World Tour of Scotland (1994)
World Tour of Scotland is a six-part television series — the first of Billy Connolly's "world tours" — originally broadcast by the BBC in late 1994. It involved his touring around his homeland of Scotland for 54 nights during early 1994, beginning in Greenock and visiting cities and towns and performing live on stage to audiences. However, this, like all his other tours, involved more than just shows: he visited numerous places of historic and scenic value, as well as some places that resonate with his own upbringing. The series was dedicated "with much love and thanks to the people of Scotland". It has since been released on VHS and DVD. On the latter format, the six episodes are split across two discs.
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World Tour of Scotland
1994Seasons & Episode
* Isle of Arran * Brodick Village Hall (concert venue) * Glasgow: Dover Street, the street on which Connolly was born; Provand's Lordship; The tenement building where Connolly lived between the ages of fourteen and twenty; Glasgow Cross; Necropolis; Auchengillan scout camp (where Connolly, in the 141 Pack, visited as a cub scout) * Loch Lomond
* Partick and Govan * Stirling (including the MacRobert Centre concert venue) and Bannockburn * Scone Palace ("Never to be pronounced Scone.") * Forth Bridges and South Queensferry
* Blair Atholl * Highlands * Inverness * Culloden Moor
* Ulbster, Caithness * Wick * Candacraig House (Connolly's Highland home)[1] * Orkney Islands o Ring of Brogar (referred to by Connolly as the Standing Stones of Brogar) o Kirkwall o Scapa Flow (to which he travelled on the fishing boat Triton) * Lerwick, Shetland (including two performances in the same night at the Garrison Theatre; the latter took him into the next day)
* Edinburgh Castle (including the firing of the one o'clock cannon) * Court of Session * St. Giles' Cathedral * Mary King's Close (Annie's room) * Usher Hall (concert venue, from where Connolly performs a pre-show piece to camera)
World Tour of Scotland is a six-part television series — the first of Billy Connolly's "world tours" — originally broadcast by the BBC in late 1994. It involved his touring around his homeland of Scotland for 54 nights during early 1994, beginning in Greenock and visiting cities and towns and performing live on stage to audiences. However, this, like all his other tours, involved more than just shows: he visited numerous places of historic and scenic value, as well as some places that resonate with his own upbringing. The series was dedicated "with much love and thanks to the people of Scotland". It has since been released on VHS and DVD. On the latter format, the six episodes are split across two discs.
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