Highland Heartbeat made it to New Hampshire Public Television as part of their fund raising programme. The ladies outfits were horrible at best. The show was very U.S. oriented in its presentation. A small amount of Scottish music, and a very tacky stage presentation at times. All of the young singers (male and female in white shirt, black trousers and poorly displayed tartan neckties. The only piping was three people with pipes during a small part at the end. It sounded like a digitized piper was the audio and the three pipers were just window dressing. Most of the kilt wearing would be good for the don't thread.
This was followed by "Visions Scotland" an aerial tour of Scotland. I was hoping for some of Alex's beautiful work, but was disappointed with the shots taken by helicopter. In one ground section the host goes into a shop on the Royal Mile and comes out with a kilt, U.S. style tux shirt, a clip bow tie, white hose, badly placed flashes, an Argyle cut waistcoat, with a Prince Charlie Coatee, over sized evening Sporran, and ghillies laced totally wrong. ( The kilt hire gone wrong). The only "do" was there was no kilt belt. It was interesting to see the expressions on the faces of the local people that walked by in the background. They were probably laughing as hard as I was. The friend I was watching this with saved it on the DVR, so that we can go back and investigate the real parts (if any) of the two shows. BTW the DVDs were made by a New York Station in 2005.