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Knightmare on BBC Radio 2

16 January 2025

The knightmare.com team appeared on BBC Radio 2's Midnight Mastermind on Thursday 16 January.

Promotional shot of Spy School: Agent J (Jack Finch) and Agent L (Bessy Naidu)

How Knightmare inspired Spy School

29 November 2024

TV producer Ben Spiteri tells us how Knightmare inspired his interactive gameshow for youngsters, Spy School.

Oliver Duhl (Series 8, Team 7 Dungeoneer) with Hugo Myatt at FanX Live in October 2024.

Knightmare's final quest - 30 years on

15 November 2024

To mark 30 years since the final episode of Knightmare, dungeoneer Oliver Duhl talks us through the whirlwind experience of starting (and ending) his quest at the very end of Series 8 in 1994.

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A visual mockup of a dungeoneer in the dragon room, from Zzap Magazine's feature on Knightmare.

Knightmare in Zzap!64

10 October 2016

Zzap!64 magazine's November 1988 issue had a feature on Knightmare.

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Micro Mart's quiz show segment.

Micro Mart

23 February 2010

Jenny Sanders investigates how computers have revolutionised television game shows for Micro Mart in 2006.

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Stiletta (Joanne Heywood) displaying how the bluescreen chromakey void works

Use of Blue Screen in Knightmare

15 October 2004

Knightmare was made using bluescreen (or chromakey) technology. This is more familiar to us now, but it was technically demanding in the mid-1980s.

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Hi there from Kent


Welcome to the forum. Looking forward to reading your posts! Knightmare had a number of teams from Kent including Ashford, Bromley and Gillingham.The team from GIllingham were in the year below me at ...

Posted by browntownlad on 14 July 2025

Hi there from Kent


Hello browntownlad, good to hear from you.I did a documentary about Knightmare some years ago, you can check it out via the link in my signature.I'm also a huge gamebook fan, especially Fighting Fanta...

Posted by browntownlad on 14 July 2025

Anthony Donovan


I didn't realise Anthony Donovan (Grimaldine/Brollachan) is no longer with us? I've just seen a Doctor Who wiki that says he died back in 2016, citing this Equity annual report: https://www.equity.org...

Posted by Canadanne on 12 July 2025

Series 1 - Episode 2


I realised I got the knapsack thing totally wrong though lol, only the bread goes in the knapsack, and they just hold the other two items, right?Right... unless you watch the final series (or the fore...

Posted by Canadanne on 09 July 2025

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