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The episodes are series 7, episodes 14-15. CITV schedule coordinator and self-confessed "gameshow geek" David Cooper picked the episodes to be shown! Very good choices, IMHO, with all the key elements of Knightmare - clue objects, spells and potions, riddles, spying on Lord Fear, various character interactions, the two scariest physical challenges (Corridor of Blades and Trial By Spikes), a truly great team and the most exciting series finale. Sad to read that David Cooper, who selected the Knightmare episodes for CITV's Old Skool Weekend, has died suddenly.

I know. I was so chuffed with that mention of Knightmare. I thought finally someone has mentioned it again. I roared with laughter at some of the jokes they were doing. Mock the Week is funny.

Good to hear Hugo's surname being given correctly on the BBC, as he was called "Hugo Wyatt" in BBC Four's Children's TV on Trial in 2007. Following the success of Knightmare Pointless on this forum, it was pleasing to see Pointless itself returning the favour. And it wasn't Richard Osman's first brush with the Greater Game. When an MP asks him to tweet a former contestant, he generally does.

Unfortunately I didn't buy the issue and only spotted it when I was waiting for mum at ASDA - it was covering the week when Rufus Hound was a contestant if I recall correctly.

Pat Sharp was okay, but his beard was on the top of his head Plus nobody can do the "I can't believe it's not butter" face and do it well like Treguard He gets my vote anyday

We can always hope it'll encourage them to buy a few more series...

Mary Miller was in the fourth episode of The Alleyn Mysteries, 'Death At The Bar' in 1993. Watch from 57:23 and you'll see what might have happened if Akash or Anthony had offered Lillith a bottle of poison!

Some nice ads in here. Aside from the obvious KM content, it is nice to see such shows as Victor & Hugo and Woof! pop up in them. Ahh, such ace times, such ace shows. I loved them as well. Friday nights were great. I wish I'd had to foresight to tape all the Victor & Hugo episodes since the series is so damn' hard to find nowadays. Thankfully, over the years I collected almost all of them. Same goes for Knightmare of course, though thanks to Challenge and Youtube, we can watch them any time. We need DVDs of all these shows!

Oh cool that brings back memories strangely (think I was ill that day when it was shown). Cheers for the link

The UKGameshows Knightmare page refers to the YouTube Geek Week episode as a semi-official revival. Was it anything less than 100% official? It's entirely official, since it's entirely produced by Tim Child, the rightsholder. I suppose it's debatable as to whether or not it's a revivial, since it's really a one-off and very special type of episode.

It's even more random than I thought, then! Only people of a certain age could be expected to recognise it, and even then they would have to be pretty big fans to remember the tune after not hearing it anywhere recently. The other two theme songs were far more obvious, with one being a current show and the other practically spelling out the title in the lyrics.

Drassil wrote: Chris asked him but didn't appear to get a reply No, but it doesn't seem like he's a very active tweeter, so probably not the best way of asking. Should have asked our man on the inside to find out yesterday!

Apparently the new "Google Glass" has given some people a very approved opinion of what it's like wearing them: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/science-technology/google-glass-makes-everything-look-like-knightmare-2013050267405?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailymash+(The+Daily+Mash.+It's+news+to+us.) Nice namecheck, if anything.

The episode of Beer & Pizza Club featuring Knightmare is being repeated this Wednesday (6th March) at 12:10am on ITV4, and again on Sunday 10th March at 1:05am.

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This news item caught my eye this morning. Without this man we might never have had Knightmare - the dungeon salutes you, sir! (Don't suppose he's related to Alexander "Mordred" Vlahos?)

In the words of Lord F himself... "WIN A PERSONLISED MP3 RECORDED BY ME, LORD FEAR. Here's how the first 100 pathetic mortals and would-be dungeoneers can win a genuine Lord Fear voiceover: 1st: Join my list at http://j.mp/Lord-Fears-list - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mark-Knight-voice-overs/159229814122631?sk=app_100265896690345 2nd: LIKE my page Mark Knight, voice overs - http://j.mp/Lord-Fears-LIKES - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mark-Knight-voice-overs/159229814122631. (No, I will not LIKE you back. I don't LIKE people, I'm Lord Fear you fool.) 3rd: Post a review of how great my voice is and why everyone should hire me as a voice talent. No more than 250 characters per post or your entry gets thrown into the Pit of Molgeuryydd!! The top five reviews will win a personlised MP3 recorded by me, Lord Fear. RULES: 1>Only one entry per mortal. And don't try and fool me; I've got Lissard reviewing the entries and he can smell something fishy a mile away. How he can do that I don't know because you can smell him two miles away but that is by the by. 2> Posts over 250 characters will be disqualified. No arguments. So shut it. 3> If you win I will not talk to you or acknowledge you AT ALL other than by sending five of you an MP3 of me insulting or threatening you in some way. Or both. Now get clicking! And SHARE this message so that I can impress other idiots who think they're hot stuff. Yours, The real Lord Fear" 'Real Lord Fear'...? Him? Pfft. Anyway, wanna take part, go to here... https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=253928398071708&id=30080696690

The best part of Funhouse at the weekend was seeing that poor kid who was trying to drive way too fast smash into the tunnel wall during the go kart race (first of the 2 episodes)

Jonathan Green, an esteemed author whose works include contributions to the Fighting Fantasy and Pax Britannia series, has written his own blog review of Knightmare in time for the CITV channel repeats. You can read the review by clicking on the link below: http://jonathangreenauthor.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-gamebook-renaissance-knightmare.html