Holiday on the Buses

Holiday on the Buses (1973)

Their Most Hilarious Yet!

Due to a female passenger falling out of her top whilst running for the bus Stan is distracted and crashes the bus resulting in the depot managers car being written off. As a result Stan, Jack and Blakey are fired. Stan and Jack soon get new jobs as a bus crew at a Pontins holiday resort but discover that Blakey has also gotten a job there as the chief security guard.

Date of release
1973-05-19
TMDB
7.4 / 10 (64)
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Bryan Izzard
Collection
On the Buses Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Holiday on the Buses is a 1973 British comedy film directed by Bryan Izzard and starring Reg Varney, Doris Hare, Michael Robbins, Anna Karen, Stephen Lewis and Bob Grant. It was produced by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe for Hammer Films, and is the third and final spin-off film from the ITV sitcom On the Buses. It succeeded the films On the Buses (1971) and Mutiny on the Buses (1972)." A fourth film was planned but cancelled.

Production

It was filmed on location at The Pontin's Holiday Camp, Prestatyn, North Wales. Interiors were completed at EMI-MGM Elstree Studios, Borehamwood. Scenes were also filmed at Dyserth, at the Waterfall Shop. Other locations include Rhuddlan and Rhyl.

The open top bus was XFM 229, a Bristol LD new to Crosville Motor Services which was scrapped in 1982.

The film marked the final appearances of Reg Varney and Michael Robbins in the On the Buses franchise, the actors having already left the TV series in its final season which aired the same year of the film's release.

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