S07 Episode 1
Olive's Divorce
It's six months since Arthur walked out on her so Olive,armed with a list of grievances prepared by Mum and Stan,goes to court and is granted her divorce.With Mum going to stay with Aunt Maud Olive is very much the gooseberry as she accompanies Stan and his girl-friend Sandra to the pictures - to see a sexy film about a recently divorced woman - where Olive sits next to a groper. Stan gets Blakey to see Olive home whilst he goes to Sandra's for some rumpy-pumpy but Olive turns up to interrupt him as she has forgotten her house key.
30 mins · Fri, 2 Feb 1973
S07 Episode 2
The Perfect Clippie
With money tight as ever in the Butler home Stan asks Blakey to employ Olive on the buses and eventually he relents. Olive's last excursion into being a conductress was a disaster but now she is completely in charge,super-efficient to the point of annoying, particularly as she has learnt the rule book off by heart and takes Stan to task for his rule-bending.It can't last..
30 mins · Sun, 4 Mar 1973
S07 Episode 3
The Ticket Machine
Mum and Olive run up debts of fifty pounds when they buy things to sell on from a catalogue firm only for Olive to break them. When Blakey refuses to give him his bonus Stan warms to Jack's idea of using a stolen ticket machine to charge for fares that will not be recorded so they can pocket the profits. After Blakey has come to the house and almost sat on the machine Stan decides to confess about the machine but Blakey gives him his bonus.However he has found out about the ticket machine and makes Stan donate the money to the bus crews' charity organization.
30 mins · Sun, 11 Mar 1973
S07 Episode 4
The Poster
Jack enters Stan as a possible candidate for a new promotional poster.
24 mins · Sun, 18 Mar 1973
S07 Episode 5
The Football Match
The bus crews are encouraged to form their own staff football team,to take on the Basildon Bashers. Jack and Stan are not enthusiastic but there is a five pound bonus on offer. The depot only has one star player,young Bob,and Stan injures him in training,so he asks Blakey if he can field a substitute - Olive. Blakey feels that women and football do not mix - until he sees the Basildon Bashers. They are an all-female team and they contrive by fair means and foul to give Stan's team a good pasting.
30 mins · Sun, 25 Mar 1973
S07 Episode 6
On The Omnibuses
t's a hundred years since the Luxton Bus Company came into being and fifty years since they got their first motor bus. To celebrate the good old days Blakey organizes an exhibition and,after showing Mum and Olive around some of the museum pieces, Stan falls asleep at the wheel of a bus from the turn of the century,imagining his present-day family and colleagues in previous incarnations. Olive is a militant suffragette,Mum a washerwoman and Blakey is still Blakey,except his nickname is the Kaiser.
30 mins · Sun, 1 Apr 1973
S07 Episode 7
Goodbye Stan
Stan decides he can make more money if he heads North and gets work in a car factory but,rather than hand in his resignation, he gets Blakey to sack him so that he can get a week's wages. He celebrates his last night at home and is unable to eat the fry-up his Mum has cooked him so he sticks it in his uniform pocket,a fact that Blakey discovers when he comes around to collect the uniform. However,as he has been evicted from his own lodgings,he takes Stan's room and becomes the Butlers' new lodger
30 mins · Sun, 8 Apr 1973
S07 Episode 8
Hot Water
Jack and the inspector attempt to fix a water heater.
30 mins · Sun, 15 Apr 1973
S07 Episode 9
The Visit
Blakey invites his mum over, but she isn't very happy about the situation.
25 mins · Sun, 22 Apr 1973
S07 Episode 10
What the Stars Foretell
The stars say there's romance in the air for Mum and Olive.
24 mins · Sun, 29 Apr 1973
S07 Episode 11
The Allowance
The new clippie is outraged that the female clippies, unlike male clippies, have to pay to use the public conveniences, so she lobbies the management for an allowance to cover the cost.
24 mins · Sun, 6 May 1973
S07 Episode 12
Friends in High Places
When Mrs Butler gets a job at the depot's canteen, she has to use her influence on an old flame.
23 mins · Sun, 13 May 1973
S07 Episode 13
Gardening Time
While at a depot flower and vegetable competition, Blakey and Jack become rivals as they both try to create the best garden.
24 mins · Sun, 20 May 1973
