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King for a Day

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ1195101 ↗
Source-derived summary

King for a Day may refer to:

Film and television

King for a Day (1933 film), a Bollywood film starring Begum Akhtar

King for a Day (1934 film), a 1934 short film starring tap dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson

King for a Day (1940 film), a 1940 cartoon short in Max Fleischer's Gabby series

King for a Day (1983 film), a Bulgarian film starring Todor Kolev

"King for a Day" (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys), a 1996 episode of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

"King for a Day" (Joe 90), an episode of Joe 90

"King for a Day" (Mia and Me), an episode of Mia and Me

"King for a Day", a two-part episode of Power Rangers: Zeo

Kings for a Day, a 1997 French film

Tiny Tim: King for a Day, a 2020 Swedish film

Music

"King for a Day" (Thompson Twins song), 1985

"King for a Day" (XTC song), 1989

"King for a Day" (Jamiroquai song)

"King for a Day" (Pierce the Veil song), 2012

"King for a Day", a song by Battle Beast from the album Bringer of Pain

"King for a Day", a song by Faith No More from the album King for a Day...

Editorial summary

“King for a Day” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what King, Wikimedia and disambiguation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1933, 1934, 1940, 1983—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around King, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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Why this record matters

“King for a Day” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, King, Wikimedia and disambiguation provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1195101. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1933, 1934, 1940 and 1983.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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This entry incorporates text from “King for a Day” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.