Earlier posts brought up show series-es (plural?)
noted for bringing on actors near the end of their careers
for this or that episode.

I have seen very very little of the television re-working of
"Hamish MacBeth"
(have read a bunch of the books)

What I hear ABOUT the TV series, though, is that
quantities of Scottish actors with solid careers behind them
got work on the, what was it, three years that the series ran.