Young Blades

Young Blades was a fun-filled primetime action adventure, which followed a new generation of swashbucklers inspired by the legendary Three Musketeers. The series brings together a dynamic cast. Joining Hollywood veterans Michael Ironside, Bruce Boxleitner and two-time Grammy winner and actress Sheena Easton is a vibrant group of young actors including Tobias Mehler, Karen Cliche, Zak Santiago, Mark Hildreth and newcomer to U.S. television screens, the young Irish actor Robbie Sheehan.

Young Blades is set back in time over 400 years where the budding and chivalrous swordsmen learn the tricks of the trade from masters, including Captain Duval (Bruce Boxleitner), at the Musketeers military academy. D'Artagnan (Tobias Mehler), the son of the legendary Musketeer of the same name, is a ladies man as well as a fighter. He is challenged to become an even better warrior after he learns that his fellow student, Jacques (Karen Cliche), a phenomenal swordsman, has a deep secret: Jacques is really Jacqueline, a young woman who masquerades as a man in order to escape a price on her head and avenge the death of her father and imprisonment of her brother at the hands of the evil Mazarin (Michael Ironside). The other Blades are the rebellious Ramon (Zak Santiago), a poet who was disowned by his aristocratic Spanish family, but now calls the academy home, and Siroc (Mark Hildreth), a precocious inventor who dreams up "crazy" ideas such as submarines and flying machines and then builds them, 17th century style. The Musketeers loyalty lies with their homeland and protecting France's young King Louis (Robbie Sheehan) from the evil genius, Cardinal Mazarin.

The production has recreated 17th century France, from Paris streets to castles, carriages and dungeons; from canals and rivers to underground sanctums. Young Blades has one of the most lavish and period-authentic sets ever seen on television.