Britain's Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates and Rogues

Knights of the Road: The Highwayman's Story (1x1)

Air date: Nov 23, 2015

Sam begins with the arrival of a new breed of gentleman criminal out of the ashes of the English Civil War - the highwayman. Heavily romanticised in literature, these glamorous gangsters became a social menace on the roads and a political thorn in the side of the creaking British state - threatening to steal our wallets and our hearts. But underneath the dashing image of stylish robbers on horseback lay a far darker reality.