Sutherland's Law
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Created by | Lindsay Galloway |
Starring | Iain Cuthbertson |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of series | 5 |
No. of episodes | 46 |
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Running time | 50 minutes |
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Original network | BBC1 |
Original release | 16 June 1973 31 August 1976 | –
Sutherland's Law is a television series made by BBC Scotland between 1973 and 1976.[1]
The series had originated as a stand-alone edition of the portmanteau programme Drama Playhouse in 1972 in which Derek Francis played Sutherland and was then commissioned as an ongoing series. The producer was Frank Cox.[2]
Sutherland's Law dealt with the duties of the Procurator Fiscal in a small Scottish town. The major cast members included Iain Cuthbertson (as John Sutherland), Gareth Thomas, Moultrie Kelsall, Victor Carin, , Don McKillop, Maev Alexander and Edith MacArthur.
Directors included Douglas Camfield who directed episode 2 of series 2 "Caesar's Wife" transmitted on 22 May 1974[3]
The exteriors for the series were filmed in Oban, Argyll.
The signature tune was The Land of the Mountain and the Flood, by Hamish MacCunn.[4] Series creator Lindsay Galloway released a novel based on the series in 1974.
The DVD of selected episodes from Sutherland's Law Series 1 was released on Region 2 by Acorn Media UK in the UK on 1 June 2009.
References[]
- ^ Contemporary Scottish Fictions: Film, Television and the Novel, Edinburgh University Press (2004), Duncan J. Petrie, p. 159
- ^ Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors, , Jerry Roberts, Scarecrow Press 2009, p. 105
- ^ Directed by Douglas Camfield, Michael Seeley, Fantom Publishing, 2020, pp. 184, 326
- ^ Questions of Music By Norman Edwards, Lulu (2006), p. 109
External links[]
- BBC television dramas
- 1970s British crime television series
- 1970s British drama television series
- 1970s British legal television series
- 1973 Scottish television series debuts
- 1976 Scottish television series endings
- BBC Scotland television shows
- Scots law
- 1970s in Scotland
- English-language television shows
- 1970s Scottish television series
- Scots law stubs
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