Does anyone know the buses that had been used or in some way featured on some television program or other?
Here's what I know:
�• Channel U's dramedy, «She Drives Me Crazy», had Kym Ng driving a Volvo Super Olympian, registration SBS 9814 K (I still remember clearly that in the plot of the drama, somebody actually wanted to buy 4D with the number 9814 after he saw it
).
• Some Channel 8 drama, whose name I forgotten but starred Li Nan Xing and Fiona Xie, had a scene where their characters met on a bus. The bus used was a Volvo MK4 DM3500, but I can't remember the number on the route plate they used, nor did I recall seeing any registration number. iWeekly had an article in one of their regular columns showcasing the behind-the-scenes for that scene.
• Some older Channel 8 drama, name completely forgotten, featured (if my memory serves me right) a car chase scene that had what-at-that-time-was-known-as TIBS bus with it's EDS displaying 854. I think it was either a Mercedes MB O405 Hispano or a Scania L113 Strider.
• One episode of the Channel 5 comedy, «Mr. Kiasu», had this scene which I still remember fondly. The character, Mr. Kiasee, approached the bus stop, only to find 13 passengers there, with one of them wearing soccer jersey number 13, and the cherry on the cake: a route 13 bus
. The bus was an SBS Transit Mercedes MBO405 bus with Alexander body, displaying route 13 plates (for obvious reasons
), if I'm not wrong (it could have been a Scania too).
• One older Channel 8 drama (can't remember the name), with featured a completely different story with different characters on each episode, had one episode which told the story of a gang of problem teenagers who could like to steal cars for joyrides. I didn't watch that episode, but from the previews I saw, one of the "cars" they stole was a TIBS Mercedes MB O405 bus with Hispano body. From what I heard from my cousin, who caught that episiode, the teenagers knocked out the bus driver to steal that bus for a joyride.
• Some recent Channel 8 dramas, whose story was set in either the 70's or 80's, had repeatly featured non air-conditioned Volvo MKIIs with SBS colours.
• I just can't remember the name of this Channel 5 drama, but I can recall that it was about a girl who had the power to see and talk with the dead (a.k.a. ghosts!). In one scene of one episode, while the girl was on the bus, a ghost which had been "bothering" (can't find a better word
) in that episode her appeared next to her. When the girl was about to alight, the ghost used his (it's?!) powers to ring the bell. The bus, I believe, was a SBS Transit Mercedes MB O405. Can't remember the registration number or the exact type, though, but I remember that scene very well.
