The Ice Cream Wars

10:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Tuesday 4 February
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Season 1 Episode 1 of 2

Part one of two. In the early 1980s, Glasgow's gangsters found themselves fighting over an unlikely commodity - ice-cream vans and the lucrative routes to be found in each of the city's sprawling new schemes, whose residents had little access to shops, pubs or other facilities. The vans thrived and evolved to sell a range of goods, making so much money that they attracted the attention of the city's gangsters

The Ice Cream Wars airs on BBC Scotland HD (Freeview) at 10:00 PM, Tuesday 4 February. (Subtitles, repeat.)
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Mick McAvoy
Executive Producer
Robert Neill
Series Producer