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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