Hamish Macbeth
Given that Robert Carlyle is getting some attention from a portion of my friends list now that he's in Stargate Universe, I thought it might be a good time to plug one of my favourite shows of all time: Hamish Macbeth (link leads to wikipedia article which contains minor spoilers).
Think Northern Exposure, but in a small Scottish town: eccentric-but-real townspeople, occasional supernatural happenings, a compelling love triangle, excellent male friendships (that's for harlequinaide), and Robert Carlyle as the local bobby trying to hold it all together against the periodic invasions of the outside world.
Edit: Oh, and it passes the Bechdel test. There's a conversation in one episode between the two women who work at the local newspaper about mysterious men who were in the office to supposedly fix the photocopier. There might be other instances, too, but that's the one I can remember off the top of my head.
As an added incentive, I can provide the first-season episode that is missing from the DVDs, which, in my opinion, in one of the best. You haven't lived until you've seen ten mostly-middle-aged definitely-all-white Scots try to stage West Side Story.
Think Northern Exposure, but in a small Scottish town: eccentric-but-real townspeople, occasional supernatural happenings, a compelling love triangle, excellent male friendships (that's for harlequinaide), and Robert Carlyle as the local bobby trying to hold it all together against the periodic invasions of the outside world.
Edit: Oh, and it passes the Bechdel test. There's a conversation in one episode between the two women who work at the local newspaper about mysterious men who were in the office to supposedly fix the photocopier. There might be other instances, too, but that's the one I can remember off the top of my head.
As an added incentive, I can provide the first-season episode that is missing from the DVDs, which, in my opinion, in one of the best. You haven't lived until you've seen ten mostly-middle-aged definitely-all-white Scots try to stage West Side Story.