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Series SeasonSeason 1 episodes1983

The Irish R.M.

Season 1

Major Sinclair Yeates discovers the top brass won't promote him beyond major, so he decides to resign and take a post as the Resident Magistrate in West Ireland. Yeates soon discovers his new landlord hasn't been completely honest with him and everything Yeates does somehow ends up back-firing on him.

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Episode 150 min1983-01-06

Great Uncle McCarthy

Major Sinclair Yeates, an Englishman, arrives in a rural area of Victorian Ireland. He has married his colonel's daughter and has decided to take up a new career as a Resident Magistrate. Major Yeates quickly meets the hard-riding Knox clan, including Great Uncle McCarthy and young Flurry Knox, his landlord.

Episode 250 min1983-01-13

Trinket's Colt

Continuing the story of Major Sinclair Yeates's experiences in Ireland. He has to deal with a remarkable dispute about a young horse. Meanwhile, the Major's wife, Phillipa, arrives from England.

Episode 350 min1983-01-20

A Misdeal

Yeates and Philippa visit a horse fair in search of a suitable mount for a forthcoming hunt.

Episode 450 min1983-01-27

The Boat's Share

Yeates and his cousin Basil fear their careers are ruined when they are caught in a police raid at the Brickleys.

Episode 550 min1983-02-03

Occasional Licences

A local publican neatly sidesteps Yeates' objections to beer sales at the annual St Peter and St Paul's Day Games.

Episode 650 min1983-02-10

O Love! O Fire!

Major Sinclair Yeates has settled in as a magistrate in rural Ireland and even his wife Philippa is taking to the country. And with Flurry Knox in love with his cousin, it seems that neither love nor fire should always be taken at face value.

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Cast

Peter Bowles

Major Sinclair Yeates

Bryan Murray

Flurry Knox

Brendan Conroy

Peter Cadogan

Anna Manahan

Mrs Cadogan

Niall Tóibín

Slipper

Doran Godwin

Philippa Yeates (née Butler)

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