The Adventures of Robin Hood was a popular British Television series aired between 1955 and 1960, and
starring Richard Greene as Robin Hood and Alan Wheatley as the Sheriff of Nottingham.
The programme was produced by Sapphire Films Ltd for ITC Entertainment, and was filmed at Nettlefold Studios. It
was the first of many big-budget shows commissioned by Lew Grade.
Cast
Richard Greene (Robin Hood), Victor Woolf (Derwent), Archie Duncan (Little
John), Alexander Gauge (Friar Tuck), Alan Wheatley (Sheriff of Nottingham), Paul
Eddington (Will Scarlett), Patricia Driscoll (Maid Marian), Billy Whitelaw (Brenda),
Ronald Allen (Walter Neville), Simone Lovell (Joan), .
Production Team
Writer: Ring Lardner Jr
Director: Oliver Squire
Producer: Sidney Cole
Associate Producer: Thelma Connell
Executive Producer: Hannah Weinstein
Cinematographer: Michael Reed
Production Details
Season 3, Episode 11
Original Air Date: 9th December 1957
Filming Locations: Alnwick Castle, Northumberland; Bodiam Castle, East Sussex; Nettlefold Studios, Surrey.
Triva
Writers Ring Lardner Jr and Ian McLellan Hunter were blacklisted in Hollywood and wrote almost the entire first season
under a variety of pen-names.
Archie Duncan was replaced by Rufus Cruikshank for ten episodes after he had been injured saving two child actors from
a runaway horse.
The famous title song was sung by Dick James who was later to become John Lennon and Paul McCartney's music publisher.
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