Hamish Macbeth (TV series)

Hamish Macbeth
GenrePolice procedural
Mystery
Comedy drama
Written byDaniel Boyle
Directed byNicholas Renton
StarringRobert 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 originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series3
No. of episodes20 (list of episodes)
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Production
Executive producersTrevor Davies
Scott Meek
Andrea Calderwood
ProducersDeidre Keir
Charles Salmon
Production locationScotland
Running time50 minutes
Production companyZenith Entertainment
Original release
NetworkBBC1
Release26 March 1995 (1995-03-26) –
4 May 1997 (1997-05-04)
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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]

  1. ^ "Hamish Macbeth".