'Redgauntlet' was set some years after 1745 and the events depicted in 'Flight Of The Heron' and concerns itself with the fortunes of Mr Darsie Latimer (James Grant), who is given an allowance by a mother he never sees and orders not to step foot on English soil until he is twenty-five. The lack of an explanation only fuels his curiosity until it eventually gets the better of him and he sets off for the Solway Firth and Cumberland. Once there he is kidnapped by Cristal Nixon (Roddy McMillan) on the orders of Redgauntlet (Jack Watson), a fanatical Jacobite leader who is also known as Herries of Birrenswork.

Darsie’s young friend, Alan Fairford (Andrew Robertson), sets out to rescue him and it is eventually revealed by Greenmantle (Isobel Black) that Darsie is the son of the previous Laird of Redgauntlet who was killed at the battle of Culloden, and is therefore the rightful heir to the Redgauntlet fortune, which his uncle had usurped in order to fund another Jacobite uprising.

Scott’s novel had previously been adapted by the BBC in 1959 when it was filmed extensively, as in 'Flight Of The Heron', in many of the genuine locations from the book. This version was adapted by Ian Stuart Black whose daughter played the mysterious Greenmantle. The novel also contains many other colourful characters and is generally regarded as one of the finest examples of Scott’s writing.