The Crow Road (TV series)

The Crow Road is a four-part television miniseries by BBC Scotland in 1996, based faithfully on the 1992 novel of the same name by Scottish novelist Iain Banks. It was directed by Gavin Millar.

Summary
The cast includes Joseph McFadden as Prentice McHoan, Bill Paterson as his father, Dougray Scott as his older brother (another, younger brother in the novel has been written out here) and Peter Capaldi as his missing uncle Rory, who via a narrative device employed in the adaptation, visits the thoughtful Prentice when he is alone. The production was nominated as Best Drama Serial at the 1997 British Academy Television Awards. Following the success of this TV serial, the same team went on to adapt Banks's Complicity as a feature film.

Cast

 * Joseph McFadden as Prentice McHoan
 * Bill Paterson as Kenneth McHoan
 * Peter Capaldi as Rory McHoan
 * Valerie Edmond as Ashley Watt
 * Dougray Scott as Lewis McHoan
 * David Robb as Fergus Urvill
 * Elizabeth Sinclair as Mary McHoan
 * Gudrun Ure as Margot McHoan
 * Patricia Kerrigan as Janice
 * Simone Bendix as Verity Walker
 * Paul Young as Hamish McHoan
 * Stella Gonet as Fiona Urvill
 * Claire Nielson as Antonia McHoan
 * Edward Casey as Young Prentice McHoan

Critical reception
Reviewing the DVD box set in 2015, The Guardian wrote "the best TV adaptations capture the spirit of the original while adding something of their own – and The Crow Road, which first aired almost 20 years ago, is one of the finest adaptations of them all, managing to distil Bank’s complex tale into four hours of sharply evocative TV."