Rab C. Nesbitt - Season 7 (1998)

After Mary is mugged she feels alienated from Rab, whom she accuses of being unsympathetic and throws him out. He recalls their first meeting - in a hospital casualty department when he was a hippie injured in a fight. After almost losing her to the mod Jamesie they marry when she gets pregnant. There is reconciliation but in the mean time, Rab,wandering the streets at night, encounters Bridie, pregnant by Gash and on the game.

Govan is consumed with grief when its answer to Edith Piaf,Marilou Devine, dies in a bizarre stage accident. Rab, however, is immune to the mass mourning, having been sentenced to Community Service for his twenty-third drunk and disorderly charge. Assigned to gardening work for the unhygienic, eccentric old recluse Mr. McCutcheon, Rab eventually strikes up a friendly rapport with the old man and even inspires him to tidy his house up.

The burden of looking after Rab, laid up with a bad back, is beginning to take its toll on Mary and she seeks consolation from an unlikely source - Jamesie, deserted by Ella for a male stripper after being found guilty of lewd behaviour at the local baths. When Rab is in hospital, having treatment for his back, Mary comes to say she is leaving him for Jamesie. A distraught Rab returns home to set fire to all his photos of Mary and himself but unfortunately the flames get out of control, burning the house down.