UFO (ATV scifi series)
Episode: The Long SleepVarious AEC Routemasters at Piccadilly Circus, including at least one on service 15
UK's Worst Journey (BBC documentary)
Circa March 2003:Graeme Selway notes "This had two items of interest. One featured the 729 Tunbridge Wells - Brighton route that is operated jointly by Stagecoach Coastline, Arriva Kent & Sussex and Brighton & Hove where buses only serve one particular village once every day, so that you can go off towards Uckfield/Lewes/Brighton but you can't get home again! Footage featured Stagecoach Coastline Olympian 355 (as it was at the time) N355 MPN and an Arriva Kent & Sussex Northern Counties Palatine II Olympian 6210 (R210 CKO). Brighton & Hove hardly got a mention but since it's a Stagecoach journey that does serve the village in question, they probably didn't mind too much!
The other item was the Wallace Arnold story that's been in the papers in the past few months where a lady from Bexhill booked a WA coach holiday in Eastbourne and got transported all the way from Bexhill to South Mimms, changed coaches and taken down to Eastbourne, so that she arrived at her destination twenty miles from where she started but nine hours later! There were shots of various WA coaches but the only ones identifiable were YC02CHF and W612FUM."
UK's Worst Rail Operators (BBC2 documentary)
"Thursday 9 May 2002 edition included a couple of coaches in use on rail replacement services for Arriva Trains Northern. One was Mostonian's Setra B81 RLO; the other was AIB 8744, a Plaxton Supreme with 'Woodside' fleetnames." (thanks Graeme Selway)Ultimate Force (Carlton military drama series)
Ugly,violent vehicle for ex-Eastenders star Ross Kemp has an episode in which open top AEC Routemaster RM408 is heavily shot up.
The Ultimate Pop Star (Channel 4 pop show)
This countdown of the UK's biggest-selling singles artists features an extract from the Beatles' 'Penny Lane' film, showing a Liverpool Corporation Leyland Titan. Earlier in the show comes a brief glimpse of Brummie reggae stars UB40 being passed by either a Leyland Atlantean or a Daimler Fleetline of West Midlands PTE.Looking for a specific bus or show? Try the search box