Release Date

07 Apr, 1979

Runtime

00:30: (HH:MM)

Total Episode/Season

13/1

Synopsis

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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Mini-Series

07 Apr, 1979

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

Actors

David McCallum

Ekkehardt Belle

Aude Landry

Bill Simpson

Patrick Allen

Jutta Speidel

Bernhard Wicki

Arthur Brauss

Leonard Maguire

Wolfe Morris

Paul Grist

Crew

Jean-Pierre Decourt

Vladimir Cosma

Peter Graham Scott

Robert Louis Stevenson

Walter Ulbrich

Peter Graham Scott

Eric Paice

Patrick Dromgoole

John Biggs

Joan West

Padhraic O'Dochartaigh