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Hamish Macbeth (1995)

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Genre
drama
Country
United Kingdom
Length
3 seasons, 20 episodes
Rated
PG
Rating
7.7 of 10 from 17 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Scottish police constable keeps the peace in a small fictional coastal town. He solves local crimes with a calm and clever approach.

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What happens

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 songs and play elements from West Side Story. In September 2023 the series was made permanently available on BBC iPlayer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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