Hey, it's something somebody may have actually watched! It was hugely popular when it aired, but does The Mists of Avalon hold up two decades later?

**note: at the beginning of the episode there is brief discussion of the author of the book and her participation in CSA during her life**

We have on our hands a remarkable thing: a king Arthur movie that is well made, and interesting, and also very boring and kind of mean? We're not going to tell you to watch it (unless you really want to), but we'll explain in the episode.

Can it be? An Arthurian story we've never covered? Be still, my heart. Let's meet Marie de France and Lanval!

Well, it's an easy watch at least. We've got another Connecticut Yankee on our hands, but did Disney manage to do anything interesting with it? And would it really be possible to build a medieval mountain bike?

If you want some straight up and down mid-century Arthuriana, it doesn't get more stock-standard than this. No, that's not supposed to sound like a compliment.

Is it possible to Frankenstein a good movie from the remains of a prior, not very good movie? Maybe, but Siege of the Saxons is not it, off-brand Robin Hood notwithstanding.

We thought the 2000s Tristan and Isolde was a low water mark, but this one gives it a run for its money. Is it impossible to make a good Tristan and Isolde? And, more crucially, who the hell is Dinas?

It's the King Arthur movie against which all others are measured. It's Excalibur.

Once upon a time, one man and his second wife decided they could make movies without the studio system that didn't seem to want them. But did they manage to pull it off?

October is for bad movies, apparently, and this is one really tested our limits. Listen to the episode, but don't watch the film. Truly.