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Editor’s Letter
“Sing me a song of a lass that is gone…” When we first heard composer Bear McCreary’s haunting adaptation of Scottish folk tune “The Skye Boat Song”—the opening credits for the historical drama Outlander—we were hooked. And we knew it was going to be
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Portraits
CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: MAARTEN DE BOER; MATTHIAS CLAMER/CONTOUR BY GETTY IMAGES; MAARTEN DE BOER; COREY NICKOLS; MAARTEN DE BOER ■
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The Outlander Obsession
BEFORE OUTLANDER EVEN started steaming up our TV screens on August 9, 2014, the sexy saga had superfans. They were the deeply devoted readers of author Diana Gabaldon’s bestselling time-travel romance series. The frisky franchise already numbered sev
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Clash Of The Tartans
Strong-willed English army nurse Claire Randall (Caitriona Balfe) is just trying to reconnect with her historian husband Frank (Tobias Menzies), after returning from war, with a trip to Scotland. Instead, she finds herself transported from 1945 to 17
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The Mass Appeal Of A Man In A Skirt
SOME YEARS AGO, I was in Germany, being interviewed by a gentleman from a literary journal. He’d read all my books, and he said, “They’re fabulous! Your narrative drive, your imagery is magic—and the characters…they’re so three-dimensional!” “Yes, ye
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Scene Stealer! Tobias Menzies
HE PLAYS TWO Outlander characters related by blood but separated by time: Frank Randall, a gentle British historian distraught over the unexplained disappearance of his wife, Claire (Caitriona Balfe), in 1945 Scotland; and Black Jack Randall, a sadis
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Outlander’s French Kiss
Season 1 ended with a harrowing rescue mission as Claire (Caitriona Balfe)—now a Fraser—pried husband Jamie (Sam Heughan) from the clutches of sadistic British army captain Black Jack Randall (Tobias Menzies) in Wentworth Prison. Jamie is still traum
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Dominic Preece, stunt Coordinator, Outlander
Highland warrior Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) has seen plenty of battles. But he’ll find himself in the fight of his life in the June 11 episode of Starz’s Outlander, when he and his fellow Scots clash with British redcoats in the gruesome 1745 Battle
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Love Lessons
THE VERY FIRST sex scene that Outlander stars Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe filmed together will air when the series returns for the second half of Season 1—and it’s hot enough to melt the snow in the Scottish Highlands. Shot out of sequence, the s
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CLAIRE & JAMIE’S AMERICAN DREAM
Stranded in the New World after a rescue mission gone awry, recently reunited husband and wife Jamie and Claire Fraser (Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe) plan to return straight away to Scotland. Before they can, they make a new enemy: the cruel Steph
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Somewhere In Time
Claire and Jamie Fraser (Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan) have failed to prevent the Battle of Culloden, which will mark the end of clan life in Scotland. As a soldier’s death looms for Highland warrior Jamie, a pregnant Claire travels back to her ow
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Scotch On The Rocks
BEFORE DAWN ON a freezing morning last winter, Outlander stars Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan, who play soulmates Claire and Jamie Frasier, arrived on set in the rugged Scottish countryside to shoot a heartbreaking scene for the Season 2 finale. The
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Blood Lines
After taking Roger (Richard Rankin) back from the Mohawks, the Frasers—including Jamie (Sam Heughan), Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and daughter Brianna (Sophie Skelton)—are reunited, and Roger and Bree are wed. But all is not well. Fraser’s Ridge is in d
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Rescue Mission
SOPHIE SKELTON IS running so fast she’s nearly breathless. The actress—who plays Outlander’s smart, spirited Brianna Fraser, the daughter of time-traveling 20th-century surgeon Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and 18th-century Scot Jamie (Sam Heughan)—is in
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Best Dressed
Just your average day. For Claire’s early Season 2 outing to an apothecary in 1744 Paris, Dresbach drew up this sleek black and white design based on Christian Dior’s “New Look” from the mid-to late 1940s. “Claire is not an 18th-century woman,” Dresb
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Location, Location
When Jamie and Claire (Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe, left) are sabotaging the Jacobite uprising in Season 2, their mission takes them to the rich courts of Versailles in Paris. The garden parties and detailed landscaping are in fact the greenery o
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CLAIRE & JAMIE’S 12 STEAMIEST MOMENTS
At the nuptials of Aunt Jocasta (Maria Doyle Kennedy), Jamie (Sam Heughan) finds himself in a gambling bind and puts Claire’s (Caitriona Balfe) rings up for collateral, causing a fight when the couple later meet in the stables. At one point, he retor
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Our Favorite Episodes
THE EPISODE In the series’ 2014 pilot, “Sassenach,” headstrong World War II nurse Claire Randall (Caitriona Balfe) mysteriously travels through time to 1743, where she meets Scottish Highlander Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan). CAITRIONA SAYS “Claire was d
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Keeping Up With The Frasers
SEASON PREMIERE Sunday, March 6, 9/8c, Starz “YOU ARE MY home now.” So said 18thcentury Scottish warrior Jamie Fraser to his time-traveler wife Claire in the first season of Outlander, Starz’s sweeping love story based on the bestselling book series
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How Well Do You Know Outlander?
1 What year does Claire (Caitriona Balfe) first travel to in Season 1? A 1743 B 1746 C 1741 D 1753 2 Which Scot rescues Claire from Capt. Jonathan “Black Jack” Randall (Tobias Menzies) when she arrives in the past? A Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) B Murt
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Outlander
PRESIDENT: Tony Frost EXECUTIVE PROJECT EDITOR: Emily Aslanian GROUP CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Paul Aarons DESIGN DIRECTOR: Kevin Newman PHOTO DIRECTOR: Patti Wilson MANAGING EDITOR: John Hogan EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Michael Fell EXECUTIVE EDITOR: April P. Bernar
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MY PEAK CHALLENGE began with a call to action. In 2015, Outlander star Sam Heughan asked his fans to challenge themselves—while raising funds for charity. Since then, the global community of “Peakers” has raised more than $6 million for charity partn

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