by John Buchan
Adapted for television in three parts by John Prebble
with James Maxwell as Sir Edward Leithen, Derek Godfrey as Lord Lamancha, Bernard Horsfall as John Palliser-Yeates, John Sharp as Lord Claybody, Roddy McMillan as Wattie Lithgow and Lally Bowers as Lady Claybody

Under the pseudonym John Macnab, three eminent men have risked their reputations by challenging a group of landowners to stop them poaching on their ground. Palliser-Yeates has already got his stag; Sir Edward Leithen has caught his salmon and they are planning Lord Lamancha's assault on Haripol... when Janet and Agatha Raden discover their identities.

BBC Scotland