I have the DVDs and I think this was one underrated gem!

I have the DVDs too. It's pretty good.

Based on the Britcom, "On the Buses."


YEP!!! I remember both. IMO "On the buses" was better! ;)

yep, I remember it. It stared Dom Deluise and was on NBC (I think it was on Thursday night) I remember it only lasted one season then I think in Dec. it went on hiatus for a month or 2 then in the spring they moved it to Fridays & "burned off" the remaining episodes.

The title sounds vaguely familiar. But I'm pretty sure I've never seen it.

Ed.

YEP!!! I remember both. IMO "On the buses" was better! ;)
I've heard the British original was way better, but haven't seen that one yet.

I remember it reminding me a bit of "All in the Family", with the beleaguered head of the house (Dom) dealing with an emotional daughter and a bum son-in-law (this guy didn't even go to school, he just couldn't hold a job). Blue collar, middle class stuff like AITF. It was pretty good, if I remember. Should have gotten at least another year.

I remember the theme song having the line 'a pickle for a nickel' or something like that.....:)

I remember it reminding me a bit of "All in the Family", with the beleaguered head of the house (Dom) dealing with an emotional daughter and a bum son-in-law (this guy didn't even go to school, he just couldn't hold a job). Blue collar, middle class stuff like AITF. It was pretty good, if I remember. Should have gotten at least another year.
yea, I remember the son-in-law used to go around all day, in his pajamas and bathrobe, didn't work or even look for work, and every time the Dom Deluise character would bring up the subject with him he would always say that he was recovering from an operation that he had like 2 years ago or something and his sister and mother would agree with him.

yea, I remember the son-in-law used to go around all day, in his pajamas and bathrobe, didn't work or even look for work, and every time the Dom Deluise character would bring up the subject with him he would always say that he was recovering from an operation that he had like 2 years ago or something and his sister and mother would agree with him.


Yep!! And it was even funnier with English accents from the original "On the busses", and the sister, the lazy guys wife had thick glasses and a really whiny funny English accent! :lol: :D

I remember Dom Deluies character was a bus driver named Stanley Belmont, or Beauman, or something.

Should have gotten at least another year.

If I recall correctly Dom Deluise said on the DVD that the show was cancelled because of an episode involving a prostitute.

The funniest thing about the show to me was it seemed just about every scene took place at breakfast, lunch, or dinner, so all the characters are constantly eating, and Dom Deluise said the actors on the show really were eating and nobody lost any weight during the show's run! :lol:

Yep, definitely a down-to-earth, blue-collar common man's kind of sitcom. It really should have connected with audiences better.

On the Buses was the cornerstone of Britcoms. It played here in Canada for 20 plus years non-stop. A number of years ago, some of the cast came to Victoria and Vancouver to do a special stage version of the show.

I remember it reminding me a bit of "All in the Family", with the beleaguered head of the house (Dom) dealing with an emotional daughter and a bum son-in-law (this guy didn't even go to school, he just couldn't hold a job). Blue collar, middle class stuff like AITF. It was pretty good, if I remember. Should have gotten at least another year.

I have this show on DVD as well. Stanley Belmont was stuck supporting his mother, sister, & brother-in-law on his meager income working at the lost & found department of a bus terminal. Seeing this show now, I find it too depressing to watch much of it though, but the theme song was catchy.

haven't seen it in YEARS since it first aired on NBC, but I wish it had lasted at least another season. I wish ME TV or ANTENA TV would show it, I'd like to see it again.

I've always meant to buy Lotsa Luck. It was released by S'more Entertainment. I wish S'more would had released s'more obscure one Season tv shows. They also released the 1966 series Good Morning, World with Golde Hawn.

If I recall correctly Dom Deluise said on the DVD that the show was cancelled because of an episode involving a prostitute.
That was a good episode. Its funny because she was like a librarian but during the date she expected to get paid :lol:

I saw it pre pandemic. I think I got it from the library.

Episode 343--Lotsa Luck! (https://www.itwasathingontv.com/e/episode-343-lotsa-luck/)

A comedy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotsa_Luck) starring Dom DeLuise and created, in part, by Carl Reiner? Sounds like a winner to us! But it's going up against a strong police procedural and a stalwart from the early days of television? All we say is Lotsa Luck (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125326/http://www.jumptheshark.com/l/lotsaluck.htm)!