Knightmare on DVD
Posted: 24 Mar 2003, 07:52
I was a big fan of "Knightmare" when it ran in the late 80's and early 90's on ITV, and I have recently been enjoying the re-runs of Series 3 on "Challenge TV" recently (shame they are ending soon though!). I would love a DVD release of all the series, it would be fantastic. As for the people on about a VHS release, no offence to that but does anybody really care about VHS now? VHS is so poor compared to DVD, why bother? VHS is such an old format now, I can't understand anyone who buys videos now. Anyway, this isn't a rant against VHS, but obviously now we are in the DVD age.
I have been taping the Series 3 repeats off Challenge TV, and I have some recorded from the original broadcasts on ITV, but not many as some of my videotapes have chewed up, with age I guess. I would love to see some "Knightmare" DVD's. Commentaries would be ace, from Tim Child, Hugo Myatt and any other cast/crew members. Other stuff such as 'behind-the-scenes' material would be great, and also maybe all the "Children's ITV" links that was shown before & after "Knightmare". Also, Treguard and other cast members often made appearances on CITV, so be good to see them too, and also the adverts for the tie-in books that were show after some episodes of the show.
Maybe, also a "Where Are They Now?" type featurette to show what happenned to the many stars of the show, such as Mark Knight (Lord Fear), Paul Valentine (Motley/Sylvester Hands) etc. I did know that Michael Cule (Brother Mace/Fatilla) appeared in the Michael Winner movie, "Dirty Weekend". Maybe, also extend this to feature the teams, and in particular the winning teams, some of which has posted messages on the www.knightmare.com site. I would also like to see a retrospective documentary type-thing, in which Tim Child and co, could talk about how the idea for the show came-up, and about casting etc.
I think a DVD of this show is long overdue, the show has never been repeated on ITV1, it was never released on video and apart from the Sci-Fi Channel re-runs in '98 (which was only on UK cable at this time - Sky's analogue hours of Sci-Fi were only 8pm-12am and "Knightmare" was broadcast in the morning. Also, cable wasn't widely available throughout the UK at this time, only in certain regions) it wasn't ever seen again on TV (since the original broadcasts on ITV) until Christmas 2002 when Challenge TV started to show Series 3. However, that is drawing to a close soon, and Challenge have no plans to show any of the other series. So, a DVD release of the entire 8 series would be fabulous, and judging by the number of fans this show has, I am sure it would sell well.
So, here's hoping a DVD release of "Knightmare" will happen one day...
I have been taping the Series 3 repeats off Challenge TV, and I have some recorded from the original broadcasts on ITV, but not many as some of my videotapes have chewed up, with age I guess. I would love to see some "Knightmare" DVD's. Commentaries would be ace, from Tim Child, Hugo Myatt and any other cast/crew members. Other stuff such as 'behind-the-scenes' material would be great, and also maybe all the "Children's ITV" links that was shown before & after "Knightmare". Also, Treguard and other cast members often made appearances on CITV, so be good to see them too, and also the adverts for the tie-in books that were show after some episodes of the show.
Maybe, also a "Where Are They Now?" type featurette to show what happenned to the many stars of the show, such as Mark Knight (Lord Fear), Paul Valentine (Motley/Sylvester Hands) etc. I did know that Michael Cule (Brother Mace/Fatilla) appeared in the Michael Winner movie, "Dirty Weekend". Maybe, also extend this to feature the teams, and in particular the winning teams, some of which has posted messages on the www.knightmare.com site. I would also like to see a retrospective documentary type-thing, in which Tim Child and co, could talk about how the idea for the show came-up, and about casting etc.
I think a DVD of this show is long overdue, the show has never been repeated on ITV1, it was never released on video and apart from the Sci-Fi Channel re-runs in '98 (which was only on UK cable at this time - Sky's analogue hours of Sci-Fi were only 8pm-12am and "Knightmare" was broadcast in the morning. Also, cable wasn't widely available throughout the UK at this time, only in certain regions) it wasn't ever seen again on TV (since the original broadcasts on ITV) until Christmas 2002 when Challenge TV started to show Series 3. However, that is drawing to a close soon, and Challenge have no plans to show any of the other series. So, a DVD release of the entire 8 series would be fabulous, and judging by the number of fans this show has, I am sure it would sell well.
So, here's hoping a DVD release of "Knightmare" will happen one day...