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One thing that i dont understand!!

posted 18 years ago by russonchris
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i absolutely adore this show, its great, its on men and motors, onto series 6 now, heres the question, arthurs left now!!, so where did him come from in holiday on the buses which im presumming was done after the sixth series or even after the show had finished(as stan works for the holiday company etc)and what about the kid they had on the holiday, he was about 6 or 7, where was he in the tv series!!im lost with that!!thanks for any help, they dont make tv series like they used to!!

[–] caledoniancraig-1 17 years ago

One thing that must be understood is that the films ran on different plots from the TV Series.As you say in the films Olive and Arthur have a child but not in the TV Series.I'd say the logical reason for this is that it would not have been practical having a child in the TV Series.Firstly,the child would not have been available for filming due to school attendance and also using children in TV is always hazardous and unpredictable so a lot of re-takes and editing would hae been needed losing precious and expensive reels of video tape.

As for Arthur,he left the Series at the end of Series 6 but my guess is that after a break he came back over a year later for one last hurrah for the finale of the wonderful On The Buses story.As the films storyline didn't mention a marriage break-up it got away with it.

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[–] Arthur-nose 16 years ago

I think the scripts for the three films were written during the series - in the series, Arthur and Olive not only didn't have kids - but they got divorced - in the films, Arthur got made redundant and they had a son.

I think they did that with a lot of films based around TV series - the film was made after the series finished - or sometimes during its run - but the story took place at some point within the series - but had no impact on the series itself. The films were often, if anything, just another episode of the series, but with a longer plot.