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Doctor Who: The Highlanders

Doctor Who: The Highlanders

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 7, 1967

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Adventure, Science Fiction, Drama

User Score

60%

Original Title

Doctor Who: The Highlanders

Production Companies

BBC

Director

Hugh David

Description

The time travellers arrive in Scotland just after the Battle of Culloden. The Second Doctor gains the trust of a small band of fleeing Jacobites by offering to tend to their wounded Laird, Colin McLaren. While Polly and the Laird's daughter, Kirsty, are away fetching water, he and the others are all captured by Redcoat troops commanded by Lieutenant Algernon Ffinch.