Knightmare - TV show

[seanmlow]

Does anyone else remember this? I used to think it was so cool and would rush back from school to catch it at 4.05 on fridays!

Some of it was scary though!

[Jah Lush]

Never heard of it.

[dulwichmum]

Me neither, sorry. But did you see Kim Wilde on GMTV this morning? She has been looking like something that came out of a swamp stuck to someones shoe for ages, and she looks back on top form now! I am off to Holland and Barrat...

[embellina]

It was amazing - it took me a long time to get discover it though. Just always thought it was for spoddy boys. How wrong I was. Or maybe I was just a spoddy girl...

[Annasfield]

Check out the favourite TV memories thread. I posted a you tube link on there a few weeks ago.

I loved it too! :))

[James]

i loved it too. Especially the hammy actors pretending to be goblins etc. and the skull timer thing that would disintegrate as you ran out of time. Freaky.

[david_carnell]

Knightmare was one of my all time faves. Quite scary for a little 'un. The fact that, at the end, they would be frozen in the game until next week gave me the creeps. As embellina says, the contestants were the type of kids to get bullied at school.

For the day, the technology was amazing.

Did any team ever win it? I don't think I ever saw anyone make it to the end. The theme tune is a great atmospheric sound.

Ahhh, memories.

[Annasfield]

Here you go

[Keef]

It was bloody wicked!!!!!

[Annasfield]

I thought that Keef and I were the only people around our age group. It's good to know there a few others :)-D

[david_carnell]

Well I'm 24 and think I was about 8-10 when it was on tv. Everyone always thinks kids tv was best for their generation but in our case....it really was!!

[*Bob*]

I remember it. I always thought the 'Dungeon Master' was a bit hammy.

I was more of an 'Adventure Game' man myself.

[Ladygooner]

Never heard of it - is it similar to Knightrider?!

[Jah Lush]

Tch! No wonder I don't remember it. When you young whippersnappers were slumbering in front of the telly watching your Knightmare TV show I was either getting off my tits somewhere or working my tits off so I could afford to get off my tits somewhere.

[seanmlow]

maybe I am out on a limb here, but does anyone remember a character called The Minstral on it? Long hair, tights, blouse. He scared the living shite out of me and I don't know why!

[Ant]

LEFT! STOP! GO RIGHT! RIGHT! NO, LEFT!

Ah happy days.

[Keef]

I think it was on for a good few years.

[*Bob*]

I think I must have just caught the first year or so of it - before discovering the dubious delights of drinking cider in parks and hoping a girl might let me touch her up.

Cool though the programme undoubtedly was, I doubt if mentioning 'Knightmare' would have given me the edge over the bigger boys.

[seanmlow]

remember the napsack?

[*Bob*]

The knapsack does ring a bell.

What I remember more clearly is the mask or helmet thing which showed how much life force the young adventurer had left.

[Keef]

Yeah it started green, then bits of the face would fall away and it would go from orange to red and there would only be a skull left, until they found some bread or something to put in the napsack/satchel thing.

There were "wall monsters" who would ask them riddles and stuff too.

Only remember seeing one lot get to the end f the game, which took them several episodes I think!

[Keef]

Knightmare on Wikipedia

Apparently it run from 7 September 1987 to 11 November 1994. Which means I would have just turned 9 when it started, and would have probably stopped watching in 90.

[mockney piers]

*bob* adventure game, now we're talking!!!

Moira Stewart, dodgy bbc graphics, Brian Cant.

God I even played this

[*Bob*]

Many a time I've snuck a hand round the back of a plant pot and given it a shake - with the appropriate 'burbling' sound effect - to blank stares.

The adventure game was pure magic. Right up there with The Great Egg Race.

[capt_birdseye]

The adventure game was doog yrev!

Knightmare was crap, apart from Dungeonmaster said "WARNING TEAM!!!" at then end.