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Welcome to - our sole purpose in life is to provide you with original quality Desktop Themes for you to download and enjoy on your own PC. That's it! No hard sell. We just believe in having fun and for inspiration we have drawn on that great British institution - the British Sitcom (with the odd footie theme thrown in for good measure). With over 50 fun TV and soccer desktop themes to choose from we are sure you will find some fun here! Be sure you visit the rest of the website before leaving (click on Frames or No Frames to access the main menu). This page features our first new theme for the real millennium (for the purists out there!), based on the classic ITV sitcom about a bus driver from Wood Green, London, - On the Buses.

Created by the two Ronnie's,  no not Corbett and Barker but Wolfe and Cheney and like their earlier sitcom hit, The Rag Trade, On the Buses was a workplace sitcom of the cheerfully lowbrow humour. The setting was the Luxton Bus Company, ruled over by the black-hearted Inspector Blakey (played by Stephen Lewis), tormentor of bus driver Stan  Butler (Reg Varney) and his work mate, bus conductor Jack (Bob Grant). Stan lives with his Mum, Mrs. Butler (played by Cicely Courtneidge and latterly Doris Hare );  his plain sister Olive (played by former stripper Anna Karen, later Piggy Mitchell's sister in soap Eastenders) and idle brother-in-law  Arthur (Michael Robbins).  Stories centered  on Stan and Jack's labour-management battles with dim-witted Blakey (catchphrases included "I 'ate you Butler", "I'll get you for this Butler" and "Oh that's made my day that has") and the lads attempts to woo the clippies (conductresses) at he depot. A Bus Depot at Wood Green, London was used for the external shots.  

The show appeared on British television between the years 1970-75 and a total of 70, 30min episodes were produced. For many it's gorblimy laughs were just the ticket and it rode to the top of the BARB ratings in 1970, 1971 and 1972.  Three movies based on the show were released in the cinema. On the Buses (the highest earning British Film of 1971), Mutiny on the Buses and Holiday on the Buses. None of them were worth the fare! The show's format was sold to America as Lotsa Luck.

Links to other On the Buses web sites!

Again, difficult to find these.  I could only find a couple of web sites featuring On the Buses on the web. If you find others please let me know - I will add them here for subsequent visitors to explore.

Visit the On the Buses web site.

Visit the Comedy Zone @ the BBC for their tribute to On the Buses - surprising this as this was not a BBC comedy!!!!!

Visit the On the Buses Episode Guide

On The Buses Videos

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The On The Buses Desktop Theme is another fun desktop theme from those happy folks at . The Theme features themed start-up and shutdown screens, hi-colour (24-bit) 1024x 768 desktop wallpaper (scalable), animated cursor set and new desktop icons. Also included are new windows event sounds taken from various On The Buses episodes. We have included a full feature screensaver with sound capability (optional) constructed using Screen Saver Studio Deluxe featuring more On The Buses sights and sounds. Full installation instructions are provided in a web-page Readme file and the whole theme downloads in a convenient zip file.

If you don't have a copy of Microsoft Plus! help is at hand in the form of Desktop Themes, a shareware desktop theme manager published by Jonathan Potter at Left Side Software. Click on to get your copy. Further step-by-step help is available with the installation of this desktop theme - read the Install Help web page.

The following thumbnails will give you an idea of the screens used in this theme.

Click here to download the On the Buses Desktop Theme Version 1.0 (1.5Mb)

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