Series 3: 1989

Transmission

Friday 8th September - Friday 22nd December 1989 - 16 episodes

Teams

12

Quests

Sword: 2     Shield: 4     Chalice: 3     Crown: 2     To 'Free the Maid': 1

Winning Quests

None

Longest Quest

Team 11: 47mins

Shortest Quest

Team 1: 11mins

New Characters

McGrew, Mellisandre, Hordriss, Motley, Velda, Morghanna, Mrs. Grimwold, Golgarach & Brangwen (wall monsters). Also Goblins introduced.

Old Characters

Treguard, Merlin, The Oracle of Confusion (a ghost), Mogdred, The Ogre, Olaf.

Other Additions

The mine cart ride from level 2 to 3 replacing the wellway. Dungeoneers travel through coloured tunnels between rooms.

The 'Progress Report' at the start of each episode:

Many people say that this series of Knightmare was the best ever, and I have to say that I agree. Many fantastic rooms from series 2 were incorporated into this series, along with great additions such as the mine cart ride into level 3. The excellent Life Forceclock sequence was also retained.

Quests were to redeem the Chalice, Sword, Shield or Crown by picking up pieces of it scattered over the dungeon. Teams would be told which object they had to redeem by the talking wall monster in the level 1 clue room, or by a symbol above one of the doors in the dice room. Only one quest this season did not involve retrieving a quest object - this was Team 6 who's task was to free the maid (Mellisandre).

Episode 7 had different 'letters' appearing in every room. Thanks to Nick Gates and Phil Colvin who remembers that this was a Children's ITV competition announced by studio guest Hordriss. He told viewers to look out for letters in every room, which will eventually form a word connected with fantasy. The word was 'EXCALIBUR'. The prize was a Sinclair and a copy of the original Knightmare computer game. They showed all the competition entries, and there were hundreds!. The winner was drawn on 8th Dec 1989, by CITV presenter Jerry Foulkes just before Knightmare.

Treguard's chamber (left) and a now darker setting for teams going home (right).

Treguard was played by Hugo Myatt
Motley was played by Paul Valentine
Hordriss was played by Clifford Norgate
Mrs. Grimwold and Olaf was played by Tom Karol
Merlin and Mogdred was played by John Woodnutt
Golgarach and McGrew was played by David Verrey
Mellisandre and The Oracle was played by Zoe Loftin
Velda, Morghanna and Brangwenwas played by Natasha Pope

Devised and Written by Tim Child
Illustrations by David Rowe
Computer Animation Design by The Travelling Matte Company
Produced by Tim Child
Directed by Sally Freeman

Please note: Not every single room used in series 3 are shown the Level 1/2/3 description pages, as some unusual/rare/team specific scenes have been included on the Teams pages instead.