And when an author loves her hero that much it is difficult not be swept along. There are plenty of dates and love interest loose ends to be wrapped up.Īlthough known as the local lothario, poor Hamish never quite gets it right with women, which is lucky because while Beaton is cutting about everyone else, it is clear there is one character she adores. There is also a beautiful Polish baker and a sexy forensic scientist.
There are dead bodies on toilets, flying coffins, class A drugs and plenty of allusions to sex.Īn old flame, the journalist Elspeth Grant, pops up while Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, the posh hotelier’s daughter who broke Hamish’s heart, is never far away. Hamish Macbeth (a Titles & Air Dates Guide) Last updated: Tue, 0:00 Show Details: Start date: Mar 1995 End date: May 1997 Status: cancelled/ended Network(s): BBC One Run time: 60 min Episodes: 20 eps Genre(s): Comedy. Unlike most popular depictions of the Highlands it is not sunny all the time, in fact it is more likely to be raining and not everyone is friendly. But there were other types: malicious, petty, and vengeful.’ ‘Certainly most were rightly famous for courtesy and hospitality. ‘A lot of people could not grasp the idea that the people in the Highlands were a different race from the lowlanders. Salt is stolen from Rorys shop Geordie Robb mysteriously disappears Alex unexpectedly visits Hamish. Reparto Robert Carlyle, Ralph Riach, Brian Pettifer.
‘The far north of Scotland could come as a shock to incomers,’ she writes. Robert Carlyle stars in the surreal series set in a Scottish village where life is never sleepy.