Still Game
2002–2019BBC ScotlandBBC OneComedy
Two Glasgow pensioners and the Craiglang high-rises, with titles built entirely from the scheme itself.
Still Game opens with a main title sequence of 35 seconds.
It arrived on BBC Scotland in 2002, when A Question of Sport, Grandstand and This Is Your Life were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
35sFan upload of the original open — tower blocks, the bookies, the pub, and the pair walking through it.
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