History Trivia / Camelot

* BigNameFan
** The show was famously popular with then-president UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy and his family. During his presidency, the White House was even referred to as "Camelot."
** ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' host and creator Lewis "Linkara" Lovhaug cited both the stage musical and the movie as his favorites, claiming that it played an important role in forming his personal sense of morality as a child.

* FakeNationality: Arthur, the King of England, is played by Irishman Creator/RichardHarris, and French knight Lancelot Du Lac is played by Italian actor Creator/FrancoNero, who makes no [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign real attempt to sound French.]]

* LargeHam: At times, Richard Harris and Franco Nero come within mere centimeters of consuming the set whole.
* NonSingingVoice: Franco Nero's singing was dubbed by Gene Merlino of the group The Mellomen.

** Creator/VanessaRedgrave insistined on "creative" enhancements to her dialogue, costumes, and character. For one musical number which accents Guenevere's playful attitude towards Lancelot, she baffled the director by singing her lyrics in French. When questioned as to why, she said, "We're making fun of Lancelot, aren't we? And he's French. Well, the whole idea is that by singing it in French we're making more of a joke of him." Luckily, after an exhausting debate, Logan managed to get her to record the lyrics in English.

** Music/{{Cher}} and Music/MarianneFaithful were conisdered for Guinevere.

** It was also an Irish-filmed historical series full of sex and sword fighting, following the lead of ''Series/TheTudors'' and ''{{Series/Vikings}}''. Likewise the LowFantasy and {{Demythification}} aspects took cues from ''Series/GameOfThrones''.

** Sebastian Koch, who played Uther, is German.

** A decent number of millennials and gen-zers know about this show from Linkara mentioning his love for it on his show.

* ColbertBump: It's received a lot more attention lately after being revealed as the favorite musical (and movie) of Lewis Lovhaug, the host of the wildly popular ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'', with him citing the important role it played in forming his personal sense of morality as a child.
** The original production got this from an episode of ''Series/TheEdSullivanShow'' where Richard Burton, Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet performed songs from the show. The episode led to a big boost in ticket sales and was largely credited with turning ''Camelot'' into a hit.

* FakeNationality: Arthur, the King of England, is played by Irishman Creator/RichardHarris, and French knight Lancelot Du Lac is played by Italian actor Franco Nero, who makes no [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign real attempt to sound French.]]

** During the tryout run, writer Alan Jay Lerner was hospitalized with a bleeding ulcer. Soon after he came back, director Moss Hart suffered a heart attack and Lerner temporarily took over the direction without credit. The show ran four and a half hours at the start of its Toronto tryout and without a full-time director, no one could agree on what to cut, leading to [[HostilityOnTheSet conflicts between Lerner and Loewe]] that would lead to the breakup of their partnership a year later.

** During the tryout run, writer Alan Jay Lerner was hospitalized with a bleeding ulcer. Soon after he came back, director Moss Hart suffered a heart attack and Lerner temporarily took over the direction without credit. The show ran four and a half hours at the start of its Toronto tryout and without a full-time director, no one could agree on what to cut, leading to [[HostilityOnTheSet conflicts between Lerner and Loewe]] that would lead Loewe to retire from composing a year later.

** The original production got this from an episode of ''Series/TheEdSullivanShow'' where Richard Burton, Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet performed songs from the show. The episode led to a big boost in ticket sales and was largely credited with making turning ''Camelot'' into a hit.

** During the tryout run, writer Alan Jay Lerner was hospitalized with a bleeding ulcer. Soon after he came back, director Moss Hart suffered a heart attack and Lerner temporarily took over the direction without credit. The show ran four and a half hours during its Toronto tryout and without a full-time director, no one could agree on what to cut, leading to [[HostilityOnTheSet conflicts between Lerner and Loewe]] that would lead Loewe to retire from composing a year later.

* TroubledProduction: Oh yes. Multiple songs have different variants (listen to Guenevere {[[here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-4YhsbClBU]]} versus {[[here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Fgck8Wbmw]]} for one example). Act 2 was also said to be much more difficult to write, and different productions tend to cut at least one part of it for time.

* TroubledProduction: Oh yes. Multiple songs have different variants (listen to Guenevere [[here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-4YhsbClBU]] versus [[here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Fgck8Wbmw]] for one example). Act 2 was also said to be much more difficult to write, and different productions tend to cut at least one part of it for time.

* DuelingShows: ''Series/GameOfThrones'' and more loosely ''{{Series/Merlin}}''. It was also compared to ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand''.

* DuelingShows: ''Series/GameOfThrones'' and more loosely ''{{Series/Merlin}}''.

* FollowTheLeader: It did not go unnoticed that this series started up at the same time ''Series/{{Merlin 2008}}'' was beginning its fourth season. Though it was probably a coincidence, it also ended up containing several interesting similarities to the other show, including Arthur and Morgan being half-siblings through their father (most versions have Igraine as the shared parent), Morgan having a dark-skinned maidservant, and Arthur being characterized as a SpoiledBrat before his CharacterDevelopment. These aspects were unique to each show and are seldom (if ever) seen in other adaptations of Myth/ArthurianLegend.
* PlayingAgainstType: Claire Forlani was famous for various love interest roles in American films during the 90s. Playing a ProperLady in a fantasy piece is very different. What's more is that it's one of the first major roles where she gets to use her natural accent (she's English but normally plays Americans).
* StillbornFranchise: In the season finale, [[SequelHook the Round Table is established, and Mordred is conceived]]. Then the show was axed. The official reason was lead actors having prior commitments, but lower viewership and critical reception compared to contemporary shows like ''[[DuelingShows Game of Thrones]]'' didn't help.

* FakeBrit: Creator/FrancoNero as Lancelot.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original plan was to have Creator/RichardBurton and Creator/JulieAndrews reprise their stage roles as King Arthur and Guinevere. This fell through when due to salary disagreements. Warner Bros. considered having Burton star opposite Creator/ElizabethTaylor and Creator/PeterOToole as Guinevere and Lancelot, but this was deemed too expensive.

* AwesomeDearBoy: Eva Green is a huge lover of witches and the occult, and loves the chance to play them.

* FollowTheLeader: It did not go unnoticed that this series started up at the same time ''Series/{{Merlin 2008}}'' was beginning its fourth season. Though it was probably a coincidence, it also ended up containing several interesting similarities to the other show, including Arthur and Morgan being half-siblings through their father (most versions have Igraine as the shared parent), Morgan having a dark-skinned maidservant, and Arthur being characterized as a SpoiledBrat before his CharacterDevelopment. These aspects were unique to each show and are seldom (if ever) seen in other adaptations of ArthurianLegend.

* FakeBrit: Eva Green once again downplays her French accent to play a British character.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: King Pellinore, who [[spoiler: gets killed off half-way through Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing]], survives until the end of the movie and is with Arthur in his final battle.