Hamish and Dougal series was arranged by Graeme's son John Garden and performed by a four-piece ceilidh band. The programmes were produced by Jon Naismith. Other actors have also featured in guest appearances, such as the 2004 Hogmanay special which featured guest appearances from "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" chairman Humphrey Lyttelton, as the Laird's butler Lyttelton, "Today programme" presenter Jim Naughtie (as Mrs Naughtie's long-lost son), Sandi Toksvig (as Sandi Wedge, a very tall golf champion) and Tim Brooke-Taylor and Colin Sell (as themselves). The show relied heavily on sexual innuendo, and Scottish stereotypes. Long-running jokes from the parent series were
Radio comedy Way. Many of the BBC's most successful television comedies began life as radio shows. These include "Hancock's Half Hour", "Goodness Gracious Me", "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "The League of Gentlemen", "Whose Line Is It Anyway?", "Room 101", "Have I Got News For You", (based on Radio 4's "The News Quiz"), "Dead Ringers" and most recently "Little Britain" and "Absolute Power". The science fiction comedy "Red Dwarf" was developed from ideas in a radio show called "Son Of Cliché". Another science fiction comedy "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" was created for radio, but also went on to great success in