Buster Edwards in the Great Train Robbery, was made in 1988, with Edwards played by Phil Collins. Buster Edwards can be seen making a cameo appearance in the film "Buster" alongside Phil Collins' wife Jill in the scene in which Buster and June land in Mexico, he and Jill walk out of the airport in front of Buster and June Edwards. In 1991, Edwards was the victim of a theft, albeit of a more mundane nature. On 15 June, at about 3pm, British actor Dexter Fletcher ran along Mepham Street and scooped up two bunches of nasturtiums valued at £5 from Edwards'
Buster Brown moved the show to television in 1950, where it ran under the titles "Smilin' Ed's Gang" and "The Buster Brown Show" for four years. Andy Devine took over in 1955 after McConnell's death, but Devine's show was titled "Andy's Gang". Buster Brown makes an appearance in several children's playground games. There is a skipping rope rhyme that starts "Buster Brown | Went to town | With his pants | On upside down." There is also a game played on the seesaw where one rider will stop the seesaw with the other rider in the air and chant, "Buster, Buster, Buster