Outlander | |
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Genre | |
Based on |
Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon |
Developed by | Ronald D. Moore |
Starring |
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Opening theme | "The Skye Boat Song" by Raya Yarbrough |
Composer(s) | Bear McCreary |
Country of origin | United Kingdom United States |
Original language(s) | English Scottish Gaelic Scots language French |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 29 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) |
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Producer(s) | David Brown Matthew B. Roberts |
Location(s) | |
Cinematography | Neville Kidd David Higgs Martin Fuher Denis Crossan Stephen McNutt |
Editor(s) | Michael O'Halloran Liza Cardinale Melissa Lawson Cheung |
Camera setup | Single-camera |
Running time | 51–88 minutes |
Production company(s) |
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Distributor | Sony Pictures Television |
Release | |
Original network | Starz |
First shown in | United States |
Original release | August 9, 2014 | – present
External links | |
Official website |
Outlander is a British-American television drama series based on the historical time travel Outlander series of novels by Diana Gabaldon. Developed by Ronald D. Moore and produced by Sony Pictures Television and Left Bank Pictures for Starz, the show premiered on August 9, 2014. It stars Caitriona Balfe as Claire Randall, a married World War II nurse who in 1945 finds herself transported back to the Scotland of 1743, where she encounters the dashing Highland warrior Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) and becomes embroiled in the Jacobite risings.
The second season of 13 episodes, based on Dragonfly in Amber, premiered on April 9, 2016.
On June 1, 2016, Starz renewed the series for a third and fourth season, which will adapt the third and fourth Outlander novels, Voyager and Drums of Autumn.
In 1945, former World War II nurse Claire Randall and her husband Frank are visiting Inverness, Scotland. She returns on her own to the standing stones at Craigh na Dun, and suddenly finds herself in the middle of a skirmish between Redcoats and rebel Scottish Highlanders. She is attacked by Frank's double, Redcoat Captain Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall, but rescued by some Scottish Gaels. She is able to use her medical knowledge to help one of them, Jamie Fraser. Claire realises she has somehow travelled back in time to the 18th century. She wants to go back to the stones and try to return to the 20th century, but is held at Castle Leoch as healer to the clan. Claire comes to understand that the Gaels are covertly collecting funds for the Jacobite army. Knowing from history that their cause is doomed to fail, Claire tries to warn them. Jamie marries Claire to protect her from the sadistic Randall, but Claire also feels guilty about Frank, who in 1945 is losing hope of finding her. When she finally revisits the stones, they hear each other calling through time, but she is then captured by English troops, and taken to Fort William.