When does Toos: The Van Der Valk Kidnapping premiere?

Toos: The Van Der Valk Kidnapping premieres on 2026-11-26.

Is Toos: The Van Der Valk Kidnapping a new series?

Toos: The Van Der Valk Kidnapping is a new series (Season 1).

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Toos: The Van Der Valk Kidnapping(2026)

Upcoming · Netflix

Season 1

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Premieres 26 Nov 2026

What to Expect

Toos van der Valk, who runs a Dutch hotel empire with husband Gerrit, is kidnapped on November 26, 1982. The twenty-day ordeal makes for a tense drama about survival, as the family searches for Toos and struggles to hold together.

At Hotel Nuland, police officer Cor Mulder works undercover as "cousin Cor" to find the kidnappers and support the family. The concealed identity adds suspense to a story where fear for Toos’s safety sits alongside the family’s determination to bring Toos home.

Official premise

Toos and her husband, Gerrit van der Valk, run the largest hotel empire in the Netherlands. But on November 26, 1982, disaster struck: Toos was kidnapped in what would become one of the most sensational cases in Dutch history. While Gerrit and the children desperately searched, police officer Cor Mulder moved into Hotel Nuland to work undercover as "cousin Cor" to track down the kidnappers and keep the family afloat. The kidnapping gripped the entire country while Toos fought for her life in an undisclosed location. The media followed every detail, the government worried about the consequences of a possible ransom payment, and the perpetrators' demands became increasingly extreme. For twenty nerve-wracking days, Toos and her family fought for survival—and for each other.

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Why it fits

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Family loyalty under threat gives Toos: The Van Der Valk Kidnapping and Umthetho their shared tension, with loved ones trying to protect one another as danger closes in. Toos’s family keeps the hotel business going during her captivity, while Umthetho’s prosecutor risks her career and freedom to protect her brothers from inside a gang.

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