The Adventures of Sir Lancelot was a British television series of the 1950s, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened on the ITV network. The series starred William Russell as the eponymous Sir Lancelot, a Knight of the Round Table in the time of King Arthur at Camelot. // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning... -1... Independent Television (ITV) is the name given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up to provide competition to the BBC. In England and Wales the channel was recently rebranded ITV1 by ITV plc who own the regional broadcasting licences for the regions. ... William Russell (born Russell Enoch on November 19, 1924 in Sunderland, England, UK) is a British actor, mainly known for his television work. ... This entry was adapted from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. ... For other uses, see Round Table (disambiguation). ... King Arthur is an important figure in the mythology of Great Britain, where he appears as the ideal of kingship in both war and peace. ... Camelot is the name of the stronghold of the legendary King Arthur, from which he fought many of the battles that made up his life. ...

The series debuted in the UK on Saturday September 15, 1956, on London weekend ITV franchise holder ATV, and on the NBC network in the United States nine days later. It is one of the very few British television series ever to have been screened on one of the major broadcast networks in the US (as opposed to on PBS or cable television stations). Its success on NBC led to it becoming the first British television series ever to be produced in colour, the last fourteen of the thirty half-hour episodes being shot on colour stock, although they were only seen in colour in the US. The last episode was shown on April 13, 1957 in the UK and September 16, 1957 on NBC. It later transferred networks in the US to ABC, who repeated the episodes from October 1957 to September 1958. September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years). ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... The ATV colour logo, used from the start of the colour standard in 1969 until the companys demise in 1981. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American radio and television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... PBS re-directs here; for alternate uses see PBS (disambiguation) PBS logo The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ... Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed optical... An American family watching television in the 1950s. ... April 13 is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (104th in leap years). ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years). ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is a television and radio network in the United States. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Bruce Seton and later Ronald Leigh-Hunt played King Arthur, with Jane Hylton as Guinevere and Cyril Smith as Merlin. As was common with several other British television series of the time, it employed several American screenwriters who had moved to Britain after being placed on the Hollywood blacklist, often under pseudonyms. These included Ian McLellan Hunter and Ring Lardner Jr.. The series was produced by Sidney Cole, Dallas Bower and Bernard Knowles and made at Nettlefold Studios in Walton-on-Thames. Guinevere was the Queen consort of King Arthur. ... Merlin Ambrosius (Welsh: Myrddin Emrys; also known as Myrddin Wyllt (Merlin the wild), Merlin Caledonensis (Scottish Merlin), Merlinus, and Merlyn) is the personage best known as the mighty wizard featured in accounts of Arthur of Britain starting with Geoffrey of Monmouths Historia Regum Britanniae. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies are made. ... Playwright Arthur Miller testifies before HUAC The Hollywood blacklist was a group of mainly film actors, directors, and screenwriters in the late 1940s and early 1950s who were unable to work openly after having been targeted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities for alleged communist activities. ... A pseudonym (Greek: false name) is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to their legal name (whereas an allonym is the name of another actual person assumed by one person in authorship of a work of art; e. ... Ring Lardner Jr. ... Walton-On-Thames is a town in Surrey, England. ...

The complete series was released as a DVD box set in the UK by Network Video in 2004. DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

References

• Vahimagi, Tise. British Television: An Illustrated Guide. Oxford. Oxford University Press / British Film Institute. 1994. ISBN 0-19-818336-4.

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External link

• The Adventures of Sir Lancelot at the Internet Movie Database.
• Episode guide at The Historical Adventure Series Guide website.