The Crow Road (TV series)

The Crow Road
Genre	Drama
Starring	Joe McFadden Bill Paterson Peter Capaldi Valerie Edmond
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	4
Production
Location(s)	Ardkinglas House, Cairndow, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, United Kingdom
Running time	58 min
Release
Original network	BBC Scotland
Original release	4 November 1996 – 25 November 1996

The Crow Road is a four-part television miniseries by BBC Scotland in 1996, based faithfully on the novel by Scottish novelist Iain Banks. It was directed by Gavin Millar.

The cast includes Joseph McFadden as Prentice McHoan, Bill Paterson as his father, Dougray Scott as his older brother (another, younger brother in the novel has been written out here) and Peter Capaldi as the disappeared uncle who, via a narrative device employed in the adaptation, visits the thoughtful Prentice when he is alone. The production was nominated as Best Drama Serial at the 1997 British Academy Television Awards. Following the success of this TV serial, the same team went on to adapt Banks's Complicity as a feature film.

Cast

• Joseph McFadden - Prentice McHoan
• Bill Paterson - Kenneth McHoan
• Peter Capaldi - Rory McHoan
• Valerie Edmond - Ashley Watt
• Dougray Scott - Lewis McHoan
• David Robb - Fergus Urvill
• Elizabeth Sinclair - Mary McHoan
• Gudrun Ure - Margot McHoan
• Patricia Kerrigan - Janice
• Simone Bendix - Verity Walker
• Paul Young - Hamish McHoan
• Stella Gonet - Fiona Urvill
• Claire Nielson - Antonia McHoan
• Edward "Eddie" Casey - Young Prentice McHoan

Episode list

• 1 "Prentice" (4 November 1996)
• 2 "Kenneth" (11 November 1996)
• 3 "Fergus" (18 November 1996)
• 4 "Rory" (25 November 1996)

External links

• The Crow Road at the BFI's Screenonline
• The Crow Road at the Internet Movie Database
• Location guide