I recall watching this as a ten year old and loving it. Now (quite a few) years later I found it just as engaging and exciting. From back in the day when the BBC would create a tea-time drama for younger viewers, this is a cracking adaptation of John Buchan's story of the mysterious occupants of "Huntingtower' and of how a retired Glasgow grocer "Dickson McCunn" (Paul Curran), poet "John Heritage" (Peter Settelen) and a gang of wonderfully charismatic Glaswegian street urchins all work together to try to get to the bottom of the puzzle. Aside from some lovely outdoor photography, it's also memorable for not Anglicising the local dialect - it features folks with a "guid Scots tongue in their heid" as our adventure gathers steam - with wit and charm - over 6 half hour episodes. It's rarely seen nowadays, and to be honest the quality of the film has suffered from it's fair share of wear and tear, but it's a classic dramatisation of a superb story, with an ear- worm of a theme tune (Shostakovich) if ever were was one, that you ought to watch if you get an opporchancity!
Review of Huntingtower
