Crow Road, The

1 9 9 6 (UK)
4 x 60 minute episodes

Set in Glasgow and the fictional town of Gallanach, The Crow Road tells the story of troubled young Prentice McHoan (Joseph McFadden), a 20-year-old student at Glasgow University who is wrestling with the catastrophe that is his life as he strives to uncover the truths buried by his secretive family and to solve the six-year-old mystery surrounding the disappearance of his Uncle Rory (Peter Capaldi, pictured below right).

Prentice is bewildered by a catalogue of woes: sexual frustration; a secret adoration for his beautiful cousin, the “upwardly nubile” Verity (Simone Bendix); academic disaster; a long-running feud with his atheist father (Bill Paterson), the suicide of his idolised friend Darren (Martin Ledwith); and the burdens of a better-looking, wittier, more talented older brother and a family prone to premature death.

The Crow Road was based on a novel by Iain Banks, produced by BBC Scotland and aired on BBC2.

Prentice McHoan
Joseph McFadden
Kenneth McHoan
Bill Paterson
Rory McHoan
Peter Capaldi
Ashley Watt
Valerie Edmond
Fergus Urvill
David Robb
Lewis McHoan
Dougray Scott
Hamish McHoan
Paul Young
Verity
Simone Bendix
Lachlan Watt
Alex Norton
Mary McHoan
Elizabeth Sinclair
Aunt Antonia
Claire Nielson
Margot McHoan
Gudrun Ure
Young Prentice (aged 10)
Edward Casey
Young Prentice (aged 14)
Mark McConnochie
Helen Urvill
Jenny Ryan
Diana Urvill
Sarah Gudgeon
Mrs McSpadden
Irene Sunters
Dean Watt
Stephen McCole
Darren Watt
Martin Ledwith
Calum Watt
Alan McCafferty
Droid
Ian Bustard
Lizzie
Julie Austin