Scottish Television (STV)

Tony Roper wrote 'The Steamie' for Glasgow's Mayfest in 1987. Return to Hogmany 1957 when a fiesty group of Glasgow women; Mrs Culfeathers, Dolly, Doreen and the irrepressible Magrit, all meet at The Steamie to do the traditional family wash before the New Year. The Steamie is a hilarious cameo of Glasgow's social history where the washing was always easier to do when the Women shared their laugher and sorrow and a scandalous supply of gossip. This is the definitive version of the most popular play of the last 20 years with the all star cast of Dorothy Paul as Magrit, Eileen McCallum as Dolly, Kate Murphy as Doreen, Sheila McDonald as Mrs Culfeathers and a very young Peter Mullan as Andy, the whisky loving handy man.

Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.

The story of a young couple who manage to re-charge their wilting relationship when Rod accidentally becomes an electrifying lover!

The misdaventures of a man who is forced to confront the realities of his life when he promises his estranged wife that he will get a pair of football boots for his son at any cost.

Arthur is a confirmed bachelor. But when he meets Ann Mitchell his fixed attitudes are severely challenged.

A lorry driver feeling isolated from his family and a woman with a troubling secret help each other to find out some answers on a journey to Land’s End.

Jerry and Gordy are white trash hoodlums surfing into adulthood as their factory town school closes for the summer. But their teenage daydreams turn sour when the test of friendship and the ties that bind transform an innocent quest for freedom into a baptism of fire.

Flying bin bags, missing sofas, broken lifts and a complete power failure make an interesting night for tenants of a council tower block.

Duncan and George compete to be Alasdair's best man.

It's Laura's first job and she is anxious to do well, but her instinctive empathy with the elderly people in her care puts her in conflict with her colleagues.

Time and again a man will stand before a hardware store window eyeing the tools arrayed behind the glass; his mouth will water; he will go in and hand over $2.65 for a perfectly special kind of wrench; and probably he will never, never, use it for anything. -Walker Evans

Downtrodden Frankie is given an opportunity that is too good to refuse when a chance encounter gives him 24 hours to get his life back on track and revive his romance.

Harry is a small time gangster in hiding. Sheila is the ultimate femme fatale and they are stuck together like rats in a trap.

In the wake of their mother's death, two small boys are held captive to their father's grief. But when their mother's last wish heralds the arrival of their estranged grandmother, their fierce independence sets in motion a household power struggle that threatens to confront the ghosts of the past.

In the 1930s, the onset of puberty provokes alarm and confusion for a young girl, causing her Aunt to reflect on her own younger days at a village dance during the First World War.

A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.

Spike, a 15 year-old runaway, is given a home by Esther, a young woman with mental health problems. With Spike's support, Esther gains confidence to sing in a jazz club. Although Spike appears the stronger of the two, mistreatment of a neighbour's baby brings back his own past... A story of the healing power of unconditional love.

Black comedy about legs and why we need them.

Sonny, who has alcoholism, has to swallow his pride and plead to be allowed to return to the pub he has been banned from in order to take his son Mark for a drink.

Unable to accept that she doesn't want to see him anymore, Joe threatens to shoot himself in the head at his ex-lover's apartment door, but is not expecting her to then attack him.