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For reasons not relevant to this site, there have been references to Scottish passports in the news this week.

Anyway, the term "Scottish passport" brought back a vague memory of an STV programme hosted by Bryan Burnett. It turns out this was a travel programme "for the Scots by the Scots" (?), and the only trace of the original I can find is this 1994 promo on TV Whirl:

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This wasn't actually the programme I was thinking of. Then I realised that the same Bryan Burnett was also hosting an STV gameshow called "The Passport Quiz" around the same time. Here's an episode:

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It's far from TV gold to be honest, but I find the needlessly-detailed airport set and running around quite hilarious, especially as it's just rounds of questions. It's also very parochial, only including contestants from the STV (Central Scotland) region despite the endboard claiming it was made for ITV.

It must've aired on Grampian too, but does anyone outside Scotland remember this show at all? Was it really produced for the network?

Scottish Passport originally ended in 2003 around the same time that Wish You Were Here? was on its way out then returned in 2011 I think in place of some big ITV drama that STV declined to show instead, which was quite funny seeing the reaction to.

I'd much rather watch Passport Quiz over most of the new formats of today.