| Hamish Macbeth | |
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| Genre | Police procedural Mystery Comedy drama |
| 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 | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 20 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE. |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Trevor Davies Scott Meek Andrea Calderwood |
| Producers | Deidre Keir Charles Salmon |
| Production location | Scotland |
| Running time | 50 minutes |
| Production company | Zenith Entertainment |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC1 |
| Release | 26 March 1995 – 4 May 1997 |
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Hamish Macbeth is a Scottish mystery comedy-drama television series produced by BBC Scotland that aired from 26 March 1995 to 4 May 1997. 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 consisted of three series, with the first two series containing six episodes and the third containing 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 the 1961 film West Side Story.
In September 2023 the series was made permanently available on BBC iPlayer. Like the DVD release, ‘West Coast Story’ is not on iPlayer.[1]