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The Crow Road

Original

Episode 4: Rory

Duration: 1 hour, 10 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Four

Final part of the adaptation of Iain Banks's blackly humorous novel. Prentice finds that the jigsaw is falling into place as he discovers Rory's final secret about the family. Show more

Contributors

Prentice McHoan:
Joseph McFadden
Kenneth McHoan:
Bill Paterson
Rory McHoan:
Peter Capaldi
Ashley Watt:
Valerie Edmond
Fiona Urvill:
Stella Gonet
Director:
Gavin Millar
Producer:
Bradley Adams
Writer:
Iain Banks

Genres

The Crow Road

Original

Episode 2: Kenneth

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Second of a four-part adaptation of Iain Banks's blackly humorous novel. Prentice searches for his long-lost uncle and uncovers some interesting facts about his family. Show more

Contributors

Prentice McHoan:
Joseph McFadden
Kenneth McHoan:
Bill Paterson
Rory McHoan:
Peter Capaldi
Ashley Watt:
Valerie Edmond
Fiona Urvill:
Stella Gonet
Producer:
Bradley James
Director:
Gavin Millar
Executive Producer:
Andrea Calderwood
Executive Producer:
Kevin Loader
Executive Producer:
Franc Roddam
Author:
Iain Banks

Genres

The Crow Road

Original

Episode 3: Fergus

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Four

Four-part adaptation of Iain Banks's blackly comic novel. The McHoan family are devastated by the death of Kenneth. Prentice is dismayed by the news that Verity is pregnant. Show more

Contributors

Prentice McHoan:
Joseph McFadden
Kenneth McHoan:
Bill Paterson
Rory McHoan:
Peter Capaldi
Ashely Watt:
Valerie Edmond
Fiona Urvill:
Stella Gonet
Director:
Gavin Millar
Producer:
Bradley Adams
Author:
Iain Banks

Genres

The Crow Road

Omnibus

Episode 1: Prentice/Kenneth

Duration: 2 hours

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Scotland

Adaptation of Iain Banks's novel. Student Prentice McHoan carries out his recently deceased grandmother's request to find out what happened to his uncle Rory. Show more

Contributors

Prentice McHoan:
Joe McFadden
Kenneth McHoan:
Bill Paterson
Rory McHoan:
Peter Capaldi
Ashley Watt:
Valerie Edmond
Fiona Urvill:
Stella Gonet
Fergus Urvill:
David Robb
Writer:
Iain Banks
Director:
Gavin Millar

Genres

The Crow Road

Original

Episode 1: Prentice

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Adaptation of Iain Banks's blackly humorous novel. Student Prentice McHoan carries out his late grandmother's request to find out what happened to his Uncle Rory. Show more

Contributors

Prentice McHoan:
Joseph McFadden
Kenneth McHoan:
Bill Paterson
Rory McHoan:
Peter Capaldi
Ashley Watt:
Valerie Edmond
Fiona Urvill:
Stella Gonet
Fergus Urvill:
David Robb
Lewis McHoan:
Dougray Scott
Producer:
Bradley Adams
Director:
Gavin Millar
Author:
Iain Banks

Genres

The Crow Road

Omnibus

Episode 2: Fergus/Rory

Duration: 2 hours

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Scotland HD

Adaptation of Iain Banks's novel. Prentice discovers Rory's final, unbelievable secret about the McHoan family. Show more

Contributors

Prentice McHoan:
Joe McFadden
Kenneth McHoan:
Bill Paterson
Rory McHoan:
Peter Capaldi
Ashley Watt:
Valerie Edmond
Fiona Urvill:
Stella Gonet
Fergus Urvill:
David Robb
Writer:
Iain Banks
Director:
Gavin Millar

Genres

Screen One

Series 6

Pat and Margaret

Duration: 1 hour, 23 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One LondonLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Available for years

Comedy drama about a Lancashire-born American soap star who, returning to Britain, is reunited on live television with her sister Margaret, a motorway cafeteria waitress. Show more

Contributors

Patricia Bedford:
Julie Walters
Margaret Mottershead:
Victoria Wood
Jim's Mum:
Thora Hird
Director:
Gavin Millar
Producer:
Ruth Caleb

Formats

Play for Today

Series 9

Episode 14: Blue Remembered Hills

Duration: 1 hour, 11 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One LondonLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Available for 3 months

Dennis Potter's play of lost innocence begins with adults playing children's games in a lyrical summer landscape. But the games of hide-and-seek and war take on a sinister aspect. Show more

New Tricks

Series 5

Episode 2: Final Curtain

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC One WalesLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Available for years

Drama series about a group of ex-cops investigating unsolved crimes. The team return to the 1992 case of an actor shot dead by his wife on stage. Show more

Contributors

Brian Lane:
Alun Armstrong
Jack Halford:
James Bolam
Sandra Pullman:
Amanda Redman
Gerry Standing:
Dennis Waterman
D A C Strickland:
Anthony Calf
Esther Lane:
Susan Jameson
Helen Brownlow:
Claire Bloom
Tiffany Barker:
Kim Thomson
Catherine Austin:
Kate Magowan
Derek Bennett:
Dermot Crowley
Mel Simons:
John Fortune
Tommy Jackson:
Dexter Fletcher
Theatre Director:
Gavin Millar
Jane Morley:
Diana Weston
Ronnie Ross:
Keith Barron