| Alt Name: | The Duke of Mount Deer 1998 | ||||||||||||||
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| Genre: | Wuxia, comedy, historical fiction | ||||||||||||||
| Starring: | Jordan Chan Steven Ma Cherie Chan Rain Lau | ||||||||||||||
| Theme Music Composer: | Tsui Yuen Ronald Ng | ||||||||||||||
| Opentheme: | Chi Chak Hung Yan (叱吒紅人) performed by Jordan Chan (the lyrics were slightly altered as of episode 17) | ||||||||||||||
| Endtheme: | Tau Ting Yat Pin Tian (頭頂一片天) performed by Steven Ma | ||||||||||||||
| Country: | Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||
| Language: | Cantonese | ||||||||||||||
| Num Episodes: | 45 | ||||||||||||||
| Executive Producer: | Lee Tim-shing | ||||||||||||||
| Location: | Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||
| Runtime: | 45 minutes per episode | ||||||||||||||
| Company: | TVB | ||||||||||||||
| Channel: | TVB |
The Duke of Mount Deer is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel The Deer and the Cauldron. It was first aired on TVB in Hong Kong in 1998.
Wai Siu Bo is the son of a prostitute who works in a brothel in Yangzhou. After joining the Heaven and Earth society he heads to the Capital and gets enrolled into the service of the Grand Eunuchs. There he becomes friends with the young emperor Hong Hei (Wai mistakes the emperor as another young eunuch) and falls in love with the emperor's younger sister, Princess Kin Ning. His adventures in the Forbidden City leads him into discovering the empress dowager as an impostor; finding several volumes of the prized 42 Chapters which contains the location of a treasure cave; helps the emperor kill the baddie courtier, Lord Obai; and see his position rise from humble eunuch to a grand courtier and confidante of the emperor.
Note: Some of the characters' names are in Cantonese romanisation.