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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 380673" data-attributes="member: 23">Last night I entered the Seventies with On The Buses. And in glorious technicolour. In-keeping with the saucy picture postcard bawdiness of the decade, the first episode included a subtly risqué line when attractive clippie Suzanne Vasey was feeling further up the Inspector&#039;s injured leg:As well as the line, Blakey squirming ecstatically in his seat and the silly grin on his face (Stephen Lewis trying valiantly not to corpse, I think) drove home the gag. This is the episode that appears to have had debuted Blakey&#039;s trademark &quot;I &#039;ate you, Butler&quot;, something that I believe became strongly associated with the character and the series in much the same way that &quot;I&#039;m free&quot; was with Are You Being Served? (despite that, too, almost never being used in that series&#039; early years)Seventies toilet humour became quite literal in the second episode with the Butlers choosing a new low level loo. Thanks to the switch from black and white, we could see that the basin was the colour of Shield soap, but Mabel chose a black seat (with a lid which was apparently an optional extra) and a cistern that was a light grey/putty kind of colour. Welcome to the decade that taste forgot. Speaking of forgotten taste, Blakey&#039;s stunning young niece was inexplicably torn between Stan and Jack.&nbsp; We&#039;ve already spoken about this but it just comes as seedy as it does inexplicable. But hey ho. Sadly, the first and second episode have no VT board, no LWT ident at the beginning or end, and no ad bumpers (once again there&#039;s just a dissolve between scenes). These were thankfully present and correct in the third episode, but we appear to be back to second generation for the fourth episode. Network are (or were, I should say with a sigh) incredibly good at using the best sources and presenting the episodes as complete as possible - right down to the stuff we didn&#039;t get to see when aired - so there must be a good reason for these episodes not being first generation masters. I wonder what it is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 380673, member: 23"] Last night I entered the Seventies with[I] On The Buses.[/I] And in glorious technicolour. In-keeping with the saucy picture postcard bawdiness of the decade, the first episode included a subtly risqué line when attractive clippie Suzanne Vasey was feeling further up the Inspector's injured leg: As well as the line, Blakey squirming ecstatically in his seat and the silly grin on his face (Stephen Lewis trying valiantly not to corpse, I think) drove home the gag. This is the episode that appears to have had debuted Blakey's trademark "I 'ate you, Butler", something that I believe became strongly associated with the character and the series in much the same way that "I'm free" was with [I]Are You Being Served?[/I] (despite that, too, almost never being used in that series' early years) Seventies toilet humour became quite literal in the second episode with the Butlers choosing a new low level loo. Thanks to the switch from black and white, we could see that the basin was the colour of Shield soap, but Mabel chose a black seat (with a lid which was apparently an optional extra) and a cistern that was a light grey/putty kind of colour. Welcome to the decade that taste forgot. Speaking of forgotten taste, Blakey's stunning young niece was inexplicably torn between Stan and Jack. We've already spoken about this but it just comes as seedy as it does inexplicable. But hey ho. Sadly, the first and second episode have no VT board, no LWT ident at the beginning or end, and no ad bumpers (once again there's just a dissolve between scenes). These were thankfully present and correct in the third episode, but we appear to be back to second generation for the fourth episode. Network are (or [I]were[/I], I should say with a sigh) incredibly good at using the best sources and presenting the episodes as complete as possible - right down to the stuff we didn't get to see when aired - so there must be a good reason for these episodes not being first generation masters. I wonder what it is. [/QUOTE]

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