On the Buses: Produced by London Weekend Television for ITV, this comedy about bus drivers received numerous negative reviews on transmission, and is often cited by British TV historians as one of the weakest of British sitcoms. In its section on situation comedies, The Guinness Book of Classic British TV describes On the Buses as ITV's "longest running and most self-consciously unfunny series". Victor Lewis-Smith later criticised Frank Muir, the then-head of LWT, for commissioning what Lewis-Smith called "the wretched On the Buses". Journalist Max Davidson, discussing 1970s British comedy, listed On the Buses as one of the "unfunny sitcoms of the time". The Guardian's David Stubbs referred to On the Buses as "a byword for 70s sitcom mediocrity".
