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...

the pen name of Hugh Foulis. He is the crafty Gaelic skipper of the Vital Spark, a Clyde puffer (steamboat) of the sort that delivered goods from Glasgow...

or the "name, identity" Ba or the "personality" Ka or the "double" or "vital essence" Ib or the "heart" Shuyet or the "shadow" Sekhem or the "power,...

status thanks largely to the short stories Neil Munro wrote about the Vital Spark and her captain Para Handy, which produced three television series. Clyde...

"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...

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...

produced Wolfstone's album The Half Tail in 1996. Rainbow built and ran the Vital Spark Music Studio on the Isle of Skye where several artists including Donnie...

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

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

Press Gang Danny McColl 12 episodes Casualty Eric Newcombe Episode: "Vital Spark" 1990 The Bill Gary Staples Episode: "Just for a Moment" 1991 All Good...

Helen Blair Bartlett played a vital role in making the insulator in 1930. The function of a spark plug is to produce a spark at the required time to ignite...

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 a young...

Peter "Para Handy" MacFarlane, captain of the puffer Vital Spark. The series followed the Vital Spark's adventures around the coastal waters of Inner Hebrides...

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 Works Sebring Works...

1983 I Am – 1988 Every Now and Then – 1990 The Third Child – 1994 The Vital Spark – 1994 (Alternate title: I Will Whisper Your Name) Sun, Moon and Stars...

Skywalker of pop songcraft, Max is the Obi-Wan: the reclusive master. ...The vital spark in the musical emergence of Dr. Luke was meeting Max Martin". Dr. Luke...

which 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...

film will please fans of Sara Gruen's best seller, but it lacks the vital spark that would have made the drama truly compelling on the screen." Kenneth...

Inveraray Cross can also been seen in the town. The Clyde puffers VIC 72, Vital Spark. The Bell Tower dominates the town, and contains the second-heaviest...

(2016–present) Vauxhall Motors (1903–present) Vincent (car brand) (1982–present) Vital Spark Group Ltd (2020–present) Volksrod (1968–present) Vortex Automotive (1997–present)...

This Boy's Life, "suitably desperate" in The Basketball Diaries and "a vital spark" in Romeo + Juliet. The latter earned DiCaprio a Silver Bear for Best...

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. Other television...

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 puffer, a small...

best known of these stories are about the fictional Clyde puffer the Vital Spark and her captain Para Handy, but they also include stories about the waiter...

No. Title Directed by Written by Original air date 8 "The Vital Spark" Robin Carr Alex Shearer 11 September 1987 (1987-09-11) Elaine returns home from...

Bowling Harbour to Whitecrook in Clydebank. In 2007, Bowling welcomed the "Vital Spark", one of only five surviving Clyde puffers, and the first of its kind...

comedy role as Para Handy for BBC Scotland's television series, The Vital Spark. He also played the lead role in Edward Boyd's private eye series, The...

humour and good emotional drama in Evandoi Srivaru. But somehow the vital spark that makes for good cinema is missing and that proves the undoing of...