Vital Spark - Small cargo boat 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, Walter Carr as Dougie, and Alex McAvoy as Sunny Jim. Both series were based on the 1905 Glasgow Evening News series written by Neil Munro (pen-name Hugh Foulis).