The Fools on the Hill (BBC drama)
1986 production marking 50 years of the BBC featured two vehicles from Cobham Museum: London ST922 (GJ2098) a Tilling-bodied open staircase AEC Regent, and Green Line T504 (ELP228), an AEC Regal/LTPB (thanks Bob Wingrove)Ford Communications Network
"Like many large companies, Ford Motor Co has an internal TV network called FCN (Ford Communications Network). One of the weekly news programmes in September 1994 ran a story about two employees who restored old buses at the Castle Point Transport Museum. One was me, the other was a gent called Peter Wise. The short item featured shots inside Castle Point Transport Museum, interviews with me and Peter Wise, and extensive footage of me driving my preserved Eastern National Bristol Lodekka FLF, AVX975G, accompanied by (you guessed it) the theme tune from 'On the Buses'." (included here for convenience! Thanks Paul Harrison)Forever Knight (Columbia/Tristar vampire police series)
Set in Toronto, this series nevertheless had an episode in which a character was seen boarding a bus in the livery of Capital Metro of Austin, Texas.Former Glory (Discovery Channel documentary series)
A half hour show in this series presented by Ian Clayton is devoted to public transport and falls into three sections:1. A visit to the National Tramway Museum at Crich in Derbyshire.
The Forth Bridge (BBC documentary)
Chris Hough notes "The BBC2 Dan Cruickshank programme about the Forth Bridge had a passing shot of a First Edinburgh Alexander Royale Olympian (back view only) on the South Queensferry service."Foyle's War (Greenlit/ITV crime drama)
Episode 2:4: The Funk HoleSet in wartime Hastings, 1940: includes an appearance by Mervyns Coaches 1949 Bedford OB/Duple HOD75! (thanks Stephen Osman)
Episode 3.3: They Fought in the Fields
John Hewitt notes a green/cream (postwar) Bedford OB/Duple Vista setting down a stranger in a village. Tim Wootton advises this is his LTA750 (originally Western National 1411), and has kindly provided photographs from filming, one posing with LTA750, the other an interior shot with some of the extras
Again features Mervyns Coaches HOD75, a 1949 Bedford OB/Duple:
Features Dews Coaches CUT465, a 1944 Bedford OWB rebodied in 1952 by Duple. So the body is an anachronism, the chassis not!
Episode 6.2: Broken Souls
Allan Haynes notes the appearance of superb 1939 Harrington-bodied Leyland Cheetah EYA923:
A distant view of what appears to be Bedford OB LTA750:
Friends (Warner sitcom)
"As this is set in New York, there are often background views of New York buses in street scenes. In the episode, "The One with the Baby on the Bus" a bus plays, naturally, a more prominent part. The only identifiable vehicle, assuming more than one was used, has fleet number 7543." (thanks Mike Lloyd)Friends and Crocodiles (BBC drama)
Open top RM408 (KVS599) goes for a drive in the country, ostensibly circa 1982, and gets stuck:
The Fugitive (Quinn Martin thriller series)
In one episode of this 1960s show, the Fugitive (David Janssen) takes an "Iroquois Bus Lines" express coach. (thanks Carlos Wallberg)Futurama (Fox cartoon series)
Episode: Bendin' in the WindThis episode guest starring rock performer Beck also includes a cartoon hoverbus.
Episode: That's Lobstertainment
A left-hand drive Routemaster-alike with front entrance and rear platform gives tours of Hollywood
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