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    Drama TV Shows - 1990s 2 Mins Read

    Takin’ Over the Asylum

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    Alcoholic double glazing salesman “Ready” Eddie McKenna (Ken Stott) takes a part-time side-gig as a hospital radio DJ at St Jude’s Psychiatric Hospital in Glasgow.

    Eddie recruits some of the inmates as station employees and with the help of good-hearted manic depressive Campbell Bain (David Tenant) – who appoints himself as a trainee DJ – and schizophrenic Fergus (Angus Macfadyen) he resurrects the dusty, dilapidated radio station.

    Ruth McCabe is superb as the OCD-ridden Rosalie who turns out to be fantastic at filing and sorting all the records. Elizabeth Spriggs plays Eddie’s Lithuanian grandmother, with whom he lives.

    The scenes in the hospital were filmed in Gartloch Psychiatric Hospital, in Glasgow, before it closed. Many of the extras in these scenes were former patients.

    Eddie McKenna
    Ken Stott
    Campbell Bain
    David Tennant
    Francine
    Katy Murphy
    Rosalie
    Ruth McCabe
    Grandma
    Elizabeth Spriggs
    Isabel
    Angela Bruce
    Stuart
    Kenneth Bryans
    Alastair
    Matt Costello
    Billy
    Derek Anders
    Hector
    Gavin Mitchell
    Margaret
    Molly Innes
    Griffin
    Roy Hanlon
    Sheila
    Nell Brennan
    MacAteer
    Neil McKinven
    Jane
    Caroline Paterson
    Fergus
    Angus Macfadyen
    Evelyn
    Sandra Voe
    Lavery
    Ronnie McCann
    Paula
    Arabella Weir
    Webster
    Paul Blair

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