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The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisky runs out. When cargo ship the SS Cabinet Minister runs aground the shrewd islanders run rings around the buffoonish English Home Guard commander Captain Waggett and conspire to hide away cases of the precious amber nectar.
26 Cast Members
Gregor Fisher
Macroon
Eddie Izzard
Captain Wagget
Naomi Battrick
Peggy Macroon
Ellie Kendrick
Catriona Macroon
Sean Biggerstaff
Sergeant Odd
Kevin Guthrie
George Campbell
James Cosmo
Macalister the Minister
Fenella Woolgar
Dolly Waggett
Michael Nardone
Brown
John Sessions
Doctor McLaren
Brian Pettifer
Angus
Iain Robertson
Sammy
Anthony Strachan
Biffer
Annie Louise Ross
Mrs. Campbell
Sean Scanlan
Old Roddy
Matt Costello
Mckechnie
Ken Drury
Mr. Bain
Tim Pigott-Smith
Col. Woolsey
Kevin Mains
Farquharson
Ciaron Kelly
Constable McPhee
