Name: High Times
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2004-09-30
Rating: 2.9

Overview

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.

Seasons

Season 1

6 Episodes

2004

E01

Video Nasty

9/30/2004·22m

The hairy-knuckled woman at the DSS has arranged an interview for workshy Jake. His flatmate, Rab, can't stand the idea of losing Jake to the workforce so, together, they try to sabotage his chances of getting the job. Eddie doesn't get the homecoming he expects after a stretch in jail, while his downstairs neighbour, Jimmy, finds himself with an unwelcome lodger.

Season 2

6 Episodes

2008

E01

The Joy of Sex?

7/24/2008·22m

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.

E02

Bigmouth Strikes Again

7/31/2008·22m

Claire finally reveals the identity of baby Chloe's real dad - a revelation that Jimmy finds hard to deal with.

E03

Waster

8/7/2008·22m

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.

E04

Letting Go

8/14/2008·22m

As Eddie and Alice struggle to take care of Paddy, Eddie realises he has to make a difficult decision.

E05

Coitus Interruptus

8/21/2008·22m

Tex reflects on all the mistakes he has made in his life involving women, while Rab makes a big mistake of his own.

E06

Bombshell

8/28/2008·22m

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.