Gregor Fisher

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.

The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Captain Waggett and conspire to hide away cases of the precious amber nectar.

The life and times of Tommy Cooper

Rose (Emily Blunt) é uma encantadora golpista que se envolve com um assassino internacional chamado Victor (Bill Nighy). Mas quando Victor poupa a vida de Rose, seu coração solitário deflagra uma inusitada cadeia de eventos que vira o mundo de ambos de ponta-cabeça. Seguido pelo aprendiz de atirador (Rupert Grint), o improvável trio se une para frustrar as intenções homicidas do insatisfeito cliente de Victor.

A tense two-part psychological thriller about a troubled, homeless girl who gets caught up in the hunt for a violent killer.

Primorosamente escrito e dirigido com um elenco de primeira, Lassie é uma aventura emocionante e cativante sobre um cão fiel determinado a reencontrar sua família a qualquer custo. Esta mágica adaptação sobre uma collie que enfrenta obstáculos incríveis em sua jornada de volta para casa vai agradar adultos e crianças. Um conto clássico sobre amizade e coragem que vai derreter até o mais gelado dos corações.

15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he's lured onto a cargo ship, knocked unconscious, and kidnapped by his malevolent uncle Ebenezer, who devises a scheme to sell him into slavery. But Davie's unforeseen rescue at the hands of a Scottish rogue, Alan Breck, leaves them racing across the Scottish moors, with English bounty hunters in hot pursuit.

Veneza, século XVI. Antonio (Irons) pede dinheiro a Shylock (Pacino) para ajudar o seu amigo Bassanio (Fiennes) a conquistar Portia (Collins). Antonio tem dinheiro, mas está todo investido em navios no estrangeiro. Shyloc, que há muito procura vingar-se dele, estabelece termos muito rígidos, que envolvem receber um pedaço de carne de Antonio caso este falhe no pagamento. E é então que chegam as notícias de que o negócio foi devastado por uma tempestade.

O amor paira em Londres. Há um casal que se casa. Há um padrinho de casamento que se apaixona. Há um viúvo que tenta ajudar o enteado a expressar os seus sentimentos por uma rapariga. Uma mãe devota que procura o amor que já não existe. Há amores secretos e outros nem tanto. Em plena quadra natalícia, oito casais têm de lidar com o amor.

Adaptation of the Dickens novel.

Set at the turn of the 20th century, The Railway Children tells the story of three Edwardian children and their mother who move to a country house in Yorkshire after their father is mysteriously taken away by the police.

More comedy sketches from Scottish comedian Rikki Fulton. Characters include: Michael Jackson - from Jordanhill; Shirley Bassey - from Bearsden; Jonathan Partington; Bonnie Prince Charlie; and the Last Call team.

On Christmas Eve, 1818, in Austria the Oberndorf organ broke down. The assistant priest writes a carol to be accompanied by guitar. The carol was "Silent Night". (Taken from the IMDB page)

Sherlock Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret: Dr. Watson is the brains behind the operation. When Reginald Kincaid, the actor he has hired to play Holmes becomes insufferable, Watson fires him and tries to go out on his own, but finds that he has done too good a job building Holmes up in the public's mind.

Escândalo abala a vida dos aristocratas e decadentes habitantes de colônia inglesa no Quênia, durante a Segunda Guerra. Jovem e bela mulher, casada com nobre de 57 anos, se apaixona por conde galã, conhecido pela devassidão e extravagância.

A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.

Rikki Fulton and friends return with another selection of sketches and comedy characters, including the Reverend I.M. Jolly, Supercop, dirty barber Alky Broon and Big Chief Swift Half.

A woman looks back on her life as a political activist in Scotland from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Video Compilation of the Scottish TV Comedy Sketch Show. Stand out characters include Supercop, an idiot motorcycle policeman whose catchphrase was 'Alright Stirling, oot the car' and whose goggles would spring off his helmet; Dirty Dickie Dandruff; Gallowgate Gourmet, the unbelievably unhygienic TV chef; and McGlinchey, a colourful wide-boy.

Alan and Mary are pretty miserable together and split up. As a very presentable Glaswegian photographer, Alan soon has chances to find consolation elsewhere, but more and more thinks of Mary. She, however, seems a lot less keen to try again.

Um homem perde sua identidade vivendo sob um regime repressivo. Nesta história baseada no clássico de George Orwell, Winston Smith (John Hurt) é um funcionário público cuja função é reescrever a história de forma a colocar os líderes de um país fictício sob uma luz positiva. As escapadelas românticas com Julia (Suzanna Hamilton) proporcionam sua única fonte de distração, mas os políticos desaprovam o relacionamento. Em uma sociedade monitorada de perto, não há como escapar do Grande Irmão.

Set in 1943 in Scotland during World War II. Janie is a young housewife married to a man named Dougal, 15 years her senior. As part of a war rehabilitation program, Janie and Dougal welcome three Italian POWs to work on their farm. Soon, Janie falls in love with one of them...

Jake lives in the shadow of his dying grandfather, who was once the town's toughest hard man. Despite their hatred of each other, Jake's sole aim is to be as tough as the old man was. One day in Jake's life, as he drifts, drinks and fights, leads to a bleak realisation.

Adolescent love can be difficult at the best of times, but Donal and Sally have special problems - problems which alarm their families and the instructors at Strathvale Centre.