7.6/1013 votes#1 - Freeing the Serfs
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/5/1958
Returning from the Crusades, Ivanhoe finds England under the cruel tyranny of Prince John and begins the fight to remove him from power.
Director: David MacDonald
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#2 - Slave Traders
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/12/1958
Young people are disappearing, and people believe it's the Devil's work; but Ivanhoe believes something not so supernatural is behind it all.
Director: Lance Comfort
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#3 - Wedding Cake
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/19/1958
Lady Elaine is pushed into becoming engaged to a nobleman's crude son, in order to save her uncle.
Director: Lance Comfort
Writer: Richard Fielder
NaN/100 votes#4 - Black Boar
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/26/1958
Ivanhoe gets in serious trouble killing a royal boar to save a life.
Director: Lance Comfort
Writer: Richard Fielder
NaN/100 votes#5 - Whipping Boy
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/2/1958
Ivanhoe tries freeing a boy from an abusive baron.
Director: Lance Comfort
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#6 - The Witness
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/9/1958
Ivanhoe unwillingly attends a banquet for Prince John.
Director: Lance Comfort
Writer: Geoffrey Orme
NaN/100 votes#7 - German Knight
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/16/1958
Ivanhoe tries to help a runaway indentured servant avoid capture when he returns home to visit his ailing mother.
Director: Lance Comfort
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#8 - Face to Face
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/23/1958
A captured church robber tries claiming he is Ivanhoe.
Director: Bernard Knowles
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#9 - Rinaldo
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/2/1958
A nobleman that is an opponent of Prince John's high taxes finds himself framed for murder.
Director: Bernard Knowles
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#10 - Lyman the Pieman
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/9/1958
Lyman witnesses a murder and is about to testify, when an crooked lord has him abducted.
Director: Bernard Knowles
Writer: Geoffrey Orme
NaN/100 votes#11 - The Escape
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/16/1958
Prince John plots to kill all the loyalists to Richard to consolidate his grip on the throne.
Director: Arthur Crabtree
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#12 - Ragen's Forge
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/23/1958
A nobleman promises a girl he will spare her fiancee and father from execution -- if she marries him.
Director: Lance Comfort
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#13 - The Ransom
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 3/29/1958
A nobleman is kidnapped, and his son attempts a rescue himself, without listening to Ivanhoe's advice.
Director: Bernard Knowles
Writer: Geoffrey Orme
NaN/100 votes#14 - The Prisoner in the Tower
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/5/1958
The victim of an ambush believes that the mastermind behind it is his future father-in-law.
Director: Bernard Knowles
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#15 - Murder at the Inn
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/12/1958
Ivanhoe lends a hand to villagers being terrorized by a brutal lord.
Director: Bernard Knowles
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#16 - Brothers in Arms
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 6/14/1958
Five monks collecting taxes for Prince John disappear, and Ivanhoe goes to find them.
Director: Bernard Knowles
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#17 - The Weavers
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 6/21/1958
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Director: Bernard Knowles
Writer: Geoffrey Orme
NaN/100 votes#18 - Counterfeit
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 7/6/1958
A chest of gold for King Richard has been changed out with counterfeit pieces, and Ivanhoe tries finding the thief.
Director: Bernard Knowles
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#19 - Widow of Woodcote
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 7/20/1958
Ivanhoe is the target of thieves after winning prizes in a tournament.
Director: Arthur Crabtree
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#20 - The Kidnapping
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 7/27/1958
Ivanhoe tries sneaking King Richard's heir out of the country.
Director: Arthur Crabtree
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#21 - Treasures from Cathay
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 8/10/1958
People are running from Wentworth castle, believing the world is coming to its end.
Director: Arthur Crabtree
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#22 - By Hook or By Crook
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 8/17/1958
Ivanhoe tries to keep a ruthless land baron from destroying a village in order to build himself a private hunting preserve.
Director: Bernard Knowles
Writer: Bill Strutton
NaN/100 votes#23 - The Double-Edged Sword
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 8/24/1958
Ivanhoe intervenes when a group believes they know the whereabouts of King Arthur's sword, Excalibur, and tear the countryside apart looking for it.
Director: Arthur Crabtree
Writer: Bill Strutton
NaN/100 votes#24 - Counterfeit Coins
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 8/31/1958
Ivanhoe goes to retrieve a treasure map that has fallen in the wrong hands.
Director: Bernard Knowles
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#25 - The Masked Bandits
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 9/7/1958
Ivanhoe goes after bandits that have stolen from serfs.
Director: Arthur Crabtree
Writer: Geoffrey Orme
The Best Episodes of Ivanhoe Season 1
Every episode of Ivanhoe Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Ivanhoe Season 1!
Ivanhoe is a British television series first shown on ITV in 1958-59. The show features Roger Moore in his first starring role, as Sir Wilfred...
Genre:Action & Adventure
Network:ITV1
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Freeing the Serfs" is the best rated episode of "Ivanhoe" season 1. It scored 7.6/10 based on 13 votes. Directed by David MacDonald and written by N/A, it aired on 1/5/1958. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Slave Traders".