C - Film, Television, and Radio
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 April 2017
Summary
C-1Aaahh!!! Real Monsters. “Quest for the Holy Pail.” Dir. Igor Kovalyov. Story by Steve Skrovan and Mark Palmer; written by Mark Palmer. Nickelodeon Network, 18 Nov. 1995. (*)
Reissued: Klasky-Csupo, 1996.
An animated television show; in this episode, Ickis, one of the main characters (voiced by Charlie Adler), has to find the “holy pail,” a monstrous counterpart to the Grail. (Information derived from <http://www.cooltoons.com/realmonsters/> and <http://www.tvtome.com/AaahhReal Monsters/>).
C-2The Adventures of Shirley Holmes. “The Case of King Arthur's Alibi.” Credo Entertainment Productions. YTV Network, 30 Apr. 2000. King Arthur (a high school history teacher and president of the Arthurian society) locks up Guenevere (another member of the society) one night before the Arthurian pageant is to begin. Shirley Holmes must unravel the mystery to find out if King Arthur really is dangerous, or whether he was framed; Lancelot and Morgan are both suspects.
C-3The Adventures of Sir Galahad. Dir. Spencer Bennett. Producer: Sam Katzman. Written by David Mathews, George H. Plympton and Lewis Clay. With George Reeves. Columbia, 1949. (*)
This fifteen-episode serial revolves around Galahad's attempt to recover the stolen Excalibur in order to prove his worthiness for knighthood.
C-4The Adventures of Sir Lancelot. Producers: Hannah Weinstein, Dallas Bower, Sidney Cole, and Bernard Knowles. With William Russell, Jane Hylton, and Ronald Leigh-Hunt. Sapphire Films, 1956–1957.
A British television series in thirty half-hour episodes. There were various directors and writers for the series, but each week Sir Lancelot would face another adventure or solve another problem; the series did not confine itself to traditional characters and situations. (See also the entry for The Adventures of Sir Lancelot in the Comics section. See also the several entries for The Adventures of Sir Lancelot [novelizations of the television series] in the Literature section.)
C-5Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott.” Produced and directed by Peter Griffiths. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1992. Cat. no. BVL3246. A video (26 minutes) offering a reading by Charlotte Cornwell of Tennyson's poem, using as a backdrop reproductions of the illustrations to the poem by Charles Keeping; the reading is accompanied by responses from “an artist, a historian, and a former prison inmate.”
C-6 The All-New Super Friends Hour. “The Ghost.” Dir. William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. ABC; Hanna-Barbera Studios, 17 Dec. 1977. (*) The “Super Friends” include various cartoon heroes, including Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, and others.
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- A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana (1500–2000) , pp. 497 - 528Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2006