# UK 1970s children's TV show to do with a bus **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 21, 2009, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-1970s-childrens-tv-show-to-do-with-a-bus/507191 "2009-08-21T12:28:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-1970s-childrens-tv-show-to-do-with-a-bus/507191/1 "2009-08-21T12:28:03Z")
Less youthful UK dopers, help me reassure myself I’m not going mad. I have vivid recollections of a children’s TV show from the mid-1970s, that revolved around a gang of kids who had a double decker bus. I seem to remember the bus was in a large garage or warehouse or something, and they had special knocks to get in through a secret door or hatch or something. Not a lot else. It was in colour and was a bit zany and psychedelic. I’ve been googling “the bus club” and stuff like that, but nothing’s showing up. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-1970s-childrens-tv-show-to-do-with-a-bus/507191/2 "2009-08-21T12:31:57Z")
[The Double-Deckers](http://www.thedoubledeckers.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-1970s-childrens-tv-show-to-do-with-a-bus/507191/3 "2009-08-21T12:34:03Z")
The Double Deckers ETA God your fast **GuanoLad**! ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-1970s-childrens-tv-show-to-do-with-a-bus/507191/4 "2009-08-21T12:50:16Z")
Thank god for that. I started getting a creeping horror that my brain had fabricated the memory out of whole cloth. Thanks both. Oh yeah, and the little girl with her tiger. I remember her. Wow, Peter Firth was in it. And Jane Seymour. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-1970s-childrens-tv-show-to-do-with-a-bus/507191/5 "2009-08-21T12:56:25Z")
The [opening theme](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNFd4GX3QPM) is particularly memory-inducing. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-1970s-childrens-tv-show-to-do-with-a-bus/507191/6 "2009-08-21T12:57:16Z")
Wow, found an episode on YouTube. Attention spans really have plummeted, haven’t they. But the quality of children’s TV seems to be on a plateau. I now seem to remember they used to show episodes during Saturday Morning Flicks. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-1970s-childrens-tv-show-to-do-with-a-bus/507191/7 "2009-08-21T16:42:18Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > The [opening theme](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNFd4GX3QPM) is particularly memory-inducing. Aha! See, I did wonder, why, if it was in the mid 1970s, when I would still have been at school and living at home and watching telly, I could not think of this thing in \*\*Jjimm’s \*\*OP at all. But, yeah, that opening tune brings it back a bit. Oh well, memory not completely shot then. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-1970s-childrens-tv-show-to-do-with-a-bus/507191/8 "2009-08-21T16:47:17Z")
I loved the episode where the slightly obese kid thought he was invisible and tried stealing cakes from the baker’s shop.