It was created by Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill, who played the lead characters, Jack Jarvis, Esq and Victor McDade, two Glaswegian pensioners.

The characters first appeared in the pair's previous TV sketch show Chewin' the Fat, which aired in Scotland from January 1999 until December 2005.

Following its debut on 6 September 2002, 62 episodes of Still Game were aired, including Christmas and Hogmanay specials that are hard to find , in addition to almost 50 live shows.

[1] The last day of production was on 14 September 2018, and it started airing on 24 February 2019, being one of the first programmes to be shown on the brand new BBC Scotland channel.

Due to a broken lift, the three men are strd in Victor's flat and discuss a variety of subjects ranging from death to sex.

The stage play toured Scotland, England, Ireland and Canada before returning to Glasgow, where the show was filmed at the Cottiers Theatre in 1999 and released on video on 22 November 1999.

In 1998, Jack and Victor appeared in a number of skits in a tongue-in-cheek documentary about Scottish pop music called Och Around the Clock.

The characters reappeared in Kiernan and Hemphill's sketch show Chewin' the Fat, nearly every episode of which featured Jack, Victor, Tam and Winston, with minor differences from their counterparts in the series.

By the time Still Game became a show in its own right Winston's physical appearance had changed significantly, but he was still played by Paul Riley.

[7] On 24 October 2013 Kiernan confirmed in the Daily Record that Kenny Boyle's tour of the original stage show had been one of the instigating factors for Still Game's return.

The programme featured interviews with the cast, celebrities who have appeared on the show and super fans, including a look at some favourite moments.

The first episode, "Flittin", was filmed in the Nitshill area of Glasgow, where Jack lived prior to moving in with Victor at Osprey Heights.

The Forth and Clyde Canal and its lochs are used in background shots, along with the nearby high-rise tower blocks including the one used for Osprey Heights.

A reproduction exterior set was constructed by the production team in the Glasgow North Media Park, Maryhill for filming, starting with the fourth series.

[26] Finport, as mentioned and seen in the fifth series, was filmed on location in Largs and Saltcoats, North Ayrshire, both of which were once popular seaside resorts with Glaswegians.

In the scene where Jack and Victor find Winston, a wide panning shot reveals the famous Nardini's ice-cream building and the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry to Millport.

Ardgowan House, a late eighteenth-century mansion at Inverkip, Inverclyde, was used as the setting for the Blairtunnoch Estate in the episode "Fly Society".

The area where Jack and Victor sit during the court recess in the episode "Recipe" of series six is the Main Lounge of The Crookston Hotel in Glasgow.

Just before the fifth series started filming, a pest control team had to be called into the Maryhill studio set when it was discovered that rats had infested Navid's shop and were eating their way through the stock.

[31] Referring to the fifth series' finale, Scottish tabloid newspaper the Daily Record heralded for Still Game to be added to the ranks of the "greatest sitcoms ever".

They called the episode "classic comedy" and said it was "a perfect mix of empathetic friendship, laugh-out-loud gags, real feeling in the acting and genuine warmth and chemistry between the characters".

[32] The Daily Record also reported that Still Game had higher ratings than rival comedies The Catherine Tate Show and Steve Coogan's Saxondale with 300,000 and 700,000 more viewers respectively.

[36][37][38] In 2006, the show was once again nominated for a BAFTA Scotland award for the "Most Popular Television" category, beating contenders including Rebus and Taggart.

[40] Still Game has attracted celebrity attention; in addition to many Scottish celebrities (including Robbie Coltrane, Sylvester McCoy, Lorraine Kelly, Amy Macdonald and Billy Boyd) making cameo appearances in the show, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl and actors Sean Connery and Bill Nighy are reported to be fans.

[41] Nighy has even cited the programme as inspiration for his Scottish accent in the role of Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.

"[45] A review in Chortle said "I suspect a lot of new viewers will wonder what all the fuss is about, as this episode seems clunky and dated," going on to say "in truth no one here appears to be a great actor" and that "it seems to be a little crudely edited, too, with the timing of cutaways off the pace.