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- Cult Scottish comedy about the lives of two OAP's 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 area of Craiglang, Glasgow.
- The neds are getting out of hand and need to be taught a little respect for their elders so Jack and Victor enlist the services of their hard man friend 'Big Yin' Innes. There is only one problem. 'Big Yin' must not be allowed near the Miduri, for that liqueur will have a very profound effect on him. Winston, meanwhile, counters bullying his own way when he gets a job at the local supermarket.
- Victor feels the need to get away from it all and when he hears that Danny's wife is selling Danny's old car, he jumps at the chance to buy it, even though it involves having to outbid Manky Frankie and, at the end of the day, is not quite the bargain he had hoped that it would be.
- Jack and Victor have crossed the Big Pond to stay with Fiona and are taking in all the tourist attractions - as well as the tacky souvenirs. With such an improved life-style why would anybody want to return to dreary old Craiglang? Where Winston has now got his feet under the table at Isa's. Her cooking is superb but he finds her incessant talking less palatable.
- Back from Canada, life in Craiglang seems really mundane to Jack and Victor, who consider taking up a hobby, such as enrolling for the First Aid Course at Glasgow University's night school. Boabby has troubles of his own. His custom is dwindling and he can't get his leg over. However, things could change when he brings in a pretty new barmaid and has a quiz night. Armed with their new-found knowledge Victor and Jack are determined to be the quiz champions.
- Jack and Victor decide to make use of the Dial-a-Bus service to go into town but their trip turns into a nightmare when Davie the driver suffers one of his psychotic turns and refuses to stop. Winston takes advantage when Boabby goes on holiday by persuading his temporary barman that he is the owner of the Clansman and, as such, entitled to all the perks that brings.
- Osprey Heights has suddenly become the venue for a card school and tight-fisted Tam has won disabled Joe's disability scooter from him in a card game. Jack and Victor set out to win it back for him. Whilst Shug gets arrested as a Peeping Tom, Winston has the satisfaction of seeing his long-standing feud with the local bookie work in his favour when he discovers he has won the accumulator. Or has he?
- Isa's husband Harry Drennan re-appears and, as she wants none of him, she gets Winston to pretend to be her boyfriend. Whilst Victor and his son have little in common Jack gets a tape from his daughter Fiona in Canada showing the family, and with it an invitation to go out and see her. Can Jack leave his old pal to fend for himself in Craiglang? Or, perhaps they could both go?
- Victor's son is coming to visit, but cynical Jack doubts it will happen - especially when neither of them catch what time his train is supposed to be arriving at the station.
- Jack Jarvis is a widower, whose life is being made a misery by his unsympathetic neighbours. He would like to move away but can't find anywhere. Salvation comes when he hears that the man who lives in the flat across the way from Victor McDade,his old friend and fellow widower, in Osprey Heights tower block has died, thus creating a vacancy and allowing Jack to be near his old pal, proving that they may be pensioners but they are still game.
- Envy turns to bewilderment and then concern when Jack and Victor see their friend Wullie dating the considerably younger Rena and the rumours start to fly that she wants to kill him for his money. Winston's new leg is rather loose-fitting and therefore not the best place to hide his cash when a young layabout is roaming the estate conning the residents out of money.
- For decades reclusive Archie has hidden himself away from the world but now there is no hiding place as the council are due to demolish his house. Jack and Victor take him under their collective wings in an effort to bring him into the twenty-first century whilst Winston decides to turn his flat into a cinema.
- Tam proposes to Frances, the librarian - with everyone spying on them. Winston bullies him into lashing out on a new wedding ring, rather than re-using his first wife's, but unfortunately Jack swallows it whilst performing a conjuring trick. Can the prune juice bring it back for the big day? Navid discovers that being taken over by the Spire supermarket group is less advantageous than he imagined.
- When Tam goes away on holiday Jack and Victor take over from him as D.Js running the local hospital radio service and acquire themselves quite a fan club. this does not include Navid who ends up in hospital with a delicate problem.
- Jack has got satellite television but Victor has not so, to enable both of them to watch, they ask Shug to put in a connecting hatch between their two rooms. Isa gets the wrong end of the stick when she hears about this and soon it is going about Craiglang that they are a gay couple.
- 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?
- A gang of construction workers headed by Chris move into Craiglang with orders to demolish the Clansman and replace it with new houses. Jack, Victor and Winston lead the protest outside the pub and come to the conclusion that one of them may well be Chris's father, a fact which they trust will prevent the Clansman from being knocked down. So, out of the trio, who's the daddy?
- The future looks bleak for Winston's leg. Victor pretends to be ill so his son will visit him and Isa meets a psychic in the Clansman and tells her she'll be run over with a car but Navid and everyone make a joke out of it.
- Revenge is sweet for Winston when he exposes the new bookie Frankie Reid, supposedly the elder brother of his old adversary Stevie, as Stevie himself and, thanks to personal tips from pundit John McCririck via the T.V. set, takes him to the cleaners, though his triumph is short-lived. Jack and Victor win a free tour of a local whisky distillery where they bend the rules and get thrown out - but with a valuable souvenir.
- A particularly cold snap envelops Craiglang. People are slipping on the ice and, worse, dying of hypothermia. Winston has the perfect solution, to fiddle the electricity and get free heat. Victor is appalled at this display of criminality. But then it is very cold and needs must. . .
- Jack fancies Barbara, the nice lady from the charity shop, who agrees to go on a date with him after prompting from Victor. Barbara arranges a double date for Victor with her sister, who isn't exactly smashing. Meanwhile Winston gets barred from the Clansman by Boaby and has to seek a new local.
- The workmen on the new building site are spending a lot of money on food and lining the pockets of take-away entrepreneur Vince, 'the Clydeside Poisoner'. With Navid away at his brother's funeral Jack and Victor are minding the store for him. Winston, who hates Vince, sees this as the perfect opportunity to set up his own fast food outlet from the shop and give Vince a run for his money.
- A money-lender appears at Craiglang and finds no shortage of willing customers. Jack and Victor are in the money too, not, as Isa believes, because they have 'tapped' money from the lender but because they have bought stock market shares from Navid. Tam and Winston have a run-in with neds on the local golf course and challenge them to a grudge match, the winners to have the run of the course.
- Jack and Victor decide to offer a helping hand to their recently-widowed friend Bert, who seems incapable of looking after himself. Winston, on the other hand, is certainly helping himself - to the favours of his new home help, Mrs. Begg. Later, they find that Mrs. Begg is offering more than she should be. . .