A commercial with Scottish scientists playing with sheep was aired on TV, and a special report in TIME Magazine featured Dolly the sheep.

* 1932 – Troy Kennedy Martin, Scottish film and TV screenwriter ( d. 2009 )

The island's historic role as a signal station continues today with its high-technology relay stations carrying vital TV, radio, telephone and military communication links between Shetland, Orkney and the Scottish mainland.

Meanwhile in the UK David Hall's " TV Interruptions " ( 1971 ) were transmitted intentionally unannounced and uncredited on Scottish TV, the first artist interventions on British television.

** Kirsty Gallacher, Scottish TV presenter

** Ally McCoist, Scottish footballer and TV pundit

* " Killer " ( Taggart ), the 1983 pilot episode and title of the later re-named Scottish detective TV series, Taggart

It refers to areas in Scottish Highlands where it is difficult to obtain radio and TV reception.

Wedding Belles was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA and was subsequently sold to TV channels in Canada and Europe.

* BBC Alba ( TV channel ), the Scottish Gaelic department of BBC Scotland

* British — Graham, Matthew, and Ashley Pharaoh: Ashes to Ashes ( 2008 TV series ; main character, Alex Drake, is haunted by Pierrot like that in David Bowie video Ashes to Ashes ); Mahoney, Brian: Pierrot in Turquoise or The Looking Glass Murders ( 1970 film written and performed by David Bowie and Lindsay Kemp, adapted from their stage-play of the same title and produced by Scottish Television also # Songs, albums, and rock musicals | Songs, albums, and rock musicals below ).

Garden's impressions of the legendary rugby league commentator Eddie Waring and the popular Scottish TV presenter Fyfe Robertson, Oddie's frequent send-ups of the game-show host Hughie Green and Cleese's occasional but manic impressions of Patrick Moore ( astronomer and broadcaster ) built these people into eccentric celebrities in a way that the Mike Yarwood, Rory Bremner, Spitting Image and Dead Ringers programmes would do for other TV presenters with similar disrespect years later.

* Tony Kearney, Scottish actor and TV presenter

1980s-present ), Scottish BBC TV presenter

Cavendish in a smiling post race TV interview in Dumfries described the wet and windy race conditions through the Southern Scottish stage as ' horrible '.

* The BCJC 2003 on Scottish TV

In 2006, McLaren presented the documentary series Malcolm McLaren's Musical Map of London for BBC Radio 2, followed in 2007 by Malcolm McLaren's Life and Times in L. A. Also in 2007, McLaren competed in a reality TV show for ITV titled The Baron, filmed in the small Scottish fishing village of Gardenstown.

When the band performed this single on the BBC TV music show Top of the Pops, instead of a picture of Jackie Wilson, the American soul singer, the band performed in front of a photo of Jocky Wilson, the Scottish darts player.

The Flight of the Heron has been made into a TV serial twice: by Scottish Television in eight episodes in 1968, and by the BBC in 1976.

* Offside ( TV series ), a Scottish football programme

* NB ( television show ), a Scottish TV programme presented by Janice Forsyth, Bryan Burnett and Alan Campbell

* A short-lived 1960s TV soap High Living created by ( then ) Cowcaddens-based Scottish Television was set in a tower block in the Wyndford area of Maryhill, however as a totally studio-based drama, it relied of pictures of the flats as part of the opening and closing title sequences.

In December 1999, Judd was engaged to Scottish racing driver Dario Franchitti, who was driving in the Champ Car World Series.

* Martin, T., The Instructed Vision: Scottish Common Sense Philosophy and the Origins of American Fiction ( Indiana University Humanities Series Number 48 ), Indiana University Press, ( Bloomington ), 1961.

* Kenny McBlane, Scottish Chef at Perrin's: Joseph Brady ( Series Three only )

The speech laid out her proposals for “ a more balanced home rule package ” including greater financial accountability and new tax powers for the Scottish Parliament ( a cause that she had first championed when she led the Allander Series ) in order that the “ Union become a more comfortable home for all its members ”.

* Liam ( James McAvoy )-a student, Mel's boyfriend in Series 1. Liam is Scottish and is often seen smoking.

In addition to the Seafood Festival, Tarbert also plays host to the Scottish Series, which usually takes place in the last weeks of May every year.

The Psion Series 3 range is regarded by Scottish writer Charles Stross as an unsurpassed PDA because of its long battery life ( 20 to 35 hours ), its stable and versatile software, and its durable hardware.

Zoë is a fictional character in the Scottish BBC drama TV Series Monarch of the Glen.

* Terry Pratchett: Living with Alzheimer ’ s – Scottish BAFTA for Best Factual Series 2009

Highlander: The Series is a fantasy-adventure television series featuring Duncan MacLeod ( Adrian Paul ) of the Scottish Clan MacLeod, as the Highlander.

Marin Alsop conducted her first recording in 2000 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in a selection of works by Samuel Barber, which was released as part of the American Classics Series on Naxos.

IV, 1296 to 1752, third Series, Scottish History Society, pp 94 to 103.

* 1972 – Rab Douglas, Scottish footballer

* Scottish poet Rab Wilson published a version in Scots in 2004.

* Rab Stewart ( born 1932 ), Scottish footballer from the 1950s and 1960s

Popular Scottish television comedies such as Rab C. Nesbitt, Chewin ' the Fat, Still Game and Limmy's Show also provide reference material, and have themselves contributed popular new expressions to The Patter.

This feat was in no small part aided by Rab Walls ' 54 League goals – the second highest seasonal total in Scottish League history – as well as Daniel Swann's 87th minute winner in the last game of the season, securing the championship for Cowdenbeath.

He has been in ' The Bill ' and three episodes of the Scottish sitcom Rab C Nesbitt.

* Chingford Steel portrayed by Richard E. Grant is the government minister for work who Mary takes hostage and was made to dress up like Rab and make a ransom video in Scottish accent.

; Rab McGlinchy: Rab is a stereotypical shellsuit-wearing, chain-smoking, hard-drinking Glaswegian ned in who is employed by the television company to translate the Scottish news, narrated by a newsreader, into the dialect of the Glaswegian ned.

Robert James " Rab " Douglas ( born 24 April 1972 in Lanark ) is a Scottish footballer currently playing for Dundee as a goalkeeper.

Tennant also made an early television appearance in the Scottish TV sitcom Rab C Nesbitt as a transsexual barmaid called Davina.

Forth have supplied two Scottish international goalkeepers in George Wood and Rab Douglas.

* Rab C Nesbitt Christmas Special – Scottish BAFTA for Best Entertainment Programme 2009

Ian Pattison is a Scottish writer who lives in Glasgow, most famous for writing the 10 series of the sitcom Rab C Nesbitt.