About this season
High Times is a Scottish comedy drama on STV, based around the lives of two flatmates and their neighbours in a high-rise tower block in Glasgow, in the last weeks before its closure for renovation. There are six episodes of stories interlinking the lives of a number of families. The first series of High Times won a BAFTA Scotland award in 2004 for Best Scottish television drama and was shortlisted for the 2005 Rose d'Or and Prix Italia television awards. In the same year it also won the award for Best Drama Series at the Celtic Film and Television Festival. Series 2 was nominated for a Royal Television Society award. In June 2010 it was announced that High Times would be one of the STV archive programmes to be made available on YouTube on the STV Player channel.
Episodes (6)
1. The Joy of Sex?
Aired 24 July 2008 • 22 min
Frank makes an effort to put the spark back into his marriage but gets a shock when Janet confesses to having had a brief fling.
2. Bigmouth Strikes Again
Aired 31 July 2008 • 22 min
Claire finally reveals the identity of baby Chloe's real dad - a revelation that Jimmy finds hard to deal with.
3. Waster
Aired 7 August 2008 • 22 min
Rab is troubled by finding out that Chloe is his daughter. When he tries to speak to Claire about it he is warned to stay away by Eddie.
4. Letting Go
Aired 14 August 2008 • 22 min
As Eddie and Alice struggle to take care of Paddy, Eddie realises he has to make a difficult decision.
5. Coitus Interruptus
Aired 21 August 2008 • 22 min
Tex reflects on all the mistakes he has made in his life involving women, while Rab makes a big mistake of his own.
6. Bombshell
Aired 28 August 2008 • 22 min
Janet and Frank fight over who Tracy will stay with, whilst Tracy decides she’d rather take on a radical new job than pick between her squabbling parents.