The High Life

Season

1994

UK

8

A strangely short-lived Scottish sitcom chronicling the eccentric passengers and crew of a fictional small airline operating out of Prestwick Airport. Notable for some very surreal comedy and the all singing, all dancing titles.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Feart

Air stewards Steve McCracken and Sebastian Flight find their short haul work with small charter service Air Scotia extremely limiting and Steve is further depressed at hitting thirty so when the opportunity to apply for long haul work arrives they both apply.

S1 • E2

Birl

Due to falling standards Air Scotia staff are ordered to attend a weekend training course, run by the formidable Gretchen Betjeman, with a cash prize for the student with the best exam result. Steve finds romance with fellow New Seekers fan Heather.

S1 • E3

Winch

Sebastian returns from his Florida holiday to find that Steve has spent the night with a young lady but it is actually Shona,a fact both she and Steve want to keep quiet. However, after Sebastian has lost the passengers' breakfasts and served up the contents of his Duty Free bag instead.

S1 • E4

Choob

A remake of the pilot episode in which Steve and Sebastian are annoyed that Shona has become the 'new face' of Air Scotia, which involves having her photo taken for the in-flight magazine, as well as a video demonstrating her work, overseen by a lustful director.

S1 • E5

Dug

Shona is overjoyed when sexy pop star Guy Wersch is a passenger and organizes a birthday party for his little daughter Aurora Borealis,involving Sebastaian having to forfeit his dignity by dressing as a giant dog,though the tot herself is more interested in her investment portfolio.

S1 • E6

Dunk

Desperate to find the recipe for fifties confection 'Tablet,' biscuit manufacturer Vincent Stoat abducts Professor Agnes Wormit, who has perfected its formula and put it on a floppy disc. When Ferret,Stoat's henchman,loses the disc on an Air Scotia flight,Shona, Steve and Sebastian are all kidnapped and taken to Stoat's factory.