A serial in five parts based on the novel by Neil Munro
Dramatised for television by Clifford Hanley
with Tom Watson as Ninian Campbell, David Ashton as Aeneas Macmaster, Iain Cuthbertson as Col Barisdale

Aeneas Macmaster, wrongfully dismissed from his post as tutor at Drimdorran House, goes north to Inverness on business for his uncle Baillie Alan. He travels in secret in the company of Ninian Campbell, the Duke of Argyll's 'beachdair' or spy. But Sandy Duncanson, the laird of Drimdorran, has mounted a pursuit.
BBC Scotland
(Clifford Hanley's tale 'The Taste of Too Much' in Story Time, Mon 4.30 R4)