In the USA RCA produced a promotional coloring book, which included an illustration of William Russell in his role as Sir Lancelot.
RCA Coloring Book
Category Archives: The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
Sir Lancelot Board Game
A board game was produced in the USA by Lisbeth Whiting Co. in 1957. The box lid also featured a ‘film strip’ of photographs from the series down the lids’ righthand side. This incredibly rare game was issued in the UK by Bell games in 1959, appearing to have had all references to the TV series removed, it is instead just produced as a generic Sir Lancelot game. The box lid for the UK version carries the same artwork, as does the playing board, but the strip of photographs has now been removed, replaced by an illustration of Camelot, and Sir Lancelot’s shield.
The UK Edition of the Game.
Sir Lancelot Jigsaw puzzle
A single 500 piece jigsaw puzzle based on the TV series was issued by Tower Press in 1957.
Ballard of Sir Lancelot / The Buccaneers single
A single of the series theme The Ballard of Sir Lancelot was released in the USA. (MGM K12358) This version of the theme was recorded by the group The Naturals and was released in a picture sleeve, with the theme from another ITC show The Buccaneers appearing on the other side.
Sir Lancelot Dutch Pins
In the Netherlands, a popular give away with groceries, were small metal pins, almost like a tiepin which featured various different images. Three different coloured metal pins were produced featuring an image of William Russell as Sir Lancelot. A white plastic pin also appeared bearing an image of Sir Lancelot.
Sir Lancelot Dutch Matchbox label
Matchbox labels also seem to have been popular in the Netherlands, with a vast array of different actors’ images appearing on labels, including William Russell.
Sir Lancelot Big Little Book
Whitman publishing in the USA as part of their ‘Big Little Book’ series published Sir Lancelot by Dorothy Haas in 1958. This small book based on the show was illustrated by Helmuth Wegner.
Sir Lancelot and Brian Comic, USA and British Issues
In the USA the Dell publishing group as part of their Dell Four Color Comic series published Sir Lancelot and Brian in 1957. The cover featuring images from the series and two stories are contained, The Knight of the Red plume and The Ferocious Fathers. The original cover price was 10cents, but at some point it was republished with the cover price having risen to 15cents. This title was republished in the UK by World Distributors Ltd as No 27 in their ‘A Movie classic’ series of comics priced at 1/-.
Sir Lancelot TV Guides
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot featured on the cover of the St Louis Post – Dispatch TV Magazine for November 11, 1956. A short feature on both the actor and new series appeared within.
The Sunday Star TeleVue Tv listings magazine in the Washington DC region of the USA also featured William Russell in his role of Sir Lancelot on the front cover of their magazine, dated December 9 -15, 1956 and it also included a small feature on William Russell.
Dutch Paperback
In the Netherlands the firm of Topaas Reeks published a paperback book based on the series in 1964, as they had done for Robin Hood. The book contained six short stories and as well as the photographic cover, it also had black and white photographs from the series contained within its centre.
Sir Lancelot Postcard Dutch
Several postcards of scenes from the series were produced in the Netherlands. The cards are photographic and both colour and black and white cards were produced for the series card. The colour cards have the appearance of having been black and white images that have been over-coloured. Some, though not all, bear the name Gebr. Spanjersberg N.V., Rotterdam, while the black and white postcards are marked Filmpers P.O.B.521, Amsterdam.
Adventures of Sir Lancelot No 2
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot No 2. A second hardback storybook based on the series the Adventures of Sir Lancelot appeared in 1958. This was once again published by Adprint. While once again this book had a photo cover, (This time also having a dust jacket of the same design), it does not contain photographs, instead it was illustrated throughout by R.S.Embleton, while the stories were adapted from the series by Arthur Groom.
Trading cards
While the Adventures of Sir Lancelot does not appear to have had its own dedicated trade card set at least the following card sets contained cards relating to the series. Snap card products Ltd. issued as part of a larger set of cards relating to various different series, one card of William Russell, card 34, in The Adventures of Sir Lancelot, is in its ATV stars set as is also a card featuring Jane Hylton (Queen Guinevere) on card 42.
While card 62 in the Who-z-at Star set also from Snap card productions featured William Russell, he also featured on the reverse of card 10, Tommy Cooper.
The Ice Cream Company Mister Softee, produced a set of TV Personalities cards in 1962, this also contained William Russell as Sir Lancelot on card 21.
Adventures of Sir Lancelot annual 1
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot. Adprint produced a hardback storybook for the television series the Adventures of Sir Lancelot, this was adapted from the series by John Paton. Photographs (some of which are in colour) appear throughout this book which has a predominantly red cover, with a full-length photograph of William Russell in the role of Sir Lancelot to the right-hand side of the cover. There is no date of publication given within this book, but it is believed to have been published in 1957.
