Thank you! I've altered my first post and will be careful with this one - it's weird now to come back to a completely different era. When I was last here, virtually nobody on the board had even seen all of Knightmare, with fragments of it scattered across people's home video collections - I scoured the videos in my parents' cupboard when I was in first year of university, and hooked two VCRs together to compile a not-quite-complete run of series 4, 5 and 6, using the details from the Quests section of the site to identify where each episode fitted in the sequence. Now, post-ChallengeTV, the fandom has changed because we've now been able to see the thing that we're such fans of. I hope, too, that it can come back again.

I've also been wondering about the logistics of holding a quest at a convention or something - with careful selection of rooms, it seems the logistics of it wouldn't be impossible to recreate using a home setup these days...

Still. One more note, an easier one this time - this room with the stained glass is a heavily edited version of the level 3 clue room, with the walls and most of the floor cut away. (I also really like the look of the sketch for this room, but the huge curved stairs look pretty unworkable for someone blindfolded - I saw that David Rowe mentioned the same in his book!)

Hi, I used to hang around here in 2003 or so! I've just got back to watching Knightmare - shockingly I've never seen all of it as I started watching at series 4, but with series 1-3 now having been re-shown I've spent some time catching up on what I missed. Series 1 started off using the same few rooms fairly repetitively, but as of series 2 I've noticed that the artists started chopping up some graphics and reworking them to form new rooms. Are all of these common knowledge by now in the community, or am I pioneering a new discovery?

Many of the clean copies of the original paintings can be found on David Rowe's site, which gave me clues about how they might have been recombined! https://www.davidrowe.net/davidrowe-television.html

I first noticed it in the first thing we see in series 2 - the Wheel of Fate room, when I saw the tiles on the floor were suspiciously mirrored. I then realized that it was the room called "Snake" on David Rowe's site, with the colours shifted, mirrored down the middle and with the back wall blacked out:

The room with the lion gargoyles encountered by team 2 was definitely based on Snake as well - you can see the ledge above the arched door, with some strategic use of Deluxe Paint to fill in the rest of the wall:

In fact, Snake gets a real workout in team 2's quest, appearing a third time for the room with the creature at the back. This time, you can see where the wall has been crudely covered with black boxes - it would have been far less visible with the fuzz of CRT.

Team 3 got an interesting room which again is a mirrored-down-the-middle version of an original room (which they're put into immediately afterwards!) This one is called "giant", used once in series 1, and you can see it's already been doctored a bit for that appearance at the lower left of the path. This time, more rocks have been added at the front to make a path - and I'm not sure where they're from, possibly the deleted right hand side of the room? The effect is pretty convincing apart from the obvious mirroring.

And then they're put into the most spectacular room yet, a very animated and computer game-y clockwork environment. The dark background that makes the wall came from the room called "chess", which we haven't seen in its full form in the dungeon yet.

I'll see if I can find any more as they come up...

Thanks so much, everyone - it's amazing to see some familiar names from a long time ago!

It really did come as a complete surprise to me as well - I was struggling getting the narration part to sound right myself and then remembered about the series introductions in Knightmare and how his voice was absolutely perfect for over-the-top pretentious metal concept albums... so I looked up his agent, sent an email to her and she (being an incredibly nice woman!) just... sorted it all out. (I definitely had to carefully word the detail that the story was "based on the works of a Japanese author called Hato Moa" and desperately hoping she didn't Google it.) Even so many years on, I'm still not quite used to being an adult and being able to ask people to do things.

I'm back on a Knightmare kick now thanks to this

Hi again! I used to hang around here

I've just finished producing the latest album for my power metal project Albion - a rock opera based on the Hatoful stories, which premieres on the 20th at 7pm GMT (and the 21st at 1am). It's called The Day the Night Slept, and the single "Lost in Dreams" with commentary has just been released here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfCLFqY0XQI

Why should the Knightmare forum care? Well... I'm not sure how this happened, but somehow I managed to get a very special guest to lend his voice as one of the characters. He appears at the end of this song... I always thought his voice was made for this and I'm very pleased with how it turned out!

Best: I liked Treguard's studded motorcyclist-type jacket, and Lord Fear's sort of heavy metal armbands (and even heavier metal helmet).

Worst: Sylvester Hands, obviously. Also, Julius Scaramonger and his stripeyness.

I first saw a bit of it recorded by accident at the end of a tape - Chris in Series 3, from the room where he puts the herbs in the cauldron to when he meets Mrs. Grimwold.

Well, I know that the life force was just added in later as a tension-increasing device for the viewers (like at the end of Series 5 - it's so tense even though you know what's going to happen!)

In a spoonerism you have to reverse the first letters of each word - "Fount Mear", as you said.

Other examples include "Get me a well-boiled icicle", "You have tasted a whole worm" and "Is the bean dizzy?"

I'll have to go with Series 5, because it wasn't quite as purple and had Scarkill in it.

Then again, Series 4 had the "Sidestep to your left!" moment, which is perhaps the best part of Knightmare ever.

Hooray.

By the way, is that "Zagor" as in the Fighting Fantasy series?

Seen Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom? The cult leader from that (who I can't remember the name of) looks exactly like Lord Fear!

There was a James Pond 3?! I need to come here more often again!

Knightmare and Sonic - can it get any better? <¦-)

Has to be Sly Hands...

Yes, Series 6 is my favourite, even though it's the series I have the least of (unless you count Series 3, of which I have about 10 minutes).

It's rather frustrating that I'm missing it this time round (I don't have Challenge, I'm in a Uni Hall of Residence). My tape collection is incredibly rare just now, and eventually it'll just be an inferior version...

Someone posted the answers on a topic ages ago, and I remember that they made perfect sense when I read them. Unfortunately I've completely forgotten what they were.

I didn't think of going on, I was too young then really. Would have liked to now I look back on it, though.

Anyway. I'm back! Nice new emoticons, I see.  

It was in Series 4, in the same episode where letters started appearing in the rooms (behind the drawbridge, and so on). I clearly remember forgetting to tape it.

You know it's a good programme when, while watching recorded episodes, you're tense even though you know what's going to happen.