Snoddy
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| Genre | Sitcom |
| Created by | Johnny Crawford |
| Written by | Johnny Crawford |
| Directed by | Ron Bain |
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| ComposerTemplate:Pluralize from text | Dave Hurricane |
| Original languageTemplate:Pluralize from text | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
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| Executive producerTemplate:Pluralize from text | Ewan Angus |
| ProducerTemplate:Pluralize from text | Colin Gilbert |
| Production locationTemplate:Pluralize from text | Scotland |
| EditorTemplate:Pluralize from text | John Brooks |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production Template:Pluralize from text | The Comedy Unit |
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| Network | BBC One Scotland |
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Snoddy was a six-part Scottish television sitcom, written and created by Johnny Crawford, that first broadcast on BBC One Scotland on 13 March 2002.[1] The series, which aired at 10:35pm on Wednesdays, starred Gregor Fisher of Rab C Nesbitt fame as DCI Samuel J. Snoddy, the head of Scotland's Elite Crime Squad, who is obsessed with spending more time playing golf abroad rather than fighting crimes.[2]
Only a single series of six episodes was broadcast, and the series was never shown outside of Scotland.[2] The series was regarded as unsuccessful and was axed by BBC bosses following poor ratings.[citation needed] The series was heavily promoted in and around the Glasgow area, with a number of billboard posters portraying the tagline "it's a Hotel Oscar Oscar Tango of a show” being put up around the city.[3] Notably, the series has never been made available on DVD.
Production
Snoddy was Johnny Crawford's first television writing credit, eventually being produced by The Comedy Unit for BBC One Scotland after first being offered to Channel 4 in 1998. Producer Colin Gilbert described Snoddy as Crawford's "rich, refreshing, and tangential left-field vision". Scripts for the series were subject to redrafting, with Gilbert commenting, "It's been a challenge for us to control everything into half-hour episodes that make narrative sense and are still funny. John's certainly had to work at making Snoddy just that bit easier for folk to follow, re-writing and re-writing, but he's become a much better writer as he's gone along."[4]
Cast
- Gregor Fisher as DCI Samuel J. Snoddy
- Dawn Steele as Laura Bonney
- Hugh Ross as Chief Inspector Chalmers
- Gavin Mitchell as DC Jackie Murdoch
- James Young as DC Wilson
- Brian Pettifer as Professor Baxter
- Tom Urie as Captain Ortego
- Alan McCafferty as PC MacCubbin
- Billy Riddoch as PC Greig
Episodes
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References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Snoddy". British Sitcom Guide. Retrieved 12 May 2008.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.""Crime never kips" for Snoddy". BBC Press Office. 2 March 2002. Retrieved 12 May 2008.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Snoddy : Off the Telly". offthetelly.co.uk. Archived from the original on 16 August 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.""Breaking all the Laws of Comedy"". The Herald. 4 March 2002. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
