 The last episode of the series was titled "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" and featured Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson, who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland.That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.Some scenes were shot at Lennoxlove House in East Lothian and others in the Scottish Borders.