A Monty Pythonesque tale of a band of Crusaders who find themselves in possession of an alien ship and the alien to pilot it. Armed with the means to conquer the Holy Land, the naive Crusaders set off on a grand crusade, only to find themselves not in Jerusalem, but at the mercy of an entire alien world.

该剧改编自丹尼尔·P·曼尼克斯的同名非虚构小说。
年迈的罗马皇帝维斯帕先（安东尼·霍普金斯 饰）被那些争夺皇位的贵族所鄙视，一有机会就想取代他的继承人登上王位。

A seventeen year old travels from London to the Austrian Alps to attend the legendary Mozart boarding school. There, he discovers a centuries-old forgotten passageway into the fantastic world of Mozart's "The Magic Flute".