A Wholly Healthy Glasgow
- TV comedy drama
- BBC One
- 1988
- 1 episode
Black comedy lampooning the fitness boom of the late 1980s. Stars Tom Watson, Gerard Kelly, Paul Higgins, Adam Crowther and Tony Betts
Key details
- Genre
- Comedy Drama
- Broadcast
- 1988
- Channel
- BBC 1
- Episodes
- 1
- Stars
- Tom Watson, Gerard Kelly, Paul Higgins, Adam Crowther and Tony Betts
- Writer
- Iain Heggie
- Director
- Richard Wilson
- Producer
- Bill Bryden
A fresh-faced gym instructor, Murdo Caldwell, threatens the cosy lifestyle established in the seedy Adonis Health Club in Glasgow, where, up until now, sex 'n' sleaze have been the order of the day. Charley and Donald, who have established a comfortable living at the club, plot to get rid of Murdo and his ideals of creating "a wholly healthy Glasgow... a city of perfectly proportioned sinuous but not over-developed physiques.... a city of non-smoking non-drinking joggers ... a city of reposeful but alert minds.' But who will win the battle of minds rather than bodies?
Richard Wilson directs this television version of a hit stage play with an acute understanding of small screen comedy.
Additional details
- Also known as
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- The Play On One: A Wholly Healthy Glasgow
- Production
- Studio
- Picture
- Colour
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Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Tuesday 16th February 1988 at 9:30pm on BBC One
- Episode length
- 75 minutes