The series featured the Father, a half-fast King or Chieftain named 'Firebeard', who was most likely, a red-headed dude like me-self! It was tamed down and adapted to the television series acceptable levels of "soft-core" violence, being that using swords, yet having no penetration. The characters in it weren't exactly the same ones, but they were quite similar. In this case they opted for a sort of spin-off TV Series. The Box Office success of this 'Major Motion Picture' (another anachronistic use of the Queen's English) led to the inevitasble development of either the sequel or the spin-off. The epic celebration of pillaging, plundering and gang-rape was adapted from the Historical Novel of the same name by one Edison Marshall. I don't exactly remember if we had "Blockbuster" type pictures in 1958 but if we did, then the Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Ernest Borgnine Star Studded extravaganza THE VIKINGS, surely would have qualified as one.
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