Little Tykes & Fort Apache

Everywhere across the country industrial deafness claims are being paid out and The Duke and Fanny Baws leave nothing to chance much to the consternation of the receptionist and audiologist.. 

Everywhere across the country industrial deafness claims are being paid out and The Duke and Fanny Baws leave nothing to chance filling their ears with cotton wool and putting on an Oscar winning performance. 

Fanny Baws McGraw is up to no good raiding the canteen for a free lunch alas falling foul of terrifying canteen boss Big Annie. Abie and Duke join fellow tankies Nae Marbles and Piggy trying to keep warm around a dockside brazier when their joined by shipyard legend Porny  Joe.  

Episode 10.  BIRTHDAY PARTIES & FRIED WALLOPERSIt’s yard manager Ted Mckenna’s granddaughters birthday party and on the bill is the incredible Levitating Larry and his erstwhile manager Billy Broon, as Ted and television excecutive Perequin are undecided on the act’s presented. Meanwhile Feely Bum is starving and conceives of a plan to rob the local chippy of a fish supper.

Episode 9.   FLOATERS & TARTAN PAINT.Duriing ship docking a body has been found floating among the debris but not before it becomes the target for a deluge of thrown welding rods. The Police are quickly on the scene and focus in on the the welding department. Lost racehorses, missing aristocrats and Bunny wabbits are all under suspicion.

8. Wellies & Black Eyes Little Rocky has come home with a black eye from school given to him by the PE teacher, a fact his father Rocky must avenge but is there more than one PE teacher in his son’s school. Smiddy and Louie part of the yard electrical breakdown team are getting electrical shocks and demand of Timothy Tight-hole the department buyer a pair of wellingtons. Is the waterproof boot’s beyond the department’s budget and will Shop steward wee Nippy regret supporting the lad’s in their quest.

EPISODE 7.  Trains & HomelessDUKE and ABIE confronted by the street dossers committee have been turned out of their abode, the train carriages and have to seek refuge within the hostel known as Fraggle Rock. Alas the hostel rules state a bed and lodgings in exchange for chores which keep those whom hold a job down late in the morning forcing Duke and Abie to seek the ultimate loss of face...Applying for a council flat. 

 EPISODE 6.  LITTLE TYKES & FORT APACHE.Good news for Smiddy, he’s sold his house to Malcolm from the Islands. Sonny accepts an offer for his accident claim but what about his witnesses share, not to mention his claim representatives Wullie Weedle & Billy Broon.. Louie has decided to move back in to his house only on returning surprises a thief. 

EPISODE 5.  Accidents & Dyslexic Graffiti ArtistsSmiddy is struggling through adversity to sell his house, while Louie homeless is sharing Nancys boarding house with Tonald a reformed axe murderer. Sonny on cycling to work falls foul of bunged arse opening his car door on him. A claim is to be had as Sonny is carried into the yard and represented by the best, Wullie Weedle and Billy Broon.  

A SHUG THE DUG PRODUCTION (ruff ruff)TOM working in the maintenance shop loses his thumb on the turning lathe only for amenities cleaner MINGER to find the thumb while sweeping the bloody mess popping it into a jar of dirty Clyde river water sealing it and starting the chain of events that will become the Urban Myth of The Hairy Thumb.ABIE LINCOLN so-called over his pervading body odour is struggling with a drink problem yet appears to have a fine future as a council street cleaner if only he can hold onto his refuse barrows.Its last call for Storeman DROOPY checking out the way he would have wanted to go.Shipyard Shenanigans was devised by James T. Tiffoney.This episode was written and directed by James T Tiffoney. Produced by Shug the Dug Productions.Recorded at HQ Studios Glasgow.Edited by Samson Video. The role of Louie & Chic was played by Chris J W HealyABIE by Benjamin SmithOLD FRY by Colin McGregorFireman & Union Rep by William SamsonSmiddy John HughesMinger by William SpearsDuke by Brian BradyGirl & Mother by Beverley SweeneyKid by Ava Duncan CorrallAsian Shopkeeper & Woman by Susan Sims2nd Man by Gerald RoganWoman & Ellen by Susan Sims1st Man by Robert Howat The narrator was William Samson