Scotch on the Rocks (1971)

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United Kingdom

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How it feels

A political thriller set in a future where Scottish nationalism rises. A paramilitary group takes over a town.

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What happens

Scotch on the Rocks is a TV serial based on the novel by Douglas Hurd and Andrew Osmond. The book is the third in a loose trilogy, the other two being Send Him Victorious and The Smile on the Face of the Tiger. Written around 1968 and first published by William Collins in 1971, it was a political thriller set in Scotland in the near future (early 1970s). It assumed that there would be a political crisis in which the Scottish National Party would emerge as a serious force. A paramilitary organisation operating on the fringes of the SNP, the Scottish Liberation Army, stages a rising, seizing Fort William. The BBC adapted it for television in 1973, but has not reaired it since its original transmission due to an upheld complaint that it could mislead viewers about the political views of the SNP. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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