The 10th Kingdom: Episode 4

The 10th Kingdom: Episode 4
NBC
March 5, 2000
Fantasy, TV-Movie
DVD
B

Newcomers who would do at least one more episode:

• Natasha Collins as Betty Peep
• James Cosmo as Blind Woodsman
• Vince De Cicco as Accordion Gypsy
• Ann Firbank as Old Woman
• Caroline Hayes and Helen Latham as Shepherdesses
• Rutger Hauer as Huntsman
• Adam Levy and Michael McCarthy as Gypsies
• Gabrielle Lloyd as Barbara Peep
• Calum MacPherson as The Village Idiot
• Frank Middlemass as Judge
• Eve Pearce (quite good) as The Gypsy Queen
• Lucy Punch as Sally Peep
• Craig Purnell as Filbert Peep
• Paul Sax as Fiddle Gypsy
• Richard Syms as Defeated Farmer
• Jacqueline Tong as Farmer's Wife
• Peter Vaughan as Wilfred Peep
• Tony Vogel as the Boatman
• Edward Woodall as Fairfax Peep

In this episode, Tony, Virginia, Wolf (still waiting to see if that's a pun), and a Midasized-in-the-gold-sense-by-Tony Wendell are hunted by the Huntsman and offered shelter by a Gypsy camp, whom the Huntsman slaughters.  (So some of these people may be coming back in flashbacks, dunno.)  I found both developments, and such fairytale motifs as a growing-hair curse and talking birds, to improve the show.  They even visit the Seven Dwarves' long abandoned cottage.  The episode ends with the Huntsman capturing Virginia by her hair.