The Talisman – Season 1
Episodes
Episode 1
The treachery of friends; the nobility of enemies; the steadfast devotion of an impossible love; this romance of the days of chivalry has all the power that only Scott could bring to his favorite subject, the Crusaders.
Episode 2
King Richard lies mortally ill in the Christian camp. Sir Kenneth, carrying terms for an honorable peace with the Saracens, has fallen in with one of their knights, Ilderim.
Episode 3
Richard is near to death. While waiting at Engaddi for Ilderim, who has gone to fetch a Saracen physician he claims can cure the king, Kenneth is reunited with the Lady Edith.
Episode 4
While waiting for the Talisman's elixir to cure King Richard, El Hakim reveals to Kenneth that the other princes have offered Saladin a Christian bride of royal blood. Could it be Edith?
Episode 5
Set to guard Richard's standard, Kenneth, the victim of a hoax, deserts his post and the standard is stolen. Condemned to death, he is saved by the intervention of El Hakim and taken as a slave to the Saracen camp.
Episode 6
Kenneth has been taken to Saladin as a bond slave. Edith is determined to find a way to save him.
Episode 7
King Richard is surprised to receive a gift from Saladin, a slave leading the hound Roswal. Outside the king's tent, the murderous Charegite awaits his opportunity.
Episode 8
Edith has still not returned to the Christian camp, where King Richard has challenged the treacherous Montserrat.
Episode 9
Kenneth, revealed as the natural son of the King of Scotland, is to fight Montserrat as the champion of King Richard.