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After scouting the web for Knightmare references, Billy Hicks was lucky enough to come across the website of Richard Bonehill, a professional swordsman. Richard had played a character in the pilot episode of Knightmare, and incredibly, the script to the original pilot episode was available to buy. Billy snapped up the script and is here to share both his story and the script in all its detail.
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Alan Boyd has been looking into the possibility for getting a legal online and DVD distribution of Knightmare some time in the near future. If the process works, we would buy the rights to Knightmare ourselves on a per-episode basis and initially distribute the episodes online. Assuming enough money could be made to buy the rights to all episodes, we would look to make the episodes available by DVD.
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AegisQuest is a live-action RPG in which a group of advisors guide a blind quester through a dungeon of riddles, puzzles and traps in a Dungeons & Dragons style adventure. Despite being unrelated to Knightmare, it has a few similarities with the show we all know and love, and is well worth watching. The team behind AegisQuest has just released a short pilot episode of their production.
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Welcome, Watchers of Illusion
Welcome to knightmare.com, the home of the award-winning children's ITV adventure game show, Knightmare. Knightmare was shown from 1987 to 1994 on CITV in the UK and was produced by broadsword television ltd. This is a tribute site for the show and contains detailed guides, clips and pictures from the show as well as interviews with the cast and crew, fan creations, copies of the official and unofficial Knightmare magazines and a history of the show written by its creator, Tim Child. The site has been mentioned on talkSPORT, Xfm, Cult Times and Micro Mart!
If you're new to Knightmare, we suggest beginning with the Introduction, which explains all about the show and how it worked.
If you like what you see, please consider signing the Guestbook and mention us to your friends. You may also wish to consider joining the mailing list to receive site updates.
What's Knew?
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Knightmare DVD Case Project
Alan Boyd 2011-07-09 15:42:12Alex Fruen has sent in a picture of a possible future DVD case for Knightmare.…
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Issue 70 - July 2011
Jake Collins 2010-10-07 09:23:08Jake Collins presents the seventieth AND FINAL issue of The Eye Shield fanzine, first published in July 2011. In this issue you can enjoy the following highlights
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RetroGamer Magazine Article
Alan Boyd 2011-05-27 07:08:41Issue 90 of Retro Gamer Magazine has a big article on Knightmare, thanks to writer Andrew Fisher. The article has particular emphasis on the computer game, and includes interviews from Hugo Myatt, David Rowe, Jon Dean and Mev Dinc (creators of the 8-bit game), Tony Crowther (creator of the Amiga gam…
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Issue 69 - May 2011
Jake Collins 2010-10-07 09:20:36Jake Collins presents the sixty-ninth issue of The Eye Shield fanzine, first published in May 2011. In this issue you can enjoy the following highlights
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Issue 68 - March 2011
Jake Collins 2010-10-07 09:16:51Jake Collins presents the sixty-eighth issue of The Eye Shield fanzine, first published in March 2011. In this issue you can enjoy the following highlights
What's Cool?
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Series 1 Quest 1
2009-10-24 09:18:04The first quest of series 1 lasted for only 13 minutes and included David (the dungeoneer), James, Lucien and David from Bedfordshire.…
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A History of Knightmare
2009-07-05 07:50:15Spring 1985, and Tim Child, a journalist, reporter and occasional development producer for Anglia TV in Norwich, had a silly idea.…
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Introduction
2009-09-29 19:16:27Welcome to this tribute site for Knightmare - the award-winning adventure game show, produced by Broadsword Television and shown on 'Children's ITV' in the UK from 1987 to 1994.…
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Series 1
2009-10-10 08:08:34Below is an index of all the clips in the Series 1 guide.…
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Series 5 Team 4 Overview
2010-02-17 22:47:53Ray Lockton, the team captain of the winning series 5 team 4 talks about his experiences of Knightmare, including the process of auditioning and actually taking part.…