The Tales of Para Handy
TV ShowTitle | The Tales of Para Handy |
User score | 5 |
Release date | Jul 31, 1994 |
Release date of last episode | Aug 21, 1995 |
Genre | Drama, Comedy |
Production country | GB |
Series status | Ended |
Seasons count | 2 (List of episodes) |
Episodes count | 9 |
Run time | 50 min. |
The Tales of Para Handy 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 Gregor Fisher as Captain Peter "Para Handy" MacFarlane, Sean Scanlan as first mate Dougie Cameron, Rikki Fulton as engineer Dan Macphail and Andrew Fairlie as Sunny Jim. These four made up the crew of the puffer 'Vital Spark' which was employed by the Campbell Shipping Company, headquartered in Glasgow and run by Andrew Campbell