Mark Cox

See how the Smokers plan for the Bells while wannabe star Ronald Villiers finally lands a walk-on part, causing mayhem down Shieldinch as a postman in River City. This Chewin' the Fat Hogmanay special is jam packed with all your favourites.

A Hogmanay helping of classic Scottish sketch comedy, as the Chewin’ the Fat gang see in the new millennium with a collection of festive characters, familiar faces and gloriously daft sketches.

A festive helping of Chewin’ the Fat as the gang return for Hogmanay 2001, serving up another collection of outrageous characters, recurring favourites and distinctly Scottish sketch comedy to ring in the New Year.

The Chewin’ the Fat gang return for another Hogmanay special, bringing a fresh batch of sketches, familiar faces and gloriously daft Scottish humour to see in the New Year.

A young mother is forced to face the truth of her past life as her daughter approaches adolescence and strives for new freedom.

When an evil genius steals the Magical Beacon Stone and forces the children of Inverclyde to toil in his factories, Bella and Jenny only have five days to find the Stone stop his schemes and save Christmas.

Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill are back and reviving their much loved characters Jack Jarvis and Victor McDade for the first time in years! They've not been seen on the small screen since a Hogmanay special in January 2008, but this year sees a full reunion of the original television cast as Jack and Victor are reunited alongside other Still Game favourites Winston, Isa, Tam, Navid, and Bobby.

When Dorset postman Clive Peacock is forced into early retirement, the years ahead look bleak. But on his last day in the job, in a moment of unexpected rebellion he makes a decision that will change his life. As he makes his final collection from the postbox in the small seaside town where he lives, he decides to deliver the letters himself, by hand, no matter the destination. Mounting his trusty bicycle, he sets off on what proves to be an odyssey of self-discovery. Pursued by the police and lionised by the media, Clive becomes both a fugitive and a reluctant hero.

The final Hogmanay special of Chewin’ the Fat, bringing the much-loved Scottish sketch show to a close with one last helping of familiar faces, recurring characters and gloriously daft end-of-year comedy. Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill and the gang see out 2005 in typically irreverent fashion, marking the end of an era for one of Scotland’s most popular comedy series.

The Chewin’ the Fat team return to see out 2004 with another Hogmanay helping of Scottish sketch comedy. Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill and the cast serve up a fresh collection of outrageous characters, familiar favourites and gloriously daft observations on Scottish life as the countdown to the New Year begins.

The stars of Scotland's "Chewin' the Fat" take to the stage in a live show recorded live at the King's Theater, Glasgow.

Jack and Victor face a miserable New Year when they become trapped in a lift at Osprey Heights. Winston recalls the daddy of all Hogmanays, in the dim and distant past when Craiglang knew how to throw a party.

Christmas is looming but Winston gets conned by a ned into buying a turkey so fresh it's still alive, Tam devises his own means of delivering Christmas cards for Frances and Jack and Victor are left out in the cold when they offend Isa, who usually supplies their Christmas dinner. Are there consolations to be had by joining the pensioners in the Community Centre?

The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.

Lucy wakes every night at exactly 3:33am. Nothing in her life has made sense for a long time. But the answers are out there, somewhere, at the end of a trail of brutal murders.

A brash but brilliant cop becomes head of a new police department, where he leads an unlikely team of misfits in solving Edinburgh's cold cases.

Cult Scottish comedy about the lives of two OAP's (Old Age Pensioners) Jack and Victor and their views on how it used to be in the old days and how bad it is now in the fictional town of Craiglang.

A friendship forged between James and Tully in a small Scottish town in 1986. One weekend, they make a vow to each other to go at life differently. But then, 30 years on, half a life away, the phone rings. Tully has the worst kind of news.

Chewin' the Fat is a Scottish comedy sketch show, starring Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill and Karen Dunbar. Comedians Paul Riley and Mark Cox also appeared regularly on the show. Chewin' the Fat first started as a radio series on BBC Radio Scotland. The later television show, which ran for four series, was first broadcast on BBC One Scotland, but series three and four, as well as highlights from the first two series, were later broadcast to the rest of the United Kingdom. Although the last series ended in February 2002, 6 Hogmanay specials were broadcast and offered on DVD when purchasing the Scottish Sun between 2000 to 2005, one every year. Chewin' the Fat gave rise to the spin-off show Still Game, a sitcom focusing on the two old male characters Jack and Victor. The series was mostly filmed in and around Glasgow and occasionally West Dunbartonshire. The English idiom to chew the fat means to chat casually, but thoroughly, about subjects of mutual interest.

A selection of some of the best sketches from the Scottish comedy sketch show featuring a cast of recurring characters.