UPDATE: The special one-off episode of Knightmare is out now.

We don't want to spoil it, so have a gander yourself via the video below. Perfect for a rainy Monday lunchtime.

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ORIGINAL STORY: Knightmare, the 1980's kids' TV show inspired by fantasy role-playing video games, is returning in a special one-off episode filmed for YouTube on Monday, 5th August.

Series creator Tim Child will produce it, and actresses Isy Suttie (Dobby from Peep Show) and Jessie Cave (Lavender Brown in the Harry Potter films) will feature in it.

Whoops - wrong nightmare!

They'll be hosted by Knightmare's original presenter Hugo Myatt (Treguard) and joined by YouTube stars Dan "danisnotonfire" Howell, Phil "AmazingPhil" Lester, Emma "emmablackery" Blackery and Stuart "ashens" Ashen, reported The Guardian. Presumably those YouTubers will form the team exploring the Knightmare dungeon.

Digital Spy mentioned that the new episode will be filmed at the original studio in Norwich, too.

Knightmare, for those who don't remember or don't know, was a television game show in which one member of a team would don an oversized barbarian-style helmet (so they couldn't see) and step helplessly inside a virtual fantasy world. The rest of the team would be the eyes and bicker about how best to guide their friend through the many puzzles and perils that lie in wait.

Our Ellie Gibson wrote a lovely fat piece about Knightmare for Gameological last autumn, in which she interviewed the original cast and went beneath the imagination-capturing veneer of the show.

That's better.

Knightmare is being resurrected for the inaugural Geek Week festival on YouTube, which runs from 4th-10th August. It's a big deal and everyone's getting involved, with content to sprout from around 100 YouTube creators during the week.

Each day of the week will be themed thus (look out for The Guild creator Felicia Day on Friday - she was in Dragon Age 2 DLC don't you know):