Hamish Macbeth (TV series)
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| Genre |
Police procedural Drama Mystery Comedy |
| Written by | Daniel Boyle |
| Directed by | Nicholas Renton |
| Starring |
Robert Carlyle Ralph Riach Shirley Henderson Valerie Gogan Barbara Rafferty Stuart McGugan Anne Lacey Brian Pettifer Duncan Duff Jimmy Yuill Billy Riddoch Stuart Davids David Ashton |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 20 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Trevor Davies Scott Meek Andrea Calderwood |
| Producer(s) | Deidre Keir Charles Salmon |
| Location(s) | Scotland |
| Running time | 50 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Zenith Entertainment |
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| Original network | BBC1 |
| Picture format | 4:3 |
| Audio format | Mono |
| Original release | 26 March 1995 – 4 May 1997 |
Hamish Macbeth is a comedy-mystery-drama series made by BBC Scotland and first aired in 1995. It is loosely based on a series of mystery novels by M. C. Beaton (Marion Chesney). The series concerns a local police officer, Constable Hamish Macbeth, in the fictitious town of Lochdubh on the west coast of Scotland. The title character was played by Robert Carlyle. It ran for three series from 1995 to 1997, with the first two series having six episodes and the third having eight.
The series was released on DVD in the United Kingdom and the United States in 2005 and 2006 respectively, with the exception of the first series episode West Coast Story. This was due to rights issues surrounding the episode's extensive use of excerpts from West Side Story.
Macbeth, accompanied by his dog, a West Highland Terrier named Wee Jock, keeps the peace in the small town of Lochdubh (pronounced with the guttural 'ch' sound, LoCH-DOO). Macbeth does this in his own way, without undue reliance on the letter of the law and with every intention of avoiding being promoted out of what is his ideal job. He strongly dislikes involvement from Inverness police, and sometimes his main work doesn't seem to be the capture of local very petty criminals, but to keep them away from prison and penalties.
The major running theme of the series is the tension caused by Hamish's attraction to both the journalist of the local newspaper, Isobel Sutherland (Shirley Henderson) and the aristocratic author Alexandra Maclean (Valerie Gogan). Other themes include the clairvoyance of Hamish's friend and co-worker "TV John", John McIver (Ralph Riach), the not-so-secret romance between the school-teacher Esme Murray and the shopkeeper Rory Campbell, the volatile marriage of the publican Barney Meldrum and his wife Agnes, the schemes of the two Lachie MacCraes, father and son, the laid-back, pipe smoking Doc Brown (Duncan Duff), and Major Peregrine Mclean (David Ashton), father of Alexandra and aristocratic penniless bachelor.
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