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Only an Excuse?

1993

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EP1 1993 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 1993

Jonathan Watson impersonates Scottish football's main characters of 1993, and the major talking points that occurred.

EP2 1994 World Cup Special Jun 13, 1994

Jonathan Watson pokes fun at the Home Nations football teams - Scotland, Northern Ireland, England and Wales - for failing to qualify for that year's World Cup tournament in the USA.

EP3 The Director's Cut Dec 31, 1994

A special episode where the best of the Only An Excuse? sketches are aired once more.

EP4 1995 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 1995

Jonathan Watson and co look back on the major talking points of Scottish football of 1995 in their own special way.

EP5 1996 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 1996

Jonathan Watson impersonates some of Scottish football's important figures from the year, and takes a look back at Scotland's performance during Euro 1996.

EP6 1997 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 1997

Jonathan Watson and co take their own look back at events of Scottish football's 1997.

EP7 1998 World Cup Special Jun 08, 1998

Jonathan Watson and Alistair McGowan take a look forward to the events that took Scotland to the 1998 World Cup tournament in France.

EP8 1998 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 1998

Jonathan Watson takes his own look back at the major talking points of Scottish footballing in 1998, especially the World Cup tournament held in France.

EP9 1999 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 1999

Jonathan Watson looks back at the year's Scottish footballing events, and looks forward to see what Scottish football will look like in the new millennium.

EP10 2000 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 2000

Jonathan Watson takes a look back at the Scottish footballing major events of the new millenium.

EP11 2001 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 2001

Jonathan Watson and co. take their own look at what happened in Scottish football in 2001.

EP12 2002 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 2002

Jonathan Watson takes his own personal look at the major talking points and figures from Scottish football from the year.

EP13 2003 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 2003

Jonathan Watson takes a look back at what happened in Scottish football from 2003, especially Celtic's UEFA cup run.

EP14 2004 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 2004

Jonathan Watson takes a look back at Scottish football's main talking points, mainly Henrik Larsson leaving Celtic.

EP15 2005 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 2005

Jonathan Watson and co. take a look back at what happened in Scottish football for this year, including the last day SPL title drama.

EP18 2008 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 2008

Scotland's premier football comedy team take their annual shot at the national obsession.

EP19 2009 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 2009

Scotland's premier football comedy team prepare to slide tackle the national obsession.

EP20 1998 -75 Years Of BBC Scotland May 07, 1998

Scotland comedy team take at look back at BBC Scotland's football coverage of the last 75 years.

EP21 2006 World Cup Special Jun 07, 2006

World Cup 2006 Special.

EP22 2010 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 2010

Football, football, wherefore art thou football? Scotland's premier comedy team provides the answer as they return to take another flying header at the beautiful game.

EP23 Only An Excuse Live 1993 Jan 01, 0001

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EP24 Only An Excuse Live 1994 Jan 01, 0001

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EP25 Only An Excuse Live 1995 Jan 01, 0001

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EP26 Only An Excuse Live 1996 Jan 01, 0001

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EP27 Only An Excuse Live 1997 Jan 01, 0001

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EP28 1994 Hogmanay Special Jan 01, 0001

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EP29 2011 Hogmany Special Dec 31, 2011

Another year, another opportunity for Jonathan Watson and his handpicked squad to look back at the events that shaped football in 2011 and have a right good kick at them in the process.

EP30 2012 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 2012

Only an Excuse? starring Jonathan Watson. A half-hour selection of sketches gleefully putting the boot into the events of 2012. The team look back on a year of golden moments, dire predictions and the fickle fortunes of Scottish football. Featuring new faces, favourite characters and spot-on take-offs.

EP31 2013 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 2013

Scotland's premier comedy team take their annual flying header at events that have made the headlines both on and off the pitch.

EP36 2014 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 2014

Scotland's premier comedy team take a humorous look at the highs and lows of 2014.

EP37 2015 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 2015

An irreverent Hogmanay homage to the highs and lows of 2015, starring Jonathan Watson. The team take a humorous look at the biggest stories and characters in Scottish football and beyond. Packed with sketches, take-offs, wind-ups, gags, spoofs, quickies and a familiar face or two.

EP38 2016 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 2016

Jonathan Watson and the team take in the highs and lows of 2016. Featuring the biggest stories in Scottish football, popular culture, news, showbiz and the wider world.

EP39 2017 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 2017

What a year it's been! So sit back and let Jonathan Watson and the team take 2017 apart. A hilarious Hogmanay look back at the past 12 months from a distinctively Scottish point of view. Mixing sketches, spoofs, quickies, one-liners and takeoffs. Featuring celebrated comic creations and brand new characters. Putting the spotlight on contemporary Scottish life and cheering everyone up, following the latest let-down from the national football team. A traditional Hogmanay tonic for the nation.

EP40 2018 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 2018

Starring Jonathan Watson. With the final whistle about to blow on 2018, Scotland's premier comedy team get together for one last kick of the ball. Featuring sketches, spoofs, gags and comic characters putting the boot into the headlines that have dominated Scottish football and Scottish life over the past 12 months

EP41 2019 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 2019

As 2019 rapidly approaches the final whistle, Scotland's premier comedy team line up for their annual kick of the ball. New signings join Jonathan in sketches, spoofs and comic characters that target not just the highs and lows of Scottish football but Scottish life too over the past 12 months. Starring Jonathan Watson with Alex Norton, Joy McAvoy and Louise McCarthy.

EP42 2020 Hogmanay Special Dec 31, 2020

Jonathan Watson leads a hilarious mix of classic sketches, popular characters, famous faces and up-to-date skits tackling 2020 from a footballing perspective. Featuring nostalgic recollections from guest stars, plus fresh material covering Scottish football and the world in general.

EP43 Best Of - Compilations: Episode 1 Feb 11, 2021

Discover just why they are bouncing so high in the Celtic dugout and see how the Rangers gaffer chooses his team. Frankie Boy rocks up at the petrol station, King Kenny dispenses managerial advice on the golf course and Sir Fergie lectures on leadership at Harvard. Find out the secrets of a Brechin pie and what the Thunbergs really get up to when Greta is away.

EP44 Best Of - Compilations: Episode 2 Feb 11, 2021

Andre Rieu fiddles away to showcase his Scottish football collection, Line of Duty meets Taggart in the same police station, and Macca dons his whites for a tennis lesson from a national treasure. And, at the end of the day, Jim and Charlie discover you can never use too many cliches.

EP45 Best Of - Compilations: Episode 3 Feb 11, 2021

Sir Fergie loses his cool with his goalie, Jim Spencey Spence quizzes a Scottish Olympic champion, and The Frankie Boy props up the bar to share memories that are so good he can barely remember them. Meanwhile, a top TV dating show comes to Glasgow to see if opposites really do attract.

EP46 Best Of - Compilations: Episode 4 Feb 11, 2021

Scotland boss Stevie Clarke comes to terms with actually qualifying for something, King Kenny appears in a biopic and deconstructs cinema and ace-pundit Charlie Nick compares the Scotland team to a selection of puddings. Elsewhere a respected TV travelogue veteran discovers the joys of a rail-replacement bus service in Ayrshire, the Professor answers the people’s questions and a gonk washes-up on the beach in TV crime spoof Millport.
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Synopsis

Only An Excuse? is an annual Scottish football comedy sketch show that airs each Hogmanay. Starring actor and comedian Jonathan Watson, the show features impressions of some of Scottish football's great characters such as Denis Law, Tommy Burns, Barry Ferguson, Sir Alex Ferguson, Frank McAvennie, Walter Smith and Graeme Souness, as well as caricatures of the "typical" Celtic and Rangers fan.

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