Box set: Still Game - The Complete Series 1-6
Still Game: Season 2
(2003)
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Plot
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.)Cast
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| Paul Young | ||
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Shamshad Akhtar | |
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Paul Riley | |
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Robert Carr |
Episodes
Disc 01
The Neds have colonised the local park and Jack and Victor aren't happy about it. Winston decides to take matters into his own hands. Things aren't helped by the fact that their old pal Ronnie is in the loony bin, so they pose as his brothers to secure his release. But will they make it in time, and will auld Ronnie be up to the challenge of sanity?Director: Colin Gilbert / Michael Hines
Writer: Greg Hemphill / Ford Kiernan
Guest starring: John Sheddon (Ronnie)
Winston, a lifetime expert at fiddling the DHSS, takes his game one step-up, in the form of pretty home-helper Mrs. Begg . Our boys are quickly smitten. But can Winston keep up the pretence for long? Meanwhile, Jack and Victor now got their newly-widowed friend, Bert Finlay, to worry about. He's not managing: he walks around town like a jakie and can't even boil an egg for himself. A situation horribly familiar to both the boys, they decide to make sure to do right by their old friend before it's too late.Director: Colin Gilbert / Michael Hines
Writer: Greg Hemphill / Ford Kiernan
Guest starring: Celia Imrie (Mrs. Begg), Brian Pettifier (Bert Finlay)
Winston and Tam become love rivals over a gentle, lovely lady at the local library. But which one will win the fair lady's heart? Meanwhile, Jack and Victor are feeling depressed, and there's a new drug on trial at the health centre. They rehearse their scripts for when they get there to convince the doctor, but Jack's 'I'm depressed' face looks more like 'I'm constipated'.Director: Colin Gilbert / Michael Hines
Writer: Greg Hemphill / Ford Kiernan
Guest starring: Kate Donnelly (Librarian)
Jack and Victor club together to out-bid Manky Franky to win themselves Danny's old motor. But their new freedom comes at a price, and will Tam, at long last, finally get his come-uppance?Director: Colin Gilbert / Michael Hines
Writer: Greg Hemphill / Ford Kiernan
Guest starring: Stevie Allen (Manky Franky), Tom Urie (Martin), Linda McLaughlin (Danny's Widow)
Craiglang has never had it so good; everyone's suddenly come into money. There's rumours of a money-dealer newly arrived in Craiglang. Even Jack and Victor decide to get in on the action by buying stock market shares from Navid at the corner shop. Winston and Tam renew their feud with the local Neds, and decide the only way to solve things is to challenge them to a championship gold tournament: winner takes course!Director: Colin Gilbert / Michael Hines
Writer: Greg Hemphill / Ford Kiernan
Guest starring: James Murray (Money Lender)
The workies on the new building site are generating a lot of money for Craiglang's local economy - all of it flowing into the dubious hands of Vince Gallagher the Clydeside poisoner! Winston has a plan to take things into his own hands. With a major boost of Navid's shop being free while he's away on holiday, a turf war begins. There can be only one winner.Director: Colin Gilbert / Michael Hines
Writer: Greg Hemphill / Ford Kiernan
Guest starring: David Hayman (Vince Gallagher), Gabriel Quigley (Reporter)
Disc 02
After an unusually expensive meal, Jack and Victor decide to take a literal trip down memory lane, when they visit a new exhibition in the city centre dedicated to the Glasgow of their childhood. They meet an old friend, Frank McCallum. But is he all that he appears to be?Director: Colin Gilbert / Michael Hines
Writer: Greg Hemphill / Ford Kiernan
Guest starring: Finlay Welsh (Frank McCallum)
Navid finds Pete 'the Jakey', Craiglang's answer to Barny Gumball, has been letting himself go, lately. It seems he's been going through the shopkeeper's rubbish for food. Is it, in fact, a giant rat, or is Pete plumbing every further depths of scabbydom? But soon he's seen in The Clansman clean-shaven and wearing a brand new suit. Has someone died, or is Pete suddenly involved in top-secret affairs of the state?Director: Colin Gilbert / Michael Hines
Writer: Greg Hemphill / Ford Kiernan
Guest starring: Jake D'Arcy (Pete), Paul Young (Shug)
Isa's unwelcome husband returns once more. Jack and Victor have a major falling-out: Victor's son John is as distant and uncaring as ever, while Jack has warm tears in his eyes when his daughter Mary in Canada sends him a video tape of her and the weans. Things are compounded when Jack is invited to fly out to Canada to visit. Will Victor end up on the plane, or have our boys finally had enough of one another? And Winston agrees to pose as Isa's fiancé in order to ward off her husband - but how far is he willing to go to maintain the illusion?Director: Colin Gilbert / Michael Hines
Writer: Greg Hemphill / Ford Kiernan
Guest starring: Marj Hogarth (Fiona Jarvis), Ronnie Letham (Harry)
Edition Details
| Series | Still Game |
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| Release Date | 2008 |
| No. of Disks/Tapes | 2 |
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