Season 1 (E:4)
1996
0
A Mug's Game
Number of Season: 1 | Number of Episodes: 4
Four-part series that studies the personal lives of folk in a remote Scottish fishing village that is coming to terms with rationalisation, and globalisation of its fishing industry.
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