Series 7: 1992
Lissard: "Lordness, Lordness, they are coming..."
Lord Fear: "I knew it. The hunt is on, the season has begun..."
Summary
Transmission: Friday 10th September - Friday 17th December 1993 - 15 episodes
Teams: 7
Quests: Crown: 2; Shield: 2; Sword: 2; Cup: 1
Winning Quests:
Team 6: Julie, Helen, Samantha and Helen from Staffordshire (Quest for the Sword)
Team 7: Barry, Simon, Derek and Daniel from Worcestershire (Quest for the Shield)
Longest Quest: Team 7 at 63mins
Shortest Quest: Team 4 at 32mins
New Characters:
- Powers That Be: Majida, Rothberry, Fidjit, Grimaldine, Marta, Brother Strange, Romahna
- Opposition: Lissard, Raptor and the Brollachan
Old Characters:
- Powers that Be: Treguard, Hordriss, Sidriss, Smirkenorff
- Opposition: Lord Fear, Sylvester Hands, Greystagg
Other Additions: Majida the genie as Treguard's new assistant (replacing Pickle). Use of sand timer images at 'Time Out' and 'Game On'. Lord Fear's knowledge-hungry Brollachan wall monster introduced. A lot of new completely computer-generated animated scenes introduced, including a new environment for Lord Fear called The Black Tower of Goth which could only be reached by the Sewers of Goth. A new Helmet of Justice was introduced to accommodate the latest sound and visual developments (enabling the dungeoneer to 'see' their environment during the use of a SIGHT spell etc).
Overview
Eight new characters introduced, with Majida replacing Pickle and Rothberry the Apothecary replacing Ah Wok. Romahna replaced Elita as Smirkenorff's guardian and Raptor replaced Skarkill as Goblin Master. Motley did not appear in this series, although he did return for the next.
The status bars and Life Force remained the same as the previous series, with the original Life Force clock not being used at all. There was no quest choice room: teams are told their quest object by Treguard. This, along with the quicker start and endings to each episode gave more time for gameplay. Also, dungeoneers were no longer shown still alive at the end of their quest. I suppose by now people realised that it wasn't a real death!
CITV went out of vision from this year, resulting in no guest appearances or competitions. However, you can see some trailers/idents from this period on the CITV 1993 page.
The series began with Lord Fear's new henchman Lissard panicking on the sounds of an alarm through the Black Tower of Goth and alerting Lord Fear that the "kidsies" are coming!
Treguard wonders where Pickle has got to. He finds a bottle on the table and opens it...
Majida explains that she had been stuck in the bottle for 'six and one-half' days, and that the elf had had enough of the castle and had returned to the forest to be happy.
Majida says that she is Treguard's new assistant! Treguard rejects the thought but Majida goes for the magic staff to reveal the first dungeoneer of the season.
