Based on the works of Somerville and Ross. Originally broadcast as single episodes of a television program in 1983 to 1985. Title from container. Full screen (1.33:1). Special features: Making of. Peter Bowles, Beryl Reid, Bryan Murray, Niall Toibin, Anna Manahan, Jonathan Ryan, Fintan McKeown, Sarah Badel.
Summary:
Major Sinclair Yeates is a retired English army officer who becomes a Resident Magistrate in pre-independence West Ireland. Living in a ramshackle country house surrounded by the community's eccentric inhabitants, Major Yeates struggles to apply judicial logic in a country where the inevitable never happens, but the improbable frequently does.
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