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A 1998 MadeForTVMovie directed by Creator/RogerYoung Creator/RogerYoung, loosely based on ''Literature/AConnecticutYankeeInKingArthursCourt'', that has a researcher (Creator/WhoopiGoldberg) going back in time to Camelot after a computer malfunction.
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* TheFilmOfTheBook: Loosely based on Creator/MarkTwain's ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court''.
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A 1998 MadeForTVMovie directed by Creator/RogerYoung that has a researcher (Creator/WhoopiGoldberg) going back in time to Camelot after a computer malfunction.
The movie also stars Creator/MichaelYork, Creator/PalomaBaeza, Creator/SimonFenton, Creator/JamesCoombes, Creator/RobertAddie, Creator/IanRichardson, Creator/AmandaDonohoe, Creator/JohnGuerrasio, and Creator/SteveSpeirs.
It aired on November 8, 1998 as part of ''Series/TheWonderfulWorldOfDisney''.
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!Tropes for the film:
* ConvenientEclipse: Vivien Morgan accidentally [[TimeTravel travels back in time]] with her laptop into the period of Myth/ArthurianLegend and is soon arrested. Looking up info on her laptop that there should be a solar eclipse right at the time of her execution, she bluffs her way out of burning stake by threatening the locals with eternal darkness as the moon passes by.
* DroitDuSeigneur: While Sir Boss is preparing to duel the villainous Sir Sagramore, her friend Clarence eventually reveals the real reason he doesn't want her to fight: He takes her to six graves apart from the rest of the cemetery, which are his mother, father, grandfather, his eldest sister, her new husband, and his baby brother. All died on the same day fourteen years ago when their lord, Sir Sagramore, came to claim his right to his bride's virginity, and her husband - a freeman not of that estate - refused him. Six-year-old Clarence escaped into the woods while his whole family was killed, and afterwards Sagramore wouldn't even allow them to be buried on consecrated ground. Ever since, Clarence has dreamed the day when he would take {{Revenge}}, and he came to Camelot so that one day he could be a knight and have the right to challenge him. Clarence feels he is [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou the only one who should be allowed]] to face Sir Sagramore in a DuelToTheDeath, but when Sir Boss asks him if he wants her to chicken out, he says no: she must fight him to the death. After this, she petitions Myth/KingArthur and asks why he can't just arrest Sir Sagramore instead of letting the duel happen, but much to her frustration Arthur replies, for what crime? Even if the testimony of a commoner were to be believed over the word of a knight, Clarence himself admitted that his brother-in-law denied Sir Sagramore his legal right of the bride's first night, and it doesn't matter if Arthur thinks Sagramore's punishment was excessively harsh: it was still lawful punishment and not murder. Sir Boss angrily asks whether he made that law - and when he tells her he didn't, [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem why he can't just change it]] - but he blithely tells her that the king's duty is to uphold the ancient laws and customs, including this one.
* {{Tagline}}: "King Arthur's Round Table will never be the same!".
* TheWebAlwaysExisted: Vivien could access the Web while in TheMiddleAges. This doesn't even get into the lack of electricity...
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The movie also stars Creator/MichaelYork, Creator/PalomaBaeza, Creator/SimonFenton, Creator/JamesCoombes, Creator/RobertAddie, Creator/IanRichardson, Creator/AmandaDonohoe, Creator/JohnGuerrasio, and Creator/SteveSpeirs.
It aired on November 8, 1998 as part of ''Series/TheWonderfulWorldOfDisney''.
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!Tropes for the film:
* ConvenientEclipse: Vivien Morgan accidentally [[TimeTravel travels back in time]] with her laptop into the period of Myth/ArthurianLegend and is soon arrested. Looking up info on her laptop that there should be a solar eclipse right at the time of her execution, she bluffs her way out of burning stake by threatening the locals with eternal darkness as the moon passes by.
* DroitDuSeigneur: While Sir Boss is preparing to duel the villainous Sir Sagramore, her friend Clarence eventually reveals the real reason he doesn't want her to fight: He takes her to six graves apart from the rest of the cemetery, which are his mother, father, grandfather, his eldest sister, her new husband, and his baby brother. All died on the same day fourteen years ago when their lord, Sir Sagramore, came to claim his right to his bride's virginity, and her husband - a freeman not of that estate - refused him. Six-year-old Clarence escaped into the woods while his whole family was killed, and afterwards Sagramore wouldn't even allow them to be buried on consecrated ground. Ever since, Clarence has dreamed the day when he would take {{Revenge}}, and he came to Camelot so that one day he could be a knight and have the right to challenge him. Clarence feels he is [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou the only one who should be allowed]] to face Sir Sagramore in a DuelToTheDeath, but when Sir Boss asks him if he wants her to chicken out, he says no: she must fight him to the death. After this, she petitions Myth/KingArthur and asks why he can't just arrest Sir Sagramore instead of letting the duel happen, but much to her frustration Arthur replies, for what crime? Even if the testimony of a commoner were to be believed over the word of a knight, Clarence himself admitted that his brother-in-law denied Sir Sagramore his legal right of the bride's first night, and it doesn't matter if Arthur thinks Sagramore's punishment was excessively harsh: it was still lawful punishment and not murder. Sir Boss angrily asks whether he made that law - and when he tells her he didn't, [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem why he can't just change it]] - but he blithely tells her that the king's duty is to uphold the ancient laws and customs, including this one.
* {{Tagline}}: "King Arthur's Round Table will never be the same!".
* TheWebAlwaysExisted: Vivien could access the Web while in TheMiddleAges. This doesn't even get into the lack of electricity...
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