Buses on Screen - New Sightings


Added 4 June 2008

FILM
Nothing Lasts Forever (1984) - a mystery sighting solved
UK TV
The Chinese Detective - an RT crash, various DMS Fleetlines and BL Bristol LHs

Added 19 May 2008

FILM
Gorgo (1961, Bill Travers) - screencaps added, including RTLs at Stockwell garage
Atonement (2007, Keira Knightley, James McEvoy) - improved RT screencaps
Tomorrow's Saturday (1962, dir Michael Grigsby) - think I've found a Crossley Regent V!
Beautiful Thing (1996, Linda Henry, Meera Syal) - Stagecoach Selkent Titan
Eurotrip (2004, Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Michelle Trachtenberg) - Vinnie Jones and an opentop RM
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The Full Monty (1997, Robert Carlyle) - Sheffield Corporation miscellany
Closer (2004, Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen) - one Metrobus - two routes
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S W A L K (AKA Melody) (1971, Mark Lester, Jack Wild, Tracy Hyde) - screencaps added
Carry On Admiral (1957, David Tomlinson, Peggy Cummins, Brian Reece) - corrected entry
Raising the Wind (1961, James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Paul Massie, Kenneth Williams et al)
O Dreamland (1953, dir Lindsay Anderson) - a TSM identified.
UK TV
The Liver Birds (BBC sitcom) - Liverpool Corporation AEC Regent V
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Ultimate Force (Carlton military drama series) - RM408 gets shot up
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Treasure Hunt (Channel 4/Chatsworth game show) - new id for a DM-class Fleetline

Added 28 April 2008

FILM
Only Two Can Play) (1961, Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling - a South Wales AEC Regent V
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The Battle of the Sexes (1959, Peter Sellers, Constance Cummings, Robert Morley) - Edinburgh buses
Seven Days to Noon (1950) - mass evacuation of London by bus - lots of screenshots
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A Sense of Freedom (1980, Scottish Television TV movie) - Glasgow buses
The Black Windmill (1974, Michael Caine) - a Ford coach and no less than three SRN4 hovercraft
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Trouble in Store (1953, Norman Wisdom) - an AEC Regal III identified, rebodied and still working in Malta
Ladies Who Do (1963, Harry H Corbett, Peggy Mount) - an RT on route 12
Live and Let Die (1973, Roger Moore) - a deroofed RT
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The Leather Boys (1963, Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, Dudley Sutton) - assorted London buses and a Southdown Titan
The Long Arm (1956, Jack Hawkins) - a London STD
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The Avengers (1998, Uma Thurman, Ralph Fiennes, Sean Connery) - new screencaps of the Routemaster mobile office
An American Werewolf in London (1981, David Naughton, Jenny Agutter) - screencaps added
Jumper (2008, Hayden Christensen, Samuel L Jackson, Diane Lane, Jamie Bell) - barrel-rolling RM now identified
The Avengers (2007, Keira Knightley, James McEvoy) - two out of four RTs identified
Man of the Moment (1955, Norman Wisdom) - screencaps added
Big Trouble in Little China (1986, Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall) - screencaps of a White Model 706
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The Last Bus Home (1997, dir Johnny Gogan) - Irish Leyland Atlanteans
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934, Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre) - screencaps added
Death Wish (1974, Charles Bronson, Hope Lange) - Bus-O-Rama Fishbowl
Death Wish II (1982, Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland)
UK TV
Hi De Hi (BBC sitcom) - screencaps added; AEC Regal III and Bristol L
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It's Marty (BBC comedy series) - screencaps added; Birch Brothers AEC Reliance and Red Rover RT
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Gangsters (BBC crime series) - a Birmingham Ford R226 identified
Brum (BBC children's series) - more Birmingham mayhem (not)
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Come Outside (BBC children's series) - London CentreWest MA76 Waiting For God (BBC sitcom) - London CentreWest MA67 Foyle's War (Greenlit/ITV crime drama) - a Leyland Cheetah with Harrington dorsal fin
Most Haunted (Living TV paranormal investigation series) - new information
Cliff Richard in Scandinavia (BBC music show) - BEA Routemasters
The Innes Book of Records (BBC musical series) - new information
Hamish MacBeth (BBC serial) - lots of screencaps
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Mary, Mungo and Midge (BBC children's carton series) - cartoon 'deckers
Top Gear (BBC motoring show) - a Dennis or Transbus Trident He Kills Coppers (ITV crime drama) - London Country RF and London Transport SMS Nigella Feasts (The Food Network cookery series) - First London Volvo B7TL The Darling Buds of May (Yorkshire TV serial) - Commer-Harrington, Whitson OB and a Chausson!
US TV
Columbo (Universal crime series) - clearer screencaps from 'Dagger of the Mind'
Six Feet Under (HBO comedy drama) - screencaps from episode 1
Sesame Street (Children's Television Workshop childrens' series) - assorted Fishbowls
CANADIAN TV
How It's Made (Productions MAJ documentary series) - a Novabus LFS
UK ADVERT
Cadbury's Dairy Box RT
Hugo Boss opentopper
ING Direct screencap added
Walkers Crisps a deroofed 'decker and a lapse of taste
MUSIC VIDEO
Bronski Beat: Small Town Boy - glimpse of the AEC factory in Southall

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