05/09/2025
Happy 38th Birthday Knightmare!
Anglia Television’s groundbreaking kids’ adventure game show debuted on 7th September 1987. Created by Tim Child and hosted by Hugo Myatt as dungeon master Treguard, it fused blue-screen chroma key and early computer graphics to drop a sightless “dungeoneer” (wearing the Helmet of Justice) into a living dungeon, guided by three teammates. As the years progressed, the technology levelled up, from painted rooms and simple keying to richer 3D compositing.
Filmed in Norwich, it ran for eight series and rewired a generation’s after-school imaginations. Enter, stranger…
