Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16051 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-02-18
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 325 minutes

Synopsis
Based on the Robert Louis Stevenson book, KIDNAPPED sees David Balfour sold as a slave and sent to the colonies. Fortunately, he becomes friends with Alan Breck Sewart and the two escape and set out on a dangerous trek back to Edinburgh. Features all 13 episodes of the series.

Customer Reviews

Finally available after nearly 30 years
For me this is the definitive version of Kidnapped. There have been other TV adaptations but none of them have stuck in my memory like this one has. I remember more about this version which I haven't seen for something like 20 years than more recent adaptations.

One big asset is Vladimir Cosma's haunting theme music; it is worth getting the series just to hear that (if only someone would release the soundtrack on CD!).

Picture quality and sound quality though is pretty average and it doesn't look as though any remastering has been done. Never mind, at least it is complete and uncut (according to Network).

Please get this item on DVD/NTSC
I love this version of Kidnapped and want it to be available for viewing in the U.S. If this weren't a Region 2 DVD, I'd buy it right now. As one previous viewer said, this is the definitive version. Please make it available to us Yanks and the Smuggler and Arthur of the Britons too!

Kidnapped, finally released!
This was shown on ITV back in 1979, just after all the tv station strikes over Xmas 1978. I remember it vividly and remember really enjoying it, even though it was spread over 13 weeks. It has a wonderful look to it; the original film may not have been stored in the kindest contitions over the last 30 years and now has a slightly grainy quality to it that adds to the look of it, rather than detracting from it. It has an epic feel to it, and is well shot and beautifully acted. The main lead in it is David McCallum, en route to be Steel in ATV's Sapphire and Steel, and he is, as always, moody and wonderful. It actually looks like a lot of money has been thrown at it, and the music (bear in mind I had sot seen a single frame of this in 29 years) came back to me like a shot! Dramatic and sweeping, this is a much welcomed release from Network, and soemthing to be enjoyed again and again.