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The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment. In the United States, the episodes aired on the syndicated NTA Film Network in 1958–1959. [1]
William Tell: Created by Friedrich Schiller. With Conrad Phillips, Willoughby Goddard, Jennifer Jayne, Richard Rogers. Depicts the legend of William Tell, who, as the stories say, shot an apple off of his son's head and lead the rebellion to free Switzerland.
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William Tell, Swiss legendary hero who symbolized the struggle for political and individual freedom. The historical existence of Tell is disputed. According to popular legend, he was a peasant from Bürglen in the canton of Uri in the 13th and early 14th centuries who defied Austrian authority, was.
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So anxious is he to read a letter from Judge Furst informing William Tell of the location of a large arms shipment. Gessler fails to realise that the missive is in the sole of his own boot. When finding it, the hapless Austrian really puts his foot into it.
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It starred Conrad Phillips in the title role – loosely based on Johann Von Schiller’s tale about William Tell, an Alpine hero from the Swiss settlement of Berglan, who fought at the side of the oppressed people of Altdorf against the occupying Austrians in the early 14th century.
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Jan 26, 2019 · I must start this article with my first introduction to the Tell legend as it appeared as a serial in the late 1950s on British television. The adventures of William Tell acted out by Conrad Phillips so well it is logged in the mind forever.
