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    Kids TV TV Shows - 1950s 2 Mins Read

    Queen’s Champion

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    The ‘Queen’s Champion’ was a golden statuette of a knight in armour which was passed down to the eldest son of each generation of the aristocratic Penlynden family.

    This series – the first long-form historical serial to be specially written for television as an ersatz ‘literary classic’ – followed the adventures of 14-year old Roger Penlynden in Elizabethan England.

    The adventure began on the eve of the battle of the Armada on 20 July 1588 and saw Roger (Michael Anderson) and his friend Toby the scullery boy (Frazer Hines) discover fifth columnists and a Spanish plot to kill the Queen.

    The cast contained many names who would go on to become well-known in years to come. The series was recorded in its entirety and repeated the following summer, although it is believed only the first episode survives in the BBC archive.

    Roger Penlynden
    Michael Anderson
    Toby
    Frazer Hines
    Master Fidian
    Patrick Cargill
    Don Jose
    Roger Delgado
    Master Allan
    John Woodnutt
    Rumbell
    Paul Whitsun-Jones
    Ralph
    Colin Douglas
    Old Bartholomew
    Nigel Arkwright
    Sir Thomas Wycherly
    Barry Letts
    Queen Elizabeth 
    Peggy Thorpe-Bates
    Hal
    Terry Baker
    Lord Burleigh
    John Welsh
    Sir Henry Penlynden
    William Devlin
    2nd Wycherly Guard
    Michael Harrison
    Courtier
    Neville Barber
    Captain Elliot
    Derek Sydney
    Andrews
    Glyn Jones
    Mary Brandon
    Jane Asher
    John Brandon
    Michael Brennan
    Don Alonzo
    Patrick Troughton
    Lord Bretherton
    Desmond Llewelyn
    Sir Edmund Carrick
    Anthony Parker
    Earl Hawkeden
    John Gedin
    Sir Arthur St. John
    Alec Bregonzi
    O’Keefe
    Bruce Stewart
    Lady Fennimore
    Penelope Bartley
    Mistress Downey
    Betty Cooper
    Servant
    Jack Smethurst

    Episodes

    Betrayal | The Escape from Penlynden | The Outlaws | The Rescue | The Trap | The Eve of the Armada | The Edge of Defeat | The Return to Penlynden

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