Kidnapped (novel) Kidnapped (novel) Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine "Young Folks" from May to July 1886. The novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel. A sequel, "Catriona", was published in 1893. The narrative is written in English with some dialogue in Lowland Scots. "Kidnapped" is set around real 18th-century Scottish events, notably the "Appin murder", which occurred in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745. Many of the characters
The Bill title sequences The Bill title sequences The Bill's title sequences have varied greatly over the 26 years it has been on air. The series started as an episode for ITV as part of its "Storyboard" strand of one-off dramas entitled "Woodentop". The episode began with the regular "Storyboard" title sequence and an introductory scene with PC Jim Carver which was followed by the title caption of the episode. The first series in 1984 has its own unique title sequence, featuring images of the feet of two uniformed officers walking towards the camera interspersed with shots of the streets of Sun Hill. Then