High Times - Season 1 - Eps 1: Video Nasty
The hairy-knuckled woman at the DSS has arranged an interview for workshy Jake. His flatmate, Rab, can't stand the idea of losing Jake to the workforce so, together, they try to sabotage his chances of getting the job. Eddie doesn't get the homecoming he expects after a stretch in jail, while his downstairs neighbour, Jimmy, finds himself with an unwelcome lodger.
About High Times
Title: High Times
First Air Date: 2004-09-30
Last Air Date: 2008-08-28
Status: Ended
Rating: 5/10 (from 3 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 3
Total Episodes: 12
Network: STV
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
High Times is a Scottish comedy drama on STV, based around the lives of two flatmates and their neighbours in a high-rise tower block in Glasgow, in the last weeks before its closure for renovation. There are six episodes of stories interlinking the lives of a number of families. The first series of High Times won a BAFTA Scotland award in 2004 for Best Scottish television drama and was shortlisted for the 2005 Rose d'Or and Prix Italia television awards. In the same year it also won the award for Best Drama Series at the Celtic Film and Television Festival. Series 2 was nominated for a Royal Television Society award. In June 2010 it was announced that High Times would be one of the STV archive programmes to be made available on YouTube on the STV Player channel.
Cast
Stephen McCole
Rab
Jon Morrison
Eddie
Alison Peebles
Alice
Paul McCole
Jimmy
John Comerford
Tex
Cora Bissett
Janet
Anthony Strachan
Frank
Stephanie Robinson
Tracey
Alan McCafferty
Jake
