Rab C. Nesbitt is a British sitcom that originally ran from 1988 to 1999. Produced by BBC Scotland, it starred Gregor Fisher as an alcoholic Glaswegian who believed unemployment was the life for him. He was originally a regular in the BBC 2 sketch series Naked Video (1986-1990). The pilot, made for BBC Scotland in 1988, a Christmas special entitled "Rab C Nesbitt's Seasonal Greet", repeated on the network the following year.

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  • Rab C. Nesbitt is a British sitcom that originally ran from 1988 to 1999. Produced by BBC Scotland, it starred Gregor Fisher as an alcoholic Glaswegian who believed unemployment was the life for him. He was originally a regular in the BBC 2 sketch series Naked Video (1986-1990). The pilot, made for BBC Scotland in 1988, a Christmas special entitled "Rab C Nesbitt's Seasonal Greet", repeated on the network the following year. The first series began on 27 September 1990 and continued for seven more, ending on 18 June 1999 and returning with a one-off special on 23 December 2008. A new series of six episodes is currently in production and will air in 2009. Ian Pattison created and wrote all 53 episodes. They approached darker topics than usually encountered in sitcoms (although almost always in a blackly comedic manner rather than a serious one), among them cannibalism, contract killings on the homeless, suicide, incest, anal sex, sexual harassment, neo-Nazism, mental illness, zoophilia, murder of suspects by police officers while in custody, alcoholism, organised crime, devil worship, mass long-term unemployment, sexually transmitted disease, mariticide, drug dealing,necrophilia infidelity, police brutality, gun crime, ringworm, domestic violence, transsexuality, shoplifting, infertility, drug abuse, alcohol-induced cirrhosis, eating Rottweiler flesh, murder and cancer, often several unapproachable subjects were used in the same episode. The programme returned to BBC2 for a one-off special at Christmas 2008. The series featured Norman Lovett, Peter Mullan, Rikki Fulton, Anita Dobson, Timothy Spall, Stanley Baxter, Clive Russell, Jerry Sadowitz, Viv Lumsden, Sylvester McCoy, Russell Hunter and then unknowns David Tennant, Ashley Jensen, Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill, Karen Dunbar, Jane McCarry and Paul Riley.
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  • Rab C. Nesbitt is a British sitcom that originally ran from 1988 to 1999. Produced by BBC Scotland, it starred Gregor Fisher as an alcoholic Glaswegian who believed unemployment was the life for him. He was originally a regular in the BBC 2 sketch series Naked Video (1986-1990). The pilot, made for BBC Scotland in 1988, a Christmas special entitled "Rab C Nesbitt's Seasonal Greet", repeated on the network the following year.
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