Re:Billy's Picky Website Corrections...and other people's, too!

Drassil

Nitpicking comes far too easily to me... there may be no stopping me! But it's all in the spirit of constructiveness.

http://knightmare.com/series/6/teams_p2.htm

'Got causeway combination from Elita who agrees to search for the dragon calling.

On meeting Julius Scaramonger he tried to sell them a horn whilst trying to hide a red sack which suspiciously looks like the dragon calling they were after. Still, he wouldn't sell it even though they offered silver for it, so they use the ring to scare him and an Ogre out the way.'

dragon caller. Also, the ogre, Scaramonger's assistant, is referred to as (young) Grimwold, which later becomes the password, so I think it's worth specifying here.

'They get a dragon mint in return and calls Sophia a "face ake".'

ache

http://knightmare.com/series/4/index.htm

'The Ogre was played by Erin Geraghty'

I strongly doubt this. According to http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0313873/ , Erin Geraghty is most definitely female. Mistress Goody isn't credited on knightmare.com, and I reckon that that's who Erin Geraghty played. I don't think any of KM's ogres were properly credited at the end of the episodes (probably because they had no lines).

'Old Characters

Hordriss, Motley, Mellisandre, Merlin, Mogdred, The Ogre.'

Since the Series 4 Ogre wasn't referred to as 'Grimwold' (as the ogre in the previous series was), I think it's fair to assume that it's a different ogre, i.e. a New Character.
Also, this webpage mentions 'The Boat Man' and 'The Boatman'. Although it's obvious that they're the same character, consistency looks better. I'd use 'The Boatman' throughout.

http://knightmare.com/series/5/index.htm

'New Characters

Powers that Be: Sir Hugh de Witless, Gwendoline, Pixel the Pixie. Opposition: Lord Fear, Aesandre, Scarkill (with goblins Grippa & Rhark), Sylvester Hands, Elita, Julius Scaramonger.'

Gwendoline could be extended to 'Gwendoline the Greenwarden'.
Skarkill

'Old Characters

Powers that Be: Treguard, Pickle, Brother Mace, Hordriss, Motley, Oalkey. Opposition: The Gatemaster.'

Oakley
The Boatman has been omitted (he appeared once in Series 5).

'Other Additions

The 'blockers' on each level (replacing the weeping doors), the spy glass (to see what the opposition was up to), the 'decender' (a lift replacing the wellways), the various puzzle causeways and Smirkenorff to transport dungeoneers to and between levels'

descender, with an s (or 'descendor', since Brother Mace pronounced it with a clear 'or' sound).

http://knightmare.com/series/6/index.htm

'New Characters

Powers that Be: Ah Wok, Ridolfo and Sidriss. Opposition: Samurai, Captain Nemanor, Heggatty, Greystagg'

I'd also include Peggatty (Heggatty's sister; the one who fired at dungeoneers).

'Other Additions

New music, titles, logo and a new life force. A quest choice room re-introduced, Smirkenorff given a voice!, timers on causeways, the Dreadnought, Pookas and Storm Guiests introduced.'

It's spelt 'Dreadnaught' on all other parts of the website (except http://knightmare.com/series/6/opposition.htm ). Again, better to be consistent if possible.
I'd spell pooka with a lower-case p, otherwise it looks like a reference specifically to the Knightmare community member Pooka! (However, this would mean a lot of changes throughout the site.)
Storm Geists (as in poltergeist, I suppose)

Billy

http://www.knightmare.com/series/

"Knightmare wins a bronze medal from the Youth Programmes category of the New York International Film & TV Awards 1998."

http://www.knightmare.com/series/

"Broadsword produces The Satellite Game for The Children's Channel on BSB Satellite"

There was no "Childrens Channel" on BSB. The five channels were Galaxy (entertainment), Now (women), The Sports Channel (guess :p), The Movie Channel (ditto), and The Power Station (music). However, Galaxy had a childrens strand called 'Galaxy Club', sort of like their version of CITV. It's likely, then, that "The Childrens Channel" should be "the Galaxy channel".

http://www.knightmare.com/reviews/compgames/index.htm

Mindscape 1992"

1991

http://www.knightmare.com/reviews/merchandise/index.htm

"When Knightmare Adventurers Club was launched in 1991"

Should be "When the Knightmare Adventurers Club was launched in 1991"

http://www.knightmare.com/reviews/citvbash/index.htm

"Children's ITV celebrated their 25th anniversary"

20th

http://www.knightmare.com/reviews/greatest/index.htm

"were missed of the list in the first place"

off

NeilJones

http://www.knightmare.com/series/

"Broadsword produces The Satellite Game for The Children's Channel on BSB Satellite"

There was no "Childrens Channel" on BSB. The five channels were Galaxy (entertainment), Now (women), The Sports Channel (guess :p), The Movie Channel (ditto), and The Power Station (music). However, Galaxy had a childrens strand called 'Galaxy Club', sort of like their version of CITV. It's likely, then, that "The Childrens Channel" should be "the Galaxy channel".

There was a Children's Channel on satellite TV many years ago, it came to the Astra satellite in 1989, though it had started in 1984 on cable. It spent the last five years of its life deciding whether it wanted to be TCC, Children's Channel or THE Children's Channel before deciding to say "sod it" and dying, giving its entire program output to Trouble which has since dumped pretty much all of it, some of which has been bought up by other channels.

Lots of TCC presentation on TV Ark:

http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/otherchannels/childrenschannel.html

Therefore it is incorrect to say that this reference should be changed to "The Galaxy Channel" as TCC was never Galaxy but a separate channel in its own right. Anyway BSB didn't launch until March 1990 and merged with Sky eight months later.

Billy

Yeah, I remember it, but that wasn't a BSB one, and Tim Child definitely mentions it was for BSB in the History.

Illusion

Excellent I like all these corrections Please keep 'em coming.

NeilJones

Yeah, I remember it, but that wasn't a BSB one, and Tim Child definitely mentions it was for BSB in the History.

You'd be surprised the number of people who still use the term BSB where they should be using the term Sky. People did actually buy BSB equipment you know Apparently you can still use the square aerials and boxes if you point them in the right direction.

Pooka

Now THERE'S an obscure KM reference - 'squariels'. Learner played a character called Larry in a Broadsword programme called 'The Satellite Game', which was broadcast on one of those obscure channels which were picked up by squariels!

JoeGrocottJames

On the Series 3, Level 1 page, 'Layer of the Dreaded Kar' should be 'Lair of the Dreaded Kar'.

Billy

http://www.knightmare.com/reviews/

"Brief look at Hugo Myatt's appearance as a vampire on Chucklevision."

(SPOILER)The big twist at the end of the episode is that Hugo's character isn't a vampire at all, and his assistant (Igor) is. So 'a vampire' should be changed to 'the master of a castle'.(/SPOILER)

http://www.knightmare.com/reviews/chucklevision/index.htm

"He played a vampire"

See above. (Sorry about the spoiler thing, just that people might read this thread who haven't seen the episode).

Drassil

http://knightmare.com/series/2/l2.htm

http://knightmare.com/series/2/teams_p2.htm

Both these pages contain mildly amusing references to ghosts being killed. Surely impossible! I'd suggest changing 'ghost' to 'cavern wraith' (for the sake of accuracy), and 'kill' to something with less of an implication of mortality, like 'banish' or 'destroy'.

[Edit 08/11/05: Still uncorrected.]

Pooka

On the Series 3, Level 1 page, 'Layer of the Dreaded Kar' should be 'Lair of the Dreaded Kar'.

Shouldn't that be 'Lair of the Dreaded Khar'? In most mythology, he's spelt 'Khar'. The only exception, as far as I know, is in Disney's Jungle Book, where it's "Kaa"!

JoeGrocottJames

The FAQ question 8 points to the old address of www.talkknightmare.co.uk. Also, series 1 page 1, 'silver proceeds gold' should be 'silver precedes gold'.

Illusion

Thanks again for all the above.

Billy

A thabulous threesome:

http://www.knightmare.com/series/1/p4.htm

"However, the original episodes broadcast on ITV in 1987 showed this older Anglia production logo."

The Challenge repeats also feature this logo.

http://www.knightmare.com/series/1/p8.htm

(basically the key home symbol moves from door-to door)

hole

http://www.knightmare.com/clips/citv/index.htm

Sometimes, idents and voiceovers were used instead of presenters, as demonstrated here at the end of episode 1 of series 6 of Knightmare.

The announcer in this clip is Philip Elsmore, a Thames continuity announcer.

http://www.knightmare.com/links.htm

Useful Knightmare listing by Billy Hicks on this free encyclopaedia.

The idea of Wikipedia is that anyone can add to it at any time, so it'd be unfair to say that I wrote the whole thing (I wrote 95% of it, but other people are also adding to it). I suggest just "Useful Knightmare listing on this free encyclopaedia.".

http://www.knightmare.com/series/6/index.htm

And you think you're rather cleaver

clever

http://www.knightmare.com/reviews/scifi/index.htm

I did a bit of hunting around, and here's what I found:

The Sci-Fi Channel started on the 1st November, 1995. So it seems Knightmare was part of the schedule from the very start- it was certainly being shown by the 9th.
By mid-1996, it was shown at 9.20am weekdays, and 11.30am weekends. I don't know if it changed from mid '96, but it had changed by that time.
By the 27th October 1996 (again, not sure if it changed then or earlier) it was being shown at 10:00am Sundays only. This continued until the 22nd December (29th December was a Battlestar Galactica marathon).
From the 4th January 1997, it was shown at 7.30am Saturdays and Sundays, and 10:05am Sundays. Before then the listings started at 8am, so presumably it coincided with the channel's broadcast hours being extended. The times were still the same by October 1997.

Billy

http://www.knightmare.com/series/

"18.11.94"

Sorry, seems I miscounted. It should read 11.11.94.

(Spookily, it happened 11 years ago today!)

http://www.knightmare.com/series/8/winners.htm

"Episode 10 : Friday 18th November 1994"

Again, since it started on the 9th September, the 18th should read 11th.

darkDescender

in thge pictures section of the website, there are two pictures of John Woodnutt as Merlin, but the pictures are credited as Clifford Norgate.

TheBrollachan

Fixed for the new verison, something I had already picked up when working on that page.

JamesA

http://www.knightmare.com/series/

"18.11.94"

Sorry, seems I miscounted. It should read 11.11.94.

(Spookily, it happened 11 years ago today!)

http://www.knightmare.com/series/8/winners.htm

"Episode 10 : Friday 18th November 1994"

Again, since it started on the 9th September, the 18th should read 11th.

Still uncorrected, thought it might be worth bringing this up again.