The Vital Spark is a British television comedy set in the western isles of 1930s Scotland, based on the Para Handy books by Neil Munro. Starring Roddy McMillan as Peter 'Para Handy' MacFarlane, ...

Neil Munro’s comedic tales of the master mariner Para Handy and his sidekicks, Dan Macphail, Dougie and Sunny Jim have been celebrated in newspapers, books and on television for over a century. So, ...

Set sail with the irrepressible captain of The Vital Spark and his ramshackle crew – mate Dougie, engineer Macphail and cabin-boy Sunny Jim – as they travel from a West Coast breakers’ yard to the sea ...

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 ...