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DVD : Hamish Macbeth - Series TwoIn association with Amazon.com List Price: $34.98 Amazon.com's Price: $26.99 You Save: $7.99 (23%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0794051269928 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: BBC Warner Manufacturer: BBC Warner Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: BBC Warner Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 24, 2006 Running Time: 300 minutes Studio: BBC Warner Theatrical Release Date: April 05, 1998 Sales Rank: 38392 MPN: WARDE2699D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: One hotel, one general store, one doctor and one lawman -- PC Hamish Macbeth (Robert Carlyle). He is the sheriff -- with his own singular methods of dealing with crime and misdemeanors. Many a baffling mystery and outrageous scam lurk behind the closed doors of Lochdubh and Hamish needs all his skill to keep the big boys from Inverness off his patch. If only his love life were as easy to solve, but that is another story. Amazon.com: Hamish Macbeth may technically be a British mystery series, but the quirky BBC show, set in Scotland, is more Local Hero meets Northern Exposure than Miss Marple, as series 2 shows. The residents of tiny Lochdubh, Scotland, are an eccentric bunch, and actor Robert Carlyle, for better or worse, is the town's sole lawman/sheriff. Carlyle is in prime deadpan form in the role of Hamish Macbeth, who presides over the crimes and just plain weird happenings of the burgh. The series, based on characters created by M.C. Beaton, doesn't always even seem to feature a mystery, until the final moments of an episode, as in "A Perfectly Simple Explanation." The episode features slightly manic members of a fundamentalist sect, the Church of the Stony Path, and Hamish comes under their fire-and-brimstone curses for living out of wedlock with his insecure girlfriend, Alex. Then there's the new age cult leader who conducts his conversations on a particularly sloshy waterbed. The oddball characters come and go, and somewhere, woven around their interactions, is a plot that becomes strangely satisfying by an episode's finale, but which is not at all the reason for watching. The steadfast but affectionate take on the residents' quirkiness is compulsively addictive, and Carlyle proves again what a talented, multifaceted actor he is. As the blustery minister shrieks at Macbeth about the sin and wantonness of his town, Carlyle never lets Macbeth show he's ruffled. "If the Lord thinks so much of you," he says, when the reverend pauses to catch his breath, "then why is He lettin' me dog wee on your leg?" Visit Lochdubh and you'll likely never want to leave. --A.T. Hurley Average Rating:
 Rating: - Five things about Hamish MacBeth....Some brief comments: 1. Robert Carlyle, OBE, bears a small resemblence to Vladimir Putin. 2. The recurrent sunshine on the show, never actually occurs in Scotland. 3. Never drive on a road that has a "no more than three sheep abreast" sign. 4. I was saddened that the wonderful, furry animals featured in the opening credits are not actually costars. 5. Unlike MONARCH OF THE GLEN, you may actually stay awake watching this show. Rating:  - Scottish "sheriff" takes care of business.You have to appreciate the quality this series offers and wish that our own TV networks generate programs as good. Rating: - Left me hangingHow could they leave me hanging. When will season 3 come out. Love the setting and the wonderful people. Just like a small town anywhere in the world. Life goes on, rolls around and comes back to you. Lovely people and wonderful Series. Come on season 3. Rating: - Hamish is a heroI thoroughly enjoyed this series when it was first aired. I even visited the village of Plockton where it was filmed during a visit to bonny Scotland. Watching it again many years later proves the plot and storyline are enduring and well written. Each episode is a self contained event with larger drama running across the series. The scenery is stark and beautiful and the characters highly individual and entertaining. Finally Hamish himself who is happy to live in a small regional centre and be left ... Read More Rating: - and i do like monarch of the glenI like Robert Carlyle since seeing him in Full Monty. I like the way he plays Hamish, and i really like Hamish's deputy, He really makes this show fun. the girl could be anyone, but the local oddballs make this show fun. I have read 3 or 4 of the books, but if you just watch the show without a preconcieved idea of how Hamish should look and act, you will enjoy the show for the fun of it. Just like alot of the british comedy. Sit back and get absorbed. Browse for similar items by category:
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