Jack Docherty brings together a jam-packed cast of comedians, actors and famous faces for a riotous celebration of Scotland's most valuable export – its sense of humour. Scotland is a small nation with a big funny bone. It's known the world over for self-deprecation, quick-witted patter and deadpan asides. But what makes it so funny? To find out the answer, this programme delves deep into the BBC Scotland archives to find a century’s worth of classic characters, catchphrases and comedy clips.
Jack Docherty takes an entertaining look at Scotland's most memorable adverts. Joining him on this archive journey will be some of Scotland's funniest and best known faces.
A mix of archive, international footage and lighthearted commentary compares the world's New Year's Eve traditions to Hogmanay. Narrated by Jack Docherty.
Mockumentary comedy series following the life of scottish police officers from different areas of the force in a fly on the wall style.
Mockumentary set on the day of the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum and designed to capture a snap shot of a nation on the brink of both triumph and disaster.
Outrageous, ridiculous, and with an anarchic streak, Badults follows three flatmates on a series of adventures. Now in their late 20s, Tom, Ben and Matthew are living out the pact that they made as kids; to live together when they’re all grown up. But in truth they simply can’t act grown up - they are bad at being adults - they're Badults.
The Strangerers is a British television comedy drama science fiction series written by Rob Grant and was broadcast on Sky One between 15 February and 11 April 2000. A single series was made with a total of 9 episodes. The show ended on a cliffhanger. It has not been released on DVD, nor repeated since its original run.
Employees of an Edinburgh ad agency that thrived in the 1980s are trying to keep it afloat 20 years later with some new creative ideas. Sitcom.
Dying of cancer, an old woman trapped in her Glasgow flat relieves her pain by drinking morphine and whisky cocktails and dreaming of her youth and dancing to the bittersweet music of The Inkspots.
Mr Don & Mr George was a Channel 4 sitcom, featuring two characters from the Scottish comedy sketch show Absolutely. Moray Hunter and Jack Docherty played two unrelated characters who happened to share a surname. Hunter and Docherty wrote the series and it was made by their production company, Absolutely Productions. The humour was surreal and often featured ridiculous visual gags and wordplay. A single six-episode series was made, and was first broadcast in the UK on Channel 4 in 1993. The series was released on VHS in the 1990s. A single VHS tape was released with all six episodes on as well. This tape stated that it had the entire first series on one tape, however no further series were made.
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