Garnock Way was a short-lived soap opera broadcast weekly on Scottish Television (STV) from 1976 to 1979. Set in a small Scottish mining town the soap was initially concerned with the Ross and Baxter families and rumours that the local coal mining pit might close. As well as all of the usual soap storylines like generational conflict and romance, Garnock Way also took a serious look at the political and social aspects of working class lives in Scottish mining communities. While Garnock Way’s popularity rose with audiences in Central Scotland, there were pressures for STV to depict the more visually palatable Scotland that wider UK audiences expected. The result was that in 1979 Garnock Way was cancelled, making way for the perhaps better known Highlands-set 'Take the High Road'. 173 episodes of Garnock Way were produced and only 4 are known to have survived.