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Now displaying: July, 2016
Jul 30, 2016

In which Sir Blackwood and Dame Leslie Encounter Sean Connery’s Nipples and a really bad adaptation.

Best Version of the Stain-glass Gawain & The Green Knight Animated.
https://youtu.be/t855W1rFYEo?list=PLtqAE96LRGobwaYie-usNJtecF3eC2SgU

Valiant Sword Links
http://www.godecookery.com/incrd/incrd.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wedding_of_Sir_Gawain_and_Dame_Ragnelle
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10585159-sword-of-the-valiant
http://awesomebmovies.com/2011/06/sword-of-the-valiant-the-legend-of-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-1984/

Books
The Knightly Tales of Sir Gawain by   Louis Brewer Hall

Music
End Music - taken from Monty Python’ and the Search for the Holy Grail

Sound Effects
Playing With You dolls - Spaceballs
Monk Chant - Monty Python & The Holy Grail
Chase Music - Benny Hill Theme
“Rita Repulsa Clip” - Power Rangers
Total Drama Island Clip
Swallow Clip Monty Python & The Holy Grail
Dull Surprise - Mystery Science Theatre 3000
Whale Probe - Star Trek IV
Wha Wha Sound Effect Taken from You Tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtmI–F8Zmo
Joker Laugh Batman the Animated Series.
Sean Connery’s Nipples -Performed by Detroit He posts every Sunday Morning at  http://caucus99percent.com  He also made the Rita Repulsa joke first.

Jul 28, 2016

Gawain and the Green Knight BBC Documentary
In Which Sir Blackwood and Dame Leslie watch a Documentry and talk about being stuck in the woods to pad the run time.

Book Credits
The New Arthurian Encyclopedia - Norris J. Lacy (ed)
Arthur Dies at the End http://www.jeffwik.com/le-morte-darthur-index/

Websites
LibriVox Recording https://librivox.org/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-neilson-version/
Archive.org Text https://archive.org/stream/sirgawainthegree00neiluoft/sirgawainthegree00neiluoft_djvu.txt
Spark Notes http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gawain/context.html
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight
Night Bringer http://www.nightbringer.se/a_gawaine.html

Credits
Boom is from http://www.freesfx.co.uk/
End Music - taken from Monty Python’ and the Search for the Holy Grail
Opening Music from Heart of Medieval by Butterfly Tea. Downloaded from http://www.last.fm/music/Butterfly+Tea/_/Heart+of+Medieval

Jul 27, 2016

In Which Dame Leslie & Sir Blackwood read Gawain and the Green Knight, and talk a lot about how much better it is than the Morte de Arthur.

Book Credits
The New Arthurian Encyclopedia - Norris J. Lacy (ed)
Arthur Dies at the End http://www.jeffwik.com/le-morte-darthur-index/

Websites
LibriVox Recording https://librivox.org/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-neilson-version/
Archive.org Text https://archive.org/stream/sirgawainthegree00neiluoft/sirgawainthegree00neiluoft_djvu.txt
Spark Notes http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gawain/context.html
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight
Night Bringer http://www.nightbringer.se/a_gawaine.html
Terry Jones’ Medieval Lives - S1 Ep 3 - The Damsel  - https://youtu.be/wL5CviNAhnk

Credits
Boom is from http://www.freesfx.co.uk/
Dun Dun DUH http://www.orangefreesounds.com/dun-dun-dun-sound-effect-brass/
Counting Joke - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
End Music - taken from Monty Python’ and the Search for the Holy Grail
Opening Music from Heart of Medieval by Butterfly Tea. Downloaded from http://www.last.fm/music/Butterfly+Tea/_/Heart+of+Medieval

Jul 24, 2016

In which Sir Blackwood and Dame Leslie do a real review spoiler free and interview the author of the Forgotten Sister, Kieran Higgins. Enjoy our special bonus episode.

Corrections: Dame Leslie completely brain farted Arthur only has half sisters, she blames her Pendragon game where they are full sisters and BBC's Merlin to a lesser extent.

@fuckyeaharthuriana 's E-mail Interview

Kieran's Websites and Links.

Kieran's Official Webpage

Kieran's Instagram

Kieran Higgins on Tumblr

Kieran on Twitter

Kieran on Good Reads

The Forgotten Sister on Amazon

American Amazon

Arthurian Mythia's Links

Mythia Tumblr

Music and Sound Effects

End Music - taken from Monty Python' and the Search for the Holy Grail
Opening Music from Heart of Medieval by Butterfly Tea. Downloaded from http://www.last.fm/music/Butterfly+Tea/_/Heart+of+Medieval

Wha Wha Sound Effect Taken from You Tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtmI--F8Zmo


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Jul 21, 2016

Battlefield Cast

In which Sir Blackwood and Dame Leslie look into the connection between the Doctor and Merlin, spoilers they are the same guy.
http://www.behindthename.com/name/gwalchmei Gwalchmei Name Info
http://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/ Arthur King of time and Space Web Comic, we also got a quote from the creator.
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Doctor_Who_Wiki Doctor Who Wiki, very informative
And we checked all the Actor's Pervious work on http://www.imdb.com/

Music
Everyone Wants to Rules the World by Tears for Fears
Doctor Who Theme Tune 1963-1969 by Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire
End Music - taken from Monty Python' and the Search for the Holy Grail
Opening Music from Heart of Medieval by Butterfly Tea. Downloaded from http://www.last.fm/music/Butterfly+Tea/_/Heart+of+Medieval

Wha Wha Sound Effect Taken from You Tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtmI--F8Zmo

Jul 14, 2016

King Arthur was a Gentelman Cast

In which Dame Leslie and Sir Blackwood talk about a movie that is not entirely unlike a movie about King Arthur, Oh and there are Nazis.

This Movie is Public Domain You can watch it here
https://archive.org/details/KingArthurWasaGentleman

Crash Sound Effect http://www.freesfx.co.uk/
Web Reference http://www.britmovie.co.uk/films/King-Arthur-Was-a-
Gentleman/

Music
Opening Heart of Medieval by Butterfly Tea. Downloaded from
http://www.last.fm/music/Butterfly+Tea/_/Heart+of+Medieval

Closing Intermition Music - taken from Monty Python’ and the
Search for the Holy Grail.

The Book Mentioned is Modern Arthur #1 Knight Life
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/366033.Knight_Life?
from_search=true&search_version=service

Gawain Comic Mentioned http://gawaincomic.com/

Arthur King of Time and Space Did Dracula Vs. Arthur
http://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/1043.htm
http://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/1657.htm

Also there is a Comic Book
http://www.comicvine.com/dracula-vs-king-arthur/4050-20166/

It's the "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Executive

King Arthur was a Gentleman Wiki Page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Arthur_Was_a_Gentleman
Arthur Askey Wiki Page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Askey
IMDB Page
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034943/

To learn More about Universal Carriers
http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/vehicles/universalcarriers/univers
alcarriers.htm

Also Shout out to @Professorerudite for information given to us in
this post, sadly been to busy working on the episode to respond.
http://professorerudite.tumblr.com/post/132272401801/arthurian-mythia-professorerudite

Jul 8, 2016

End of Excalibur

The second half the review of Excalibur as Dame Leslie and Sir Blackwood discover the true magnificence of Crazy Hermit Lancelot.

Corrections
Gaheris not Gareth was tied to the Horse

References
Arthur Dies at the End by Jeffery Wikstrom http://www.jeffwik.com/le-morte-darthur-index/

Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory https://librivox.org/search?q=Le%20Morte%20d%27Arthur&search_form=advanced

Robert Addie – IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011665/

Excalibur - IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082348/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

Excalibur (film) - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excalibur_%28film%29

Excalibur (1981)(film) - King Arthur Wikia http://kingarthur.wikia.com/wiki/Excalibur_%281981%29_%28film%29

Quote from Camelot Musical http://www.startribune.com/ah-camelot-where-the-tables-are-round-and-the-relationships-triangular/303610231/

Picture source
http://filmyfantasy.blogspot.ca/2013/04/excalibur-1981.html

Audio sources
Intermition Music - taken from Monty Python' and the Search for the Holy Gral

Sound Clip from Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail.

Wha Wha Sound Effect Taken from You Tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtmI--F8Zmo

Closing music from Heart of Medieval by Butterfly Tea. Downloaded from http://www.last.fm/music/Butterfly+Tea/_/Heart+of+Medieval

Jul 7, 2016

Excalbur 1981 Cast

In which Sir Blackwood and Dame Leslie bravely dig into the history and sources of the 1981 movie Excalibur.

Books

Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory https://librivox.org/search?q=Le%20Morte%20d%27Arthur&search_form=advanced

The Arthurian Encyclopedia - The King Arthur Library

The New Arthurian Encyclopedia - Norris J. Lacy (ed)

Gurps Camelot - Steve Jackson Games

Web Pages

Excalibur review by Roger Ebart (1981) http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/excalibur-1981

Excalibur - IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082348/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

Excalibur (film) - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excalibur_%28film%29

Excalibur (1981)(film) - King Arthur Wikia http://kingarthur.wikia.com/wiki/Excalibur_%281981%29_%28film%29

The Great Unmade? John Boorman's The Lord of the Rings - Cinetropolis http://cinetropolis.net/the-great-unmade-john-boormans-the-lord-of-the-rings/

John Boorman's The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien Gateway http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/John_Boorman's_The_Lord_of_the_Rings

Picture source
http://filmyfantasy.blogspot.ca/2013/04/excalibur-1981.html

Audio sources
Opening music from Heart of Medieval by Butterfly Tea. Downloaded from
http://www.last.fm/music/Butterfly+Tea/_/Heart+of+Medieval
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
The Liberty Bell - taken from Monty Python's Flying Circus
Gravity Falls

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