Monarch of the Glen (TV series)
British television drama series (2000–2005) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Monarch of the Glen is a British drama television series produced by Ecosse Films for BBC Scotland and broadcast on BBC One for seven series between February 2000 and October 2005 with 64 episodes in total.
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Monarch of the Glen | |
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Genre | Drama |
Created by | Michael Chaplin |
Starring | Alastair Mackenzie Dawn Steele Susan Hampshire Lloyd Owen Richard Briers Alexander Morton Hamish Clark Julian Fellowes Lorraine Pilkington Martin Compston Rae Hendrie Tom Baker Hermione Gulliford |
Theme music composer | Simon Brint with Kenny G |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 7 |
No. of episodes | 64 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producers | Barbara McKissack Douglas Rae Victoria Evans Robert Bernstein Gaynor Holmes |
Running time | 50 mins. (series 1–3) 60 mins. (series 4–7) |
Original release | |
Network | BBC One |
Release | 27 February 2000 (2000-02-27) – 23 October 2005 (2005-10-23) |
The first five series of Monarch of the Glen told the story of young restaurateur Archie MacDonald trying to restore his childhood home in the Scottish Highlands, starring Alastair Mackenzie, Richard Briers, Susan Hampshire and Dawn Steele. The final two series focused on new Laird Paul Bowman trying to modernise the estate, primarily starring Lloyd Owen, Tom Baker, Alexander Morton and Susan Hampshire.
The series is loosely based on Sir Compton Mackenzie's Highland Novels, which are set in the same location but in the 1930s and 1940s. The first book in that series is called The Monarch of the Glen, which was a reference to the famous painting of the same name by Landseer.
The series was created by Michael Chaplin and produced by Nick Pitt, Paddy Higson, Jeremy Gwilt, Stephen Garwood and Rob Bullock. The show saw many directors, most notably Edward Bennett, Richard Signy, Rick Stroud and Robert Knights; and many writers including Chaplin, Niall Leonard, John Martin Johnson, Leslie Stewart and Jeremy Front. Filming took between six and eight months per series in the Badenoch and Strathspey area of the Scottish Highlands, in particular at Ardverikie House, which was the location for the fictional "Glenbogle House".
In September 2023, the series was made permanently available on BBC iPlayer.[1]