The Tales of Para Handy

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The Tales of Para Handy is a Scottish television comedy series based on Neil Munro’s stories about the humorous misadventures of the crew of the Clyde puffer Vital Spark.

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instanceOf Scottish television series
television series
basedOn Para Handy stories NERFINISHED
short stories by Neil Munro
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
depicts life aboard a Clyde puffer
featuresVessel Clyde puffer Vital Spark NERFINISHED
genre comedy
sitcom
hasFictionalShip Vital Spark NERFINISHED
hasSourceAuthor Neil Munro NERFINISHED
hasTheme maritime comedy
working-class Scottish life
hasTitleCharacter Para Handy NERFINISHED
isAdaptationOf Para Handy – Tales of a Scottish Sailor NERFINISHED
languageVariant Scottish English
literarySourceGenre humorous fiction
mainCharacter Captain Peter MacFarlane NERFINISHED
Para Handy NERFINISHED
crew of the Vital Spark
medium television
narrativeFocus humorous misadventures of a coastal cargo boat crew
originalLanguage English
originalNetwork BBC One
originatesFromWork Scottish literature
portrays early 20th-century Scottish coastal trade
producer BBC Scotland NERFINISHED
setting Firth of Clyde NERFINISHED
Scotland NERFINISHED

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