All right, thanks.
06:44These new sheds look murder, aren't they?
06:46Oh, murder.
06:47I don't know what they've got in the walkroom for.
06:49Yeah, watch out.
06:50Here comes the Gestapo.
06:52You're not frightened of him, are you?
06:53I'm surprised at you, Jack.
06:55Me, I don't...
06:56Oh.
06:58Hello.
06:59Getting a bus?
07:00I'm just getting in there, Inspector.
07:01Don't go and put all that stuff in the cab like that.
07:04It could cause a nasty accident.
07:06Put it under the stool, Jack.
07:07Oh, come on, give it here.
07:08Come on.
07:12Watch it, watch it.
07:13You're spilling me sausages.
07:17I suppose you have studied the news schedule, have you?
07:20You know the news stops and timing and stages
07:22and turnarounds and change points and all that?
07:24Credit me with a better sense, will you, to mug it up.
07:26I know the route.
07:28Drive away.
07:34Hey, Jack.
07:35What?
07:36Where are we going?
07:38Number 11, Symmetry Gates via High Street.
07:45All right, mate?
07:46Come on!
08:08Come on!
08:09Come on!
08:36Who in the hell do you think you've been, eh?
08:38You were due back at 11.33.
08:39You're 17 minutes late.
08:40Yeah, I reckon it's very good.
08:42The way I worked it out, I'd be 25 minutes late.
08:44These news schedules are murder.
08:46Here's your lunch.
08:47Thanks, Jack.
08:48You know you're due out at 11.59, don't you?
08:50Yeah, 11.59, and the flipping canteen don't open till 12 o'clock.
08:54Where am I supposed to eat my grub, eh?
08:56Where am I supposed to sit?
08:57You can use the bench provided, can't you?
09:00Charming, eh?
09:01Look, Jack, I've just come out of a warm cab.
09:04I'm not eating my grub in this drafty shed.
09:06Well, get back in the cab, then.
09:08Why didn't I think of that?
09:09Good idea, Jack.
09:10Thanks.
09:14See, they've each gone off the cab now.
09:16They are.
09:17Sorry, mate.
09:18Can't understand him.
09:25What's the matter?
09:26Stomach on end?
09:27I can't get my sausages out.
09:32What you doing?
09:35Trying to suck them out.
09:41It's freezing cold in this cab.
09:43Well, turn the engine on and warm the cab up.
09:46Yeah, why didn't I think of that?
09:56What's the matter?
09:57Can't you tell the time now, then?
09:59Of course I can.
10:00Why?
10:01What's it say?
10:0211.52. Why?
10:03You're not due out until 11.59.
10:05I'm not going out until 11.59.
10:07Well, will you switch the engine on for me, then?
10:09Well, it's cold in here.
10:10Warm the cab up.
10:11Switch that on for once.
10:12What do you think he's doing?
10:13Wasting the company's drill rate.
10:14Switch it off.
10:15He's having his lunch in comfort.
10:16Lunch?
10:17That's a cab for driving and not for eating.
10:19Get out of there while you're awake.
10:20What do you think you're on, mate?
10:21That's a bustling mobile canteen.
10:23Get back in there, Stan.
10:24If the management won't open the canteen till 12 o'clock,
10:27you can stay in there.
10:29You get down out there at once.
10:31I could report you.
10:32It could be two weeks suspension for you.
10:34That's nice, isn't it?
10:35Intimidation.
10:36Yeah.
10:37That's lovely.
10:38Take no notice, Stan.
10:39He can't intimidate you.
10:41Oh, yes, he can.
10:42Get down.
10:43Get back in.
10:44Get down.
10:45Get in.
10:46Get down.
10:47Get in.
10:48You get in.
10:49It's a matter of principle.
10:50I'd better phone our union office.
10:52Now, Jack, don't bring the union into this.
10:54No, you're right.
10:55They'll never help.
10:56Right, we've got to settle this ourselves.
10:58Are you going to get out of there or aren't you?
11:00Don't you dare get out.
11:07I'll go and see the general manager then, won't I?
11:09Right.
11:13Hey, that's it.
11:14He's been told between his legs, eh, Jack?
11:16Yeah.
11:17Come on then, get out.
11:18Hey.
11:19Get out.
11:22What are you talking about?
11:23Come on, what do you think you're doing?
11:24Get out.
11:25You just told me to get back in.
11:26That was when the inspector told you to get out.
11:28I'm the shop steward and I'm convening a meeting,
11:30so get out.
11:35What about my lunch?
11:39So, you see, brothers,
11:40what's the point of having new schedules
11:42if we have to suffer?
11:44Brother Stan here has been threatened by an inspector.
11:48He has been intimidated for eating his lunch in his cab
11:51because the management wouldn't open the canteen till 12 o'clock.
11:54I put it to you, brothers,
11:56no canteen, no buses.
11:59Right.
12:00Right, let's take a vote on it.
12:01Signify in the usual manner all those in favour.
12:06We are unanimous, aren't we?
12:14Right, motion carried.
12:16We are withdrawing our labour forthwith.
12:19Here, can I have my lunch now?
12:26APPLAUSE
12:56Oh, God.
13:07Bye, Mum.
13:09Hello, Stan.
13:11Here, what are you doing back so early?
13:13Oh, what's happened?
13:14Nothing.
13:15I'm on strike.
13:16On strike?
13:17Yeah.
13:18Oh, so that's why there was no buses.
13:21Oh, really, I do think you might have told us.
13:23Me and Oliver, we was walking two miles in the pouring rain.
13:26We couldn't tell you it happened so quickly.
13:28It's what's called a lightning strike.
13:30Oh, Stan.
13:31Stan, don't tell me you couldn't get the men to hold up the strike for your mum.
13:35They wouldn't hold it up for Frank Cousin's mum.
13:37Huh?
13:38Well, the Dockers do.
13:39That one in 18.
13:40You know number 18?
13:41His mum, she always gets her meeting before the strike.
13:45And last year, Christmas nuts also.
13:50My hair's ruined!
13:53Oh, Stan, do you hear that cough?
13:58I can hear it.
13:59Sounds a lot better to me.
14:01You'll feel much better after a cup of tea.
14:03Oh, look, Stan, I bought some of those lovely fairy cakes.
14:05Get them out, will you?
14:06Just a minute, Ruthie.
14:07Are they all right?
14:08They're not wet, eh?
14:09Wet?
14:10I don't know.
14:11I haven't had a look in the bag yet.
14:12Well, I'd say they're a little bit damp.
14:14Here.
14:17Your paper bag's had it, hasn't it?
14:20Wait a minute.
14:21Hang on.
14:23Oh.
14:25Careful of the bulb.
14:27I don't know about that, Al,
14:28but look at the bun.
14:29That's not bad, is it?
14:31Oh, I can't eat that.
14:32Well, it's no different than when you dip it in your tea.
14:35Don't talk like that.
14:37Well, let's face it, mum,
14:38that's how it ends up in your stomach, isn't it?
14:40Hey, come here.
14:41Go on.
14:42Oh, is that the front door?
14:44Is that you, Alper?
14:45Yes, of course it's me.
14:47Arthur!
14:48There's a bus strike.
14:49Have you heard?
14:54Yes, I have heard.
14:56You busmen ought to be shot striking on a wet day like this.
15:00Well, it's the best time to strike, isn't it?
15:01Rainy days and Christmases.
15:03The railway's taught us that.
15:06I've soaked through to the skin.
15:08Oh, dear, I'm sorry.
15:09You are in a state, aren't you?
15:11All the sopping.
15:12Oh, now.
15:13Never mind, dear.
15:14How did you get so wet?
15:16Standing at a bus stop for an hour, waiting for a bus.
15:19Well, that was daft, wasn't it?
15:20Well, how was I to know you were on strike?
15:22Well, standing at a bus stop for an hour, nothing comes along.
15:24Blimey, you must have thought something had gone wrong.
15:26Well, you lot run the buses.
15:27We thought it was normal service.
15:30Now, listen here, mate.
15:31You busmen are a lot of layabouts.
15:33I'd like to meet the bloke who started it.
15:35Would you?
15:37Well, as a matter of fact, mate...
15:39Because when I do, I knock his block off.
15:40Who was it?
15:43Yeah, well...
15:45When I find out, I'll let you know.
15:47Your union had no right bringing you out on strike.
15:49They didn't. We did it ourselves.
15:51Oh, so it's unofficial.
15:53I suppose you know you'll get no strike pay.
15:56Stan, is that right?
15:58No wages?
15:59Won't there be no money coming in?
16:00That's right.
16:01It could be out for months, not a single penny.
16:03Olive, have you heard that?
16:05Oh, Mum, don't worry.
16:06Look here, Stan.
16:07What are we going to do for money?
16:08We've got nothing behind us.
16:09I've just paid all the rates,
16:11and, as they found you, and the HP.
16:15Well, you'll have to tell the man you want to go back.
16:17Don't waste your breath, Mum.
16:19Now, run, he'll tell you to go back before he does.
16:21It wouldn't hurt you to pay a few instalments on it for a change.
16:23And on the fridge, I've paid that for the last two years.
16:25Oh, we can't let them take the fridge back, can we?
16:27Oh, let them take it back.
16:28We won't have nothing to put in it.
16:30We could all starve to death as far as we care.
16:32Well, we'll just have to live on our office money, won't we?
16:34Then we will starve.
16:37No, it just means I shall have to start watching every penny.
16:40Start? Blimey, you never stopped.
16:42Well, at least he's going to work tomorrow.
16:44Yeah, more than you, sitting around doing nothing.
16:46I won't be sitting around doing nothing, mate.
16:48I'll be lying in bed.
16:50Lying in bed all day long?
16:52No, only till the pub's open.
16:54It's great being on strike. No wonder it's catching on.
16:56Hang on, I'll get it off.
17:00Hello?
17:01No, it's me, Stan.
17:02Oh, hello, Jack.
17:04Strike committee.
17:05Big deal.
17:07Yeah?
17:08Oh, God, no.
17:10When?
17:12What time?
17:14Yeah, all right. Yeah, all right, yeah.
17:16Tell her.
17:18What's up, Stan?
17:19They want me on picket duty.
17:20Oh, well, it's only right, isn't it?
17:22Yeah, but I've got to be there at half-past five in the morning.
17:24That means I'll have to be up by half-past four.
17:26Hardly worth going to bed, is it?
17:29Olive, I'll have to use your bike.
17:30Oh, no, you won't.
17:32I shall need a bike to get to work myself, shall I?
17:34How am I going to get on picket duty?
17:36Hop on a bus.
17:43Here, Jack, I'm fed up with this.
17:44We've been standing here for five hours,
17:46and nobody's even tried to get in.
17:48They've not even tried to start up a bus.
17:50Oh, you never know what the management will get up to.
17:52Got to show them we're solid.
17:54I'm not, all right. I can't even straighten me fingers.
17:57Here, when are we going to knock off for lunch?
17:59Knock off for lunch?
18:01Look, we do an eight-hour shift, non-stop.
18:03Wait up, Stan. Here comes your mother.
18:07Look, we don't want no interference from the women.
18:09She's probably passing. She'll be all right.
18:12Stan, I had to come and see you were all right.
18:14I brought you a few things.
18:15I'd go home if I were you. Mum's turned half-cold here.
18:17I know. That's why I brought you an extra pair of warm socks.
18:19And a hot water bottle.
18:21Stan, your mother is making us look ridiculous.
18:23Yeah, she won't be, will she?
18:24Here you are. Some nice hot tea.
18:26And some warm buns.
18:28Some warm buns. Lovely.
18:29Oh, that's very nice, yeah.
18:31No, she's actually making herself look ridiculous.
18:35Here's some cherry lentils in case the cold goes down to your chest.
18:38I'll put it in my pocket.
18:39Look, look. There's some blokes coming across the street with a camera.
18:44I know what I want.
18:46We're up from the TV news. We'd like a few shots for tonight's programme, OK?
18:50Oh, yes, that'll be all right. We need publicity. That's OK, isn't it?
18:53Yeah, I reckon it's all right, yeah.
18:55Yeah, I think you look a bit pale.
18:57Don't you think you ought to have some make-up on?
18:58Shut up, Mum.
18:59Well, they all do. The Queen and Mr Wilson.
19:04Well, he's probably Boris Barbara Carson's powder puff.
19:08Well, I think you'll be all right.
19:10Now, wait a minute. I've got a bit of lipstick here.
19:12That'll help anyway. Come on.
19:14Mum!
19:15Tony, and you're making me look a fool.
19:17Hey, listen.
19:19They're starting up one of the buses.
19:21They're going to take it through the back here.
19:23Yeah, quick. We've got to stop them.
19:24Here, hold that, Mum.
19:25Hold this.
19:26What are you going to do with it?
19:27I don't want that. Take it.
19:28Here, Sam. Wait for me, Sam.
19:30Don't kill me.
19:41God, look at that.
19:43This is speckless.
19:44They're bringing a bus out.
19:45No.
19:46Ruddy stripe-breakers.
19:47Scum! Scum!
19:49Scum!
19:50Black-legged, lying black-legged.
19:52Look at all of them.
19:53Yeah, we'll have to stop it.
19:54How are we going to do that, Jack?
19:56Lie down.
19:57Lie down?
19:58Yeah, lie down in front of the bus.
19:59You him?
20:00No, you.
20:01Yes, you.
20:02Me.
20:03Me?
20:05Just a minute, Jack.
20:06Hang on, hang on.
20:07I just thought of something.
20:08Why don't you lie down there?
20:09No, no.
20:10I'm the committee leader.
20:11I've got to negotiate with him.
20:13Come on, lie down.
20:14Quick, lie down before he gets by.
20:16I'd rather lie down after it's gone by.
20:18Besides, he might not stop.
20:20Well, we'll get him for manslaughter.
20:22I'd love to see those inspectors inside.
20:24Yeah, and so would I.
20:25But he might not know how to drive that thing.
20:27Besides, I know that bus.
20:28The dodgy brakes.
20:29Yeah, come on, come on.
20:31This is ridiculous.
20:32I don't feel like acting.
20:34Oh, my God!
20:37Tom, Tom, what are you doing down there?
20:39You'll ruin your suit.
20:40Yeah, you leave him alone.
20:41Well, it's been raining.
20:42He'll catch his death at home.
20:43Come on, come on.
20:44Cut all this talk already.
20:45Come on, get out of there.
20:46No, no, no.
20:47Don't you kick my son.
20:48He ain't done you no harm, have he?
20:49All right, all right.
20:50All right, all right.
20:51Go on, that's all.
20:52That's all.
20:53Stay there all night if you like, eh?
20:55I say, just a minute.
20:56Let's have a shot.
20:58Oh, and how do you want me?
20:59Yeah.
21:00I say, what's that red stain on your coat?
21:02What stain?
21:06It's blood, Mum!
21:07It's blood!
21:08Are you sure?
21:09It's just what we wanted.
21:10We'll have them all out now.
21:12Blood?
21:13You've been injured.
21:14Don't get up.
21:15Stay there.
21:16Are you all right, love?
21:17Are you all right?
21:18I don't know, Mum.
21:19It's just...
21:20One minute.
21:21No, don't panic, don't panic.
21:22It's that rotten cherry syrup you got there this morning.
21:24Look, I broke the bottle.
21:25Oh, Stan!
21:26Focus on the blood.
21:27Don't panic, mate.
21:28Just...
21:29What?
21:30Blood?
21:31What is it?
21:32Oh.
21:33Oh, yes.
21:34Yes, blood.
21:35Yeah.
21:36Go on.
21:37Are you all right, my love?
21:38Are you all right?
21:39Time's very unsettled.
21:40And now the regional news.
21:41Hey, hurry up, Mum.
21:42I'm on.
21:43All right, I'm all right.
21:44I'm coming.
21:45Come on, I've got a chair here.
21:46Sit down.
21:47That's it.
21:48Sit down.
21:49I'll bet they won't even bother to show it.
21:50No?
21:51No?
21:52What's that then?
21:53Hey.
21:54Hey, look, Mum, that's me.
21:55Well, all you can see is your backside.
21:58Well, it's very nice.
21:59Yeah.
22:01As the unofficial Luxton and District bus strike moved into its second day,
22:05there was drama at the bus depot
22:07when driver Stan Butler threw himself in front of a bus
22:10to prevent it being taken out and was slightly injured.
22:13What a ruddy brawl.
22:14Shhh.
22:17Hey, is that me?
22:19Yes, love.
22:20Oh, something's gone wrong.
22:21My face looks all fat.
22:22Oh.
22:23That's because your face is all fat.
22:25Ah, shut up.
22:26There's something wrong with the set, that's what it is.
22:28Ha-ha, that makes you look a lot better.
22:30Shut up.
22:31Look, I'll smile.
22:32Oh, yes, you're smiling.
22:33Yes, see, I've got it down.
22:34Oh, yes, a lovely smile, that is.
22:36You shouldn't have bothered.
22:37Er, I would have laughed at Stan Butler
22:39if he thought his courageous action was justified.
22:41For a better end.
22:43Er,
22:45you know, I won't fret about it.
22:48Here, who's that stupid woman?
22:51It's you.
22:54Oh, yes, so it is, yes.
22:59Well, all right, Burke, you may be yourself.
23:01What are you talking about?
23:02Oh, I think it was very nice of you.
23:04So do I.
23:05Really.
23:06It's a pity your teeth are so crooked, though, love.
23:08What?
23:09Didn't notice much, did it, love?
23:10Well, I don't know.
23:12Do you think it would be too late to wear a brace?
23:15Well, you and your pals will have to give in now.
23:17The management certainly won't after that little lot.
23:19Well, at least I've been on telly.
23:21So have the Munsters.
23:22Oh, here, the buses are coming on.
23:24Look, the buses, look.
23:25Here we are.
23:26And here is a newsflash.
23:28We've just heard that after a long meeting
23:30and in view of the injury sustained by driver Stan Butler,
23:33the hero of the day,
23:35the management have agreed to the busman's demands
23:38in order to avoid further bloodshed.
23:40Why, love?
23:41Oh, Stan,
23:43Oh, Stan, you've won, you've won,
23:45and all because of you, the give-in.
23:47Yeah.
23:49So I'm a berk, am I?
23:51Well, I'll tell you what, Arthur.
23:52I reckon from now on I can tackle anything.
23:54Well, you can start right away.
23:55What do you mean, Mum?
23:56Tackle the washing up.
24:04What does it matter, fellas?
24:05We've won, haven't we?
24:06That's the thing.
24:07We taught the management a thing or two.
24:08Now we know how to get what we want, don't we?
24:10Of course, yeah.
24:11OK, come on, Jack.
24:12You're due out in two minutes.
24:13Get in the bus.
24:14Hold your hair on, hold your hair on.
24:15We're the bosses now, you know.
24:17Oh, yes?
24:18Yeah.
24:19Well, in that case, you'd better send out
24:20for your smoked salmon and caviar
24:21for your lunches then, had you?
24:22What do you mean?
24:23Take a look.
24:29Blimey, the canteen have gone on strike now.
24:31That's a dead liberty, that is.
24:33Never mind, Jack.
24:34We can't do anything about it.
24:35Oh, can't we?
24:36What do you mean?
24:37Not one bus leaves this depot until we get our grub.
24:40How do you do that then?
24:41Lie down in front of the bus.
24:42That's it, lie down in front of the bus.
24:43Wait a minute, no!
25:10APPLAUSE
25:40.