Still Game

2002 - 2019

Based on characters from the sketch show, Chewin' the Fat, this Scottish series follows Jack and Victor, two broke senior citizens who live in the fictional crappy town of Craiglang, and their adventures with the other seniors in town.

Stars: Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill, Paul Riley, Mark Cox, Jane McCarry, Gavin Mitchell, Sanjeev Kohli, Shamshad Akhtar
Created by: Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill
Tags: friend group, spinoff

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Episode Tropes

Season 1

Raging Bull&@!: Episode 1, "Flittin'" (2002). Winston is bragging all over town about his grandson, Joe, who's training for a big boxing match, but the rest of the gang is unconvinced, and they're proven right when Joe gets knocked out by the first punch.
FOMO: Episode 5, "Waddin'" (2002). Navid's daughter is getting married, and her wedding is going to be the event of the year. Navid has invited everyone in town except Jack and Victor, and the rest of the gang are taking the opportunity to break their balls. Just when Jack and Victor start to get mad and curse Navid's name, they discover their invitations folded inside Victor's racing form.

Season 2

Between Friends: Episode 4, "Brief" (2003). Victor outbids Manky Frankie for a used car, but he went higher than he could afford, so he asks Jack to go in on it, and they agree to share the car, even though Jack can't drive. Jack starts demanding that Victor drive him and the gang around, making Victor feel like Jack's chauffer.
Playing the Market: Episode 5, "Tappin'" (2003). Victor tells Jack that they can save a lot of money on their future burials and spend the rest of the money they saved, about £300 each, so they go out on the town and treat themselves to shopping and expensive brandy. When Navid sees their haul, he shows them a website he uses to play the stock market, and they ask him to invest the rest of their money, but the company goes belly up, and they lose it all.
Pretend We're a Couple: Episode 9, "Dug'" (2003). When Isa's estranged husband, Harry returns, she tells him she's met someone else in an attempt to get him to leave her alone. To help Isa, Winston pretends to be her boyfriend. They hold hands and walk around the town, and he has dinner at her house every night.

Season 3

Poker Night: Episode 3, "Cairds" (2004). When Boabby kicks the gang out of the pub for playing poker, they move the game to Jack's house and keep playing. When one hotly contested game comes down to Tam and Joe, Joe runs out of money and bets his brand new power wheelchair and loses. The gang urges Tam to give Joe back his chair, but he refuses, so the gang plot a scam to take it back from him.
False Arrest: Episode 3, "Cairds" (2004). Shug is in the building opposite, watching Tam and Joe playing poker through binoculars, when a woman downstairs spots him and think he's peeping on her. When two cops question Shug, he tries to show them the window where he was watching the game, but Tam has closed the curtains, so Shug gets arrested.
Recluse: Episode 5, "Oot" (2004). A man named Archie hasn't left his home in 40 years, but the council is demolishing his building, so he has to come out to move to a new flat, and the whole town is there to greet him. While he's waiting for his new flat to be ready, Jack and Victor take him around town to catch up on the world and try new things, like a microwave and a Big Mac. Once he's settled in his new place, Jack and Victor are convinced he'll start going out now, but he doesn't want to.
Happy Death Day: Episode 6, "Aff" (2004). A psychic gives readings at The Clansman, and she tells Isa she's going to die on Thursday when a silver car hits her. When Thursday comes, Isa is so terrified that when a silver car starts gunning for her, she freezes. Fortunately, Navid pushes her out of the way just in time. Then a toddler in a silver toy car knocks Isa down.

Season 4

Bachelor Party Gone Wrong: Episode 4, "Ring" (2005). Tam is getting married, and the gang hold a stag night for him at The Clansman. When Winston introduces the stripper, Tam proudly announces that he paid for the entertainment, and Tam being Tam, of course he skimped and got a stripper that's about 80 years old.
Magic Brownies: Episode 5, "Hatch" (2005). Winston's grandson stays with him, and he and his friends eat Winston's dinner, so Winston eats a plate of cookies on the counter, not realizing they contain pot. When his daughter arrives to pick up her son, Winston is playing air guitar and singing along to Bob Marley while the boys play video games.
Not That There's Anything Wrong with That: Episode 6, "Who's the Daddy?" (2005). Jack and Victor ask Shug to put a hatch between their flats so they can share Jack's Sky subscription. The next morning, Isa knocks on Jack's door and sees Victor in his apartment wearing pajamas, then she watches them through the mail slot and sees Victor showing Jack a boil on his ass and concludes that they're gay. Isa being Isa, she tells the whole town, and Boabby and the gang at The Clansman put on some Abba and try to dance as a way to make Jack and Victor feel comfortable.
To Kill a Turkey: Episode 7, "Cold Turkey" (2005). Winston falls for a discount turkey scam and ends up with a live turkey. He tries to kill it with a meat cleaver, but he can't bring himself to do it, so he tries several other methods, like coaxing it across a busy freeway and trying to push it off a ledge. He even brings it to the butcher to kill, but he changes his mind at the last minute and rescues the turkey. Finally he gives up, names the turkey Albert, and sets it free.

Season 5

Mr. Gray: Episode 4, "Hard Nuts" (2006). Navid is going through a mid-life crisis. He starts dressing younger, dying his hair beard, and doing things that are against his religion, like gambling. When he wanders into the Clansman and orders a whiskey, Meena kicks his ass and drags him back home, where he returns to his normal self.
Between Floors: Episode 6, "The Party" (2006). Jack, Victor, Winston, and Isa get trapped in a malfunctioning elevator on the night of Hogmanay (Scottish New Year's Eve), the emergency phone is broken, and no one is around to help them except some punk Neds.

Season 6

Raging Bull&@!: Episode 4, "Seconds Out" (2007). Boabby and Stevie the bookie are fighting over the new girl in town, Stacy. When they attack each other at the gym, special guest star, real-life Boxer, Jim Watt, tells them to fight it out like men: in the boxing ring. They prepare to fight with everyone in Craiglang in attendance, and Boabby and Stevie are raving about how hot the object of their affection is when Stacy walks in and says "Hi, Dad" to Jim Watt, who promptly knocks out both Boabby and Stevie for going after his daughter.
Trapped: Episode 5, "Hyper" (2007). Everyone in town is shopping at the new superstore, Hyperdale's, and it's putting Navid out of business. Jack, Victor, Winston, and Tam discover Navid in a tent in the store with a bottle of gasoline, planning to burn the place down, and while they're talking him out of it, the store closes, locking all five of them inside.
See You in Court: Episode 6, "Recipe" (2007). The "Beefy Bake" is the hottest item at Henderson's Bakery, but newly-sober Pete the Jakey won't join in on the craze. He tells Jack and Victor that he invented the Beefy Bake in 1979 and never received any compensation for it, so they help him file a lawsuit and represent him in court (despite having no legal experience). While celebrating their imminent win, Pete falls off the wagon and makes a deal with Mr. Henderson for his globe-shaped bar.

Season 7

Job Swap: Episode 4, "Small Change" (2016). Boabby and Navid argue about whose job is easier, so to help them resolve their feud, Jack and Victor suggest they switch jobs until one of them gives up.

Season 9

15 Minutes of Fame: Episode 1, "Local Hero" (2019). Winston takes down a mugger who stole Isa's purse and becomes a local hero. A witness, who recorded the incident on his phone puts it on YouTube, and it instantly goes viral. Everyone in Craiglang starts calling him the "Angry Grandpa" and asking him to say his catchphrase, "Shut it, Tadger!" Winston makes more videos with Mick and becomes an internet sensation, but it's not long before his 15 minutes are up and the town turns against him.
Mr. Gray: Episode 2, "Cat's Whiskers" (2019). Twilight Magazine, a lifestyle magazine for seniors, is looking for new cover couple, and the whole gang wants to try out. Jack tries to up chances by dying his hair with dye that drips down his face. Shug ends up getting the job, so Jack goes back to his old look.
Weird Wedding Venue: Episode 5, "Hitched" (2019). The gang want to throw Winston and Winnie a wedding they'll never forget, but with little to no funds, they have to go a non-traditional route. Since Jack and Victor's old buddy told them he was a curator at a museum, they ask to have the wedding there, but their friend lied about being the curator, so he has to sneak them in at night after the museum is closed.

Character Tropes

Extreme Cheapskate: Tam Mullen - Played by Mark Cox.
Nosey Neighbor: Isa Drennan - Played by Jane McCarry.
Unseen Character: Meena Harrid - Played by Shamshad Akhtar.
Black Sheep Brother: Walter Ingram - Played by Gary Miller in season 7, episode 1, "Gadgets" (2016).