![]() ![]() Played by Ronald Howard (two episodes, series 1) and Paul Eddington (series 4). Will Scarlet, a member of Robin Hood's band.Friar Tuck, a member of Robin Hood's band.Played in series one and two by Bernadette O'Farrell and in series three and four by Patricia Driscoll. Maid Marian (Lady Marian Fitzwalter), a Norman-Irish noblewoman and Robin Hood's lover.He received the Queen's Commendation for Bravery and £1,360 in damages from Sapphire Films. Archie Duncan grabbed the bridle, stopping the horse, but the cart it was pulling ran him over, causing a fractured kneecap and cuts and bruises. Duncan was briefly replaced by Rufus Cruikshank for ten episodes after Duncan was injured when a horse bolted toward the spectators, mostly children, watching the location filming of the episode "Checkmate" on 20 April 1955. ![]() Little John, Robin Hood's trusted friend and his second in command.The Sheriff of Nottingham, a Norman baron and Robin Hood's enemy, who schemes to capture the outlaw.Robin Hood (Robin of Locksley), a Saxon nobleman returned from the Crusades and forced into outlawry in Sherwood Forest.Maid Marian (Patricia Driscoll) with the Merry Men Main characters In Romania, TVR aired the show from 1966 to 1980. In Indonesia, TVRI aired the show during the 1970s. In the Philippines, ABS-CBN aired the show from 1963 to 1967, RBS (now GMA Network) from 1967 to 1972. In Malaysia, RTM aired the show from late 1974 to early 1978. In Italy, Rai 1 aired the show from 1959 to 1964 and Rai 2 from 1965 to 1967. In France, RTF1 aired the show from 1965 to 1969 and RTF2 from 1969 to 1972. In Australia, the show aired on TCN9 in Sydney NSW and HSV7 Melbourne Victoria, actually being the first drama series broadcast by this station and CBC in Canada, and on CBS in the US. The series was shot on 35mm film to provide the best possible picture quality, and had fade-outs where US commercials were intended to slot in (the series was sponsored in the US by Johnson & Johnson (baby products, Band-Aid) and Wildroot Cream-Oil. The US premiere was on Monday 26 September 1955 by CBS. ATV Midlands began the series on Friday 17 February 1956, with a staggered start across other regions from 1956 to 1961 as the ITV regional stations came on-air for the first time in the UK. In the UK, the series premiered on ATV London, on Sunday 25 September 1955. Grade was so impressed by her proposal that he agreed immediately to back the series, hoping to make large profits by selling programmes to the lucrative American market. She had already signed Richard Greene to the project as Robin Hood and been given the backing of US distribution company, Official Films Inc, who were confident of selling it to the US market. In 1954, Grade was approached by American producer Hannah Weinstein to finance a series of 39 half-hour episodes, at a budget of £10,000 an episode, of a series she wished to make called The Adventures of Robin Hood. The programme was produced by Sapphire Films Ltd for ITC Entertainment, filmed at Nettlefold Studios with some location work, and was the first of many pre-filmed shows commissioned by Lew Grade. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers. The show followed the legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. It starred Richard Greene as the outlaw Robin Hood, and Alan Wheatley as his nemesis, the Sheriff of Nottingham. The Adventures of Robin Hood is a British television series comprising 143 half-hour, black and white episodes broadcast weekly between 19 on ITV. ![]()
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