About this season
BBC comedy series about Rab C. Nesbitt, a drunken, string-vested layabout who lives with his long-suffering wife Mary and his two sons in the working class area of Govan in Glasgow. When he's not getting drunk with his pals that include the devious, womanising Jamesie Cotter, he's offering his philosophical outlook on life to whoever will listen.
Episodes (6)
1. Rich
Aired 16 November 1993 • 30 min
Mary lands a job with a lecherous boss, and Rab, fearing she may dump him, turns to his pal Jamesie Cotter for advice on improving his love life.
2. Touch
Aired 23 November 1993 • 30 min
Mary has a new job, but her boss seems a bit too friendly, which makes Rab think that she's having an affair.
3. Gifted
Aired 30 November 1993 • 30 min
A strange new affliction is visited on the Nesbitt household. Rab's younger son Burney has been diagnosed as gifted and begins attending weekend classes for advanced tuition. But as his talent blossoms, so do the thorns of jealousy and resentment, as Rab and elder son Gash are left hungry in the emotional wasteland.
4. Wean
Aired 7 December 1993 • 30 min
With Ella's biological clock ticking loudly and husband Jamesie less potent than a seedless orange, parenthood seems a pretty unlikely prospect. Fortunately, Rab offers to supply the wherewithal needed for such a delicate operation.
5. Right
Aired 14 December 1993 • 30 min
The beer-swilling Scottish sage decides to behave respectably on his release from jail. But with Burney adopting fascist tendencies, Gash on drugs, Mary at her wits end, and a new Tory local councillor to boot, will Rab's fresh outlook escape the tarnish of a world spinning out of control?
6. Cell
Aired 21 December 1993 • 30 min
Rab is thrown into a grimy police cell for being drunk and disorderly and is shocked to find a guard pointing a gun at him.