Kidnapped (2005 TV series)

Kidnapped
Genre	Drama
Created by	Robert Louis Stevenson
Written by	Bev Doyle Richard Kurti
Directed by	Brendan Maher
Starring	Iain Glen James Anthony Pearson Adrian Dunbar Emily Barclay
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	3
Production
Executive producer	Diana Kyle
Producer	Diana Kyle
Running time	50 mins
Production company	South Pacific Productions
Original release
Network	BBC One
Release	27 February (2005-02-27) – 13 March 2005 (2005-03-13)

Kidnapped is a two-part BBC television adaptation of the 1893 novel of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson. The show is directed by Brendan Maher and stars James Anthony Pearson as Davie Balfour and Iain Glen as Alan Breck.

Production

On 1 December 2004, it was announced that the BBC had commissioned Kidnapped.

Plot

Among the plot deviations from novel to movie:

• The movie added a love interest for Davie in Catriona, the daughter of James of the Glen. This plot element is from Stevenson's sequel novel, Catriona.
• In the novel Kidnapped, Breck and James of the Glen were never arrested by the British, but the movie showed James of the Glen being falsely arrested with the threat of being hanged, to force Breck to give himself up.
• The movie added the Long Mile Gang, expert trackers, to track Davie and Breck across Scotland, but the novel only had British troops.

External links

• Kidnapped at IMDb
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/kidnapped/ Masterpiece Theater production notes