Kidnapped
Kidnapped
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Kidnapped

6.9 / 10
1979
1 season
13 episodes
Drama

David McCallum stars as the rebellious Alan Breck Stewart, and this ambitious serial (a co-production between HTV and Germany's Tele-Munchen) also features a host of British character actors, including Bill Simpson, Patrick Allen, Andrew Keir, Patrick Magee and Frank Windsor. When young David Balfour arrives at his uncle's bleak Scottish house to claim his inheritance, his relative tries to murder him then has him shipped off to be sold as a slave in the colonies. Luckily for the lad, he strikes up a friendship with Alan Breck Stewart, who is on the run after Bonnie Prince Charlie's defeat at Culloden. When a ship's captain tries to kill Breck for his money, the two manage to get to land and set out for Edinburgh, dodging the ruthless Redcoats along the way.

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13 episodes of this adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story.

  • Ep 1

    1.Uncle Ebenezer

    07-04-197930m

    Alan Breck Stewart, hero of Culloden returns in secret to Scotland. Meanwhile David Balfour returns to Edinburgh, meets a beautiful Highland girl, and encouters his suspicious Unc...

  • Ep 2

    2.Captain Hoseason

    14-04-197930m

    Still pursuing separate goals, Alan Breck hears fresh rumours of rebellion in the Highlands and David Balfour learns first hand how villainous his uncle really is.

  • Ep 3

    3.The Voyage

    21-04-197930m

    While Alan Breck surveys the Stewart holdings, David Balfour accompanies his uncle to see his lawyer, accepting the offer of passage there from a ship's captain. But Uncle Ebeneze...

  • Ep 4

    4.The Stranger

    28-04-197930m

    Kidnapped aboard a slave ship bound for the Carolinas on the orders of his Uncle Ebenezer, David encounters Alan, shipwrecked and rescued at night, and discovers the captain's evil...

  • Ep 5

    5.Murder

    05-05-197930m

    With the slave ship run aground, Alan and David must make their way across the Highlands. When the latter meets King's Factor Colin "Red Fox" Campbell and witnesses a bloody crime,...

  • Ep 6

    6.Escape

    12-05-197930m

    An innocent witness to the murder of Red Fox, David is now a fugitive, forced to flee for his life with Alan across the wide highlands.

  • Ep 7

    7.Over the Highlands

    19-05-197930m

    Murder suspects Alan and David are pursued across the Scottish highlands by Redcoats. They visit Cluny in his hideout and put Catriona's life at risk.

  • Ep 8

    8.Prestongrange

    26-05-197930m

    Saved from the Redcoats by Alan, David has secured his inheritance in Edinburgh. He prepares to give account of the Red Fox murder to the Lord Advocate.

  • Ep 9

    9.Suspicion

    02-06-197930m

    Still a murder suspect, David is saved from the gallows by Prestongrange but Alan is still in mortal danger.

  • Ep 10

    10.Prisoner

    09-06-197930m

    With his own future in grave peril, David risks his life to help Alan escape to France. Meanwhile Catriona make a desperate bid to release her father from prison.

  • Ep 11

    11.The Trial

    16-06-197930m

    David rides through the night with evidence that could save James of the Glens. But he soon finds himself on another sea voyage with a surprising fellow passenger.

  • Ep 12

    12.A Far Cry

    23-06-197930m

    David and Catriona, united in Holland encounter difficulties when James More fails to appear. In France, Alan finds Bonnie Prince Charlie reluctant to start a new rebellion.

  • Ep 13

    13.The Choice

    30-06-197930m

    Kidnapped, shipwrecked, suspected of murder, abducted and now, free at last in Holland, David fights for the love of Catriona and to save Alan Breck.

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