Sam Heughan on Television: Here are all 10 television shows the Outlander star has acted in - from Rebus to River City

 Sam Heughan on Television: Here are all 10 television shows the Outlander star has acted in  from Rebus to River City. Sam Heughan has become a huge star with an army of adoring fans thanks to the global success of time travelling historic drama Outlander.

In the television series former Second World War military nurse Claire Randall (played by Caitríona Balfe) travels back from 1945 to 1743 where she encounters, falls in love with, and marries a Heughan’s Highland warrior character Jamie Fraser who becomes embroiled in the Jacobite rising.With a huge 75 episodes already in the can, and another 16-episode seventh season on the way, it’s been a time-consuming project for cast and crew.But Sam Heughan has still managed to add to his CV in between series - as well as having started his career in more modest television roles.

Along with 11 films and a number of documentaries, including the popular Men in Kilts, the actor has acted in 10 television series. Sam Heughans small screen break was in Island at War - a 2004 television miniseries which told the story of a quiet Channel Island community that was thrown into turmoil by the invasion forces of Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Heughan played a real-life character called Philip Dorr in five of the six episodes. Dorr was a soldier who was sent to the occupied channel island of St. Gregory to spy for the British.

Sam Heughan featured in four episodes of the Glasgow-set Scottish soap opera broadcast in December 2005. He played Andrew Murray  the football player partner of Shieldinch resident Kelly-Marie, played by Carmen Pieraccini. River City is this year celebrating its 20th anniversary and Sam is one of the biggest stars to have appeared on the show in that time.