[OPEN] Please add Hamish Macbeth: The Making of a BBC TV Classic

[Ross]

As advised by a Librarian in the Book Cover Help group that I originally posted this request in (https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...), I’m requesting this as a new edition with correct cover and page count.

* Title: Hamish Macbeth: The Making of a BBC TV Classic

* Author(s) name(s): Jonathan Melville

* ISBN (or ASIN): 9780993321528

* Publisher: Fountainbridge Press

* Publication Date Year: 2025

* Publication Date Month: March

* Publication Date Day: 25

* Page count: 317 (verified on copy in hands)

* Format (such as paperback, hardcover, ebook, audiobook, etc): paperback

* Description:
Welcome to the Wild West of Scotland

In 1995, BBC One’s Hamish Macbeth broke all the rules of Sunday night TV. Set in the picture-postcard Highlands of Scotland, this genre-defying drama brought cannibalism and ceilidhs, marijuana and murder, love triangles and lobster tanks to millions of viewers each week.

With Robert Carlyle starring as the laid-back lawman who preferred poaching to paperwork, producers transformed the tiny village of Plockton into the fictional Lochdubh. While they attempted to evade BBC bureaucracy, they couldn’t escape the tourists who soon flocked to see Hamish’s home.

Drawing on dozens of new interviews with cast, crew and local residents, this book reveals how they crafted a vision of Highland life that was part Western, part modern fable and wholly original. Discover the battle over Wee Jock's fate, the mystery of the 'lost' musical episode and how the real-world return of the Stone of Destiny forced last-minute rewrites of the epic series finale.

Jonathan Melville, author of A Kind of Making the Original Highlander and Local Making a Scottish Classic, blends oral history and archive material into the definitive account of how this subversive series became a timeless classic.

* Language (for non-English books): English

* Link to book page which includes the cover and other books data on a NON-BOOKSELLER site, such as a publisher site, an author site, etc. Publishers who sell their own published books are an acceptable source. For covers, if linking to a site such as Imgur, Dropbox, etc. please state the original source of the image. No B&N or other bookseller links can be used as sources for covers or other book data, with the exception of Amazon and its subsidiaries.

https://jonathanmelville.substack.com...

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/099332152...

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