A Wholly Healthy Glasgow
Black comedy lampooning the fitness boom of the late 1980s
- Genre
- Comedy Drama
- Broadcast
- 1988
- Channel
- BBC One
- Episodes
- 1
- Writer
- Iain Heggie
- Director
- Richard Wilson
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
- Also known as
- The Play On One: A Wholly Healthy Glasgow (Other official name)
- Laugh track
- None
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Tuesday 16th February 1988 on BBC One at 9:30pm
- Episode length
- 75 minutes