Ian Pattison
Director
Rab C. Nesbitt (1990)
Specials
BBC comedy series about Rab C. Nesbitt, a drunken, string vested layabout who lives with his long suffering wife Mary and his two sons in the working class area of Govan in Glasgow. When he's not getting drunk with his pals that include the devious, womanizing Jamesie Cotter. He's offering his philosophical outlook on life to whoever will listen.
Released Sept. 27, 1990
Episode 29 min
None+
Genres: Comedy
Keywords: tmdb.scotland, tmdb.glasgow-scotland, tmdb.self-destruction, tmdb.white-trash, tmdb.dark-comedy, tmdb.satire, tmdb.breaking-the-fourth-wall + 22 more, tmdb.alcoholic, tmdb.sitcom, imdb.lanarkshire, imdb.strathclyde, imdb.central-lowlands, imdb.lowlands-of-scotland, imdb.deadbeat, imdb.street-philosopher, imdb.character-name-as-series-title, imdb.scotland, imdb.alcoholic, imdb.alcoholism, imdb.philosopher, imdb.glasgow-scotland, imdb.breaking-the-fourth-wall, imdb.1980s, imdb.scottish-comedy, imdb.govan-glasgow-scotland, imdb.glaswegian, imdb.british-comedy, imdb.scot, imdb.scottish
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S0E1 - Rab C Nesbitt's Seasonal Greet
To Hard-drinking Govan resident Rab C. Nesbitt, there is no magic to Christmas when you have no money and he cannot share his long-suffering wife Mary or teenage sons Burney and Gash's enthusiasm for the festive season, preferring instead to comment cynically to camera on its commercial trappings. The ultimate betrayal is seeing neighbour and best friend Jamesie Cotter working as a department store Santa, which leads to a fight and a spell in gaol for Rab.
Dec. 22, 1988, midnight
S0E2 - Fitba
Rab, Burney and Jamesie go to Italy to see Scotland play in the World Cup, taking frail and elderly ex-soccer star Matt Fernie with them. Jamesie gets arrested - and visited by Ella, seeking a separation - but Matt is taken seriously ill before Scotland's final game and Rab must lie to let an old man die happy.
Dec. 31, 1990, midnight
S0E3 - Home
Mary's cousin Shug, who lives in England but gets very Scottish after a skinful, brings his hatchet-faced wife Phoebe to spend Hogmanay with the Nesbitts, who are still feuding after an unhappy Christmas. Shug is in his element at the karaoke, the Chinese and the home brew session...until he sobers up and gets an attack of English conscience. Phoebe, surprisingly, lightens up and invites Mary to a party South of the border where Mrs. Nesbitt enjoys a highland fling of her own.
Dec. 31, 1992, midnight
S0E4 - More
A Christmas special which finds Rab bewildered at the prospect of becoming a father-in-law as Gash announces his intention of getting married and Jamesie out on the streets as Ella trades him in for a younger model, the hunky Donny. Of course it is down to Rab to put everything back to normal again.
Dec. 19, 1994, midnight
S0E5 - Clean
Rab C. Nesbitt returns for the first time in nearly a decade and seems to be a changed man, but can he resist a return to his old ways as Christmas approaches?
Dec. 23, 2008, midnight
S0E6 - Rab in Hoodie
After unsuccessfully trying to beat the bedroom tax by passing his spare room off as his study Rab joins Jamesie, annoyed that his disability allowance bid has been rejected, for a public protest against welfare cuts - quickly dispersed by police. The pair then decide to rob a building society and so the legend of Rab in Hoodie with his merry men (Jamesie and Andra) who rob institutions and share their spoils with retirement home residents - is born. They become folk heroes and Mary is interviewed on television. But Rab's grand-daughter Peaches still needs money for the school trip to Sweden, so one last heist is planned - the theft of a Rembrandt from a local museum. Will Rab in Hoodie succeed , or will he and his merry men literally end up in the gutter?
Jan. 2, 2014, midnight
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 29 min.
Season Runtime: 1827 min.
Released: Sept. 27, 1990
Last Air Date: Nov. 9, 2011, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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