The Legend of King Arthur

The Legend of King Arthur
Written by	Andrew Davies
Directed by	Rodney Bennett
Starring	Andrew Burt Felicity Dean Maureen O'Brien David Robb
Theme music composer	Dudley Simpson
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	8
Production
Producer(s)	Ken Riddington
Running time	30 minutes
Release
Original network	BBC1
Original release	7 October – 25 November 1979

The Legend of King Arthur is a British television fantasy serial, produced by the BBC in association with Time-Life Television and the Australian Broadcasting Commission, and broadcast on BBC 1 in 1979.

The series starred Andrew Burt as King Arthur, Felicity Dean as Guinevere, Maureen O'Brien as Morgan le Fay, David Robb as Lancelot, and Robert Eddison as Merlin.

Patsy Kensit also made a notable early appearance, playing Morgan as a child.

Earnestly historicist, the production design of the show was of the heroic age, ca. A.D. 500, like the HTV production Arthur of the Britons (1972–3). However, the tragic storyline of this BBC version kept closer faith with the chivalric romance of Le Morte d'Arthur.

The Arthurian scholar Norris J. Lacy opines: "The Legend of King Arthur has the leisure to depict the legend in detail, but the resulting periodic presentation, if not the medium itself, dilutes the force and drama of the Arthurian story in a way that rarely happens in literature, and certainly not either in the French Vulgate or in Malory."

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