In the fifties television series William Tell who was Tell’s arch enemy
The Adventures of William Tell Tell's sidekick, Stefan, in the series "Crossbow" which ran from August 1987 till February 1989. William Tell was played by Will Lyman. The series ran for 72 thirty-minute colour episodes over three seasons, 24 each, with the third season unaired in America. Other members of the cast were Jeremy Clyde as Hermann Gessler, Valentine Pelka as Roland, Melinda Mullins as Blade and David Barry Gray as Tell's son Matthew. There was a third series of William Tell, produced in New Zealand and called "The Legend of William Tell", which only lasted one season of 16 episodes of sixty minutes from
The Legend of William Tell The Legend of William Tell The Legend of William Tell is a 16-part television fantasy/drama series produced in 1998 by Cloud 9 Productions in New Zealand. The basic premise of the series — a crossbow-wielding rebel defies a corrupt governor — and the name of the title character were adopted from the traditional story, but the series was set in a fantasy world and featured supernatural themes. Described by executive producer Raymond Thompson as ""Star Wars" on the planet Earth", this is a fantasy saga of bravery, magic, myth and romance. William Tell is the youthful leader of a band