Series 8, Episode 10
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Thanks for filling in the gaps there. Your experience sounds very similar to my own - although I don't recall getting information about the edit time, I suspect it was more relevant to your team
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Thanks Oliver you cetainly have provided us with more!
That's a really informative post and I'm sure if you submitted it as an article on the site with maybe a few exclusive pictures from your archive that it would reach an even bigger audience.
On a similar note if you'd like me to do an interview of sorts with you (I email you a load of questions that you can answer as many as you like/not) please say so. That can also then be used as an article for the masses to savour.
I'm glad you enjoyed your experience and do keep your ears to the ground for future projects to get involved in such as the Midnight Hunt. For the time being Knightmare Chat is primarily open from 8pm on Sundays if you want to come along, you'd be highly welcome.
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Hi, Oliver. Welcome to the forum and sorry your post got caught in temporal disruption.
It was a great post for us to get on the 20th anniversary of this website. You've given us plenty to add to your 'Hear from the team' page! Thank you.
In case you haven't seen them, there are some official ITV clips from your quest on YouTube here in a playlist I put together.
If anyone has any questions they'd like to ask and think I might be able to help, go ahead, albeit I appreciate it's been some years since activity on this thread and many may have moved on. In any event, a very Happy New Year to one and all.
I've posted a question in a new thread, inspired by the adjacent posts from you and Alan: https://knightmare.com/forum/41/6853
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Hey Drassil, thank you.
It’s a funny thing, the memory. You kind of know you know things, but it isn’t after such a length of time that you sit down and start replaying the memories in your head that you recall other bits.
I’ll check out the threat shortly. Before I do - helmets off to you, Mystara and anyone else involved in running this website. Without a doubt the best place online for any Knightmare fan.
Speaking of forgotten memories, it stands to reason that Alan and I met all those summers ago - even though I can’t recall it.
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Hey Mashibinbin
I hadn’t thought of the article idea; I’ll check it out. Sadly I am not sure I have photographs. I will ask my mum when I next speak with her but our chaperone was David’s father - and clearly long, long before smartphones with cameras. Can you imagine if today’s tech - in and out of th game - were around at the time... After leaving school, I lost contact with my advisors and as I’m a social media sceptic (no accounts on any of them) I’ve never re-connected.
I still have my black Knightmare mug (in red writing) and astonishingly, the white Knightmare t-shirt we were given. I vowed I’d never throw either away. The mug annoyingly has a chip in the rim but the t-shirt is in remarkably good nick. Mostly because I was so worried about damaging it I barely ever wore it; in spite of the fact I’ve moved about a lot with work, it’s always safely followed me. I doubt of course it fits now - I gym and train a lot I am also fairly certain the big ‘scroll’ we got that was signed by Treguard is somewhere tucked away in the depths of my parents’ attic. One of these days I am going on that treasure hunt, as daunting as it is.
I am more than happy to answer any questions - fire away as many as you like. I’ll do my best. There are other snippets I still recall that weren’t necessarily relevant to this thread so I skipped them. I presume there is a means to contact me via my profile here that’ll whizz across an email? Let me know if you need me to privately share my address.
I am also very keen to try and rewatch the show, so if there’s any mechanic that can alert to repeats on Challenge etc. then I’d be grateful. I don’t watch TV - with the exception of Arrow and Game of Thrones - so I’m well out of the loop with the best or most likely way to catch repeats.
I'm glad you enjoyed your experience and do keep your ears to the ground for future projects to get involved in such as the Midnight Hunt. For the time being Knightmare Chat is primarily open from 8pm on Sundays if you want to come along, you'd be highly welcome.
I certainly shall bear that in mind. I like the idea of meeting up with the community in real life so at the risk of sounding lazy (I have precious little spare time, alas) do keep me posted. I will of course keep an eye open for updates on here.
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Thanks for filling in the gaps there. Your experience sounds very similar to my own - although I don't recall getting information about the edit time, I suspect it was more relevant to your team
No problem at all, it was a pleasure. I still don’t think any of us on the team were ever aware of just how little time left there was. Filming seemed to take long enough (time creeps when you’re a kid and flies when you’re not) and certainly at the time it felt like we travelled through plenty of rooms. I suppose the average for a full quests is around 25; we like you took the short cut so at best we’d have had around 16. I don’t recall how many made the final cut; it’s been too long. (I have it recorded from the time on VHS - still have the cassette, just no means of playing it ). I do have a sense that at least two, possibly three rooms were cut however.
The only rooms I well-remember filming aside from the entrance was a clue room (I was told via the mic to press my shoulder against the far wall [i.e. the door] and I was doing - causing me to say aloud quite crossly, ‘I am!’) and the CoB.
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Speaking of forgotten memories, it stands to reason that Alan and I met all those summers ago - even though I can’t recall it.
Indeed we did. But of course, they did their best to keep consecutive teams apart as much as possible so that we didn't share anything with each other.
I recall you chaps congratulating us when we had won. I think we were on the way back from lunch maybe
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So the final episode of what was (sadly) to be the last series.
Team 6 resumed after their short-cut and unlocked the door, then dodged the fireballs quite neatly.
They encountered Hordriss who was held in a trap by LF. The Crown was also in sight on a ledge. At the third time of asking they used their potion, releasing a paladin which LF was unable to defeat. LF fled....
Dunstan collected the Crown and Hordriss led him back to Treguard's ante-room.
Personally, i didn't agree with the idea of a short-cut, but i think it's wrong that some people have criticised the team over this. The producers invented the idea of a short-cut, not the team.
Team 7 began the quest for the shield and went straight into the level 1 clue-room. They nearly made a critical mistake in their clue object choice, prevented only by very heavy prompting from Treguard.
Returned the magic book to Sidriss and received a "CREEP" spell, which could be used to charm Smirky. It worked and they received a "BURST" spell, which they used to negate the super-fast blades in the CoB. They only had a short series of blades, but advisor Anthony gave a superb example of how to guide a dungeoneer thru it.
In the clue-room they chose the pills and the "sight" potion, but then in the next chamber their quest was cut-off due to end of season.
Team 7 didn't have very much game time. At least the "undefeated" teams in series 2-6 had reasonable length quests.
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