Chesney and Wolfe
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Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe (born 8 August 1922) are British
TV
comedy
screenwriter
s, best known for their popular 1960s / 1970s sitcoms The Rag Trade
and On The Buses
.
player. He was declared unfit to serve in World War II
because of illness. He began to write potential radio scripts for the BBC
where he came into contact with future writing partner Ronald Wolfe.
Wolfe was born in London
and during World War II he worked as a radio engineer at Marconi. In the early 1950s he began to contribute to radio scripts, and his long and fruitful partnership with Chesney began. Wolfe is the first cousin of actor Warren Mitchell
.
radio's Educating Archie
, in 1958. This featured ventriloquist Peter Brough
and his puppet Archie Andrews
and emerged from a one-off special they had written in 1956 for the BBC entitled Here's Archie, which also featured Brough, his dummy, and Irene Handl
.
In 1961 the duo created The Rag Trade
, starring Peter Jones
, Miriam Karlin
and Reg Varney
. Written for the BBC, this comedy was set in a working class
environment and featured strong roles for the female actors, which was unusual for the time. Set in a fabric workshop - Fenner Fashions - it centred on the battles and conflicts between the bosses and the workers, and contained a certain degree of social commentary. Sheila Hancock
, Esma Cannon
and Barbara Windsor
also appeared.
In 1963 Chesney and Wolfe repeated their success with the BBC sitcom Meet The Wife
starring Dame Thora Hird
and Freddie Frinton
. It was originally a one-off Comedy Playhouse
pilot called "The Bed". Again, this featured working class characters and humour. This sitcom is also mentioned in the lyrics of The Beatles' Good Morning Good Morning
("It's time for tea and Meet The Wife").
In 1964 they wrote a 13 episode comedy series for Australian TV, 'Barley Charlie', which revolved around two sisters, Sheila Bradley as Joan Muggleton and Robina Beard as Shirley Muggleton, who inherit a run down garage complete with its one bone-idle employee, Edward Hepple
as Charlie Appleby, it was produced by Rod Kinnear for the Nine Network.
In 1965/66 they wrote The Bed-Sit Girl starring Sheila Hancock, and in 1967 Sorry I'm Single starring Derek Nimmo
, Gwendolyn Watts
and Elizabeth Knight. In 1968 they created Wild, Wild Women
starring Barbara Windsor
, which was a kind of period-piece variation on The Rag Trade.
Their next major series though was ITV
's On The Buses
which started in 1969 produced by the newly formed London Weekend Television
network. It starred Reg Varney
as bus driver "Stan Butler", with Bob Grant
as his bus conductor "Jack Harper", Cicely Courtneidge
and later Doris Hare
as his "Mum", Michael Robbins
as his brother in law "Arthur", Anna Karen
as his plain sister "Olive" and the memorable lip-quivering Stephen Lewis
as bus Inspector Cyril Blake, usually referred to as "Blakey" or "Dracula". The series ran until 1973 and was a great success, producing three film spin-offs and an American remake, Lotsa Luck
, which ran for one season on NBC
in 1973-1974. When the series ended Wolfe and Chesney followed it with Don't Drink the Water (1974/75), which starred Stephen Lewis's Blakey abroad in Spain, which lasted for two series.
In 1972, the Two (Writing) Ronnies, as they were sometimes known, wrote the ITV
sitcom Romany Jones starring Dad's Army
actor James Beck
and featuring Jo Rowbottom
and Arthur English
. It lasted four series, but was not as popular as some of their previous projects. Beck died after the second series necessitating some recasting. Romany Jones led to a sequel featuring the characters played by Arthur Mullard
and Queenie Watts
, Yus, My Dear
(1976).
In 1977, an updated version of The Rag Trade was produced by LWT for the ITV
network, with Peter Jones and Miriam Karlin returning, and Anna Karen
virtually repeating her Olive character from On The Buses, it lasted two series.
Their last series as a comedy scriptwriting partnership were Watch This Space (BBC 1980), starring Christopher Biggins
as the boss of an advertising agency, and Take a Letter Mr. Jones (Southern
1981), a vehicle for John Inman
.
Both Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney live in London.
United Kingdom
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TV
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
s, best known for their popular 1960s / 1970s sitcoms The Rag Trade
The Rag Trade
The Rag Trade was a British television sitcom broadcast by the BBC between 1961 and 1963 and by LWT between 1977 and 1978.The scripts were by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, who later wrote Wild, Wild Women, a period variation of The Rag Trade....
and On The Buses
On The Buses
On the Buses was a British situation comedy created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney which was broadcast in the UK from 1969 to 1973. The writers' previous successes with The Rag Trade and Meet the Wife were for the BBC, but the Corporation rejected On the Buses, not seeing much comedy potential...
.
Early years
Chesney left school at the age of 16 and became a professional harmonicaHarmonica
The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
player. He was declared unfit to serve in World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
because of illness. He began to write potential radio scripts for the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
where he came into contact with future writing partner Ronald Wolfe.
Wolfe was born in London
London
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and during World War II he worked as a radio engineer at Marconi. In the early 1950s he began to contribute to radio scripts, and his long and fruitful partnership with Chesney began. Wolfe is the first cousin of actor Warren Mitchell
Warren Mitchell
Warren Mitchell is an English actor who rose to initial prominence in the role of bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in the BBC television sitcom Till Death Us Do Part , and its sequels Till Death... and In Sickness and in Health , all of which were written by Johnny Speight...
.
Chesney and Wolfe's works
The first major success for Chesney and Wolfe was BBCBBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
radio's Educating Archie
Educating Archie
Educating Archie was a BBC Light Programme comedy show broadcast from June 1950 to February 1958 on Sunday lunchtimes featuring ventriloquist Peter Brough and his doll Archie Andrews. The programme was successful despite a ventriloquist on radio seeming strange, though in the United States, Edgar...
, in 1958. This featured ventriloquist Peter Brough
Peter Brough
Peter Brough was an English radio ventriloquist who became a well-known name to audiences in the 1950s. He is associated with the puppet Archie Andrews.-Radio days:...
and his puppet Archie Andrews
Archie Andrews (puppet)
Archie Andrews was a ventriloquist's dummy used by ventriloquist Peter Brough in a radio and television show in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s. In its radio format it was called Educating Archie. The bizarre concept of delivering a ventriloquist act, a visual humour, by radio, an audio medium,...
and emerged from a one-off special they had written in 1956 for the BBC entitled Here's Archie, which also featured Brough, his dummy, and Irene Handl
Irene Handl
-Life:Irene Handl was born in Maida Vale, London, the daughter of an Austrian banker father and French mother. She took to acting at the relatively advanced age of 36, and studied at the acting school run by the sister of Dame Sybil Thorndike...
.
In 1961 the duo created The Rag Trade
The Rag Trade
The Rag Trade was a British television sitcom broadcast by the BBC between 1961 and 1963 and by LWT between 1977 and 1978.The scripts were by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, who later wrote Wild, Wild Women, a period variation of The Rag Trade....
, starring Peter Jones
Peter Jones (actor)
Peter Jones was an English actor, screenwriter and broadcaster.-Early life and career:Jones was born in Wem, Shropshire and he was educated at the Wem Grammar School and Ellesmere College. He made his first appearance as an actor in Wolverhampton at the age of 16 and then appeared in repertory...
, Miriam Karlin
Miriam Karlin
Miriam Karlin, OBE was a British actress who worked on screen for over 60 years. She was best known for her role as Paddy in The Rag Trade, a 1960s BBC and 1970s LWT sitcom , especially for her catchphrase "Everybody out!"...
and Reg Varney
Reg Varney
Reginald Alfred "Reg" Varney was an English actor, most notable for his role as Stan Butler in 1970s TV sitcom On the Buses.-Early life:...
. Written for the BBC, this comedy was set in a working class
Working class
Working class is a term used in the social sciences and in ordinary conversation to describe those employed in lower tier jobs , often extending to those in unemployment or otherwise possessing below-average incomes...
environment and featured strong roles for the female actors, which was unusual for the time. Set in a fabric workshop - Fenner Fashions - it centred on the battles and conflicts between the bosses and the workers, and contained a certain degree of social commentary. Sheila Hancock
Sheila Hancock
Sheila Cameron Hancock, CBE is an English actress and author.-Early life:Sheila Hancock was born in Blackgang on the Isle of Wight, the daughter of Ivy Louise and Enrico Cameron Hancock, who was a publican. Her sister Billie is seven years older...
, Esma Cannon
Esma Cannon
Esma Ellen Charlotte Cannon was a diminutive Australian-born character actress, who moved to England in the early 1930s.-Career:...
and Barbara Windsor
Barbara Windsor
Barbara Ann Windsor, MBE , better known by her stage name Barbara Windsor, is an English actress. Her best known roles are in the Carry On films and as Peggy Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders....
also appeared.
In 1963 Chesney and Wolfe repeated their success with the BBC sitcom Meet The Wife
Meet the Wife
Meet the Wife is a 1960s BBC situation comedy written by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe, which featured Freddie Frinton as Freddie Blacklock with Thora Hird as his tyrannical wife, Thora. It ran to five series....
starring Dame Thora Hird
Thora Hird
Dame Thora Hird DBE was an English actress.-Early life and career:Hird was born in the Lancashire seaside town of Morecambe. She first appeared on stage at the age of two months in a play her father was managing...
and Freddie Frinton
Freddie Frinton
Freddie Frinton, born Frederick Bittiner Coo was an English comedian who remains a household name in Germany and Scandinavia because of his performance in Dinner for One....
. It was originally a one-off Comedy Playhouse
Comedy Playhouse
Comedy Playhouse was a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 120 episodes from 1961 to 1975. Many episodes later graduated to their own series, including Steptoe and Son, Till Death Us Do Part, All Gas and Gaiters, The Liver Birds, Are You Being Served?...
pilot called "The Bed". Again, this featured working class characters and humour. This sitcom is also mentioned in the lyrics of The Beatles' Good Morning Good Morning
Good Morning Good Morning
"Good Morning Good Morning" is a song written by John Lennon and recorded by The Beatles, featured on their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.-Lyrical inspiration:...
("It's time for tea and Meet The Wife").
In 1964 they wrote a 13 episode comedy series for Australian TV, 'Barley Charlie', which revolved around two sisters, Sheila Bradley as Joan Muggleton and Robina Beard as Shirley Muggleton, who inherit a run down garage complete with its one bone-idle employee, Edward Hepple
Edward Hepple
- Stage :He was part of the cast in the first public performance of Kenneth G. Ross's important Australian play Breaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts, presented by the Melbourne Theatre Company at the Athenaeum Theatre, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on Thursday, 2 February 1978.- Television...
as Charlie Appleby, it was produced by Rod Kinnear for the Nine Network.
In 1965/66 they wrote The Bed-Sit Girl starring Sheila Hancock, and in 1967 Sorry I'm Single starring Derek Nimmo
Derek Nimmo
Derek Robert Nimmo was an English character actor. He was particularly associated with upper-class "silly-ass" roles, and clerical roles.-Career:...
, Gwendolyn Watts
Gwendolyn Watts
Gwen Watts was a British actress of the 1960s and 1970s.-Career:Born as Gwendolyn Watts in Carhampton, Somerset, Watts made her first television appearance in 1958 in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, going on to appear in The Rag Trade , The Avengers , Maigret , Steptoe and Son ,...
and Elizabeth Knight. In 1968 they created Wild, Wild Women
Wild, Wild Women
Wild, Wild Women was a British sitcom that aired on BBC from 1968 to 1969. Made in black-and-white, it starred Barbara Windsor and was written by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney.-Pilot:*Barbara Windsor - Millie*Derek Francis - Mr Harcourt...
starring Barbara Windsor
Barbara Windsor
Barbara Ann Windsor, MBE , better known by her stage name Barbara Windsor, is an English actress. Her best known roles are in the Carry On films and as Peggy Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders....
, which was a kind of period-piece variation on The Rag Trade.
Their next major series though was ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
's On The Buses
On The Buses
On the Buses was a British situation comedy created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney which was broadcast in the UK from 1969 to 1973. The writers' previous successes with The Rag Trade and Meet the Wife were for the BBC, but the Corporation rejected On the Buses, not seeing much comedy potential...
which started in 1969 produced by the newly formed London Weekend Television
London Weekend Television
London Weekend Television was the name of the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties including south Suffolk, middle and east Hampshire, Oxfordshire, south Bedfordshire, south Northamptonshire, parts of Herefordshire & Worcestershire, Warwickshire, east Dorset and...
network. It starred Reg Varney
Reg Varney
Reginald Alfred "Reg" Varney was an English actor, most notable for his role as Stan Butler in 1970s TV sitcom On the Buses.-Early life:...
as bus driver "Stan Butler", with Bob Grant
Bob Grant (actor)
Robert St Clair Grant , usually known as Bob Grant, was an English actor, best known for playing Jack Harper in On the Buses....
as his bus conductor "Jack Harper", Cicely Courtneidge
Cicely Courtneidge
Dame Esmerelda Cicely Courtneidge DBE was an English actress and comedienne. The daughter of the producer Robert Courtneidge, she was appearing in his productions in the West End, by the age of 16, and was quickly promoted from minor to major roles in his Edwardian musical comedies.After the...
and later Doris Hare
Doris Hare
Doris Hare MBE was a Welsh actress, best known for her appearances as "Mum" in the popular sitcom On the Buses alongside Reg Varney and Stephen Lewis....
as his "Mum", Michael Robbins
Michael Robbins
Michael Anthony Robbins was a British actor known for his television work...
as his brother in law "Arthur", Anna Karen
Anna Karen
Anna Karen is a South African-born British film, television and theatre actress.-Career:Early in her career, Karen worked as a striptease dancer at London's Panama Club. During her acting career she has starred in many films and television programmes, including the BBC sitcom Wild, Wild Women,...
as his plain sister "Olive" and the memorable lip-quivering Stephen Lewis
Stephen Lewis (actor)
Stephen Lewis is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Inspector Cyril "Blakey" Blake in the LWT Sitcom On the Buses, Clem "Smiler" Hemmingway in the longest running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine and Harry Lambert in BBC Television's Oh, Doctor Beeching!.-Career:Lewis began his...
as bus Inspector Cyril Blake, usually referred to as "Blakey" or "Dracula". The series ran until 1973 and was a great success, producing three film spin-offs and an American remake, Lotsa Luck
Lotsa Luck
Lotsa Luck was a 1973-74 comedy series starring Dom DeLuise as bachelor Stanley Belmont who lives with his bossy mother , his sister Olive and her unemployed husband, Arthur...
, which ran for one season on NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
in 1973-1974. When the series ended Wolfe and Chesney followed it with Don't Drink the Water (1974/75), which starred Stephen Lewis's Blakey abroad in Spain, which lasted for two series.
In 1972, the Two (Writing) Ronnies, as they were sometimes known, wrote the ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
sitcom Romany Jones starring Dad's Army
Dad's Army
Dad's Army is a British sitcom about the Home Guard during the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977. The series ran for 9 series and 80 episodes in total, plus a radio series, a feature film and a stage show...
actor James Beck
James Beck
Stanley James Carroll Beck was a British actor best remembered for his role as Private Joe Walker, the cockney spiv in the popular BBC sitcom Dad's Army. The cast was mainly composed of older actors, but Beck was one of the younger members.-Early life:Beck was born in Islington, North London and...
and featuring Jo Rowbottom
Jo Rowbottom
Jo Rowbottom is a British character actress, best known for guest roles in numerous British TV series, and as James Beck's wife in Romany Jones.-Selected television credits:*Dixon of Dock Green*Z-Cars*The Baron*Mogul...
and Arthur English
Arthur English
Arthur Leslie Norman English was an English actor and comedian from the music hall tradition.English was born in Aldershot, Hampshire. After serving in the army in World War II, reaching the rank of sergeant, English worked as a painter and decorator in his native town...
. It lasted four series, but was not as popular as some of their previous projects. Beck died after the second series necessitating some recasting. Romany Jones led to a sequel featuring the characters played by Arthur Mullard
Arthur Mullard
Arthur Ernest Mullard, original surname Mullord was an English comedy actor.- Early life :...
and Queenie Watts
Queenie Watts
Queenie Watts was an English actress and singer of film and television....
, Yus, My Dear
Yus, My Dear
Yus, My Dear is a British situation comedy which ran for nineteen episodes over two series in 1976 featuring Arthur Mullard and Queenie Watts in the lead roles, it was written by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe...
(1976).
In 1977, an updated version of The Rag Trade was produced by LWT for the ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
network, with Peter Jones and Miriam Karlin returning, and Anna Karen
Anna Karen
Anna Karen is a South African-born British film, television and theatre actress.-Career:Early in her career, Karen worked as a striptease dancer at London's Panama Club. During her acting career she has starred in many films and television programmes, including the BBC sitcom Wild, Wild Women,...
virtually repeating her Olive character from On The Buses, it lasted two series.
Their last series as a comedy scriptwriting partnership were Watch This Space (BBC 1980), starring Christopher Biggins
Christopher Biggins
Christopher Kenneth Biggins is an English actor and media personality.-Career:Biggins was born in Oldham, Lancashire, England and brought up in Salisbury, Wiltshire, where he took elocution lessons and participated in local drama groups...
as the boss of an advertising agency, and Take a Letter Mr. Jones (Southern
Southern Television
Southern Television was the first ITV broadcasting licence holder for the south and south-east of England from 30 August 1958 until the night of 31 December 1981. The company was launched as Southern Television Limited and the title Southern Television was consistently used on-air throughout its life...
1981), a vehicle for John Inman
John Inman
Frederick John Inman was an English actor best known for his role as Mr. Humphries in Are You Being Served?, a British sitcom in the 1970s and 1980s. Inman was also well known in the United Kingdom as a pantomime dame....
.
Both Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney live in London.
TV credits
- Here's Archie (1956) BBC
- Educating ArchieEducating ArchieEducating Archie was a BBC Light Programme comedy show broadcast from June 1950 to February 1958 on Sunday lunchtimes featuring ventriloquist Peter Brough and his doll Archie Andrews. The programme was successful despite a ventriloquist on radio seeming strange, though in the United States, Edgar...
(1958/59) Associated-Rediffusion/ ITV - The Rag TradeThe Rag TradeThe Rag Trade was a British television sitcom broadcast by the BBC between 1961 and 1963 and by LWT between 1977 and 1978.The scripts were by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, who later wrote Wild, Wild Women, a period variation of The Rag Trade....
(1961–1963) BBC - Comedy Playhouse (Series 3) -"The Bed" (1963, Pilot) BBC
- Meet the WifeMeet the WifeMeet the Wife is a 1960s BBC situation comedy written by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe, which featured Freddie Frinton as Freddie Blacklock with Thora Hird as his tyrannical wife, Thora. It ran to five series....
(1964–1966) BBC - Barley Charlie (1964) Nine Network, Australia
- The Bed-Sit GirlThe Bed-Sit GirlThe Bed-Sit Girl was a British sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1965 to 1966. Created by Chesney and Wolfe for Sheila Hancock, The Bed-Sit Girl aired for two series....
(1965/66) BBC - Sorry I'm Single (1967) BBC
- According To Dora (1968/69) BBC
- Comedy Playhouse (Series 7) - "Wild, Wild Women" (1968, Pilot) BBC
- Wild, Wild WomenWild, Wild WomenWild, Wild Women was a British sitcom that aired on BBC from 1968 to 1969. Made in black-and-white, it starred Barbara Windsor and was written by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney.-Pilot:*Barbara Windsor - Millie*Derek Francis - Mr Harcourt...
(1969, series) BBC - On the BusesOn The BusesOn the Buses was a British situation comedy created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney which was broadcast in the UK from 1969 to 1973. The writers' previous successes with The Rag Trade and Meet the Wife were for the BBC, but the Corporation rejected On the Buses, not seeing much comedy potential...
(1969–1973) LWT - The Other Reg Varney (1970, repeated as The Reg Varney Comedy Hour in 1972) LWT
- Romany Jones (1972, Pilot) Thames TV
- Romany JonesRomany JonesRomany Jones is a British sitcom made by LWT, It starred Arthur Mullard and Queenie Watts as Wally and Lily Briggs and was broadcast between 1973 and 1975, The show was originally designed as a vehicle for James Beck , involving the comic misadventures of two layabout families living on a caravan...
(1973–75, series) LWT - Don't Drink The Water (1974/75) LWT
- Yus, My DearYus, My DearYus, My Dear is a British situation comedy which ran for nineteen episodes over two series in 1976 featuring Arthur Mullard and Queenie Watts in the lead roles, it was written by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe...
(1976) LWT - Comedy Special - "The Boys And Mrs B" (1977, Pilot) BBC
- The Rag TradeThe Rag TradeThe Rag Trade was a British television sitcom broadcast by the BBC between 1961 and 1963 and by LWT between 1977 and 1978.The scripts were by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, who later wrote Wild, Wild Women, a period variation of The Rag Trade....
(1977/78) LWT remake - Watch This Space (1980) BBC
- Take a Letter, Mr. JonesTake a Letter, Mr. JonesTake a Letter, Mr. Jones was a short-lived British sitcom from Southern Television starring John Inman and Rula Lenska which aired in 1981.-Plot:...
(1981) Southern / ITV - Allo Allo! (1989, one episode "Down the Drain", series 5) BBC
Film credits
- I've Gotta HorseI've Gotta Horse- Summary :Based on the star's famous love of animals, this musical comedy portrays Billy setting out to add a sheepdog to his vast entourage of animals and coming back with an irresistible horse named Armitage instead. To his manager's horror, Billy smuggles the horse backstage during rehearsals...
(1965) - On the BusesOn the Buses (film)On the Buses is a 1971 British comedy film directed by Harry Booth and starring Reg Varney and Doris Hare. The film is the first spin-off film from the TV sitcom On the Buses and was followed by two further films Mutiny on the Buses and Holiday on the Buses...
(1971) - Mutiny on the BusesMutiny on the BusesMutiny on the Buses is a 1972 British comedy film directed by Harry Booth and starring Reg Varney and Doris Hare. The film is the second spin-off film from the TV sitcom On the Buses and succeeded On the Buses . It was followed by a third film Holiday on the Buses...
(1972) - Holiday on the BusesHoliday on the BusesHoliday on the Buses is a 1973 British comedy film directed by Bryan Izzard and starring Reg Varney and Doris Hare. The film is the third spin-off film from the ITV sitcom On the Buses and succeeded the films On the Buses and Mutiny on the Buses...
(1973) - Fredrikssons Fabrikk - The Movie (Norway 1994)