Knights of God | |
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Created by | Richard Cooper |
Starring | George Winter Claire Parker John Woodvine Gareth Thomas Don Henderson Patrick Troughton Nigel Stock |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 13 |
Production | |
Producer | John Dale |
Running time | 26 minutes |
Production company | Television South |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 6 September 6 December 1987 | –
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Knights of God is a British science fiction children's television serial, produced by TVS and first broadcast on ITV in 1987. It was written by Richard Cooper, a writer who had previously worked in both children's and adult television drama. Set in the year 2020, it showed a Britain ruled by the Knights of God, a fascist and anti-Christian religious order that came to power during a brutal civil war twenty years previously. It starred George Winter as Gervase Owen Edwards, the Welsh son of a resistance leader (Gareth Thomas), and John Woodvine as the Prior Mordrin, leader of the eponymous cult. Patrick Troughton played Arthur, the apparent leader of the English resistance, and Julian Fellowes played Mordrin's ambitious and ruthless second-in-command, Brother Hugo.