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"The Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened on the ITV network. The series starred William Russell as the eponymous Sir Lancelot, a Knight of the Round Table in the time of King Arthur at Camelot. It was originally broadcast on NBC in the United States from 1956 to 1957.[2] Its success on the network led to it becoming the first British television series to have entire episodes filmed in colour, with the last fourteen of the thirty half-hour episodes being shot on colour stock, although they were seen in colour only in the US. (Although the BBC's 1954 TV series Zoo Quest pre-dated The Adventures of Sir Lancelot's use of colour film stock by two years, this was only for the location work whilst the studio links were captured by monochrome video cameras). William Russell as Sir Lancelot Ronald Leigh-Hunt as King Arthur Bruce Seton as King Arthur (first two episodes only) Jane Hylton as Guinevere Cyril Smith as Merlin Robert Scroggins as Brian, Lancelot's squire David Morrell as Sir Kay"