Gary: Tank Commander
- TV sitcom
- BBC One Scotland / BBC Two Scotland
- 2009 - 2012
- 18 episodes (3 series)
Sitcom starring Greg McHugh as Gary McLintoch, a soldier who returns home from Iraq to the barracks and offers unique insights into both worlds. Stars Greg McHugh, Robert Jack, Scott Fletcher, Paul-James Corrigan, Stuart Bowman and more.
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Press clippings
Gary: Tank Commander to team up with Scottish supermarket for 'world first' free comedy show
Lidl stores in Scotland are teaming up with TV comedy character Gary: Tank Commander to launch 'Checkout Comedy', a free, world-first listening experience in Scottish stores.
Rosalind Erskine, The Scotsman, 16th July 2024Comedy review: Gary, Tank Commander
Greg McHugh's central performance remains dumbly charismatic, but Mission Quite Possible feels like a 30 minute sitcom episode's worth of laughs stretched too thin over almost two hours.
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman, 24th October 2016Gary Tank Commander Live review
It's a plot that's stretched a bit thin over two-and-a-half hours (including interval), McHugh not being the first sitcom writer to find difficulties in extending a half-hour format to a feature length. The second half, especially, spends a lot of time on plotting and exposition of a fairly simple story at the expense of laughs. Our possible ISIS man even gets to sing a ballad I Am Your Brother, Set Me Free without irony or piss-take.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 21st October 2016Interview: Greg McHugh on Gary: Tank Commander
As Greg McHugh prepares his live show of Gary: Tank Commander, the actor and writer tells Janet Christie about the enduring appeal of his comic creation and why it's time to get serious.
Janet Christie, The Scotsman, 2nd July 2016Gary: Tank Commander, turns political interviewer
Ahead of the Scottish Parliament elections on May 5, Greg McHugh's camp squaddie has questioned the party leaders in a pre-recorded special for BBC Two Scotland.
Chortle, 19th April 2016Gary Tank Commander's Greg McHugh ready for big stage
'We flopped in front of 50 people now show has an army of fans'
Paul English, Daily Record, 12th August 2015Audio - Gary: Tank Commander breaks cover
The camp squaddie is set to storm The SSE Hydro in Glasgow with a live show and he tells us in this interview: "This is the best idea anyone's ever had, so that's why we're daein it."
Paul English, Daily Record, 18th June 2015Greg McHugh set to fly to LA to discuss remake
Greg McHugh will fly out to Los Angeles this month for meetings with top industry figures to discuss a remake of Gary: Tank Commander for an American network audience.
Paul English, Daily Record, 1st October 2014Greg McHugh: The man behind Gary, Tank Commander
Greg McHugh is a rising comedy star who has had a busy year, writing and taking the lead in cult series Gary, Tank Commander as well as playing alongside Jack Whitehall in Channel 4's student comedy Fresh Meat.
BBC Scotland, 4th December 2012When he's not shuffling around in his dressing gown as student/abattoir worker Howard on Fresh Meat, Greg McHugh takes the rather more testosterone-addled form of army corporal Gary in another of BBC Scotland's strong comedies.
The Guardian, 3rd November 2012