Barry: "Yes. Er, Simon, Derek, Daniel."

[The advisors appear]

Treguard: "Ah yes. And these friends, they have names?"

Yep. The names Barry just used to summon them.

This can only have fuelled Barry's determination to be listened to, come what may.

Reached the sewers and were met by Grimaldine. He asked them to collect three arken-shield sections, which would help them both.

Entered the level 3 clue-room. Discovered a "GROWME" spell and chose a "true-sight" potion and a "reveal" wand.

Notable in this quest that in each of the later clue-rooms one of the objects is the same one that they rejected in the previous clue-room. A deliberate trick to see if they will take it against their better judgment?

Learned Greystagg's calling name (Gwen) from the spyglass.

Next chamber and sound of troll steps again. How could Julie see that orange from that distance?

Used the "GROWME" spell and the wand to reach the 1st shield section, then dispelled. Did all this very efficiently.

Onto the chaos of cards. Used the "true-sight" potion, but Julie almost touched the wrong "2" by mistake. Worked out the pattern quickly and weren't fooled by the joker at the end. Collected the 2nd shield section by the exit.

3rd piece of the arken-shield in the next chamber, but troll footsteps were nearing. Challenged by the brollachan again and answered it's questions competently.

Into the final room and retrieved the Sword from a stone but were confronted by LF. Realised just in time that "ARKEN" was a spell and cast it to stop him.

Summoned Greystagg and she gifted them a "RETURN" spell in thanks for their efforts against LF. Used it to complete their quest. YAY!

The helmet of justice came off easier than it went on.

Team 6 were an excellent team, one of the best ever. They were intelligent, efficient and really seemed to enjoy their whole quest. Their delight at the end was wonderful. Nice to see that they got a trophy each.

Team 7 were allocated the quest for the shield and met Brother Strange in the dwarf tunnels. Exchanged a proverb (well, four actually!) for a spyglass before time-out.

But why would Hordriss not have got from Level 1 to Level 3 in time via magic? Magic is not supposed to work like that!

An alternate explanation, although not one mooted by Treguard, is that Hordriss' magic isn't as powerful when in close proximity to Lord Fear. We saw this in the Mines of Gore in the previous series, when he was incompletely summoned by the TRICK spell and couldn't do anything to get away (and in the following series, when he was held in a body-cage which he was unable to breach). I doubt he'd be able to completely manifest in the room RIGHT NEXT TO a huge and very angry Lord Fear!

Team also couldn't summon Hordriss or Grimaldine (although he was "busy breaking into Lord Fear's tower", so he was probably just around the corner anyway...!) because they didn't have either of their calling names... but that's probably a trivial quibble.

Either way, it's a really exciting episode, and one of my absolute favourites.

Was that skeleton wearing the old helmet of justice? Freaky!!

Yes, the Series 1-6 helmet makes a cameo when Julie enters the first chamber of Level 3! (It made another cameo back in Episode 6 when Alex also makes his first steps within Goth.)

Grimaldine describes the Brollachan as a "Questing Beast", but isn't that something completely different? He also tells Julie "I need to enter Lord Fear's great tower", yet it seems he must have gained access already, if he's been able to scatter the ARKEN shield fragments in there. Puzzling.

On Play Your Cards Right, the next shelf comes out before Julie actually touches the Queen of Hearts!

The Brollachan seems to take an interest in the most random things. I guess I could imagine why he's trying to find Witch-Haven, if he's overheard the name and wants to see if it's a place he recognises, but what makes him suddenly come out with animal questions or wonder about Sylvester Hands' favourite drink?! You'd think he would start with things that are useful and relevant to his current situation. Or perhaps he thinks buying Sly a drink or two will encourage him to answer more questions!

Which advisor says "Nice one!" when Julie returns in trumph? I've only seen it on YouTube so the picture quality isn't amazing, but as far as I can tell, none of their lips appear to be moving at the time.

There was a crash just before Treguard dismissed the team. I rewound the vdeo and it appeared that Majida had dropped the sword on the floor. She backs out of view and Treguard pauses and then continues...

Yeah, I think she leans it against the wall but it falls over. She seems to hide behind Treguard so as not to be seen cringing or laughing!

Majida is definitely not a good judge of dungeoneers, expressing doubts about both the ones who go on to win.

I found it funny when he jumped when Brother Strange appeared

Cliff Barry obviously found it funny too, I love how you can hear him laugh as he says "I mean you no harm"!

There was a crash just before Treguard dismissed the team. I rewound the vdeo and it appeared that Majida had dropped the sword on the floor. She backs out of view and Treguard pauses and then continues...

I noticed that too! I thought Challenge had made a sound error at first.

Ever got the feeling that he had seen the dwarf tunnels before they filmed him in the dwarf tunnels.

Kind of. I'll let you into a secret...

spoilerThe Dwarf Tunnels were shaped like an A. They were made of two sets of two parallel corridors. The first set intersected by the second at the top and middle, making a squared-off A. We had seen this beforehand and Barry just decided to go ahead and wander around./spoiler

And the Troll footsteps were a form of foreshadowing. When the first occurred we on the bench couldn't hear them. But as our adventure progressed they went from something only Barry could hear, to something we all could hear, (and as the climx episode arrived) to something only we in the antechamber could hear. Really did encourage us to get a move on!

Hilarious!

Julie herself almost blew her quest on PYCR.... she nearly touched the wrong card - also im sure she stepped into the gap, on her first jump/long stride - it looks like they move the camera away as she makes a mistake - like when they get on to Smirky.

Secondly.... OMG Barry is brilliant!!!!

He seems such a laugh - very clever tactics. Im going to really enjoy this....

I still don't understand all the fuss with this Barry guy? Sounds like a complete fool to me.. big headed and all, not the kind of person i tend to like....

Uh huh. I'll skip over the obvious retort to that. Whatever else he was, Barry sure wasn't a fool. He talked non-stop and with considerable colour, forever going off at tangents, and this was a deliberate strategy on the part of his team; it confused the actors time and again throughout the quest and made it harder for them to stick to the plot, making the challenges harder to impose. (That's why Majida called him a smart bottom - the producers got really narked with the way Barry kept breaking up the flow and decided to call him a smart*ss on-screen.)

My favourite bit of the episode's a really subtle bit before the start of Barry's quest, when Majida asks Treguard if he's sure he wants to employ him. Barry glances over his shoulder with a look of feigned hurt on his face as if to say, "Who? Me?" I always think it's a nice touch when a dungeoneer goes the extra distance to play along with the actors!

Come on Fear your not much competition are you on one on one action?

But over all level 3 was just as easy as level 2.

But according to that Green wizard he should now have completed his quest... but we know t=he hasn't.

And i still don't understand all the fuss with this Barry guy? Sounds like a complete fool to me.. big headed and all, not the kind of person i tend to like....

Well have to Waite as see maybe his not as annoying as i remember...

Nice bit of suspense at the end of Play Your Cards Right, with that music that makes you think they're going to die

And was it just me, or did the sword that Julie drew out of the stone look a bit too big for her? In the final room she was swinging it about a bit, and nearly cut Gwen's head off

What was with Lord Fear's final line? "I've got two minutes - you've got three hours to get out of here, Julie! I'll take two minutes!"

Still I liked Lord Fears mocking of other characters.

So now onto Barry's Team, I cant wait to view his quest again, obviously I did watch it the first time it was shown on ITV all those years ago but cant remember it much so it will be good to relive all those memories.

Barry started off brilliantly, Very eager to start and was praticlly guiding himself round the tunnels(Great Stuff) Cant wait to see more tomorrow