
Still Game
Still Game is a comedy based around the lives of pensioner pals Jack Jarvis and Victor McDade. It's set in and around a fictional part of Glasgow called Craiglang, and Jack and Victor's home in Osprey Heights. Focusing on the ironies and comedy of old age with humour, tenderness and pathos, these OAPS prove they're still game for anything the world can throw at them. The show enjoyes the highest viewing figures that any Scottish programme has seen in the last ten years. The third series first episode alone drew 1,520,100 viewers - 47% of Scotland's total viewing audience. This makes it the most watched BBC comedy in Scotland ever, outperforming even its parent show, Chewin' the Fat.After negotations with BBC London, Still Game will finally receive the UK-wide slot it deserves, as of series 4. (Previously, fans from south of the border have only been able to watch the series through Sky digital channel 941 or on DVD/VHS.)
Cheeky local kids (neds) are monopolizing the local park, so Winston decides to create a garden as a peaceful retreat. Jack and Victor are kept busy when their friend Ronnie gets committed after he has been found dancing in George Square in his undies. They pose as his brothers to secure his release.
Jack and Victor decide to offer a helping hand to their recently-widowed friend Bert, who seems incapable of looking after himself. Winston, on the other hand, is certainly helping himself - to the favours of his new home help, Mrs. Begg. Later, they find that Mrs. Begg is offering more than she should be. . .
Words don't come easy, but the world of books and a certain lady librarian have got Tam and Winston all of a-fluster. Yankee happy pills are proving more of a temptation to Jack and Victor though after they bump into their old pal Stuart.
Victor feels the need to get away from it all and when he hears that Danny's wife is selling Danny's old car, he jumps at the chance to buy it, even though it involves having to outbid Manky Frankie and, at the end of the day, is not quite the bargain he had hoped that it would be.
A money-lender appears at Craiglang and finds no shortage of willing customers. Jack and Victor are in the money too, not, as Isa believes, because they have 'tapped' money from the lender but because they have bought stock market shares from Navid. Tam and Winston have a run-in with neds on the local golf course and challenge them to a grudge match, the winners to have the run of the course.
The workmen on the new building site are spending a lot of money on food and lining the pockets of take-away entrepreneur Vince, 'the Clydeside Poisoner'. With Navid away at his brother's funeral Jack and Victor are minding the store for him. Winston, who hates Vince, sees this as the perfect opportunity to set up his own fast food outlet from the shop and give Vince a run for his money.
To celebrate sixty years of friendship Jack and Victor go out for a meal but it costs the Earth and prompts them to lament the passing of the good old days. As it happens these are being celebrated in an exhibition at the city museum,dedicated to the Glasgow of their boyhood. Whilst there, they meet an old friend Frank McCallum, but he has certainly changed since they last saw him.
Is it a fox rummaging around in the waste bins at the back of Navid's shop? No, it's Pete the Jakey, the slovenly town drunk of Craiglang. It's a surprise to everyone then when he turns up at the Clansman, clean-shaven and wearing a suit and tie. He explains that he has got a new job as the council's 'facility' but Jack and Victor don't believe him and decide to follow him.
Isa's husband Harry Drennan re-appears and, as she wants none of him, she gets Winston to pretend to be her boyfriend. Whilst Victor and his son have little in common Jack gets a tape from his daughter Fiona in Canada showing the family, and with it an invitation to go out and see her. Can Jack leave his old pal to fend for himself in Craiglang? Or, perhaps they could both go?
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Gavin Mitchell | Boabby |
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Ford Kiernan | Jack Jarvis |
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Greg Hemphill | Victor McDade |
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Irene Ann Burt | Pub Regular |
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Paul Riley | Winston Ingram |
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Jane McCarry | Isa Drennan |
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Sanjeev Kohli | Navid Harrid |
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Mark Cox | Tam Mullen |
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James Martin | Eric |
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Shamshad Akhtar | Meena Harrid |
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Garry Sweeney | King Ned |
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James Young | Goudo |
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Jamie Quinn | Fergie |
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Celia Imrie | Mrs Begg |
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David Hayman | Vince |
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Brian Pettifer | Bert |
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Sandy Nelson | Chris the Postie |
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Bill Barclay | Workie |
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Finlay Welsh | Frank McCallum |
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Gordon Brown | Hardman |
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Ronnie Letham | Harry Drennan |
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Kate Donnelly | Frances Mullen |
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Jake D'Arcy | Pete the Jakey |
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Paul Young | Shug |
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Elaine M. Ellis | Nurse |
Director | Michael Hines |
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Writer | Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill | |
Producer | Ewan Angus, Colin Gilbert, Michael Hines | |
Photography | John McNeill |
Nr Discs | 1 |
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Layers | Single side, Single layer |
Watched | |
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Quantity | 1 |
Index | 3557 |
Added Date | Aug 06, 2015 17:57:32 |
Modified Date | Jul 16, 2024 09:19:01 |