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Para Handy - Master Mariner is a series produced and broadcast by the BBC, set in the western isles of Scotland in the 1930s, based on the Para Handy books by Neil Munro. It starred Duncan Macrae as Peter "Para Handy" MacFarlane, captain of the puffer Vital Spark.
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16 dic 2014 · The video footage shows the north bank of the River Clyde from the centre of Glasgow. The first Para Handy story written by Neil Munro, concerning the exploits of the crew of the Clyde Puffer...
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Para Handy - Master Mariner: With Duncan Macrae, John Grieve, Roddy McMillan, Angus Lennie.
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- Highland Voyage, 1964
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Set in the western isles of Scotland, the stories followed the adventures of Peter "Para Handy" MacFarlane, captain of the puffer 'Vital Spark', around the coastal waters of west Scotland. There was a radio series broadcast on Saturday nights on the Scottish Home Service from 3 October to 28 November 1959 (7.45–8.0pm) read by Roddy McMillan. The st...
The character of Para Handy was born inauspiciously in the pages of the Glasgow Evening Newson 16 January 1905. For two or three weeks he was forgotten and then brought back again to fill a weekly column. Gradually the stories grew in popularity, but even when in later years they were collected and published in book form the author would only allow...
As many of the original stories were mere anecdotes that could last only two minutes at the most, some liberty had to be taken in blending them into a series of half-hour television programmes. Writing in the Radio Times, series scriptwriter Duncan Rossexplained: The film sequences were shot on the actual locations so loved by Neil Munro, and an ac...
Captain Peter "Para Handy" MacFarlane: Duncan MacraeDan Macphail, the engineer: John GrieveDougie Cameron, the mate: Roddy McMillanDavie "Sunny Jim" Green: Angus LennieThe Timessaid the first episode "marked a welcome change from the mediocre output of the BBC's Scottish studio over the past few months: Guy Taylor in Television Todaywrote "what fun the Para Handy series has turned out to be":
Originally made to promote a record album, an independent film was shot by Douglas Gray in 1964 showing the puffer sailing from Glasgow to Dunoon and featuring Duncan Macrae, Roddy McMillan and John Grieve singing a musical selection that includes The Crinan Canal, Take the Boat Over to Skye, and Heading for Dunoon. The trio are joined by Alex MacK...
This was the first of several dramatisations of the Para Handy stories, being followed by The Vital Spark in 1965-66 (remade in 1973-74) starring Roddy McMillan in the title role, and by The Tales of Para Handy in 1994-95, with Gregor Fisheras Para Handy.
"Para Handy, Master Mariner" 31 July 1994 ( 1994-07-31 ) The crew of the Vital Spark are entrusted with transporting some queer cargo including a double bed and a prize Highland Bull -and trouble is never too far away.
Para Handy (Duncan Macrae) was the skipper of a ‘puffer’ – a small cargo boat that operated as a merchantman along the west coast of Scotland – called the Vital Spark.
