Hamish MacBeth

Saturdays at 9 p.m., beginning April 15

Robert Carlyle (Angela's Ashes) returns in this encore presentation as the laid-back law enforcement officer who patrols the supposedly sleepy village of Lochdubh with little regard for police regulations and every intention of avoiding promotion. Filmed entirely on the West Coast of Scotland, the first run of this critically acclaimed BBC series attracted a stream of Canadian visitors to the real-life beat of Hamish Macbeth in the picturesque village of Plockton.

The Great Lochdubh Salt Robbery Saturday, April 15 9:00pm The Lochdubh General Store is burglarized late one night, yet the only thing missing is a 300-weight of table salt. What initially seems to be a simple theft, however, turns out to be linked to a murder mystery with crustacean overtones, as a local man goes missing after beating his wife one too many times, and turns up . . . ?

A Pillar of the Community Saturday, April 22 9:00pm English couple Vicky and Paul Jeffrey retire to Lochdubh after the social whirl of the Home Counties. Vicky, keen to embrace all things Scottish, opens a gift shop, but her arrogance and zeal for reviving "traditional" Highland culture - and imposing it on the villagers - makes her many enemies. When Vicky starts to receive hate-mail, Hamish is called in to investigate. Matters escalate, and when she is in the midst of organizing a ceilidh, an attempt is made on her life. Hamish unmasks the culprit, but is saddened to find it is someone he had grown to like and admire.

The Big Freeze Saturday, April 29 9:00pm A wartime story resurfaces, when Hamish and the inhabitants of Lochdubh band together to entrap a couple of fraudulent antique dealers. The Stone of Scone - the Coronation Stone - which is housed in Westminster Abbey was famously stolen in the 1950s; offically it was returned, but is the artefact which now lies in the Abbey in fact a fake? Was the Stone stolen twice, the second time by the fathers of some well-known citizens of Lochdubh? A story of greed and comic retribution.

West Coast Story Saturday, May 6 9:00pm The village is occupied with preparations for an amateur production of West Side Story, with even Hamish roped in to participate. Passion blooms for real when the two juvenile leads fall in love, but the romance gets off to a rocky start due to the feud waged between their respective fathers. Hamish intervenes when he is called upon to speak to one of the fathers about a minor misdemeanour, and he and his friends discover a thing or two which point out that only he who is without sin should cast the first stone . . .