Violet Florence Martin
Director
The Irish R.M. (1983)
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.
Released Jan. 6, 1983
Episode 50 min
10+
Genres: Comedy, Drama, History
Keywords: tmdb.ireland, tmdb.19th-century, mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.magistrate, imdb.irish, imdb.punctuation-in-title, imdb.rural-ireland + 10 more, imdb.retired-army-officer, imdb.pre-world-war-one, imdb.landlord, imdb.ireland, imdb.fox-hunting, imdb.englishman-abroad, imdb.anglo-irish-relations, imdb.1900s, imdb.law, imdb.court
Production Companies: Ulster Television (UTV), Rediffusion, RTÉ, Channel 4 Television, Little Bird
Network: Channel 4
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - 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.
Jan. 6, 1983, midnight
S1E2 - 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.
Jan. 13, 1983, midnight
S1E3 - A Misdeal
Yeates and Philippa visit a horse fair in search of a suitable mount for a forthcoming hunt.
Jan. 20, 1983, midnight
S1E4 - 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.
Jan. 27, 1983, midnight
S1E5 - Occasional Licences
A local publican neatly sidesteps Yeates' objections to beer sales at the annual St Peter and St Paul's Day Games.
Feb. 3, 1983, midnight
S1E6 - 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.
Feb. 10, 1983, midnight
Network: Channel 4
Episode Runtime: 50 min.
Season Runtime: 50 min.
Released: Jan. 6, 1983
Last Air Date: July 6, 1985, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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