Knights of God

Knights of God
Created byRichard Cooper
StarringGeorge Winter
Claire Parker
John Woodvine
Gareth Thomas
Don Henderson
Patrick Troughton
Nigel Stock
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes13
Production
ProducersJohn Dale, Television South
Running time26 minutes
Original release
NetworkTelevision South for ITV
Release6 September (1987-09-06) –
6 December 1987 (1987-12-06)
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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.