The Vital Spark is a fictional Clyde puffer, created by Scottish writer Neil Munro. As its captain, the redoubtable Para Handy, often says: "the smertest...

The Vital Spark is a BBC Scotland television series set in the western isles of Scotland in the 1930s, based on the Para Handy books by Neil Munro. It...

things." Where vitalism explicitly invokes a vital principle, that element is often referred to as the "vital spark", "energy", "élan vital" (coined by vitalist...

He is the crafty Gaelic skipper of the Vital Spark, a Clyde puffer (steamboat) of the sort that delivered goods from Glasgow to Loch Fyne, the Hebrides...

small captain's cabin in the stern. When publication of the Vital Spark stories began in 1905 the ship's wheel was still in the open, but later a wheelhouse...

involved transporting a bull aboard the Vital Spark, trying to marry Sunny Jim off, avoiding the sale of the Vital Spark by Campbell and being held hostage...

Jim in the BBC Scotland adaptation of Neil Munro's Para Handy stories, The Vital Spark, and as the teacher in Pink Floyd's musical film, The Wall. As...

malade imaginaire. Possibly his best known role was as the mate Dougie in the TV series The Vital Spark (1965–67). He played Shooey in Lex MacLean's TV series...

Left the Building in 1996. Rainbow produced Wolfstone's album The Half Tail in 1996. Rainbow built and ran the Vital Spark Music Studio on the Isle of...

captain of the puffer Vital Spark. The series followed the Vital Spark's adventures around the coastal waters of Inner Hebrides and the various schemes...

of the soul: Khet or the "physical body" Sah or the "spiritual body" Ren or the "name, identity" Ba or the "personality" Ka or the "double" or "vital essence"...

ignition system to the combustion chamber of a spark-ignition engine to ignite the compressed fuel/air mixture by an electric spark, while containing combustion...

Clyde puffer captain. The story was inspired by Neil Munro's short stories of the Vital Spark and her captain, Para Handy. The Maggie is an aged Clyde...

Marston, Warwickshire. The brand was acquired in 2021 by the Vital Spark Group Ltd. On 5 July 2023 the company and Vital Spark Group were renamed Sebring...

anthems and songs. His setting of Alexander Pope's revolutionary The Dying Christian (Vital spark of heav'nly flame) was enormously popular at one time and was...

Beat of Love – 1981 The Things That You Dream – 1983 I Am – 1988 Every Now and Then – 1990 The Third Child – 1994 The Vital Spark – 1994 (Alternate title:...

A Boy (Space Theatre) Cinder Eddie & the Sleeping (Space Theatre) The Vital Spark (Wet Arts Theatre) Death & the Maiden (C'est Tous Theatre) Romeo & Juliet...

television series, The Vital Spark. He also played the lead role in Edward Boyd's private eye series, The View from Daniel Pike. The Glasgow-born McMillan...

"That Spark of Life", a 1943 novel by Pavel Bazhov Spark of Life (album), a 2014 album by Marcin Wasilewski Vitalism, the belief in a "vital spark" of life...

Obi-Wan: the reclusive master. ...The vital spark in the musical emergence of Dr. Luke was meeting Max Martin". Dr. Luke himself says of the chemistry...

but it lacks the vital spark that would have made the drama truly compelling on the screen." Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive...

programmes, including the TV adaptations of The Vital Spark, Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, Grey Granite and The Eagle of the Ninth. He wrote the 1969 BBC thriller...

featured in the TV series The Vital Spark, based on Neil Munro's Para Handy stories about the Vital Spark. The island was featured in the BBC Radio 4...

originally written under the pen name Hugh Foulis. The best known of these stories are about the fictional Clyde puffer the Vital Spark and her captain Para...

the film London Kills Me with Danny Dyer. In 1995, he had a main role in the BBC drama Loved Up, a school information film for teenagers to show the risks...

The Two of Us is an ITV comedy series starring Nicholas Lyndhurst and Janet Dibley. The series focused on Ashley and Elaine, an unmarried couple living...

version, The Vital Spark (1965–67, 1973–74). Born in Maryhill, Glasgow, Grieve attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, before joining the Citizens...

history television documentary series produced by the BBC in association with PBS as a follow-up to the original 1969 landmark series Civilisation by Kenneth...

of the Victorian era known as "The Vital Spark" and "the Queen of the Halls". Her repertoire of songs included "'Arry", "The Boy I Love is Up in the Gallery"...

Upstart Crow Up the Women Uncle The Vicar of Dibley The Visit The Vital Spark W1A Waiting for God Warren Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? White...