Still Game - Rating Every Episode

Comedia escocesa de culto sobre las vidas de dos miembros de OAP, Jack y Victor, y sus puntos de vista sobre cómo solía ser en los viejos tiempos y lo mal que está ahora el área ficticia de Craiglang, Glasgow.

In the predecessor to the TV series, Jack, Victor and Winston are three old men trapped in a Glasgow hi-rise..

Jack Jarvis is a widower, whose life is being made a misery by his unsympathetic neighbours. He would like to move away but can't find anywhere. Salvation comes when he hears that the man who lives in the flat across the way from Victor McDade,his old friend and fellow widower, in Osprey Heights tower block has died, thus creating a vacancy and allowing Jack to be near his old pal, proving that they may be pensioners but they are still game.

Victor's son is coming to visit, but cynical Jack doubts it will happen - especially when neither of them catch what time his train is supposed to be arriving at the station.

A particularly cold snap envelops Craiglang. People are slipping on the ice and, worse, dying of hypothermia. Winston has the perfect solution, to fiddle the electricity and get free heat. Victor is appalled at this display of criminality. But then it is very cold and needs must. . .

Jack fancies Barbara, the nice lady from the charity shop, who agrees to go on a date with him after prompting from Victor. Barbara arranges a double date for Victor with her sister, who isn't exactly smashing. Meanwhile Winston gets barred from the Clansman by Boaby and has to seek a new local.

Shop-keeper Navid is planning a family wedding and everybody from Craiglang is invited. Except Jack and Victor, that is, who seem to have been left off the guest list. Fortunately Wullie Mac, one of the biggest rogues - or 'tappers' - on the estate has just died and Jack and Victor are sure that if they search his house they will find a suitable wedding present to gain them an invitation.

Tam, the meanest man in Craiglang, has landed on his feet yet again by winning a life- time's supply of sweeties as well as free cinema tickets. Jack and Victor are not to be outdone and will come up with the winning slogan to advertise scones if it kills them. Meanwhile Harry Drennan, the long-lost husband of gossipy neighbour Isa, returns to the estate.

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?

Jack and Victor have crossed the Big Pond to stay with Fiona and are taking in all the tourist attractions - as well as the tacky souvenirs. With such an improved life-style why would anybody want to return to dreary old Craiglang? Where Winston has now got his feet under the table at Isa's. Her cooking is superb but he finds her incessant talking less palatable.

Back from Canada, life in Craiglang seems really mundane to Jack and Victor, who consider taking up a hobby, such as enrolling for the First Aid Course at Glasgow University's night school. Boabby has troubles of his own. His custom is dwindling and he can't get his leg over. However, things could change when he brings in a pretty new barmaid and has a quiz night. Armed with their new-found knowledge Victor and Jack are determined to be the quiz champions.

Osprey Heights has suddenly become the venue for a card school and tight-fisted Tam has won disabled Joe's disability scooter from him in a card game. Jack and Victor set out to win it back for him. Whilst Shug gets arrested as a Peeping Tom, Winston has the satisfaction of seeing his long-standing feud with the local bookie work in his favour when he discovers he has won the accumulator. Or has he?

The neds are getting out of hand and need to be taught a little respect for their elders so Jack and Victor enlist the services of their hard man friend 'Big Yin' Innes. There is only one problem. 'Big Yin' must not be allowed near the Miduri, for that liqueur will have a very profound effect on him. Winston, meanwhile, counters bullying his own way when he gets a job at the local supermarket.

For decades reclusive Archie has hidden himself away from the world but now there is no hiding place as the council are due to demolish his house. Jack and Victor take him under their collective wings in an effort to bring him into the twenty-first century whilst Winston decides to turn his flat into a cinema.

The future looks bleak for Winston's leg. Victor pretends to be ill so his son will visit him and Isa meets a psychic in the Clansman and tells her she'll be run over with a car but Navid and everyone make a joke out of it.

Envy turns to bewilderment and then concern when Jack and Victor see their friend Wullie dating the considerably younger Rena and the rumours start to fly that she wants to kill him for his money. Winston's new leg is rather loose-fitting and therefore not the best place to hide his cash when a young layabout is roaming the estate conning the residents out of money.

When Tam goes away on holiday Jack and Victor take over from him as D.Js running the local hospital radio service and acquire themselves quite a fan club. this does not include Navid who ends up in hospital with a delicate problem.