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Disaster struck my Arthurian film project this week: I had been planning to add some variety with a viewing of George A Romero’s Knightriders , in which the Camelot story plays out within a motorcycle jousting team in early ‘80s California. But to my horror and amazement it’s not available to stream in the UK, and DVDs are surprisingly pricey: it joins Bresson's Lancelot du Lac and Cocteau's The Eternal Return on my list of hard-to-track-down Holy Grails. Anyway, I spent so long looking for Knightriders that there wasn't time to watch a whole movie, so I turned instead to another old TV version, Arthur of the Britons , which is easily available on YouTube. This one comes from 1972 and I’d never seen it, although I’ve often heard it mentioned with great affection. I imagine there's a cohort five or ten years older than me for whom it crystallised the image of King Arthur and co in the same way Excalibur did for me. There’s a fan website full of interviews and behind-...