The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (Season 1)

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (1999) is a family fantasy you can watch online on iFILM. Jack Woods, a buttoned-up American on a business trip to rural Ireland, takes a wrong turn straight into a hidden country — the one ordinary people never get to see, where leprechauns, fairies and stranger creatures keep house.

The peace doesn't last. A forbidden romance across the two clans reopens an old grievance, and the leprechauns, never short on schemes, hire the outsider Jack as their war general for a couple of pots of gold. He'd rather broker a truce. Getting these proud little folk to listen, though, turns out to be the harder magic.

Directed by John Henderson, the two-part TV tale leans on a sturdy British-Irish ensemble: Whoopi Goldberg, Randy Quaid, Colm Meaney, Zoë Wanamaker and a young Kieran Culkin. It's an unfussy bit of late-'90s storytelling, the kind you put on for the kids and stay for the green-tinted nostalgia. Stream The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (1999) online on iFILM.