Still Game
Following its debut on 6 September 2002, 56 episodes of "Still Game" were aired, including Christmas and Hogmanay specials. The first three series were broadcast only on BBC One Scotland, though five episodes selected from the first two series were later broadcast throughout the UK on BBC Two from January – February 2004. From the fourth series, "Still Game" was broadcast across the UK on BBC Two. With the seventh series in 2016, the programme began to be broadcast on BBC One on a nationwide basis. An eighth series has been filmed, which started airing on 8 March 2018 on BBC One.
List of Still Game characters
Winston Ingram is played by Paul Riley. Winston is a good friend of Jack and Victor's. He is known for his lust for money. Which can be as simple as a bet at the bookies and sometimes it takes the form of less honest acts, such as committing benefit fraud to make his life a little more comfortable. He has several enemies, including Stevie the Bookie and in many episodes; he gets quickly emotionally embroiled in arguments with people who administer him money, including the benefits office. In the episode "Scran", it was revealed Winston used to work in the Clyde shipyards, at Yarrows. His eighty-a-day cigarette habit caught up with him though, and led to him needing his right leg amputated at the end of the third series. He is known to have a daughter, a son, and two grandsons, Joe and Thomas. In the first episode, "Flittin", he told Tam he was "happily divorced". However, he seems to have some sense of morality, often reprimanding Tam for his meanness, and other people if he disagrees with their behaviour. In episodes "Dug" and "Holiday", he also pretended to have a relationship with Isa to fend off the attempts of her ex-husband, Harry, to get back with her. Winston often takes advantage of Isa's kindness in order to receive free food. In the earlier stage play, he talks about a brother living in Nevada and a son who died in a car accident in the 1960s but it is unknown if this is correct with the television series. In the TV canon, he does have a brother named Walter.