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The Vital Spark - Small steam cargo boat (Clyde Puffer) on the maritime comedy PARA
HANDY: MASTER MARINER/BBC/1959-60. Para Handy (Duncan Macrae) skippered The Vital
Spark, as it puffed its way through the coastal waters along the West Coast of
Scotland. It crew members included John Grieve as Macphail; Roddy McMillan as
Dougie, and Angus Lennie as Sunny Jim.
The revival series THE VITAL SPARK/BBC/1966-67 & 1974 carried on the maritime
tradition with Roddy McMillan as Para Handy, the boat's skipper; Walter Carr as Dougie
the mate; John Grieve as Dan McPhail, the engineer; and Alex McAvoy as Sunny Jim,
the cook and deck hand.
Both series were based on the 1905 Glasgow Evening News
series written by Neil Munro (1863-1930). His pen name was Hugh Foulis. The Vital Spark is now moored on the
Crinnan Canal in Argyllshire.
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