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Started: 7th Aug 1971 - No.31
Replacing:
Ended: 4th May 1974 - No.17
Replaced by:
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“Never Mix Business…”
7/8/71 - No.31 to 21/8/71 - No.33
Stan and Jack are sent to collect the wages from Head
Office. On the way, they park in the High Street so Stan can buy his
mother a food mixer for her birthday. This gives a gang of crooks an
opportunity to steal the bus so they can make the wages collection
themselves.
“A 'Testing' day for Stan”
28/8/71 - No.34 to 18/9/71 - No.37
Stan is suspended for driving his bus too fast. The company
are willing to reinstate him, but only if he agrees to take another
driving test.
(Note: Reprinted as four monochrome pages in the Look-In TV
Comedy Annual 1974)
“Something fishy...”
25/9/71 - No.38 to 9/10/71 - No.40
Stan and Jack have been using
the bus out of hours to provide evening fishing trips for the Luxton
Angling Club. Blakey catches them red-handed.
“'Strike' a light”
16/10/71 - No.41 to
30/10/71 - No.43
Heavy traffic means
Stan's bus is late again. To make up for lost time, Blakey sends him back
out without a tea break, so Stan organises an unofficial strike. But
striking is harder work than he'd thought.
“It's a
dog's life”
6/11/71 - No.44 to
20/11/71 - No.46
A stray St. Bernard dog gets onto Stan's bus. Blakey tells
him to get rid of it, or else. But the problem is how?
“Boxing Blakey”
27/11/71 - No.47 to 11/12/71 - No.49
Blakey challenges Stan to a
game of obstacle golf, but a misunderstanding over the ownership of a ball
forces the inspector into a boxing match with Lefty Logan, the ex county
champion.
“Speed
demon”
18/12/71 - No.50 to
1/1/72 - No.1
A new relief driver
is completing his routes too quickly for Stan's liking, but he has an idea
when Arthur shows him how to give his bus a boost of speed.
“Fighting back”
8/1/72 - No.2 to
22/1/72 - No.4
Stan fights back when yobbos cause trouble on the late
night run. But one of the lads is Blakey's nephew, and he advises the boy
to press charges against Stan.
“A
rest for Blakey?”
29/1/72 - No.5 to 5/2/72 - No.6
Blakey receives a letter announcing that he has won second prize in a
national newspaper competition. With a prize of five thousand pounds and a
luxury holiday in Bermuda, he intends to retire.
“Clippie
Calamities”
12/2/72 - No.7 to 26/2/72 - No.9
Blakey decides to split
up Stan and Jack. Stan's clippie is to be Big Bertha, who once
single-handedly chucked six football rowdies off a bus and half-strangled
a man who refused to pay his fare. After Stan begs, Blakey agrees to give
him and Jack one more chance, but fate intervenes.
“Stan's
sideline”
4/3/72 - No.10
to 11/3/72 - No.11
Stan sets up a stall on the platform of his bus to sell eggs and
vegetables from his allotment, but has to hide the produce when Blakey
turns up unexpectedly.
“The
haunted depot”
18/3/72 - No.12 to 25/3/72 - No.13
Blakey confiscates a horror magazine when he finds Stan and Jack reading
it instead of working. To get their own back, the pair return to the depot
that night, draped in sheets and intending to make Blakey think he's
seeing ghosts. But once inside, Stan and Jack see a spooky shadow moving
up a wall.
“Unlucky 'Break' ”
1/4/72 -
No.14 to 15/4/72 - No.16
Stan has a ticket for
Saturday's Cup Final. He's due to be working on the day, so he stages an
'accident' to convince Blakey that he's broken his leg. But at the
stadium, he finds he's sitting next to Blakey!
“Car
trouble”
22/4/72 - No.17 to 13/5/72 - No.20
Blakey buys a car from a casual acquaintance of Arthur's, but it turns out
to have been stolen. Now five hundred pounds out of pocket, he blames Stan
and sacks him on the spot.
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