Young Blades
| Young Blades | |
|---|---|
| Genre |
Action Adventure |
| Created by | Dan Angel Billy Brown |
| Written by | Dan Angel |
| Directed by | Richard Martin |
| Starring |
Tobias Mehler Mark Hildreth Zak Santiago Robert Sheehan Bruce Boxleitner |
| Composer(s) | John Sereda |
| Country of origin | United States Canada |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Dan Angel |
| Editor(s) | Graham Tucker |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
The Hatchery Shavick Entertainment |
| Release | |
| Original network | PAX |
| Original release | January 23 – June 2, 2005 |
Young Blades is a historical fantasy television series that aired on PAX (now Ion Television) from January to June 2005. Thirteen episodes were made before cancellation. Set in 17th century France, the show follows the adventures of four musketeers:
Other main characters include musketeer leader Captain Duval, Queen Anne, Cardinal Mazarin, and a fifteen-year-old Louis XIV. The latter three characters were based on historical figures.
The show consisted of thirteen episodes, shown in the following order.
Jaqueline, a girl in trouble with the law, dresses like a boy and joins the musketeers to avoid arrest, but she runs into trouble after an argument with D'Artagnan Jr. yet wins the respect of the instructor and two of the other musketeers, Ramon and Siroc. She soon discovers that her brother has been taken by the evil Cardinal to be used for experimentation by a secret society and sets out to rescue him. Along the way, she gains the help of D'Artagnan, Ramon and Siroc, and D'Artagnan discovers her secret.
When a gang extorts money from local shopkeepers, D'Artagnan and Jacques go undercover to find who is behind this ill deed. Meanwhile, Mazarin finds out what the musketeers are up to and tries to frame them for the deed; Siroc creates the "sub aquatic chamber", the world's first submarine.
French noble children are disappearing from their homes in the middle of the night without signs of a struggle, and the musketeers are called in to unravel this mystery. All the while, Ramon is falling under the spell of a beautiful poet and enchantress, who is really in cahoots with the Cardinal and the Secret Order. Their plan is to brain wash the children and then implant them back into society in two years' time.
As her female self, Jacqueline rescues and falls in love with the exiled King Charles II of England, who is on the run from the vicious Oliver Cromwell. He offers to make her his queen, but will she choose to stay to fight for her own country or leave for love?
Siroc builds a machine gun that da Vinci apparently designed before he died. Meanwhile, Jacqueline has to fend off a girl who is obsessed with "Jacques" and is one of D'Artagnan's castoffs.
D'Artagnan's father arrives at the same time that a list of French agents is stolen, and D'Artagnan begins to wonder what kind of man his father has become, when suspicion falls on him. Meanwhile, the Queen begins getting threatening letters.
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