This is NOTHING like the books.

Hamish is WELL over 6ft tall with flaming red hair and a true Highlander.

Y’man who plays him here – name escapes all I can remember is Begbie – is a 5ft6 Glaswegian….SMALLER THAN ME.

MC Beaton sold her Hamish stories to the TV company for squillions and regretted every minute of it.

Robert Carlyle.

I Remembered :o)

WRITER M.C. Beaton hated what TV execs did to her beloved Hamish Macbeth copper character.