The Irish R.M.

The Irish R.M. Season 1

TV Show

Season 1 Plot

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.

The Irish R.M. Season 1 aired on January 6th, 1983.

Season 1 Episodes

1. Great Uncle McCarthy

January 6th, 198350 min

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.

2. Trinket's Colt

January 13th, 198350 min

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.

3. A Misdeal

January 20th, 198350 min

Yeates and Philippa visit a horse fair in search of a suitable mount for a forthcoming hunt.

4. The Boat's Share

January 27th, 198350 min

Yeates and his cousin Basil fear their careers are ruined when they are caught in a police raid at the Brickleys.

5. Occasional Licences

February 3rd, 198350 min

A local publican neatly sidesteps Yeates' objections to beer sales at the annual St Peter and St Paul's Day Games.

6. O Love! O Fire!

February 10th, 198350 min

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.

All Seasons

Season 3

Season 3

Jun 2, 1985
Season 2

Season 2

Jul 12, 1984
Season 1

Season 1

Jan 6, 1983