Crossbow (TV series)
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Crossbow is a 1987 historical drama action-adventure television series that aired on CBN Cable Network. The series was produced by Steven North and Richard Schlesinger for Robert Halmi Inc., in co-pro
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William Tell
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William Tell is a legendary folk hero of Switzerland. He is known for shooting an apple off his son's head.
Crossbow (TV series)
…Palais des Papes, Boulbon), and in the Occitania region (Villeneuve-lès-Avignon). Set in 14th-century Switzerland, Crossbow follows the adventures of William Tell (played by Will Lyman), a legendary folk hero and expert marksman. The story begins with Tell and his son, Matthew, imprisoned by the tyrannical Governor…
Tell is arrested for not saluting Gessler's hat (mosaic at the Swiss National Museum, Hans Sandreuter, 1901)
Tell's leap (Tellensprung) from the boat of his captors at the Axen cliffs; study by Ernst Stückelberg (1879) for his fresco at the Tellskapelle.
First page of the Tell legend in the White Book of Sarnen (pp. 447–449)
A depiction of the apple-shot scene in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia (1554 edition)