1 9 6 2 – 1 9 7 1 (UK) 200 x 50 minute episodes The popular series Dr Finlay’s Casebook was set in the 1920s in a pre-NHS…
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You would be excused for thinking that a band who sing about kicking a Mod in the head to the tune of Jingle Bells, fronted by…
1 9 9 4 (UK) 5 x 30 minute episodes Premiering on Friday 21 January 1994, this late-night BBC Scotland series for BBC2 presented sharp, topical…
Starting life in a different guise as ska outfit The Rude Boys, reconfigured Scottish sextet Fiction Factory tasted overnight success when their debut single, (Feels Like)…
Alongside Postcard labelmates such as Orange Juice, Fire Engines were part of a burgeoning Scottish music scene in the early 1980s. Formed in 1979 by…
1 9 6 8 (UK) 8 x 30 minute episodes The late Finlay Currie starred in this rather epic Scottish Television serialisation of the 1925 novel…
1 9 7 6 – 1 9 7 9 (UK) 173 x 25 minute episodes Set in a mining community halfway between Glasgow and Edinburgh (although…
After early musical collaboration with comedian/actor Billy Connolly in a group called The Humblebums, and a successful stint in Stealers Wheel, Gerry Rafferty enjoyed a successful…
This sentimental film from Walt Disney Studios is based on a true story and takes place in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1865. The opening scenes show…
1 9 9 5 – 1 9 9 7 (UK) 20 x 50 minute episodes Robert Carlyle starred as the easy-going PC Hamish Macbeth of the…
1 9 6 8 – 1 9 7 1 (UK) 167 x 25 minute episodes Scotland’s very first TV soap opera, set in a Glasgow…
Brothers Pat and Greg Kane formed pop duo Hue & Cry in Coatbridge, Scotland, in 1983. Their first single Here Comes Everybody was released on…
1 9 7 8 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Set in the 1920s, this children’s programme from BBC Scotland featured an imprisoned Russian princess (Emma…
Born in 1938 in the Scottish town of Pittenweem, in Fife, Ian Stewart was working as a shipping clerk at a London chemical company when…
Jackie Stewart – The Flying Scotsman – drove an Elf Tyrell In 1973 at Watkins Glen (which was Jackie’s 100th Grand Prix) Stewart’s teammate Francois…
Formed in East Kilbride, Scotland, this indie quartet originally comprised William Reid (vocals, guitar), Jim Reid (vocals, guitar), Douglas Hart (bass) and Murray Dalglish (drums).…
1 9 5 7 – 1 9 6 3 (UK) This jolly programme of Scottish songs and dances presented a traditional yet somewhat dated half-hour series…
1 9 6 8 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes 1 9 6 9 – 1 9 7 0 (UK) 12 x 30 minute episodes After making…
Formed in 1983 in the famous Tennants Bar in Glasgow, Lloyd Cole & The Commotions built a reputation for studenty, jangly and thoughtful guitar pop.…
A bunch of hard-nosed Houston oil developers invade a remote fishing village in Scotland with one self-serving purpose in mind – to rip off the…