The Gay Cavalier

infobox television
show_name = The Gay Cavalier
format = Adventure
runtime = 30 minutes
creator = Brock Williams
Jack ANdrews
starring = Christian Marquand
executive_producer =
country = UK
network = ITV
director =
first_aired = May, 1957
last_aired = August, 1957
num_series = 1
num_episodes = 13

"The Gay Cavalier" was a 1957 British television adventure series set during the English Civil War and starring Christian Marquand as a fictionalised Captain Claude Duval. The series was made by Associated Diffusion and shown on ITV between May and August of 1957.

In truth, Duval was a successful gentleman highwayman who came from France to post-Restoration England, but "The Gay Cavalier" portrayed him in heroic fashion. In each of the series 13 episodes, Duval was to be seen emnbarking on an adventure which required him to undertake such tasks as retrieving a piece of treasure, thwarting a plot by the Roundheads or saving a woman in trouble. Each of the adventures was self-contained and Duval was often accompanied on these exploits by a female companion (usually a different one in each episode).

The series also starred a number of other actors who generally appeared in one of the adventures. These included Christopher Lee, John Le Mesurier, Conrad Phillips, Nigel Stock and Sam Kydd.

The series was similar in genre to others of the time, such as The Adventures of Robin Hood, and though it was shot on film, it is unique in that not one of its episodes have survived.

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* [http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/cavalier.htm Brief description of The Gay Cavalier]