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Broadcast date

07-04-1979 • 13 episodes

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

Episodes of this season

event 07-04-1979 • schedule 30m

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 Uncle Ebenezer

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2. Captain Hoseason

event 14-04-1979 • schedule 30m

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.

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3. The Voyage

event 21-04-1979 • schedule 30m

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 Ebenezer has other plans for David and has arranged for a longer voyage for his nephew.

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4. The Stranger

End of season • event 28-04-1979 • schedule 30m

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 plot against them.

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5. Murder

event 05-05-1979 • schedule 30m

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, he must flee for his life from the Redcoat forces.

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6. Escape

event 12-05-1979 • schedule 30m

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.

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7. Over the Highlands

event 19-05-1979 • schedule 30m

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.

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8. Prestongrange

event 26-05-1979 • schedule 30m

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.

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9. Suspicion

event 02-06-1979 • schedule 30m

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

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10. Prisoner

event 09-06-1979 • schedule 30m

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.

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11. The Trial

event 16-06-1979 • schedule 30m

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.

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12. A Far Cry

event 23-06-1979 • schedule 30m

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.

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13. The Choice

event 30-06-1979 • schedule 30m

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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This season's cast

David McCallum
Alan Breck Stewart

Ekkehardt Belle
David Balfour

Aude Landry
Catriona

Bill Simpson
James of the Glens

Patrick Allen
Prestongrange

Jutta Speidel
Barbara Grant

Bernhard Wicki
Hoseason

Arthur Brauss
Riarch

Leonard Maguire
Charles Stewart

Wolfe Morris
Simon Fraser

Paul Grist
Brough

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