They created a community where city planners failed, a high-rise town built on cornerstones of unflinching ribaldry, unshakable loyalty and unstinting companionship.
This week, they’ll take the first of six steps towards the final visit to Craiglang, the fictional Glasgow housing estate where the characters of BBC comedy Still Game have raged against the dying of the light for 20 years.
And as much as millions have enjoyed the humour in the high rises from Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill, the show's creators, writers and stars, they’ve been underpinned by more serious matters.
“If you look back at the first series, there was a wee nod,” says Kiernan, aka Jack Jarvis.
“Jack and Victor [McDade, Hemphill’s character] are walking up a hill in the first episode and they’re saying, ‘Craiglang!…
