Knightmare Theme Music - Full Version (The Dungeoneer Mix)

Full version of the Knightmare theme music brought to you by Cut & Thrust. Just keep telling yourself, it's only a tune, isn't it?
Knightmare was a British children's adventure game show, broadcast on ITV (CITV) from 1987 to 1994, in which a team of four children guide one of their members, the 'Dungeoneer' (made blind to their surroundings by wearing the "Helmet of Justice") through puzzles inside the virtual world of Knightmare Castle.
The team was assisted by the Dungeon Master (a Saxon Knight named Treguard, played by Hugo Myatt), who would help guide the Dungeoneer and, if things went wrong, explain a team member’s cause of death whenever their game-life ended (ooh, nasty!)
The stirring theme tune by Ed Welch more than sets the scene for the animated opening titles of a Knight on horseback, leaping off cliff edges and charging his way through sinister forests to reach Knightmare Castle. For this remix, I’ve used the music from series 2 and 4.
No copyright infringement intended. This is a tribute remix born out of my love for the show and childhood memories. Copyright belongs to Ed Welch/ITV/Anglia TV

[@richallenxbox1976]

You might be insanely jealous to know that 2 weeks ago I actually met Hugo Myatt, fka the Dungeon Master, at a comic con in Nottingham!

[@doctorjohnsmith3653]

Glad to hear he's doing okay.

[@pyjama9556]

“Warning team, Lifeforce CRITICAL!!”

[@chrisdrennan1997]

Welcome watchers of illusion, to the castle of confusion

[@PhilDrury]

Thank goodness we got rid of Pickle!

[@UMBR.]

Sidestep to your left!!

[@sp610]

Enter, stranger...

[@culttelevision]

I wrote a new theme for this for the final season and sent to Tim Child the producer who loved it but they were contractually committed to finish with Ed Welch's epic theme. Fair enough I always thought :)

[@DGneoseeker1]

Are you serious? Can you put it on youtube?

[@martinknox303]

I still remember that team that lasted 10 minutes. And for 8 minutes, the team argued as to which path to take at the start

[@JLongbow]

"And I'm so in awe of you That I don't know what to do And I'm sailing on the seven seas so blue"

[@CodeAndGin]

Spellcasting: B A N G E R

[@Kypduron1]

Mate, this is the nuts, had to rip this straight away to add to the collection!! If you do another version of it maybe add the horses galloping feet in time to add to the beat and that sound effect every now and again when he rides past the prisoner in the cell?

[@QuachilUttaus_D]

superb arrangement, smooth transition from the early to the middle season versions of the theme, and the ending building is perfect. Anyone who grew up watching this gameshow is certain to feel to the nostalgia of their childhood

[@ConsolasEight]

Listening to this, I was side stepping to the left in excitement ... right into a set of whirling blades :)

[@pritch2002]

And just like that, I am six years old again

[@PhilDrury]

Holy Smeg! This is awesome!!!!

[@MephProduction]

sounds like the sort of thing a new series would use as it's opening, a modern version of the classic theme

[@emperorpalpatine783]

A timeless theme wished the never axed the show

[@marcusquijas7319]

This is actually the best thing EVER!!!!

[@user-fx3kd1pz6k]

The key to winning Knightmare was the advisors being able to keep calm, and multitask intellectual, logical and spacial awareness problems under studio lights, with goblin horns going off and a constantly ticking lifeforce countdown, trying to rattle you into making mistakes - and a single mistake usually resulted in the end of the game. The teams of children who won, and even those who got very far, had some skillsets that many adults would envy, let alone other kids.

[@NinpoUK]

Well this is going on my gym playlist

[@annedwards8898]

omg I used to run home to watch this after school

[@skrq9167]

5pm. ITV Fridays.

[@stickytapenrust6869]

@@skrq91674:40pm, ITV Fridays. Would end at 5:10 for Home and Away (or Crossroads in its first series), then the ITN News At 5:40.

[@Dovoro.]

BRAVO! As an amateur music producer as a kid, this is the sort of thing I wish I’d thought of. Also great that you included both versions of the theme. I spent years as a child wondering if I’d imagined the original orchestration. Same as with the early Chucklevision theme. Brilliant job, I’ve listened to this at top volume in the car whilst bouncing in the drivers seat a’la knight astride my horse several times today! 🐴

[@PhilDrury]

May Knightmare find return! I waited a Lifetime to quest for the anything! Let us quest for the next!

[@Demonmixer]

There's a one episode geek week remake, 30 years later with adults playing. It's on here somewhere, if you haven't seen it...

[@KingofPotatoPeople]

Warning team! Groove condition red!

[@brockschul3221]

If there was a knightmare movie this should be the theme song to it

[@NinpoUK]

Absolute banger.

[@moojuiceuk]

Bloody brilliant 😆 You've really done a good job on this theme. If you're taking requests or suggestions, how about the original 80s TVS version of Catchphrase theme?

[@glyph2011]

Oh my giddy aunt! This is AWESOME! I always wanted to go on that show but never figured out how to do it. This track is a brilliant version of the theme. Thank you so much for creating it. 👍👍👍

[@MindWipe]

first rate mix LOVE IT,, thanks for mentally bringing me back to my childhood with this mix :)

[@CarcharodonCarwooias]

Reminds me, in a good way, of Geoff Love and His Orchestra's discoification of all the best 70's sci-fi theme tunes. Yes, please.

[@Nige031077]

The dance moves were fairly easy, side step to the right, side step to the left, side step to the right and side step to the left, just as long as the Dungeonier isn't in a small room with a chasam running along side of it. Might be handy to have the right lighting as well: Spell casting 'D I S C O B A L L' 😊

[@reddungeoneer2187]

Wicked! Knightmare was the heart of my childhood!

[@bmused55]

This is absolutely fantastic!

[@user-lt4ks9ps2l]

A thousand times .....Thank you! Making something great.....even better!!!!!!

[@Tigermoto]

I'm so glad this song is now in my life. Awesome update on a tune that brings back wonderful memories. Many thanks.

[@GraemeRWatson]

Outstanding work!

[@robp7132]

Great mix... loved Knightmare as a kid.

[@plymouthbiker]

Fantastic! ❤️👍

[@bobbymaesteg]

Fantastic talented person!!!!!!!!

[@fairlast9440]

Love it!!

[@danielfennessey]

And now time turns, the fire burns, time-out is gone, the quest… IS ON…

[@fraserkatie]

This is amazing! I adored Knightmare!!! One of the best themes ever I love this remix!!

[@jamesamey1292]

Perfect! 👍

[@TheRX1982]

Bangin tune..

[@SecretLimited]

Why is this fire? ^^

[@JimTheRevelator]

OOOH... NICE D(j remix)! This is really , really awesome. Love it!

[@LosDelMango]

Hardest kids' game show ever created, by a significant margin, and what did you get if you won? A commemorative teaspoon. A commemorative teaspoon!

[@Mattbarson23]

With respect, what did you think CITV were going to give out? Prize holidays? Trips away? The prizes had to be in line not only with the type of show it was but also the realm in which the show was set - you couldn’t have Treguard and Hordriss giving away trips across the UK because the prize had to be in line with the show, so you’d run the risk of creating anachronisms which wouldn’t make sense.

[@LosDelMango]

@@Mattbarson23 Thank you for your respect. I was thinking they were going to give out something less shit than a teaspoon.

[@johntrevy1]

I thought they gave away freightknight trophies?

[@dellzincht]

@@johntrevy1 "Silver Spurs of Squiredom" from Series 1-4 (an overlarge resin medal), One Frightknight trophy to share in series 5-6, and one Frightknight trophy each in series 7-8.

[@ismayb754]

@@LosDelMango Kids who wanted to win something probably weren't the sort of kids who made it passed the auditions. Not the point of Knightmare. Go play Funhouse. The fact that it was so difficult was what made it so appealing to certain kids. Just getting to be on it was all they wanted. Not prizes. "Finders Keepers" auditions are down the hall, off you go.

[@TheEllawayShow]

Another winner!

[@fraserhorne2060]

One of my fave themes finally a full version. For your next one you should do it'll be alright on the night

[@craigix]

I still use this when I have to walk somewhere quickly. I like to imagine an extended version of the opening to go along with it as I march 😅

[@TheDoctor46UK]

Ah just....yes! Watching the Illusion at the Castle of Confusion. Childhood right there 👍

[@callmesnake3953]

Ohhhh.... Nasty... 😊

[@user-gr5bv4op7d]

Simon, sidestep to your left 💀

[@PhilDrury]

Dot and Bubble: Side-Step Side-Step. ....Only to to get done in by a Phantasm sphere.

[@Highlander1518]

Side step to your left, then your right. Put your left leg in, your left leg out!

[@martinknox303]

No mate, that's your left. Side step to your right....no...your right *muttering* Jesus fucking Christ....SIDE STEP TO YOUR RIGHT!!!

[@smallcd]

Side step to the left!!!

[@darren7917]

I think my you tube is broken, i can only hit like once 😂

[@SurhamCheese]

The 80s was a great generation and legendary too and for great game shows like knightmare

[@97channel]

Ooh, nasty! Superb work. Perfection. I was never quite into the second arrangement of the theme, but the way that this remix builds up to it as the big finale is stunning. I always loved the slight distortion effect in the original end theme, if it hadn't been included here it could have been the dealbreaker. I'm glad that this omits the third version of the tune. Whilst I acknowledge that it is a great piece of work, it was my least favorite arrangement of the three.

[@ismayb754]

I very much like the third theme in its own way, but I acknowledge it wouldn't fit being compiled with the other two. All 3 are very different tbh. First is scary. Second is medieval adventure. Third is action. Personally I prefer the 2nd theme to the original. The 2nd is much more epic IMO (especially those horns in the closing theme) but I do like the original as well.

[@adamseecbrown]

You should do a mix of ITV Blind Date.

[@sp610]

Back when TV was good.

[@alientenno]

your not wrong

[@danielsellers8707]

I haven't had a TV since I moved out of my parents' house in 2018:-)

[@ziggydamaestro]

You gotta mash this up with Amii Stewart’s Knock On Wood!!

[@rajtheangrydj2711]

OH Nasty! Spell casting DISMISS

[@dickoon]

What an infectious, horse-riding sort of beat! Thank you for your hard work on another of Ed Welch's very finest. I had a couple of questions about how someone like you might do a KM remix before I started to listen to it - which version of the theme, and how would you end it? - and you have dealt with them very satisfyingly.

[@knnyben]

Spellcasting...T U N E

[@sslaxx]

3:32 - missed a trick by not having the Anglia theme follow this, I think.

[@37Retro]

Absolutely loving this, Knightmare was my absolute favourite TV show as a kid, I even had the adventure books, turn to page 88 if you pick up the bread etc :). I'm doing a vid on my small channel, just about the 80s and 90s, mainly computer related and memories of that time. Would it be ok to use part of this music with channel credit / link etc? No worries if not, keep up the great work!

[@CutThrust]

Pleased you like it. Yes, go ahead and use it (thanks for the channel credit) 😊

[@officialbackintheday]

Any chance I could use this in an upcoming video of mine? I sent you an email about it too!

[@YorkieKDS]

The fates intertwine as of watching your Vid I then find myself coming here because of it \o/

[@JamesVideoCollection]

Me too! Lol

[@NathRetro1]

Enter stranger

[@stevenhibbert7512]

Where am I

[@BlackBloodCombatClub]

​@@stevenhibbert7512You're in a room

[@malpasc]

I never really liked the show but the theme tune is brilliant

[@Dovoro.]

Do I detect some Muse - ‘Uprising’ inspiration for the drum track too? 👍🏼

[@sadken1716]

Temporal disruption imminent.

[@tiptoptonic]

Is this on Last fm by chance? It's really good.

[@CutThrust]

Thank you. Only available here 😊

[@brucejackson48]

Where am I

[@sp610]

You're in a room.

[@jenny395791]

How old are we all now? 😂

[@iDTecKt]

42 in Jan :D

[@arbeione]

40 now 👍🏻

[@randalpink22]

41

[@SeekNoise]

43 :D

[@TheOriginalSolicious]

37

[@PhilDrury]

Call me nuts, but I think Doctor Who referenced this in Dot and Bubble.

[@bletheringfool]

Marvelous. Have you ever heard of the BBC 2 series Zig Zag? A remix of that theme would be legendary

[@benwinter5295]

Definition of vaporwave 👍🏽

[@AngryVikingBiker]

I'm hearing Garry Glitter in the beats here... not good lol 😆

[@stevenhibbert7512]

Remember raven the bbc knock off

[@jamesholmes6506]

Knightmare and Raven were two very different shows. Knightmare was heavily about the fledgling computer entertainment industry, CGI, and a team together. Raven was more physical, outdoorsy, and often had the contenders going against each other.

[@DGneoseeker1]

No. I do remember some really strange show involving a similar premise but set in some kind of virtual reality world with an AI as the opponent. I have no idea what it was called and it was pretty bad from what I remember.

[@jamesholmes6506]

@@DGneoseeker1 When were you thinking this was on air?

[@DGneoseeker1]

@@jamesholmes6506 Can't have been all that long after Knightmare. Maybe even at the same time... I don't know. Maybe after it stopped airing but no more than a couple of years later I would imagine. I remember hoping for Knightmare and being horribly disappointed with this replacement.

[@jamesholmes6506]

@@DGneoseeker1 OK. I've had a quick look, and one main hint is a show called "Cyberzone", presented by Craig Charles. You don't think that was it, do you?

[@dickiesmith3283]

Rrrremember... The only way is forwards! There is NO going back!

[@brockschul3221]

ONWARD

[@martinknox303]

Unless you are part of that team that lasted 10 minutes