Para Handy - Master Mariner

Para Handy - Master Mariner is a Scottish television series set in the western isles of Scotland in the 1930s, based on the Para Handy books by Neil Munro. It starred Duncan Macrae as Peter "Para Handy" MacFarlane, captain of the puffer Vital Spark.

The series followed the Vital Spark's adventures around the coastal waters of west Scotland and the various schemes that Para Handy would get himself and his crew involved in.

The series was first broadcast in 1959, in black-and-white. It is no longer available from the BBC. The series the first of several dramatizations of the "Para Handy" stories, being followed by The Vital Spark in 1965-6 (remade in 1973-4) starring Roddy McMillan in the title role, and by The Tales of Para Handy in 1994-5, starring Gregor Fisher.

Season 1

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