I remember watching this - I was only 11 at the time but it gripped me and I recall the denouement like it was yesterday.
It is suggested that the BBC refused to show it again due to its controversial nature. There is, after all, a real SNP (and was then - you wonder how the BBC got away with it) and they would not be too happy about being portrayed as a Scottish Sinn Fein. But apparently the tapes still exist in the bowels of BBC Scotland.
But it was definitely an exciting series for its time. I remember being gripped by all five episodes. Would it stand up today? I am guessing that it might be seen as over-long and a bit cheap and cheesy, as so many programmes of the period now appear to be, but who knows.
If only the BBC could open its archives and let us see.
It is suggested that the BBC refused to show it again due to its controversial nature. There is, after all, a real SNP (and was then - you wonder how the BBC got away with it) and they would not be too happy about being portrayed as a Scottish Sinn Fein. But apparently the tapes still exist in the bowels of BBC Scotland.
But it was definitely an exciting series for its time. I remember being gripped by all five episodes. Would it stand up today? I am guessing that it might be seen as over-long and a bit cheap and cheesy, as so many programmes of the period now appear to be, but who knows.
If only the BBC could open its archives and let us see.