Bring back...Knightmare

By Ross Hawkes on Apr 22, 08 10:45 AM

While the squares were watching Anthea Turner make Tracy Island out of bog roll tubes, the rest of us were busy delighting in the magical world of Knightmare.

Despite the show seemingly being nothing more than a lad wearing a bucket on his head walking row some computer-generated rooms, Knightmare became a cult classic.

The show ran for seven years from 1987 and was a quiz show which broke new ground for kids TV and opened the door for some second-rate follow-ups which we still see on what's left of childrens telly today.

While the kids were meant to be the star of the show, the over-acting of Hugo Myatt as Treguard Dunshelm was the real memorable point as he told the youngsters to go forth into the dungeon (which was more likely to be a storage cupboard in a studio somewhere down south!).

As you'll see from the Hugo Myatt wikipedia page linked above, his post-Knightmare career has seen his reputation tarnished by an appearance on Chucklevision.

Despite disappearing from our screens in 1994, Knightmare lives on via the Knightmare.com website.

There have been several campaigns to bring back Knightmare, but as yet, none of them have been successful. So for now, we'll all have to make to with memories of taking 'one step to your left, shuffle forward' while trying to avoid the sound of the goblin horn.

Either that or we can just spend all day squinting at YouTube and working out if it's the quality of the video clips or just the cataracts which are making it impossible to view!