1 9 7 4 – 1 9 7 5 (UK)
13 x 30 minute Episodes
In this sequel to On The Buses – created and largely written by the team behind that series, Ronalds Wolfe and Chesney – we learned that ‘Blakey’ had retired and moved to a flat in Spain (25 Apartmentos El Paradiso) leaving behind the Britain of power cuts and the three-day week and affording him a view of the Mediterranean.
Unfortunately for our ‘hero’, he was encumbered by his spinster sister, Dorothy, who didn’t want to leave England and did nothing but moan, and by German neighbours, layabout Spanish porter Carlos (Derek Griffiths) and some appalling expat Britons.
Still, with a knotted handkerchief on his head, and his trouser legs rolled up, he was determined to make a splash of it.
Nothing more, or less, than one of the most excruciatingly poor ITV sitcoms of them all.
Cyril Blake
Stephen Lewis
Dorothy Blake
Pat Coombs
Carlos
Derek Griffiths
Bill
Frank Coda
Beryl
Christine Shaw
Maria
Rosario Serrano
Carmela
Muguette De Braie
José
Ricardo Montez
Willi Schmitt
Dave King
Bertha Schmitt
Claire Davenport
Anita
Patricia Haines
Keith
Richard Owens
Episodes
Home From Home? | The Food | Dry Run | The Lift | Careful What You Eat | The Fuse The Smell | What? No Telly? | The Romance | A Helping Hand | The Neighbours | Fred | Keeping Fit
