Once it was announced that FK was going to be cancelled, which happened in late 1995, there were repeated attempts by the mailing-list fandom to save the show.
The first—the Save Forever Knight campaign—began before the final episode aired. It was eventually designated "War 6", though that's really just a courtesy title. A prominent part of the campaign involved seven fans going to the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) in order to lobby in person. When (as we all know!) the show was cancelled anyway, a new effort—dubbed Kickstart the Knight—tried to persuade TPTB to bring the show back. This eventually segued into a campaign to have it released on videotape, and eventually on DVD.
Some of this appeared on the web. I figured I should prioritize getting these sites up, since they're a big part of our history.
The old Save Forever Knight campaign site was eventually moved to Mel's fanfic archive: https://www.foreverknight.ca/www.fkfanfic.com/sosfk/index.htm
Various versions of the Kickstart the Knight site can be found here:
https://www.foreverknight.ca/KtK/
As for the NATPE Seven: at the time, they reported their the exploits in posts to FORKNI-L. Eventually Diane Echelbarger put an expanded version on her website, The Pewter Gryphon's Lair. You can find the NATPE Seven report here:
https://www.foreverknight.ca/PewterGryphon/NATPE7/index.html
And finally, here's an on-line petition to put FK out on video:
https://www.foreverknight.ca/FKVideoPetition/index.html
The first—the Save Forever Knight campaign—began before the final episode aired. It was eventually designated "War 6", though that's really just a courtesy title. A prominent part of the campaign involved seven fans going to the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) in order to lobby in person. When (as we all know!) the show was cancelled anyway, a new effort—dubbed Kickstart the Knight—tried to persuade TPTB to bring the show back. This eventually segued into a campaign to have it released on videotape, and eventually on DVD.
Some of this appeared on the web. I figured I should prioritize getting these sites up, since they're a big part of our history.
The old Save Forever Knight campaign site was eventually moved to Mel's fanfic archive: https://www.foreverknight.ca/www.fkfanfic.com/sosfk/index.htm
Various versions of the Kickstart the Knight site can be found here:
https://www.foreverknight.ca/KtK/
As for the NATPE Seven: at the time, they reported their the exploits in posts to FORKNI-L. Eventually Diane Echelbarger put an expanded version on her website, The Pewter Gryphon's Lair. You can find the NATPE Seven report here:
https://www.foreverknight.ca/PewterGryphon/NATPE7/index.html
And finally, here's an on-line petition to put FK out on video:
https://www.foreverknight.ca/FKVideoPetition/index.html
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