Joining of the Knights

Joining of the Knights is the first episode of Arabian Knights. It first aired 7 September 1968 on NBC. 
== Summary ==
In the town of Baghdad, a herd of elephants being led by Bakaar invades the city and heads towards the palace. In the throne room a servant informed his master that Bakaar and his soldiers were coming as they bust open the doors and attack him but he escapes, promising the fat tyrant that he will come back to reclaim his throne. Bakaar orders his right hand man Vangore to capture the young prince. In the city streets, Vangore instructs his guards to search everywhere until they find Turhan, but it turns out he was above them. He drops a sheet on them and runs, but the guards give chase. With nowhere left to go, the boy is cornered but was suddenly grabbed from behind the curtains. An overweight man tells the prince not to fret and says a magic word "Rosan Kobar", and they disappear in a puff of smoke, appearing on another floor just before the soldiers come. Turhan thanks him and asks for the name of his savior, to which the man replies Fariik. Turhan requests they escape on a flying carpet, but Fariik was out, so they use a flying table instead he said another magic word "Floatar Kobar" to make it fly. The soldiers find the trapdoor. They proceed to open it, but Fariik and Turhan flew away from them. 
While they soar through the air, Fariik asks Turhan what their destination is. He tells him to head to El-Rabaal to seek out his cousin Princess Nida and his uncle the caliph for help. Just then, Vangore and his men pursue them on their own flying carpets so the two decide to hide in the Caves of Doom, but Vangore knows where they are heading and plans to capture them once they have arrived. Just when they think the coast is clear, a muscular man ambushes them by throwing a boulder, crushing their means of transportation. Fariik was about to turn him into something harmless but the attacker pulled down his turban over his head. Turhan asked if they could be allies but he rejected, he was about to harm them but after Fariik tells the strongman that they only need shelter until the black sultan's guards pass, he apologizes and introduces himself as Raseem. They tell him of their journey to El-Rabaal, but he also informs them that Bakaar's forces have also invaded there, and that the caliph and the princess are prisoners, so they venture there to free her. 
While they journey to El-Rabaal with Raseem's faithful pet donkey Zazuum, Fariik questions the name. Raseem answers, "A pull on his tail answers that." Fariik does just that, and it angers him so much he spins out of control while crashing into various objects. Meanwhile in El-Rabaal, Princess Nida is being auctioned, as the trio watches. Raseem throws Turhan onto the stage just before the auctioneer is about to whip the fair princess. As they are about to escape her hometown, Vangore sends his men to attack, and while the boys deal with the guards, Nida grabs a helmet and disguises herself as the captain, temporarily fooling the enemies. When the real Vangore arrives, they mistake him for a disguised Nida. Two archer soldiers take aim, but Raseem uses his strength to demolish the wall on which they are standing. Even more soldiers arrive, surrounding the group until a man named Bez leaps down and says the transformation phrase, "Size of an Elephant" and turns into one, charges at the guards, and carries them to safety. When one guard grabs Zazuum's tail, it made him very upset; he spins so much he defeats every single one of the soldiers, allowing him to take his leave. 
Back at the Caves, Bez de-transformed back into human form as Turhan thank him for his service, and he notices that each one of his companions are gifted with incredibly special type of abilities: Raseem with his enormous strength, Fariik with his magic, Nida with her mastery of disguise, himself with his acrobatics, and Bez with his shapeshifting. They faced towards their campfire and joined forces to rid the land of Bakaar, with Turhan as their leader. Reciting their vow, "we now unite to become as one. To pledge ourselves to bring freedom and justice to the land," they form the team known as the Arabian Knights.
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== Goofs == 
* While leading the elephants there is a feather on Vangore's helmet and the sheath on he’s armour disappears. When Bakaar instructs Vangore to capture Prince Turhan, it disappears again. When he tells the soldiers to not leave any stone unturned until they found Turhan once more it was gone. Same thing happened when he was chasing Turhan and Fariik on rugs.
* When Bakaar entered Turhan’s palace the bolts on two of the soldiers helmets weren’t there along with the middle part of his shirt was light pink. His eyebrows were light brown when he told his archers to shoot Turhan. Along with his inner sleeves being black. It happened to a few again before when they were cornering Turhan. Once more to two when they were chasing Turhan and Fariik in the sky. Again to most when they were in El-Rabaal.
* When Vangore promised his master he will bring Turhan to him a bolt from his armour wasn't there and a piece of his inner sleeve was gone. The bolts were gone when he was in a store.
* When Turhan was above the soldiers a piece of his sleeve wasn’t there and the lower part of his boots were a darker shade of grey. It happened again for a while when he was about to land on the stage.
* When Fariik said the magic word for the first time the centre part of his shirt wasn’t there along with a piece of his sandal. It happened again when he told Turhan he was out of flying carpets but this time it was blue. Once more when he conjures up a flying table along with Turhan’s pants disappearing. One last time when they were surrounded by guards. A line appeared on his sandal again when they returned to the Caves.
* When Fariik introduces himself the top back of him was blue.
* When Turhan asked Fariik if he had any flying carpets his turban was a little darker.
* When the soldiers stopped at the Caves there was a line on Vangore’s armoured sleeve.
* After they escaped from the guards, Turhan’s inner sleeve and top collar turned red. It happened again when he first met Raseem.
* When Turhan first saw Raseem Fariik’s sleeves were longer.
* When trying to lift up his turban a piece of Fariik’s cape turned black and orange a few times. 
* The earring Raseem wears switches to one side of his ear. His fez and the strip on his vest also turned bright red when he picked Turhan and Fariik up and his moustache was connected. Turhan’s sleeve also turned black.
* While introducing Fariik Raseem’s necklace was a little darker. The centre part of Fariik’s shirt was gone.
* When Fariik tells Raseem of their journey to El-Rabaal, his eyebrows vanish. 
* When Raseem introduces Zazuum, the donkey's circles around his eyes turn a little dark and then fully dark and it stayed when he had his tail pulled by Fariik.
* When they saw were Nida was, a part of Fariik’s moustache disappeared along with Raseem’s earring.
* When Turhan asked Raseem to throw him on to the stage below his neck was yellow.
* Nida’s inner sleeve turned dark pink when the auctioneer was about to attack her.
* When Turhan told Nida to hide his top collar was dark yellow.
* When the soldiers were misguided by Nida impersonating Vangore their skins were lime green.
* When the guards pull on Vangore’s beard his neck collar disappeared. 
* Before the archers showed up the maine on Zazuum was gone and Raseem’s moustache was connected again.
* While cornering the group the lower part of some of the soldiers boots were green. It happened again after they were trampled by Zazuum and Bez along with the lines on Vangore’s boots.
* After Bez leaped down Raseem’s and Fariik’s moustaches were connected. It happened again when Raseem’s was starting a fire.
* After Zazuum’s tail was pulled his eye pupil was smaller.
* While thanking Bez there was an orange line on his shirt.
* When Raseem was flexing there was a line on the bottom of his necklace.
 
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