The Jack Benny Program (CBS comedy series)

Season 12 Episode 8: Jack goes to the Cafeteria:
1961 episode of the long-running show opens with footage of MTA GM New Look 5314 on the street - it has 'UCLA' as its destination. The scene cuts to an unconvincing studio 'interior':

JAG (NBC then CBS military action series)

Episode: 1:7 Brig Break
Centres on the hijacking of a Ford prison bus from the Seatac Island Naval Base in Washington State. Registration unclear, but it has T71 on the roof.

Episode: 1:11 Sightings
An unidentified motorcoach appears in the final scene.

Episode: 2:6 Trinity
Ostensibly set in Belfast, this episode filmed in California features former Hants and Dorset Bristol Lodekka/Eastern Coachworks 1232 (FEL428D) in Tilling red/cream with 'Carnaby Street 12' in the destination box. It may be the show wanted an RM; one scene has Catherine Bell's character standing on the street looking at postcards in a shop doorway. The bus drives up, pauses; when it passes the camera she's seen to have got on it at the back - not impossible, but difficult on a forward-entrance Lodekka! The scene is also notable for a starstruck extra waving to the camera as the bus passes! At the end of the episode another double decker is glimpsed at the end of a street - this looks like a lowbridger in London Transport red with a gold fleetname, possibly a Bristol K.

Episode: 3:24 To Russia With Love
Has a brief shot of Moscow trolleybus 4308, one of the few genuine-looking sequences in this ostensibly Russian-set story.

Jamie's School Dinners (Channel 4 documentary series)

In an episode of this campaigning series, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver takes a class of kids from a Durham school on a trip on 4962SC, a Dennis Javelin/Plaxton Premiere 320 of Akenhead (Safari Travel), Hetton-le-Hole. (thanks Adam Floyd) There is also an appearance by Sullivan Buses DN2 (DN02SUL), a Dennis Dart/Caetano.

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Jericho (Granada crime series)

Crime drama set in 1958 London, starring Robert Lindsay.
Episode 1: A Pair of Ragged Claws
Concerning the murder of a fitter at 'Notting Hill London Transport depot'. Partly filmed at Cobham Bus Museum, and featuring several preserved former London Transport buses provided by London Bus Preservation Trust: Leyland Titan RTL139 (KGK803)was new in 1949 and withdrawn in 1967.
Leyland Tiger PS1 TD95 (JXC288)was was also new in 1949 and withdrawn in 1962.
AEC Regent STL2377(EGO426)was new in 1937 but sold in 1954, so would not have been with LT in 1958. Including prototype Routemaster RML3 (SLT58)is stretching a point perhaps but it was new in January 1958, so not strictly an anachronism!
A fitter is seen being followed leaving his job at the bus garage. RTL139 is up on the ramp, and as he walks into the open, RML3 ghosts into the gap between it and TD95: There's a scene inside a canteen - this is another Cobham vehicle, preserved London Transport service vehicle 702B (JXC2)new in 1948. This is an articulated unit with a Bedford O tractor - see this link for more details on the London Bus Preservation Trust's website. (thanks to Nick Abbott for this confirmation) There's another glimpse of RML3 on the right, with RTL139 on the ramp and STL2377 on the left: Here we see the recreation of Piccadilly Circus for the first time, only slightly spoiled by three CGI images of STL2377 - it might have been better to change the advert on the side! (thanks Stephen Allcroft, Colin Read, Chris Hough and Ian Hardie)

Episode 2: The Killing of Johnny Swan
More of the Piccadilly street corner scene, this time featuring STL2377 in the foreground and background, and RTL139 on the right: Another night scene shows a group of athletes getting off a small coach, apparently a Bedford OB - but which one? Episode 3: To Murder and Create
Yet more footage of 'Piccadilly'; the first shot shows RTL139 passing STL2377 with a CGI STL2377 in the background, the second STL2377 alone with another CGI STL2377: The Making of 'Jericho'
A companion documentary shows how the period atmosphere was created, and shows the recreation of Piccadilly Circus at night. However the first bus seen is not preserved, but a dining bus, an ex-London Transport MCW Metrobus: To filming, and a daylight view of STL2377: STL2377 and RTL139 form a backdrop to interviews: ...and here they're seen against a green screen - in the second shot the 'Piccadilly' background is faded in to show how the scene goes together. Lastly, an archive view of the real Piccadilly Circus features an LT class AEC Renown, which would date the photograph as at least ten years older than the era depicted in 'Jericho':

Jane Goldman Investigates (Living TV documentary series)

A show in this series investigating aspects of the paranormal looks at ghost hunting. There is a brief glimpse of an unidentified green bus in Poole, Dorset, later in London an Arriva London AEC Routemaster.

JKX: The Jamie Kennedy Experiment (Warner hoax show)

In one show Kennedy's team takes over a tour minibus of LA Tours.

Jim'll Fix It (BBC magazine show)

In a 1977 show Jimmy Saville grants a woman's wish to drive a bus on London Transport's skid pan, while granting a little boy's wish to be a bus conductor. Featured is an RTL, KYYxxx, while seen in the back ground of the skid pan scene are RTs and RTLs, a BL (Bristol LH), DMS and SM. A 2007 retrospective show featured not an RTL, but Routemaster RM928 (WLT928)

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