Ivanhoe Season 1 Episode 17 The Weavers ( Air Date 1958-06-21 ) Genre Action & Adventure category. Overview "Ivanhoe is a British television series first shown on ITV in 1958-59. The show features Roger Moore in his first starring role, as Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, in a series of adventures aimed at a children's audience. The characters were drawn loosely from Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel.".