A Play, A Pie & A Pint - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Chic Murray: A Funny Place for a Window
On what is his last day on earth, Chic takes a musical look back at the ups and downs, triumphs and tragedies of his glittering, but tragically flawed career.
Ring Road
Lisa is turning 40, heading towards a crisis and is bored with people judging her for not having kids. She lures her brother-in-law to a hotel to do something about it.
A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity
After her husband dies, Annabelle strikes up a relationship with his foul-mouthed employee Jim and finds freedom through expressing herself in brand new, vulgar ways.
Toy Plastic Chicken
A blackly comic exploration of security, degradation and resistance. At a Scottish airport a toy plastic chicken is suspected to be a bomb. The owner is screened for domestic radicalisation and her interrogators push her further and further.
Meat Market
The fifth production from BBC Scotland's televising of A Play, A Pie & A Pint is Meat Market by Chris Gray.
It is a comic tale fraught with duplicity and dodgy ethics, three strangers meet in a 24-hour gym late at night to negotiate the sale of a human kidney.
Crocodile Rock
Set in Millport in 1997, it is a comic and musical coming of age story about 17 year-old Steven. Feeling hemmed in by island life, everything changes when a chance encounter with a drag queen shows Steven a world he never knew existed.
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The Red King
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Return to Paradise
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Australian ex-pat Mackenzie Clarke is the seemingly golden girl of the London Metropolitan police force – with an intuitive approach to detective work, she has built a reputation for being able to crack the most impossible of cases. However, she's suddenly forced to up sticks and move back to her childhood home of Dolphin Cove, a beautiful, coastal paradise… and Mackenzie's worst nightmare.
English Teacher
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