Television
In addition to the written stories, there have been three television adaptations of the Para Handy tales, all for the BBC:
| Character | Para Handy - Master Mariner (1959 in black & white) |
The Vital Spark (1965-6 in b&w/1973-4 in colour) |
The Tales of Para Handy (1994-5) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter 'Para Handy' Macfarlane | Duncan MacRae | Roddy McMillan | Gregor Fisher |
| Dan MacPhail | John Grieve | John Grieve | Rikki Fulton |
| Dougie the Mate | Roddy McMillan | Walter Carr | Sean Scanlan |
| Davie 'Sunny Jim' Green | Angus Lennie | Alex McAvoy | Andrew Fairlie |
The earlier series updated the stories by giving them a contemporary setting. The last series had an inter-war setting.
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“Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy.... In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
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