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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.

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Status

Ended

Original Language

English

Runtime

mins

Rating

5/10

Release Date

23 November 2024

Country

Cast

Stephen McCole

Stephen McCole

Rab

Jon Morrison

Jon Morrison

Eddie

Alison Peebles

Alison Peebles

Alice

Paul McCole

Paul McCole

Jimmy

John Comerford

John Comerford

Tex

Cora Bissett

Cora Bissett

Janet

Anthony Strachan

Anthony Strachan

Frank

Stephanie Robinson

Stephanie Robinson

Tracey

Alan McCafferty

Alan McCafferty

Jake

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