On the Buses

Stan is offered a job in a car factory and decides to deliberately get himself dismissed from his current role at the bus depot. The storyline follows his plan to quit, and the episode features Reg Varney in the starring role.

is a television programme presented in the format of a single episode. It is catalogued simply as a programme of the episode genre, with no further classification provided. The title suggests a focus on a character named Stan, and the piece is structured to tell a self‑contained story within its runtime. In this installment, Stan receives an offer to work in a car factory. Faced with the prospect of a new line of employment, he decides to engineer his own dismissal from his current post at the bus depot. The narrative follows his deliberate attempt to secure a clean break from the depot in order to take up the factory position. The episode features Reg Varney in a starring role, placing the well‑known performer at the centre of the action. His involvement is the only casting detail supplied for the programme. Overall, the story concentrates on Stan’s calculated move from one job to another, highlighting his choice to leave the bus depot behind in favour of the opportunity presented by the car‑manufacturing firm. The episode’s structure revolves around this pivotal decision and its execution.