Unintended Knightmare references on TV
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Last night on Channel 4 marked the beginning of a new series called The Morgana Show.
Whilst its spelt completely different to the Morgahanna we all know, the person mentioned above is in fact an impressionist, so one is trying to imagine her recreations of sending a magical axe to chase a dungeoneer to their doom off a thin ledge, or quite simply blasting a couple of bolts to a dungeoneer's head in the closing stages of their quest....
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On Arena: Rolf Harris Paints His Dream on BBC2 last night, the legend discussed (1:08) how the new Controller of ITV's children's programmes axed Rolf's Cartoon Club with merciless words, leaving him deeply depressed and writing 59-page letters at 4am. It seems he was referring to Dawn Airey, who we know played a part in the end of Knightmare too. Rolf was saved by Animal Hospital.
I can't have been the only one to think of Aesandre when the cold and snow hit the UK recently. And more lately it's descended upon Mark Knight in Villa Del Fear. I mean, Philadelphia.
The boys' choral group Libera have revealed that to prepare for their changes of position between songs when the lights are down, they practise with blindfolds! At the end of concerts, they wave goodbye to the audience before walking out of view.
When I saw the film Stardust a while ago, a few aspects served as unintended KM references:
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The use of music also featured in MTV's surprisingly adult Knightmare The Game.
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The title, which was also a Series 3 clue obect.
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A teleportation device known as a Babylon Candle, surely referring to this poem, as KM novella The Forbidden Gate does.
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In a recent episode of CSI, one character received a card apparently from someone called David Campbell, whom she believed to have died some twenty years earlier.
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I was actually reminded of the full name of the first casualty of the Dungeon. As for McGrew, he's probably moved on to the Baxters by now.
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If only the actor/stuntman who appeared in the Knightmare pilot had been called Richard Bonecarpark rather than Richard Bonehill then we'd have another unintended Knightmare reference for the annals now.
I was vaguely reminded of Knightmare during the part of the documentary where they added the eyeballs to the skull for the facial reconstruction - it was like seeing the life force animation in reverse. g
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...The Francis Urquhart trilogy.
Dungeoneer: Are you Hordriss?
Hordriss: You may think that; one couldn't possibly comment.
The original House of Cards TV series was repeated on Drama last weekend. The lead character's distinctive habit of continually breaking the fourth wall and addressing the audience was a strong reminder of Knightmare.
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I was reading about the charity Combat Stress and couldn't help but be reminded of the name of a certain Knightmare obstacle.
One scene in 1990s The Tomorrow People serial The Rameses Connection features a cat shooting energy bolts in a room with Ancient Egyptian decor.
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Marta, who accompanied Hordriss, spends her time ordering fish in the canteen and creating a series of 'Oneness' idents. Nothing suspicious about that.
Not even, it seems, when 'Marta' got Hordriss to appear in one of them.
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After Theresa May's speech at the Conservative Party Conference, it was somebody's job to collect the lost letters.
Letter F lost and found.jpg
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Star Trek: Picard has so far featured elf portals a.k.a. teleportation doorways (though admittedly older Star Trek episodes had examples, plus the obvious transporter pads) and a corridor with blocks that seem to slide from one wall to the other, reminding me of Knightmare's Block & Tackle.
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I recently watched the first episode of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.
In the introductory sequence, Marenghi says the legendary Brother Strange quote "Greetings Traveller" as well as give a nod to "The Powers That Be".
Elsewhere in the episode, you can see certain scenes that were clearly shot against a blue screen, akin to Knightmare itself.
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Browsing the TV guide, I notice the following synopsis for an episode of 'Ambulance: Code Red': "Paramedics rush a man to hospital after a circular saw incident, and an air ambulance helps a man crushed under a great weight." Is it just me or does this sound like the aftermath of the Knightmare Series 7 finale?
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The film Pride, currently available on BBC iPlayer after its TV showing earlier in June, has Jessie Cave (Knightmare Geek Week) among its cast. It also has a character named Cliff Barry.
The film Iron Sky: The Coming Race, also shown on TV recently, has references to "moon Nazis". I can imagine Treguard saying this.
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