The Chief

The Chief

2025 · 2 seasons · 8 eps · ★ 7.5 · Comedy

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Scot Squad’s top cop dives deep into dealing with colleagues, bams and family alike. Can he still be the numero uno in a modern, progressive police force?

Created by Jack Docherty

Network: BBC iPlayer

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Comedy following the lives of five people as they prepare to vie for the 2009 Cup O'Kindness, the trophy awarded to the champion in Robert Burns poetry recital. The film captures the ups and downs of each participant's progress as the pressure intensifies, the poems are recited and the champion is crowned. Held in Alloway, the birthplace of Burns himself, this prestigious competition is the centrepiece of the annual celebrations devoted to the Bard's immortal memory. And this year it may prove memorable for all the wrong reasons.
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10.01949
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BAFTA presents awards for film, television and games, including children's entertainment, at a number of annual ceremonies across the UK and in Los Angeles, USA.
Red DwarfRed Dwarf · 1988
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8.11988
SeriesComedySci-Fi & Fantasy
The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
Spitting Image: Bumbledown – The Life and Times of Ronald ReaganSpitting Image: Bumbledown – The Life and Times of Ronald Reagan · 1988
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8.01988
MovieComedy
Please join us now as we pass through history's golden years to illuminate the illustrious life of actor, lifeguard, underpants salesman, GE spokesman, husband of Jane Wyman, friend of Frank Sinatra, Governor of California and finally President of the United States: Ronald Wilson Reagan. Let the real truth be told.
The StrangerersThe Strangerers · 2000
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The Strangerers is a British television comedy drama science fiction series written by Rob Grant and was broadcast on Sky One between 15 February and 11 April 2000. A single series was made with a total of 9 episodes. The show ended on a cliffhanger. It has not been released on DVD, nor repeated since its original run.
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Scot SquadScot Squad · 2014
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6.82014
SeriesComedyCrime
Mockumentary comedy series following the life of scottish police officers from different areas of the force in a fly on the wall style.
HumdrumHumdrum · 1999
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6.71999
MovieComedyAnimation
Two very bored shadowy characters try to think of something to do--and end up playing "Shadow Puppets."
The Robbie Coltrane SpecialThe Robbie Coltrane Special · 1989
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6.51989
MovieComedy
A comedy special starring Robbie Coltrane as a variety of different characters.
The Old GuysThe Old Guys · 2009
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6.52009
SeriesComedy
The Old Guys is a British comedy television series that revolves around two aging housemates: Tom Finnan and Roy Bowden. The pair live across the street from Sally, whom they both find attractive. Tom moved in with Roy after Roy's wife Penny deserted him. Baby boomer Tom has little in life but his daughter Amber, who is dating Steve. Roy is a suburban pensioner who believes that he is one of the country's leading intellectuals.
Mr Don & Mr GeorgeMr Don & Mr George · 1993
Mr Don & Mr George
6.21993
SeriesComedy
Mr Don & Mr George was a Channel 4 sitcom, featuring two characters from the Scottish comedy sketch show Absolutely. Moray Hunter and Jack Docherty played two unrelated characters who happened to share a surname. Hunter and Docherty wrote the series and it was made by their production company, Absolutely Productions. The humour was surreal and often featured ridiculous visual gags and wordplay. A single six-episode series was made, and was first broadcast in the UK on Channel 4 in 1993. The series was released on VHS in the 1990s. A single VHS tape was released with all six episodes on as well. This tape stated that it had the entire first series on one tape, however no further series were made.
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AbsolutelyAbsolutely · 1989
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SeriesComedy
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BadultsBadults · 2013
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3.82013
SeriesComedy
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SardinesSardines · 1995
Sardines
1995
MovieComedy
Davy Kotowski is a petty officer aboard submarine HMS Wolverine. Following a rigged arm-wrestling contest, half the crew are in slings. Kotowski is then brought before the Captain, Alec McCleod for the ninth time. He is sentenced to denial of shore leave and 20 hours laundry duty, most of which he delegates to his bunkmate Chris Cheese. Kotowski then plots his revenge on Lionel Pinner and Cheese ends up having a £100 grudge darts match with Pinner on Kotowski's behalf. Meanwhile McCleod's watch has gone missing.
Planet HogmanayPlanet Hogmanay · 2015
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2015
MovieComedy
A mix of archive, international footage and lighthearted commentary compares the world's New Year's Eve traditions to Hogmanay. Narrated by Jack Docherty.

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