Casebook Scotland

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started23rd Sep 1985
ended10th Feb 1989
last rpt4th Jun 1991as part of Std Grd. Art & Design
6 school years
episodes26
duration20 mins
subject 🏫Miscellany
age rangeS3 & S4Age 13-16
languageenIn English
Casebook Scotland title 1988.jpg


Casebook Scotland is a BBC Schools TV series from the 1980s & 1990s, covering various topics for Secondary pupils.

Documentary programmes supporting Scottish standard grade and ordinary grade exams in a range of subjects, principally geography and modern studies but also personal and social education, design and poetry.

The series was designed for the Scottish curriculum but broadcast nationally for four years.

From 1989 it was replaced by a range of series targetting specific curriculum areas and at first incorporating repeats from Casebook Scotland. These were

Episode List

# # Title Broadcast
Year 1 (1985-86)
1. (1) The Vehicle Industry #1985-09-23-00-00-0023 Sep 1985
2. (2) Developing New Products #1985-09-30-00-00-0030 Sep 1985
3. (3) Moving the Oil #1985-10-07-00-00-007 Oct 1985
4. (4) Cleaning the Clyde #1985-10-21-00-00-0021 Oct 1985
5. (5) Coping with the Weather #1985-10-28-00-00-0028 Oct 1985
6. (6) The Built Environment #1985-11-04-00-00-004 Nov 1985
7. (7) Opening Up the Highlands #1985-11-11-00-00-0011 Nov 1985
8. (8) Changing Leisure #1985-11-18-00-00-0018 Nov 1985
9. (9) (drama) Who Do You Think You Are? #1985-11-25-00-00-0025 Nov 1985
10. (10) (drama) Get Off My Back! #1985-12-02-00-00-002 Dec 1985
Year 2 (1986-87)
11. (1) Decisions! Decisions! #1986-09-24-00-00-0024 Sep 1986
12. (2) You and the Law #1986-10-01-00-00-001 Oct 1986
13. (3) A Place to Live #1986-10-08-00-00-008 Oct 1986
14. (4) Changes on the Farm #1986-10-15-00-00-0015 Oct 1986
15. (5) Put It on Paper #1986-10-29-00-00-0029 Oct 1986
Year 3 (1987-88)
- - Election 83 #1987-10-02-00-00-002 Oct 1987*
16. (1) Election 87: Representing the People #1987-10-23-00-00-0023 Oct 1987
17. (2) Up the Clyde: A Changing Port 1960-87 #1988-01-15-00-00-0015 Jan 1988
18. (3) Change in the Cromarty Firth #1988-01-22-00-00-0022 Jan 1988
19. (4) Living on a Low Income #1988-01-29-00-00-0029 Jan 1988
20. (5) A Picture of Health? #1988-02-05-00-00-005 Feb 1988
21. (6) Give It a Style #1988-02-12-00-00-0012 Feb 1988
Year 4 (1988-89)
22. (1) A Job for Life? #1989-01-13-00-00-0013 Jan 1989
23. (2) Getting It Made #1989-01-20-00-00-0020 Jan 1989
24. (3) Training for Work #1989-01-27-00-00-0027 Jan 1989
25. (4) Starting Your Own Business #1989-02-03-00-00-003 Feb 1989
26. (5) Investigating #1989-02-10-00-00-0010 Feb 1989

* - Election 83 was a repeat of an episode of Politics in Action originally shown on BBC2 on 31st October 1983.

Broadcasts

Year Term Day Time Channel Dates Details
1985-86 Autumn 1985 & Spring 1986 Mon 13:38 BBC2 23 Sep to 2 Dec (rpt on 14 Oct)
6 Jan to 17 Mar (rpt on 17 Feb)


1986-87 Autumn 1986 & Spring 1987 Wed 09:15 BBC2 24 Sep to 3 Dec (rpt on 22 Oct)
21 Jan to 18 Feb (rpt on 25 Feb)


1987-88 Autumn 1987 & Spring 1988 Fri 09:30 BBC2 25 Sep to 4 Dec (rpt on 30 Oct)
15 Jan to 25 Mar (rpt on 26 Feb)


1988-89 Spring 1989 Fri 09:45 BBC2 13 Jan to 17 Mar


Credits

Presenter Muriel Gray (1985-86)
Margo MacDonald (1989)
Narrator Colin Blane (1988)
James Hunter (1988)
With Andy Cameron ('Cleaning the Clyde')
Liz Lochhead ('Put It on Paper')

William McIlvanney ('Put It on Paper')

Writers Alan Spence ('Who Do You Think You Are?')
Stuart Paterson ('Get Off My Back!')
Pat McLaughlin ('Investigating')
Directors Kate Kinninmont
Michael Tosh
Ishbel MacLean
Producers Robert Clark

Peter Whiteford
Laurie Stanley
Peter Legge
Ishbel MacLean
Kate Kinninmont
Allan Jack

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