In 1983, the "Dungeons and Dragons" role-playing game was extremely popular at the University of California, Riverside; as a result, "Wizards and Warriors" struck a very responsive chord among the D&D faithful, including myself. The chief feature was the impression that the writers themselves had played D&D and then wrote up their game as a script for the next episode--this, by the way, is not an insult, but seemed to explain the way each episode flowed: Three-quarters serious adventure, one-quarter comedy. Why it was cancelled after so short a run is still a mystery to me--perhaps the show did not appeal to others outside of the college roll-playing crowd--but I daresay that it would be quite popular now in rerun or even on video, thanks to the good memories it would bring back to that older D&D group.
Review of Wizards and Warriors
