Only An Excuse?
- TV sketch show
- BBC One Scotland
- 1993 - 2021
- 32 episodes
Famous Scottish football satire show. Every Hogmanay, Jonathan Watson mimics Scotland's top personalities and the heroes and villains of football. Also features Gerry McLaughlin, Julie Austin, Chris Forbes and Sheila Donald.
- New Year Special repeated Friday 6th December at 9pm on BBC Scotland
Episode menu
Episode Four
Scotland boss Stevie Clarke comes to terms with actually qualifying for something, King Kenny appears in a biopic and deconstructs cinema and ace-pundit Charlie Nick compares the Scotland team to a selection of puddings. Elsewhere a respected TV travelogue veteran discovers the joys of a rail-replacement bus service in Ayrshire, the Professor answers the people's questions and a gonk washes-up on the beach in TV crime spoof Millport.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 4th March 2021
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- BBC Scotland
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Jonathan Watson | Various |
| Ryan Fletcher | Ensemble Actor |
| Louise McCarthy | Ensemble Actor |
| Clare Waugh | Ensemble Actor |
| James Young | Ensemble Actor |
| Joy McAvoy | Ensemble Actor |
| Mark Cox | Ensemble Actor |
| Alistair McGowan | Ensemble Actor |
| Grant Smeaton | Ensemble Actor |
| Geoff Boyz | Ensemble Actor |
| Laurie Ventry | Ensemble Actor |
| Muriel Gray | Ensemble Actor |
| Jordan Young | Ensemble Actor |
| John McGlade | Writer |
| Stephen McLaughlin | Writer |
| Andy Bollen | Writer |
| Chuck Gayfield | Writer |
| Wes Fargo | Writer |
| Keiron Nicholson | Writer |
| Rikki Brown | Writer |
| Alistair McGowan | Writer |
| James Doonan (as Doonan & Munroe) | Writer |
| Gus Beattie | Writer |
| Paul Riley | Writer |
| The Reynolds Brothers | Writer |
| Colin Munro (as Doonan & Munroe) | Writer |
| Iain Davidson | Director |
| Ron Bain | Director |
| Philip Differ | Producer |
| Ewan Angus | Executive Producer |
| Rab Christie | Executive Producer |
| Gavin Smith | Executive Producer |
| Colin Gilbert | Executive Producer |
| Gordon Miller | Editor |
| Lee McKellar | Editor |
| Laura Donnelly | Production Designer |
| Iain McDonald | Production Designer |
| Suzanne Field | Production Designer |
| Annette Gillies | Production Designer |
| David Jennings | Production Designer |
| Graham Rose | Production Designer |
| Denise Coombes | Costume Designer |
| Paul Farrow | Costume Designer |
| Carole K. Fraser | Costume Designer |
| Katherine Hyland | Costume Designer |
| Yvonne Simpson | Costume Designer |
| Brian Jobson | Director of Photography |
| John I. McNeill (as John I McNeill) | Director of Photography |
| Des O'Hare | Director of Photography |
| Amy Buchanan | Make-up Designer |
| Julie Dorrat-Keenan | Make-up Designer |
| Kirstin Innes | Make-up Designer |
| Jacqui Mallett | Make-up Designer |
| Heather Millington | Make-up Designer |
| Sam Print | Make-up Designer |
| Mark Ash | 1st Assistant Director |
| Wendy Ashman | 1st Assistant Director |
| Amanda Black | 1st Assistant Director |
| David Boyd | 1st Assistant Director |
| Susan Clark | 1st Assistant Director |
| Helen Doherty | 1st Assistant Director |
| Tim Franklin | 1st Assistant Director |
| Dawn Harvey | 1st Assistant Director |
| Carol-Anne Henderson (as Carol Anne Henderson) | 1st Assistant Director |
| Brian Horsburgh | 1st Assistant Director |
| Morris Milne | 1st Assistant Director |
| Ted Mitchell | 1st Assistant Director |
| Fay Selby | 1st Assistant Director |
| Kath Wishart | 1st Assistant Director |