The Irish R.M.

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.

• Ep 1

  1.Great Uncle McCarthy

  06-01-198350m

  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 Magi...

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• Ep 2

  2.Trinket's Colt

  13-01-198350m

  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...

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• Ep 3

  3.A Misdeal

  20-01-198350m

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

• Ep 4

  4.The Boat's Share

  27-01-198350m

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

• Ep 5

  5.Occasional Licences

  03-02-198350m

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

• Ep 6

  6.O Love! O Fire!

  10-02-198350m

  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 th...

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