Crossbow (TV series) Crossbow (TV series) Crossbow is a 1987 action/adventure television series that aired on The Family Channel. The series was produced by Steven North and Richard Schlesinger for Robert Halmi Inc., in co-production with French television network FR3, and filmed entirely on location in France. "Crossbow" follows the adventures of William Tell (Will Lyman) and takes place in the 14th-century in Switzerland. William Tell and his son Matthew are imprisoned by the tyrannical Gessler (Jeremy Clyde). As Governor (Landburgher in the original story) of Austria, Gessler plans to stop the Swiss uprising. Having split the apple on his son's head with
Shooting an apple off one's child's head on his head, pierced through by the arrow, while Henning's bow was undrawn but there was another arrow between his teeth. Between archer and boy there was a wolf. In the Northumbrian ballad of "Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and Wyllyam of Cloudeslee", which was a source of Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe", William of Cloudeslee tells the king he will put an apple on his seven-year-old son's head and shoot it off at 120 paces: <poem>I have a sonne seven years old; Hee is to me full deere; I will tye him to a stake— All shall see him that