Knights of God

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1987
30m

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In the year 2020, Britain is divided into North and South. The Royal Family has been deposed and in its place rule the Knights of God, a harsh militaristic religious order headed by Prior Mo... Read allIn the year 2020, Britain is divided into North and South. The Royal Family has been deposed and in its place rule the Knights of God, a harsh militaristic religious order headed by Prior Mordrin. But a rebel movement is growing, in spite of Mordrin's brainwashing "re-education" ... Read allIn the year 2020, Britain is divided into North and South. The Royal Family has been deposed and in its place rule the Knights of God, a harsh militaristic religious order headed by Prior Mordrin. But a rebel movement is growing, in spite of Mordrin's brainwashing "re-education" camps, and joining it are two love-struck teenagers, Gervase and Julia, who escape from on... Read all

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George Winter

Gervase Edwards

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Claire Parker

Julia Clarke

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John Woodvine

Prior Mordrin

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Julian Fellowes

Brother Hugo

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Patrick Troughton

Arthur

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Gareth Thomas

Owen Edwards

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Shirley Stelfox

Beth Edwards

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Nigel Stock

Brother Simon

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Barrie Cookson

Brigadier Clarke

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Christopher Bowen

Helicopter Pilot

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Don Henderson

Colley

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Peter Childs

Brother Tyrell

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John Vine

Brother Williams

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Tenniel Evans

Dafydd

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Owen Teale

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Anne Stallybrass

Nell

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Michael Lees

Governor

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Lynn Webb-Turner

Wardress

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etepmanor

If you like the Tripods and Dr Who,Knights of God is for you!

Recently watched this again from a copy made at the time from TV in 1987 and was pleasantly surprised how gripping the story is. If you enjoy spotting the durable British character actors who seem to appear in everything made back in the 70's & 80's,Knights of God will keep you watching.

Would love to see it released on DVD,I don't know whether TVS still exists or was swallowed up by ITV at some point. However I fear it had limited appeal when first broadcast ,over looked on Sunday afternoons,which is a shame, because its definetely worth a second sight as they say!

10Opiuman

Aha! Finally found this gem thanks to John Woodvine

I saw this series when I was a teenager and occasionally remembered it and wanted to locate DVDs of it, but had no recollection of what it was called...

Recently I watched Season 2 of "Shameless" and as soon as John Woodvine appeared in it (as Neville Galagher) I recognized that he performed in the series and it gave me a vital clue.

I scoured his filmography until I finally found this series. I'm glad to see that there are others that remember it, even if they are few. Hopefully I'll be able to find a copy of the series somewhere so I can watch it again.

Hopefully it won't disappoint me, I watched it many years ago.

9samurai_rich

gripping stuff, definitely worth a DVD

This show was fantastic, I have only the vaguest memories of it now, but I remember being gripped at the time, because it was like nothing i'd ever seen before. My parents just wouldn't watch sci-fi, so i missed loads of it, but i used to watch it with my brother whenever i could. But it wasn't really sci-fi, it had this medieval quality, maybe because of all the court politics and religious overtones. I had the novelisation too. The Knights crossed swords symbol is still imprinted in my imagination and i think i'd still be scared even now if i met John Woodvine. Fantastic television, definitely worth a DVD.

In fact, if today's telly people looking to counter or capitalise on Doctor Who's current success made more shows like this and less reheated dross like Primeval or Robin Hood the world would be a better place.

osfachris

I loved this but no-one remembers it

It's typical that as I write this it has yet to receive 5 votes, despite being 16 years old. I watched it on British TV when I was 11, and I was totally hooked. Maybe being Welsh helped, maybe being into that other great british SF series Doctor Who helped, but I thought this was a superior slice of homegrown SF with a startling twist at the end. This is a serial in which the hero spends much of its running time brainwashed by the dictator! It's hard to imagine something this brave ever being commissioned as, essentially, a kids' show. Like most great kids' shows, it was far more than just a kids' show. Release it on DVD now!

mandelmanden

Horribly boring...

Bought part 2 of the video yesterday in a "used videos and stuff" shop for about 1.5$... I was lured by the action packed cover to spend time and money on this piece of incredibly boring garbage... maybe as a tv-series in 10000 episodes this could work, but as a 120 min film, 240 if you bought part 1, and dread the existence of part 3, then it falls through... all the way to the bottom.

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The series was made by TVS, a UK company that held a regional broadcasting franchise for broadcasting in the UK as part of the ITV commercial television network. When the company lost it's franchise in the governmental shakeup during the early 1990s, several shows that were popular that had been made by TVS were bought and continued as an ITV production but the rest of the TVS programs archive were bought and absorbed into the Disney Corporation, making a home-video release highly unlikely due to the huge rights clearance costs.