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1998 American television film

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A Knight in Camelot
Based on	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Written by	Joe Wiesenfeld
Directed by	Roger Young
Starring	Whoopi Goldberg Simon Fenton Michael York Paloma Baeza Ian Richardson
Music by	Patrick Williams
Country of origin	United States England Hungary
Original language	English
Production
Producer	Norman Rosemont
Running time	90 minutes
Production companies	The Walt Disney Company Rosemont Productions International
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	November 8, 1998 (1998-11-08)

A Knight in Camelot is a 1998 television film starring Whoopi Goldberg and Michael York, directed by Roger Young, and loosely based on Mark Twain's 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. The film was released as part of The Wonderful World of Disney anthology series that featured numerous productions released by the studio.

Filming took place in the county of Northumberland, England, specifically Alnwick Castle (where a 1979 Disney iteration of the story had been filmed) as well as Budapest in Hungary.

Plot

Scientist Vivien Morgan is zapped back to the medieval age and time of King Arthur and Camelot, when her scientific machine malfunctions. She is sent back along with many objects from her desk, including her laptop and boom box. As she is sentenced to be burned at the stake, she discovers among the laptop-data, that there will be a solar eclipse in short time. With her "magical powers" she makes the sun re-appear and is being knighted by King Arthur as Sir Boss and becomes a member of the Knights of the Round Table. She soon begins constructing devices that will not be present for many centuries, she saves the king, defeats Sir Sagramore and saves the day countless times before being zapped back to the present.

Cast

Whoopi Goldberg as Dr. Vivien Morgan/Sir Boss
Michael York as King Arthur
Paloma Baeza as Sandy
Simon Fenton as Clarence
James Coombes as Sir Lancelot
Robert Addie as Sir Sagramore
Ian Richardson as Merlin
Amanda Donohoe as Queen Guinevere
John Guerrasio as Bob
Steve Speirs as Head of arms

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v t e Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Films	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921 silent) A Connecticut Yankee (1931) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949) Knight-mare Hare (1955) Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979) New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1988) A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995) A Knight in Camelot (1998)
Musical	A Connecticut Yankee "To Keep My Love Alive" "Thou Swell" "My Heart Stood Still"
Other	"The Once and Future Duck"

v t e Films directed by Roger Young
Bitter Harvest (1981) Lassiter (1984) Gulag (1985) Love Among Thieves (1987) The Squeeze (1987) The Bourne Identity (1988) Murder in Mississippi (1990) Doublecrossed (1991) Jewels (1992) Geronimo (1993) Getting Gotti (1994) Joseph (1995) Moses (1995) The Siege at Ruby Ridge (1996) Solomon (1997) A Knight in Camelot (1998) Kiss the Sky (1999) Jesus (1999) One Special Night (1999) The Thin Blue Lie (2000) Dracula (2002) Imperium: Augustus (2003) The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story (2004) Hercules (2005) Barabbas (2012) The Red Tent (2014)

Films directed by Roger Young

Bitter Harvest (1981)
Lassiter (1984)
Gulag (1985)
Love Among Thieves (1987)
The Squeeze (1987)
The Bourne Identity (1988)
Murder in Mississippi (1990)
Doublecrossed (1991)
Jewels (1992)
Geronimo (1993)
Getting Gotti (1994)
Joseph (1995)
Moses (1995)
The Siege at Ruby Ridge (1996)
Solomon (1997)
A Knight in Camelot (1998)
Kiss the Sky (1999)
Jesus (1999)
One Special Night (1999)
The Thin Blue Lie (2000)
Dracula (2002)
Imperium: Augustus (2003)
The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story (2004)
Hercules (2005)
Barabbas (2012)
The Red Tent (2014)

v t e Films based on Arthurian legends
Medieval Arthur	The Adventures of Sir Galahad (serial, 1949) Knights of the Round Table (1953) The Black Knight (1954) Lancelot and Guinevere (1963) Siege of the Saxons (1963) Camelot (1967) Excalibur (1981) First Knight (1995) Arthur and Merlin (2015) King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Pearl Poet	Gawain and the Green Knight (1973) Sword of the Valiant (1984) The Green Knight (2021)
Roman Arthur	King Arthur (2004) The Last Legion (2007)
Foreign adaptations	Lancelot du Lac (1974) Perceval le Gallois (1978) Kaamelott: The First Chapter (2021)
Films based on Wagner's Parsifal	Parsifal (1904) The Evil Forest (1951) Parsifal (1982)
Films from Twain's Connecticut Yankee	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921) A Connecticut Yankee (1931) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949) Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979) New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1988; Soviet Union) A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995)
Based on the Tristan legend	L'Éternel retour (1943) The Woman Next Door (1981) Lovespell (1981) Fire and Sword (1982) In the Shadow of the Raven (1988) Tristan & Isolde (English 2006)
Adaptations of Prince Valiant	Prince Valiant (1954) Prince Valiant (1997)
Parodies and modern adaptations	Knights of the Square Table (1917) King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942) Squareheads of the Round Table (1948) Knutzy Knights (1954) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Knightriders (1981) The Fisher King (1991) Seaview Knights (1994) Kids of the Round Table (1995) Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders (1996) The Mighty (1998) Merlin: The Return (2000) The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2002) Merlin and the War of the Dragons (2008) The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)
Animation	Knight-mare Hare (1955) Knighty Knight Bugs (1958) The Sword in the Stone (1963) Willy McBean and his Magic Machine (1965) Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw (1988) Merlin and the Dragons (1991) Quest for Camelot (1998) Shrek the Third (2007) Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob (2021)
TV films	Merlin and the Sword (1985) Guinevere (1994) The Four Diamonds (1995) Merlin: The Quest Begins (1998) A Knight in Camelot (1998) The Excalibur Kid (1999) Young Arthur (2002) Avalon High (2010)

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