Release Date: 20 September 2008
Created By: Johnny Capps, Julian Jones, Jake Michie (BBC)
Cast: Colin Morgan, Richard Wilson, Bradley James,
Katie McGrath, John Hurt
Duration: 3 series of 45 minute episodes
Description: Young Merlin is a teenager, discovering and then learning to master his gift for magic. Magister Caius, the learned court physician of king Uther Pendragon to whom he’s assigned as humble page, teaches him medicine, coaches his magical self-study and warns for Uther’s vicious aversion from magic. Merlin becomes squire to the noble but imprudent crown prince, Arthur, whose fate is linked with Merlin’s
Locations:
•Clearwell Caves, Forest of Dean (used in 3 Series 2 episodes)•Clements End, Forest of Dean (used in the ‘dollop head’ scenes of the first episode of the third season)•Cannop Ponds, Forest of Dean•Speech House Lake, Forest of Dean•Puzzlewood, The Labyrinth of Gedref episode