Is Anyone From On The Buses Still Alive?

On the Buses is a British television sitcom that was broadcast on ITV from 1969 to 1973.

On the Buses was created by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe, who wrote most of the episodes and spawned three spin-off feature films and a stage version.

Despite the writers’ previous successes with The Rag Trade and Meet the Wife with the BBC, the corporation rejected On the Buses, not seeing much comedy potential in a bus depot as a setting.

The comedy partnership turned to Frank Muir, Head of Entertainment at London Weekend Television (LWT), who loved the idea; the show was accepted, and despite a poor critical reception became a hit with viewers.

The series is centred on the Number 11 bus, at the Luxton and District Motor Traction Company, a green and cream double-decker crewed by driver Stan Butler and his pal conductor Jack Harper and it became one of the most popular British comedy series of its era, if not all time.

Is Anyone From On The Buses Still Alive?

The main characters for On the Buses are; Reg Varney, Cicely Courtneidge (series 1) and Doris Hare (series 2–7), Anna Karen, Michael Robbins, Bob Grant and Stephen Lewis.

As at 2022, Anna Karen, who played Olive Rudge, was the only surviving main cast member of the sitcom, which ran for seven series as well as three spin-off films.

However, Anna Karen died on Feb. 23, 2022, aged 85 in a house fire.