A Wholly Healthy Glasgow

  • TV comedy drama
  • BBC One
  • 1988
  • 1 episode

Black comedy lampooning the fitness boom of the late 1980s. Stars Tom Watson, Gerard Kelly, Paul Higgins, Adam Crowther and Tony Betts

Key details

Genre
Comedy Drama
Broadcast
1988
Channel
BBC One
Episodes
1
Stars
Tom Watson, Gerard Kelly, Paul Higgins, Adam Crowther and Tony Betts
Writer
Iain Heggie
Director
Richard Wilson
Producer
Bill Bryden

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.

Additional details

Also known as
  • The Play On One: A Wholly Healthy Glasgow
Production
Studio
Picture
Colour

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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Tuesday 16th February 1988 at 9:30pm on BBC One
Episode length
75 minutes