Rab returns home three days late from the butchers, leaving Mary no choice but to move out after years of trouble. Much to his horror, Rab discovers he has to get a job.

Work

Mary finds a rat in the kitchen, Rab discovers his favourite shop has turned into an art boutique, and a by-election takes place in Govan: Rab votes Conservative.

Glasgow's new image as the "City of Culture" looks set to be tarnished by a cynical Rab.

City of Culture

Rab goes to see his doctor and discovers that if he does not give up drinking within a year, he will die. Not taking any notice of the doctor's orders, he blows his money on booze.

Drink

Rab goes to stay with Mary's cousin Shug, who lives in Sidcup, after finding himself on the run from the police. Gash receives a letter from his girlfriend, and decides to run away to London.

Offski

The Nesbitts are in Spain on holiday, after Mary wins a competition on a packet of OvenChips.

Holiday

Rab decides to take the family up to the highlands for the weekend.

Country

When Rab is released from prison, and Mary doesn't want him back, he moves in with Jamesie and begins to have flashbacks to his days at school and his first love Isobel.

Lesson

When Rab returns home to find his weans have been taken into care, he's so upset he can hardly finish his kebab.

Domestic

Rab comes into contact with Social Services reject and local headcase Young Young McGurn.

That's Entertainment

Rab finds himself in the middle of a moral dilemma. After saving a wino from drowning, the man decides to leave sole responsibility of his life in Rab's hands, much to his dismay.

Ethics

Rab has an argument with the devil worshipper who lives next door, and gets a curse put on him.

Life Has Meaning

Mary lands a job with a lecherous boss, and Rab, fearing she may dump him, turns to his pal Jamesie Cotter for advice on improving his love life.

Rich

Mary has a new job, but her boss seems a bit too friendly, which makes Rab think that she's having an affair.

Touch

A strange new affliction is visited on the Nesbitt household. Rab's younger son Burney has been diagnosed as gifted and begins attending weekend classes for advanced tuition. But as his talent blossoms, so do the thorns of jealousy and resentment, as Rab and elder son Gash are left hungry in the emotional wasteland.

Gifted

With Ella's biological clock ticking loudly and husband Jamesie less potent than a seedless orange, parenthood seems a pretty unlikely prospect. Fortunately, Rab offers to supply the wherewithal needed for such a delicate operation.

Wean

The beer-swilling Scottish sage decides to behave respectably on his release from jail. But with Burney adopting fascist tendencies, Gash on drugs, Mary at her wits end, and a new Tory local councillor to boot, will Rab's fresh outlook escape the tarnish of a world spinning out of control?

Right

Rab is thrown into a grimy police cell for being drunk and disorderly and is shocked to find a guard pointing a gun at him.

Cell

Rab is back living with his mother, because he is unable to say to Mary that he loves her. Family member Screech is living with the Nesbitts. Rab and Jaimsie go out on the town to pick up women.

Love

Rab is living rough out on the local dump, when he gets some sad news concerning his mother.

Mother

Rab and Jamesie take a spiritual trip to the Buckfast Abbey brewery.

Buckfast

Rab needs to wear glasses after having his eyes tested and Mary is reluctant to go for another smear test.

Test

The Govan local TV station gets excited when both Rab and Jamesie are accused of committing murder.

Eorpa

Norrie the barman can't find anyone to volunteer for the brewery sponsored charity walk across Scotland, until he mentions free drinks.

Further

Whilst Mary is eagerly anticipating the Nesbitts' twentieth wedding anniversary, Rab is tempted into an affair with Susan, the leader of his AA group. When Susan discovers that Rab is married, she throws him over. Will Mary have him back in time for the anniversary celebrations?

Affair

Mary and Rab take a romantic trip to the Lake District where Rab becomes an environmental crusader against a local pharmaceutical company.

Fuel

Rab and Mary have a win on the football pools but it doesn't bring them the happiness that they expected it to.

Lottery

Shug comes to Govan and wants to start up his own pie shop but he doesn't know about the local pie mafia, who don't like outsiders on their turf.

The Nesbitts appear on an American-style talk show after being accused of annoying their next-door neighbour to death.

Racket

Rab recalls his family history after finding his long-lost brother Gash Sr.

Father

Mary seems strangely calm when told that Rab's benefits have been suspended.

Fast

Rab is spending a lot of time at his newly acquired allotment, which causes Mary to look for her own excitement with an old boyfriend.

Wild

After a visit to the doctor, Rab is diagnosed with a cancerous growth and has to undergo chemotherapy treatment.

Growth

Rab is in the hospital cancer ward and the constant attention of the hospital reverend is starting to get on his nerves.

Semmitry

Rab joins Jamesie's trip to Amsterdam to supposedly see the bulbfields but on arrival, Rab finds out that Jamesie is only interested in the red lights there.

Bulbs

Rab and Jamesie take Gash out on a traditional three day drinking binge before he gets married.

Binge

The thought of a new Labour government and a new daughter-in-law, makes Rab start to feel his age.

The relief barman at the pub is an ex-Broadmoor resident called Mad Dog, who quickly leaves Rab and Jamesie struggling with a problem involving 'fashionable drugs'.

Cocktails

Rab goes on a booze cruise to Millport which opens up some old wounds for him.

Duel

Mary gets mugged while out walking, and Gash decides to leave his wife and go off with her sister.

Property

Everyone in Govan is sad at the news that Country singer Marilou Devine has tragically passed away, except for Rab who has just been sentenced to community service.

Community

Rab is suffering from a bad back, but that doesn't stop Jamesie from sticking an emotional knife into it.

Back

After serving a jail sentence for setting fire to the house because Mary had gone off with Jamesie, Rab gets a job as a dishwasher but is still planning to get his revenge.

Heat

MP Tony Welthorpe agrees to swap lifestyles with Rab, after being challenged to see if he can live on state benefits for a month.

Commons

Rab can't get to sleep because of his bad back, and matters are made worse by the arrival of Jamesie, who is hiding from a disgruntled husband with a shotgun.

Night

Gash's girlfriend Bridie is due to give birth to Rab's first grandchild.

Fruit

After a visit to the doctor to cure his feelings of restlessness proves pointless, Rab decides to explore his spiritual side in the local park.

Rab is trying to organise the invitations to Barney Feeney's birthday booze-up, where the men are hoping to run riot and raise hell, for a change.

Trips

Rab and Mary welcome their son Gash back to the family home and become reacquainted with their granddaughter Peaches. Meanwhile, Jamesie shows just how far he'll push it to get a woman into bed.

Heal

When a mobile phone mast appears in Govan, Rab turns rabble-rouser to fire up the community. It's driving everyone up the pole, but is it really damaging their health? Nesbitt seeks justice; the mob just want a nice bit of compensation.

Signal

Rab embraces his feminine side as part of his most outrageous social security scam yet. Meanwhile, Mary does her best to come to terms with her husband's new-found womanly presence.

Candy

Rab struggles to get his head round all the angles in a love triangle involving his son Gash, his local barmaid Camille and his best mate Jamesie. Govan is awash with hot passion, but could it really lead to murder?

Passion

Rab finds himself at a posh supper for namesake Rabbie Burns. Rab locks horns with filth magnet Saunders McClure, a slimeball with designs on Mary's cleaning company. Features a guest appearance from John Michie.

Muse

Rab and Jamesie get caught up in a series of misadventures while trying to fulfill the last wishes of an old dying woman.

Bottle

When Rab returns home he finds out that Mary has kidnapped the Government Minister for Work as revenge for losing her job. The couple have no idea what to do next when, after a full-scale siege develops, they are believed to be terrorists.

Broke

The bottom falls out of the cleaning business, so Mary and Ella put their singing talents to good use by forming a girl band - and after a successful first gig, they set their sights on winning Govan's Got Talent. Meanwhile, Rab and Jamesie set themselves up as `Hunks for Hire', sexy male cleaners for bored housewives - and a misleading advert means they get plenty of interest.

Fugue

Jamesie's philandering ways finally catch up with him when he learns he is about to become a father - and when he comes clean to Ella, she performs a spot of amateur surgery on her unfaithful husband. Meanwhile, Rab ends up in the next hospital bed to his friend after an accident with the cake knife at Peaches' birthday party.

Cuts

The drop-in centre falls victim to council cuts, so Rab fights back, but when a spot on local radio and a meeting with the council leader amount to nothing, he feels it is time for a grand public gesture - burning himself at the stake. As the string-vested hero prepares to become Govan's answer to Joan of Arc, Mary wastes no time in getting herself a new flame as she considers starting an affair with one of her cleaning clients.

Fight

Peaches chooses Rab as her role model for a school project, but when he recognises her teacher as a fellow member of his self-help group, he wonders how he can live up to her expectations when Miss Carruth knows he likes more than a tipple. Jamesie hits 60 and starts a much-needed business venture - a crack den for OAPs.

Role

The new minister arrives at Rab's church with two serious drawbacks - she is a woman and English.

Stool

John

BBC comedy series about Rab C. Nesbitt, a drunken, string-vested layabout who lives with his long-suffering wife Mary and his two sons in the working class area of Govan in Glasgow. When he's not getting drunk with his pals that include the devious, womanising Jamesie Cotter, he's offering his philosophical outlook on life to whoever will listen.

All Episodes of Rab C. Nesbitt

Season 1

Work

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1990

Rat

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1990

City of Culture

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1990

Drink

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1990

Offski

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1990

Holiday

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1990