Blu-ray, DVD, Digital Release: Outlander Season 1, V1

Digital Release Date: Feb. 9, 2015, Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 3, 2015
Price: DVD $38.99, Blu-ray $55.99, Blu-ray Collector’s Edition $55.99
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

The highly anticipated television version of author Diana Gabaldon’s international best-selling book series, Outlander didn’t disappoint. The Starz science-fiction, romance series enjoyed record-breaking audience numbers and quickly became a must-see TV. Not a surprise, since the novels have sold more than 26 million copies worldwide.

Outlander: Season 1, Volume 1 stars Caitriona Balfe (Super 8) as Claire Randall, a married combat nurse who, in 1946, mysteriously gets whisked back to 1743. Thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened, Claire’s forced to marry the chivalrous and romantic Scottish warrior Jamie (Sam Heughan, A Princess for Christmas). Their passionate affair splits Claire’s heart between two very different men in two irreconcilable lives.

The show also stars Tobias Menzies (TV’s Game of Thrones), Gary Lewis (Billy Elliot), Graham McTavish (The Hobbit trilogy) and Lotte Verbeek (TV’s The Borgias).

Outlander: Season 1, Volume 1 contains eight episodes: “Sassenach,” “Castle Leoch,” “The Way Out,” “The Gathering Room,” “Rent,” “The Garrison Commander.” “The Wedding” and “Both Sides Now.”

The DVD and digital versions include these special features:

• featurette “Outlander: An Epic Adaptation,” featuring Diane Gabaldon sharing the story of writing her first book and her thoughts of the adaptation
• featurette “Authentic in Design: The Dresses & Kilts of Outlander,” with producers and costume designers going through the wardrobe and process of creating the series’ 18th century fasions.

The Blu-ray has those plus:

• featurette “Casting Outlander“
• featurette “On Location: Castle Leoch and the Magic of Scotland”
• featurette “Emerging a Scot: Cast Goes to Bootcamp”
• featurette “Walk Through the Sets and Stages With Ronald D. Moore”
• 21 deleted scenes
• downloadable episodes via Ultraviolet.

A Blu-ray Limited Collector’s Edition also is available, carrying a 32-page book with photographs, excerpts from the scripts and an introduction from author Diana Gabaldon, along with a placeholder for the Volume 2 disc when it’s available.

Buy or Rent Outlander: Season 1, Volume 1
DVD | Blu-ray | Blu-ray Collector’s Edition