How did Take The High Road end? (Scottish posters only)

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Last Sunday's episode was the last! Apparently no one told the writers, so they didn't bring it to a proper ending! What happened? And poor auld Andy Cameron back on the broo again...it's criminal!

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:12 (twenty-three years ago)

take the Take the off.

that's all I know, sorry.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh. It's about a television programme. I'm so disappointed. I was so hoping this would be a thread whereby Scots would explain that mysterious process whereby they take the high road and I take the low road and they *still* get to Scotland be-foooooorrrrrrre me.

― kate, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh no - it is (or was) Scotland's premiere soap. Ran for about 25 years (the ghastly River City isn't even in the same universe!). Think of Emmerdale when it was still called Emmerdale Farm and that about sums it up.

Andy Cameron's character was called Chic Cherry. Sort of Glendarroch version of Frank Butcher.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:35 (twenty-three years ago)

It's a shame because explanation of this geographical optical illusion would be very interesting to me.

― kate, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:36 (twenty-three years ago)

It's all metaphysical rather than geographical - cf. Billy Connolly's routine about Scots always missing their country, especially when they're actually there. "Oh Bonnieee Scot-laaaaand, how ah miss yer mists acrooooass the rolllllin' seasssszzz, yir golden glensssszzz..." "But faither, ye're standin' in the livin' room."

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:38 (twenty-three years ago)

what logic tells you that the high road should obviously be a longer route?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Because it goes uphill! And therefore it will be longer and harder than a flat route! I mean, hold a tape measure up to the screen and measure these two routes:

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vs
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/ \
/ \
/ \
/ \

I think you'll find the low road is shorter!

― kate, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 12:47 (twenty-three years ago)

but what will all the scottish actors do now??? take turns in being taggart or summat???

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey! After all the effort I spent getting that to be ASCII art of a high road, and it just didn't work. :-(

― kate, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

never mind all this geographic mentalism - i want to know what happened (if anything). did glendarroch get turned into a casino?

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

No, some complete B*TCH came into the shop and was all huffypuffy to me. My French is sadly not adequate to call her a bleeding frog. heh.

― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

kate i share RJG's puzzlement as i picture the low road as an inverted version of the high road with the same gradients and therefore the same length and the same huff'n'puff stuff involved

but then the song wouldn't make any sense

wouldn't be right would it

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 15:09 (twenty-three years ago)

One of my cousins was in "(TT)HR". He was the talk of clan gatherings.

― Tag (Tag), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Serious answer:

Two characters got married - the bride turned up on a motorbike ridden by the woman who used to run the shop. Some guy with the dodgiest accent ever (think Dennis Hopper in 24 crossed with Frankie Dettori crossed with someone from the Western Isles) threatened to turn the whole area into a casino/fairground/tacky shops type place, much to the disgust of some English oik called Nigel who went on about what a tragedy it would be to destroy a community. Andy Cameron missed the wedding but turned up on a tractor.

Last words

Groom "That'll do"
Bride "Aye, that'll do".

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I only watched cos it was the last episode.

Honest.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Because it goes uphill! And therefore it will be longer and harder than a flat route
Well the low road goes through the valley then and the high road is flat.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 18:25 (twenty-three years ago)

kate when you do that stuff put this tag at the beginning: <pre> and this tag at the end: </pre> and hey presto it's ASCII magic for the ages.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 18:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Not sure but whenever i hear Fame Academy's David Sneddon's name mentioned i think of Davie Sneddon from the high road. On a vaguely related note i saw actress who played Sam Hagan, the lady laird and her boyfriend (the evil uncle in the crow road) walking through Royal Exchange Square.

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

And i sat next to one of the actresses (whose name escapes me, i think her screen husband shot mrs mack's dog) on a citylink coach from glasgow to edinburgh, she was very strange.

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 2 May 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

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