The Adventures of Robin Hood Episode Rating Graph
Sep 1955 - Nov 1960

Sep 1955 - Nov 1960
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S2 Ep36
10.0
3rd Jun 1957
Ned Carter is travels from London to Nottingham, carrying a list of people loyal to King Richard. He stops at the place of the local tailor Ezekiel, but by accident, the cloak with the hidden list comes into the possession of the Sheriff of Nottingham. Ned and Ezekiel seek Robin's help to keep the list out of the hands of the Sheriff.

S2 Ep38
8.5
17th Jun 1957
Once again, Sir William tries to part Tom the Miller from his flour mill, this time by charging a toll to use the road to the mill. When Robin hears about this, he thinks of a way to get the grain to the mill without anyone setting foot on Sir William's land.

S2 Ep37
8.5
10th Jun 1957
According to Robin's father's will, when the Locksley Hall bell rings on Lady Day, if the tenant farmers of his estate have performed their tasks for three years, they will own their lands in perpetuity. However Sir Charles, the current occupant, has found a loophole to break the agreement, and so Robin has to sort out the situation.

S2 Ep33
8.5
13th May 1957
Robin and Friar Tuck go with Marian to an island off the coast of Ireland, where they suspect her uncle, Sir Edward de Courcy, is being held prisoner. They find the local people terrorised by the pagan priest, Rolfe, and the power of Thor. Marian is taken prisoner to be sacrificed with her uncle unless Robin and Tuck can discredit Rolfe.

S2 Ep32
8.5
6th May 1957
Robin and Friar Tuck go on a mission to Scotland, to collect five hundred gold crowns owed to King Richard by the treacherous King William the Lion, but they find the Scots suspicious. They encounter the outlaw Duncan of Stoneykirk, who wants a share of the money after saving Robin.

S2 Ep31
8.5
29th Apr 1957
The outlaws of Sherwood are desperately in need of money. Marian's uncle,, the Earl of Rochdale, is quarreling with the Earl of Northgate, and Marian suggests an archery match to decide the matter. She hopes Robin will be able to shoot for her uncle, but first they must hoodwink the Sheriff. Robin obtains a letter of safe conduct signed by the Sheriff, by Loud Lawrence impersonating the Earl.

S2 Ep30
8.5
22nd Apr 1957
Count Olivier has levied a new tax, taking so much food from the people of Upper Minton that they may starve. Robin captures the food from the tax collector and must return it to the villagers without the Count knowing.

S2 Ep28
8.5
8th Apr 1957
The Count of Severne tells the Sheriff that his gold has been taken by Robin Hood. He also suspects Maid Marian. The Sheriff disbelieves this, but agrees to put the Count's suspicions to the test — he borrows a baby girl to abandon in Sherwood Forest and trap Marian when the outlaws pass the baby to her.

S2 Ep26
8.5
25th Mar 1957
Master Judd, a wealthy London merchant and his beautiful daughter Bess are on their way to Sir Harold of Nottingham with a dowry of one thousand gold crowns. Garth, one of the outlaws, reports their presence to Robin, who arranges to relieve them of their gold - a crime which incurs the Sheriff's wrath and spells further trouble for outlaws.

S2 Ep25
8.5
18th Mar 1957
'The Flying Four' are a Bavarian acrobatic team, and they come through Sherwood Forest on their way to Nottingham Fair. Naturally, they are waylaid by the outlaws, but when they are found to be harmless, they are treated as guests. It is then that the Men of Sherwood get their Great Idea. Three of Robin's men travel undercover as part of the group of. A greedy Gypsy fortune teller betrays them to the Sheriff of Nottingham, who immediately arrests them. Robin, on his return from France, must break them out before they are executed.

S2 Ep24
8.5
11th May 1957
While fishing in a secret pool—a tributary that leads directly to Sir Cedric's private lake—Robin and Marian see Sir Cedric's men arresting a poor, hungry serf for poaching eels from Cedric's lake. Marian goes to Cedric to plead for the man's release, while Robin decides to take a different tactic, one involving Cedric's obsession for fishing.

S2 Ep22
8.5
25th Feb 1957
Lepidus, the Alchemist, still held prisoner by the Sheriff, has promised to make gold for him in return for his freedom. The Sheriff, dubious of his claim after being kept waiting for six weeks, threatens that he will hang him in seven days time unless his alchemy begins to work. As Robin is away in France it is up to Marian to come up with a plan to satisfy the Sheriff and save Lepidus from being hanged.

S2 Ep21
8.5
18th Feb 1957
Robin and Friar Tuck escort Prince Arthur and the Duchess Constance to Chateau Marmont in France for safety. There they make a discovery, of a French 'Robin Hood' called Jacques Chapeau. Jacques captures the prince, intending to use him as ransom for his brother imprisoned in Paris.

S2 Ep20
8.5
11th Feb 1957
The young Prince Arthur of Brittany, who is the rightful heir to the throne of England, has fallen into the clutches of his uncle, the evil Prince John. Prince John and the Sheriff devise a way to keep Robin and his band out of the way, while they put into action an ambush plan, involving phoney outlaws, that will lead to the deaths of prince Arthur and Lady Marian. Robin and his men set out to develop a plan to rescue the young boy.

S2 Ep17
8.5
21st Jan 1957
After being embarrassed by his fellow outlaws over his romantic feelings for Joan, Little John leaves the Blue Boar Inn in ill humour and is caught by the Sheriff's soldiers. He is captured and taken to the Sheriff who sentences him to be hanged.

S2 Ep16
8.5
14th Jan 1957
Marian's cousin Sir William Fitzwalter arrives in Sherwood with a message from Queen Eleanor regarding the King's ransom in Austria, but Marian has a forbidding dream of warning and Robin must determine the truth behind his claims and Marian's fears.

S2 Ep15
8.5
7th Jan 1957
Lady Rowena is being forced to marry a local nobleman, De Vere. Sir Hubert is determined to storm the castle single-handed, to save Rowena, his true love. Robin is soon at work on his behalf.

S2 Ep14
8.5
31st Dec 1956
Sir Simon, and agent of Prince John, goes undercover as a cobbler named Jack. He pretends to be mistreated by the Sheriff, in a plan to join Robin's band, and to turn the outlaws against Robin. 'Jack' lays black rumours of Robin robbing clerics and taking money from the King's ransom and betraying Tom of Guant, now residing in the Sheriff's dungeon.

S2 Ep13
8.5
24th Dec 1956
Robin realizes with winter coming on that there is a shortage of honey for the Merry Men. He decides to join Tuck on a journey to Canterbury to so he can locate a supply of honey and allow Tuck to complete his religious pilgrimage. At Canterbury, they find a local maid, Alice, accused of witchcraft, saving her from drowning by the Count Duprez's soldiers. Robin and Friar Tuck uncover a plot by the Count against Lady Margaret.

S2 Ep12
8.5
17th Dec 1956
To help the villagers of Lotham, who are being very heavily taxed, Robin supplies table silver to the silversmith and Master of the Nottingham Mint, to melt down into coin for the starving villagers. Unknown to Robin, the Sheriff already suspects the silversmith is in sympathy with King Richard. When the villagers try to spend them at the market, they are denounced as counterfeit and Friar Tuck is arrested and put on trial for forgery.

S2 Ep11
8.5
10th Dec 1956
Sir Dunstan of Travers, a guest of Maid Marian, discloses to her his vow to wear a black patch over one eye until he has captured Robin Hood. She hurries off to warn Robin, and almost falls into a cleverly laid trap.

S2 Ep10
8.5
3rd Dec 1956
Sir William tries to acquire Tom the Miller's flour mill by underhand means, ascribing a series of misfortunes to the 'Little People'. Friar Tuck doesn't believe this falsehood, and asks Robin for help.

S2 Ep9
8.5
26th Nov 1956
The Sherriff's brother, Sir Montichet, an unpopular tax collector is killed. Mark, an opportunist thief sees the murder, and is blamed for it. Robin welcomes him into his band, but the Sheriff plans to hang eight villagers unless Mark gives himself up.

S2 Ep8
8.5
19th Nov 1956
Prince John is planning to divorce his wife, Princess Avice of Gloucester, to marry a French Princess, Lady Isabella of Angouleme. Princess Avice ask Robin for help.

S2 Ep7
8.5
12th Nov 1956
Five hundred crowns is a great deal of money, but that's the sum demanded from the villagers by Count Severne to pay a ransom for the return of his son. Edwin, spokesman of the serfs, appeals to Robin for help.

S2 Ep6
8.5
5th Nov 1956
Lady Pomfret's husband hasn't returned from the Crusades for seven years, and under the law he is deemed to be dead. Her cousin LeBlonde has arrived to take possession of her estate, but an imposter, or two, might help in this situation.

S2 Ep5
8.5
29th Oct 1956
Sir Richard of the Lea has a lot of very nice pewter plate, and when an 'alchemist' comes along and says he can turn it into gold, Sir Richard is taken in. How can Robin outwit the 'goldmaker' without attracting the attention of the Sheriff?

S2 Ep4
8.5
22nd Oct 1956
Under Medieval English law, a peasant who escapes serfdom and lives in a city for "a year and a day" is a free man, given the man lives openly, not in hiding. Surgeon Calend has nearly completed that duration, and only has to remain 'at large' until sunset that day and he will be free.

S2 Ep3
8.5
15th Oct 1956
By chance, a stranger hidden in a cart overhears a conversation between Robin and Marian. Is it enough to blackmail the outlaw of Sherwood Forest? Robin impersonates the Sheriff to turn the tables on the blackmailer.

S2 Ep1
8.5
1st Oct 1956
Robin tries to help Wat Longfellow (Leslie Phillips), who became an outlaw to escape a life of indentured servitude, win the hand of the independent widow Winifred, but the wily Bailiff Baldwin also desires her.

S1 Ep39
8.5
9th Jul 1956
Prince John has issued a decree that King Richard is dead and that he will be crowned King. Robin disbelieves this, and sets to work to discover the truth. Robin and Marian head to London and the Prince's palace to stop the coronation taking place, by proving King Richard still lives. Robin must free the King's messenger held in John's dungeon in time.

S1 Ep37
8.5
4th Jun 1956
A penniless knight, Sir Richard of the Lea, has mortgaged his estate to the abbot, and cannot repay his debt. The outlaws lend him the sum he needs. To ensure they get their money back, Robin sends Friar Tuck to the abbey in the guise of Sir Richard's squire.

S1 Ep35
8.5
21st May 1956
King Richard is held prisoner in Austria and Robin must ensure the safe passage of the ransom money to the coast, but one of the three lords who brought it to Marian's castle is a potential traitor.

S2 Ep29
8.3
15th Apr 1957
Robin and his archenemy, the Sheriff of Nottingham, set aside their differences temporarily to work together to rid Nottingham of the Duke DeMoreville, a murderous psychopath whom the terrified citizenry refers to as "The Hangman of Leicester", who is sending five black pearls to Prince John for the Sheriff's head.
S3 Ep36
8.0
2nd Jun 1958
Robin agrees to let two of his men accompany Ann de Brissac, a noblewoman, to a place where gold for King Richard is hidden. But Marian then arrives at the camp to explain that Ann is a spy for Prince John. So Robin has to set out to save his two men.

S3 Ep20
8.0
10th Feb 1958
Alma of the Golden Hind Inn is star struck for Robin Hood, so Tom the Thatcher tries to impress her by pretending to be her hero. The Sheriff's lieutenant is also interested in the girl. Robin and the band show Alma the 'reality' of everyday life in the outlaw camp.

S3 Ep13
8.0
23rd Dec 1957
Young Davey's goose, Matilda, nips a Lord's horse, causing him to be thrown. The Lord, Sir Leon, catches and puts the animal on trial, as he hopes to condemn the goose to death – for his Christmas dinner.
S2 Ep39
8.0
24th Jun 1957
Little John has fallen for a Gypsy dancer, Carlotta, who is staying at the Blue Boar Inn. She also dances at the Sheriff's castle, and Robin wants to know the route of the next tax shipment bound for the coffers of Prince John. Little John asks the girl to obtain the information.

S2 Ep34
8.0
20th May 1957
Robin and Friar Tuck are escorting Marian back home from Ireland, after rescuing her uncle. They are making their way to Cork harbour and a boat back to England, when a storm forces them to stay in the barn of a Pat and Maeve Nolan. When the couple's home is burnt down, the trio are accused and to stop them being hanged, Robin claims kinship with "the little people" – leprechauns, and he and Tuck are given 24 hours to bring back proof of their existence, with Marian as hostage.

S2 Ep23
8.0
4th Mar 1957
While waiting for a boat to take them back to England, Robin spots Sir Roderick, an emissary of Prince John, disguised as a wine merchant, collecting gold for the Prince. Robin and Friar Tuck contact the French underground via the waitress at the "Black Rabbit" Inn, Michelle, for help in uncovering the plot. Robin decides to take Sir Roderick's place, and seize the gold for King Richard, but the plan goes wrong.

S1 Ep38
8.0
11th Jun 1956
When Robin bets Friar Tuck that he can obtain more money by begging than the Friar can by other means, he encounters the unsavory members of the Beggars guild, and Norman soldiers also make things very difficult.

S1 Ep34
8.0
14th May 1956
When Derwent overhears some messengers talk about the "jewels" they're guarding, he devises a plan to steal the shipment, and successfully carries it out, only to discover that the "jewels" are two small children, who prove to be more than a nuisance. Soon the tables are turned, however.

S1 Ep33
8.0
7th May 1956
Friar Tuck is captured and taken to the local Abbey for questioning by the visiting archbishop. Robin works with Little John to develop a rescue plan to save Friar Tuck.

S1 Ep30
4.0
16th Apr 1956
Derwent the outlaw makes a friend to whom he will be everlastingly grateful. Sir Walter de Lys discovers that there is such a thing as hygiene, after a healer called Joseph cures him by unconventional means, which riles the other healers in Nottingham. Then the Sheriff takes a hand...

S2 Ep27
5.3
1st Apr 1957
Joseph of Cordoba and a young friend, Esther, escape from York with the York Treasure, a sum of money raised by friends to pay the passage of a shipload of refugees landing at Grimsby. When Joseph is wounded, Robin, Little John and Esther head for the coast with the hate-mongering Malbete in pursuit.

S3 Ep14
6.0
30th Dec 1957
As a special treat on his 14th birthday, Will Dale, the son of Ned, a member of Robin's gang, meets Robin and goes hunting with Little John. A confrontation with the Black Knight, Sir Roger Fitzwilliam, leads to Will being kidnapped and Robin being challenged to a duel with the Knight.
S4 Ep24
6.0
29th Oct 1960
Sir Bligh Denton, a wealthy merchant, learns that his daughter Judith's suitor plans to visit her. Robin, escaping from the Sheriff's men, enters the house and is mistaken for the man.

S1 Ep15
6.3
2nd Jan 1956
A poor woman has been accused of witchcraft for smelting gold coins from stolen plates, and is under sentence of death to be burned at the stake. At least, that was the Sheriff's plan before Robin appeared with a clever ruse.

S1 Ep25
6.5
12th Mar 1956
Marian takes Robin to an ancient and deserted castle, where he is shocked to see the Queen Mother waiting for him. She has a mission for him that will be of tremendous service to England in general and King Richard in particular in denying an alliance between Prince John and King Phillip of France.

S2 Ep35
6.5
27th May 1957
During King Richard's crusade, Ali ben Azra, one of the hated Saracens is captured and brought to England. In their turn, the Saracens capture Lord Rossmore and hold him hostage against Ali's safe return. Plans are made for the exchange, but Sir James Rossmore, nephew of Lord Rossmore, has other ideas. He has devised a plot that will enable him to inherit his uncle's fortune, placing the blame on the innocent Ali ben Azra. Robin decides to intervene.

S1 Ep17
6.8
16th Jan 1956
Robin is called on to aid two brothers, one of whom wants to become a priest. They are both fleeing the Sheriff of Nottingham, and Robin sends them to an abbot. However, they are caught, and the would-be priest is thrown into prison. Can Robin rescue him and help him take his vows?

S1 Ep1
7.0
26th Sep 1955
Robin of Locksley has been fighting in the crusades in the Holy Land for many years, and when he arrives home again, he finds a sorry situation. Prince John is trying to seize power, and the Normans are in control everywhere. Even Robin's own land has been seized by a Norman knight. Where can he look for friends?

S1 Ep12
7.0
12th Dec 1955
A Highland visitor to Sherwood Forest is regarded with suspicion by Robin, especially when he is seen to burgle a treasure cave. Who is he, and what is he up to?

S1 Ep18
7.0
23rd Jan 1956
Friendly villagers have turned against Robin and the outlaws after being robbed by two students claiming to be Robin's men. To win back their confidence, he must find the thieves.

S1 Ep19
7.0
30th Jan 1956
The Sheriff of Nottingham prides himself on being well dressed - even down to his boots. His own bootmakers don't seem to be doing a good job, but what would he say if he knew that he was wearing outlaw boots?

S1 Ep20
7.0
6th Feb 1956
While delivering herbs to fight an epidemic of St Anthony's Fire, Robin and Little John are recognised by a beggar, and are in danger.

S1 Ep21
7.0
13th Feb 1956
A man is found murdered in Sherwood Forest, and the arrow that killed him is sworn to be Robin's. Local looting in the village is also being blamed on him, so Robin must find the vandals, in order to clear his name.

S1 Ep22
7.0
20th Feb 1956
King Richard has arrived back in England and is traveling in disguise to establish which Lords and Barons are loyal to John and who Richard can count on. He instructs Marion to undertake a dangerous mission.

S1 Ep23
7.0
27th Feb 1956
Arthur of Tetsbury is to be hanged for keeping money from King Richard's crusade, instead of paying it in taxes to Prince John. The Sheriff suspects Robin will try to rescue him, and frobids anyone to enter or leave the city. But a woman's robes can hide even a man's Lincoln Green.

S1 Ep26
7.0
19th Mar 1956
When Robin hears that the villagers have been charged double taxes, he decides to teach miserly Sir William de Courcier a lesson. Robin pretends to be helpful, but the miser soon learns the error of his ways.

S1 Ep27
7.0
26th Mar 1956
Marian is arrested and sent for trial, suspected of murder, after the King's Commissioner is killed with a dagger of hers. But it's a strange trial, because two men have to fight, and only if her defender wins is she proved innocent.

S1 Ep29
7.0
9th Apr 1956
The May Queen is being made to marry a man she does not love, but a tournament has been arranged, and perhaps under cover of the jousting, Robin will be able to do something.

S1 Ep31
7.0
23rd Apr 1956
Robin unknowingly steals Queen Eleanor's silver Byzantine plates, which were being transported undercover by a monk through Sherwood. Marian involves their friend Sir Richard of the Lea, but Sir Richard, as ever, has many debts to pay off and uses the plates to show how wealthy he is. Soon the Sheriff's lieutenant takes an interest. Robin must hold him off before the Archbishop arrives to take the plates to their rightful owner.

S1 Ep32
7.0
30th Apr 1956
A mysterious hooded pilgrim, Peregrinus the palmer, seems anxious to make the acquaintance of the outlaws, and proves himself a worthy friend when he shows how well he can use a bow. But he asks awkward questions about their loyalty to King Richard.

S1 Ep36
7.0
28th May 1956
Harold of Thorkil Castle insists he is being haunted by a vicious Viking ghost. At least that's what he tells Robin, but Robin doesn't believe in ghosts.

S2 Ep18
7.0
28th Jan 1957
Robin's men are annoyed when he gives refuge to Pick, a confidence trickster, who specialises in a shell trick, which makes him rather unpopular with the men. Robin uses him in a plan to collect some jewels for King Richard's campaign in France.

S3 Ep1
7.0
30th Sep 1957
Lord Guthrie 'steals' his own salt supplies to push the prices up and Robin is blamed. Robin and Little John obtain salt from the coast and Friar Tuck distributes it freely, until Lord Guthrie's partner, the Sheriff, confiscates it. Another plan is required, needing Roger of Antioch, a "salt diviner".

S3 Ep2
7.0
7th Oct 1957
Edgar, Friar Tuck's twin brother, has returned from the East with a lethal weapon, the 'Devil Crackers', and is prepared to sell it to Prince John. But Marian, Robin and Friar Tuck plan to stop him.

S3 Ep3
7.0
14th Oct 1957
Princess Irene of Byzantium, who has been held hostage by Prince John, is being returned home to Byzantium via Sherwood with Byzantine Ambassador Androclyse. She has fallen in love with Prince John and escapes back to London, using pepper to evade Robin. Robin has to convince the Princess not to marry John.

S3 Ep4
7.0
21st Oct 1957
Lord Grenwald, dying, passes the location of a charter that will limit Prince John's power if he becomes King, on to his manservant Hulme . Marian informs Robin who must infiltrate Grenwald's last party, with the Sheriff present, at the castle of the Lord's nephew, Sir Bascomb.

S3 Ep5
7.0
28th Oct 1957
Friar Tuck, now living in Tintern Abbey, sends for Robin's help against Lord Humphrey of Chepstow, who is planning to expel the Celts, led by Brack, from the Forest of Dean, where they have lived for centuries. Using the tribes 'fever brew', a hallucinogen, Robin plans to change place with Sir Humphrey to cause a change of heart.

S3 Ep6
7.0
4th Nov 1957
Brother Wootan, a great believer in education, has been banished many times for teaching the children of serfs to read. Robin allows him to start a school in the forest, and one of the unwilling pupils is Little John. When Brother Battle is arrested by the Sheriff, the outlaws have to rescue him.

S3 Ep7
7.0
11th Nov 1957
Sir Loren is caught ill-treating a blacksmith, and is banished from his home by his father. Then Loren kills his young brother in the forest. Robin and Little John are the only witnesses, but knowing that they cannot risk giving evidence themselves, they seek a way to make Loren confess. They dress as mummers to perform the folk play for Lent (as Cain and Abel) in front of the Sheriff to draw out the murderous brother.

S3 Ep8
7.0
18th Nov 1957
Mary Quartermaine, according to her father's will, has to marry the best bow-man in the land. Apple-grower Timothy Cox seeks to win the hand of Mary, against her Uncle's wishes, by beating Pierre of Bordeaux in an archery contest. Hopeless with the longbow, Robin lends a hand by teaching Timothy Cox to shoot an arrow well enough to win the lovely young woman as his bride.

S3 Ep9
7.0
25th Nov 1957
During a drought, a group of villagers led by Jason are hiding grain in a cave; despite posting a lookout, soldiers from the castle appear without warning and confiscate it. Robin and Little John are hunting in the area, and as strangers, are blamed by the villagers. Jason seeks out Robin for help to find out how they were betrayed, before another innocent person is blamed by the villagers.

S3 Ep10
7.0
2nd Dec 1957
Barnaby Church is being rebuilt, creating much interest on Nottinghamshire. Walter, the master mason, is proud of his work, but Sir Blaise De Roche has plans to fortify the building, and holds Walter prisoner until he agrees to the modifications. The outlaws seek to rescue the mason to ensure the structure stays a holy one.

S3 Ep11
7.0
9th Dec 1957
Brenda, a girl who has run away from her home to avoid a marriage to Walter Neville, proves herself a valiant archer in defence of Robin. After saving Robin from the Sheriff's men, she is voted a member of Robin's band. Brenda believes it her destiny to marry a hero Robin is railroaded into agreeing to marry her, after granting her a favour. Maid Marian is not amused, especially after being robbed by Brenda, and decides Robin must reunite Brenda with Walter, her betrothed.

S3 Ep12
7.0
16th Dec 1957
Rolfe, to avoid his son Jack having to join Prince John's army, bribes Master Bement to make sure Friar Tuck's bright student Peter Larkin is taken instead. Robin ensures fair play.

S3 Ep15
7.0
6th Jan 1958
The Sheriff wants to charge a protection tax from travellers through Sherwood forest. Knowing this will be unpopular, he comes up with a rival outlaw gang, to rob and attack travellers, made up of prisoners. His Seneschal suggests the prisoners are led by Dick Banks. When Friar Tuck is robbed by a prisoner he knows, Robin has Tuck join the Nottingham traders guild to discover the Sheriff's plans that include betraying the robbers.

S3 Ep16
7.0
13th Jan 1958
Andrew, a serf, arrives in Nottingham to obtain grain to feed the villagers of Lothan, as their crops have failed. The Lord of the Manor refuses to help, but Robin gives Andrew the money to buy the grain. Andrew impresses a grain farmer, Hodges, who is looking for a good man to marry his daughter, Margaret, thinking Andrew a 'freeman'. To buy his freedom, Andrew is tempted to sell the grain at a vast profit until Robin helps put things on the right path.

S3 Ep17
7.0
20th Jan 1958
Marian wants to speak to Robin urgently. She tries to tell him that Sir Jack of Southwark has her father's permission to marry her. But Robin is so engrossed in his archery practice that that he will not take any notice. When Sir Jack arrives, Robin finds out the hard way.
S3 Ep18
7.0
27th Jan 1958
Oswald of the Healing Hand, a quack pedlar of phoney medicine, deceives Little John, when he suffers from indigestion. But the outlaw comes to grief when he defends the quack against Baron Barclay's tax collectors at Bingham fair and is imprisoned. Oswald and Robin plan to rescue Little John from his cell.

S3 Ep19
7.0
3rd Feb 1958
Sir Edmund Woodstock demonstrates his 'Ambrosia Nova' (the Food of the Gods), which he thinks will replace all other food, to Thadeus Goldfinch, Robin and Friar Tuck. Goldfinch is unimpressed with it as human food, and his serfs on the same diet are weakening. Robin and Friar Tuck with the help of a donkey and Goldfinch's pigs find a more receptive audience for the foodstuff.

S3 Ep21
7.0
17th Feb 1958
Sir Alan Beaumont, a Crusader friend of Robin's, returns home just in time for a planned reunion with three other knights, with whom he and Robin fought with. But treachery awaits Robin in the castle of his old friend who has done a deal with the Sheriff to reclaim his castle forfeited while on the Crusades.

S3 Ep22
7.0
24th Feb 1958
The impoverished knight and friend of the outlaws, Sir Richard of the Lea, and his wife Lady Leonia, invite Robin and Marian to their 25th wedding anniversary. Sir Richard falls for a rigged game of dice, in which he loses the deeds to his castle to Sir Adrian. Robin tries to get the Sheriff to restore the status quo, but not before the Sheriff attempts to take the deeds.

S3 Ep23
7.0
3rd Mar 1958
Prince John has ordered the Sheriff to kill Prince Arthur. Bolbec has found an exact double, Luke Tanner, for Robin Hood. The Sheriff hatches a plan for the double to kill the Prince. Lady Constance, Prince Arthur and their emissary arrive in Sherwood and meet Robin Hood, who knows of the plans from Friar Tuck and has to save the Prince.

S1 Ep1
7.0
26th Sep 1955
Robin of Locksley has been fighting in the crusades in the Holy Land for many years, and when he arrives home again, he finds a sorry situation. Prince John is trying to seize power, and the Normans are in control everywhere. Even Robin's own land has been seized by a Norman knight. Where can he look for friends?

S1 Ep2
7.4
3rd Oct 1955
Robin, a new recruit to Scatlock's outlaw band, is sent out to bring back some loot from a moneylender who has exacted 100% interest from the people to whom he has lent money. But Robin's actions are displeasing to Scatlock.

S1 Ep3
7.5
10th Oct 1955
Little John escapes from the bondage of his feudal lord, but is caught in a tavern by the Sheriff's men. The sergeant offers him his freedom if he will go into Sherwood Forest and bring back an outlaw. Little John agrees, and in the forest meets Robin Hood for the first time.

S1 Ep4
7.8
17th Oct 1955
Friar Tuck calls on Robin to help the course of true love run smoothly. A young girl in love with a yeoman has sought sanctuary with the Friar after discovering that the lord of the manor has a different suitor in mind for her. Disguised as a monk, Robin sets out to help.

S1 Ep5
8.0
24th Oct 1955
The waylaying of a courier by the outlaws has a surprising result - for Robin - who finds himself in a perilous position. Maid Marian is suspected of being an enemy of the outlaws.

S1 Ep6
8.0
31st Oct 1955
The Sheriff has sentenced a peasant, Will Stutely, to death. Robin disguises himself as a butcher, and plans to get an interview with the Sheriff by starting a riot - but what good will that do?

S1 Ep7
7.7
7th Nov 1955
The Sheriff thinks one of his men is the best archer in the land. Sir Richard of the Lea says he knows of someone even better - Robin - and a contest is arranged. The outcome is never in doubt, but Sir Richard soon has cause to regret that he ever supported Robin.

S1 Ep8
7.7
14th Nov 1955
The Queen Mother, Eleanor of Acquitaine, arrives in Nottingham on a mission to collect money in aid of King Richard's was against the Saracens. The Sheriff, after making a generous donation, plots to waylay the party and get his money back, but Marian persuades the Queen to let Robin help her.

S1 Ep9
7.6
21st Nov 1955
The Count de Waldern makes himself unpopular with Robin when he makes advances to Maid Marian. The Count invites her to dinner, but he finds he has two uninvited guests.

S1 Ep10
8.0
28th Nov 1955
Edgar, one of the outlaws, is falsely accused by the Sheriff of the murder of Jack the Wagoner. He must submit to trial by ordeal - by plucking an iron bar from a boiling caldron.

S1 Ep11
7.4
5th Dec 1955
When a rather unpleasant knight wants to marry Marian for her dowry, Robin has to act, and disguises himself as a wealthy German baron.

S1 Ep12
7.0
12th Dec 1955
A Highland visitor to Sherwood Forest is regarded with suspicion by Robin, especially when he is seen to burgle a treasure cave. Who is he, and what is he up to?

S1 Ep13
7.4
19th Dec 1955
A young boy tells Robin that he is a page in Waldern Castle, but wants to join the outlaws. How can Robin refuse, when he finds out how important the 'page' really is?

S1 Ep14
7.3
26th Dec 1955
Sir Richard of the Lea, in seeking approval to get his son married off to the lovely Lady Gladys, enlists Robin's help to persuade her father that his son is suitable.

S1 Ep15
6.3
2nd Jan 1956
A poor woman has been accused of witchcraft for smelting gold coins from stolen plates, and is under sentence of death to be burned at the stake. At least, that was the Sheriff's plan before Robin appeared with a clever ruse.

S1 Ep16
7.3
9th Jan 1956
A strolling minstrel leads Little John and Robin into a trap laid by the Sheriff, but he later discovers on which side justice lies.

S1 Ep17
6.8
16th Jan 1956
Robin is called on to aid two brothers, one of whom wants to become a priest. They are both fleeing the Sheriff of Nottingham, and Robin sends them to an abbot. However, they are caught, and the would-be priest is thrown into prison. Can Robin rescue him and help him take his vows?

S1 Ep18
7.0
23rd Jan 1956
Friendly villagers have turned against Robin and the outlaws after being robbed by two students claiming to be Robin's men. To win back their confidence, he must find the thieves.

S1 Ep19
7.0
30th Jan 1956
The Sheriff of Nottingham prides himself on being well dressed - even down to his boots. His own bootmakers don't seem to be doing a good job, but what would he say if he knew that he was wearing outlaw boots?

S1 Ep20
7.0
6th Feb 1956
While delivering herbs to fight an epidemic of St Anthony's Fire, Robin and Little John are recognised by a beggar, and are in danger.

S1 Ep21
7.0
13th Feb 1956
A man is found murdered in Sherwood Forest, and the arrow that killed him is sworn to be Robin's. Local looting in the village is also being blamed on him, so Robin must find the vandals, in order to clear his name.

S1 Ep22
7.0
20th Feb 1956
King Richard has arrived back in England and is traveling in disguise to establish which Lords and Barons are loyal to John and who Richard can count on. He instructs Marion to undertake a dangerous mission.

S1 Ep23
7.0
27th Feb 1956
Arthur of Tetsbury is to be hanged for keeping money from King Richard's crusade, instead of paying it in taxes to Prince John. The Sheriff suspects Robin will try to rescue him, and frobids anyone to enter or leave the city. But a woman's robes can hide even a man's Lincoln Green.

S1 Ep24
8.0
5th Mar 1956
Will Scarlet has an eye for the girls, and this lands him in trouble with the Sheriff's men. Robin comes to the rescue, but Will's willingness to trust everyone is still liable to land him in trouble.

S1 Ep25
6.5
12th Mar 1956
Marian takes Robin to an ancient and deserted castle, where he is shocked to see the Queen Mother waiting for him. She has a mission for him that will be of tremendous service to England in general and King Richard in particular in denying an alliance between Prince John and King Phillip of France.

S1 Ep26
7.0
19th Mar 1956
When Robin hears that the villagers have been charged double taxes, he decides to teach miserly Sir William de Courcier a lesson. Robin pretends to be helpful, but the miser soon learns the error of his ways.

S1 Ep27
7.0
26th Mar 1956
Marian is arrested and sent for trial, suspected of murder, after the King's Commissioner is killed with a dagger of hers. But it's a strange trial, because two men have to fight, and only if her defender wins is she proved innocent.

S1 Ep28
7.3
2nd Apr 1956
When the freeman Arthur A'Bland flees from a false accusation of murder that means imprisonment and death, his children, Alice & Oswald, are seized by Lord FitzUrse. In the great castle they are treated harshly at the hands of the lord and his menials. A'Bland joins the outlaws, and together they decide on a rescue.

S1 Ep29
7.0
9th Apr 1956
The May Queen is being made to marry a man she does not love, but a tournament has been arranged, and perhaps under cover of the jousting, Robin will be able to do something.

S1 Ep30
4.0
16th Apr 1956
Derwent the outlaw makes a friend to whom he will be everlastingly grateful. Sir Walter de Lys discovers that there is such a thing as hygiene, after a healer called Joseph cures him by unconventional means, which riles the other healers in Nottingham. Then the Sheriff takes a hand...

S1 Ep31
7.0
23rd Apr 1956
Robin unknowingly steals Queen Eleanor's silver Byzantine plates, which were being transported undercover by a monk through Sherwood. Marian involves their friend Sir Richard of the Lea, but Sir Richard, as ever, has many debts to pay off and uses the plates to show how wealthy he is. Soon the Sheriff's lieutenant takes an interest. Robin must hold him off before the Archbishop arrives to take the plates to their rightful owner.

S1 Ep32
7.0
30th Apr 1956
A mysterious hooded pilgrim, Peregrinus the palmer, seems anxious to make the acquaintance of the outlaws, and proves himself a worthy friend when he shows how well he can use a bow. But he asks awkward questions about their loyalty to King Richard.

S1 Ep33
8.0
7th May 1956
Friar Tuck is captured and taken to the local Abbey for questioning by the visiting archbishop. Robin works with Little John to develop a rescue plan to save Friar Tuck.

S1 Ep34
8.0
14th May 1956
When Derwent overhears some messengers talk about the "jewels" they're guarding, he devises a plan to steal the shipment, and successfully carries it out, only to discover that the "jewels" are two small children, who prove to be more than a nuisance. Soon the tables are turned, however.

S1 Ep35
8.5
21st May 1956
King Richard is held prisoner in Austria and Robin must ensure the safe passage of the ransom money to the coast, but one of the three lords who brought it to Marian's castle is a potential traitor.

S1 Ep36
7.0
28th May 1956
Harold of Thorkil Castle insists he is being haunted by a vicious Viking ghost. At least that's what he tells Robin, but Robin doesn't believe in ghosts.

S1 Ep37
8.5
4th Jun 1956
A penniless knight, Sir Richard of the Lea, has mortgaged his estate to the abbot, and cannot repay his debt. The outlaws lend him the sum he needs. To ensure they get their money back, Robin sends Friar Tuck to the abbey in the guise of Sir Richard's squire.

S1 Ep38
8.0
11th Jun 1956
When Robin bets Friar Tuck that he can obtain more money by begging than the Friar can by other means, he encounters the unsavory members of the Beggars guild, and Norman soldiers also make things very difficult.

S1 Ep39
8.5
9th Jul 1956
Prince John has issued a decree that King Richard is dead and that he will be crowned King. Robin disbelieves this, and sets to work to discover the truth. Robin and Marian head to London and the Prince's palace to stop the coronation taking place, by proving King Richard still lives. Robin must free the King's messenger held in John's dungeon in time.
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The first episode of The Adventures of Robin Hood aired on September 26, 1955.
The last episode of The Adventures of Robin Hood aired on November 12, 1960.
There are 144 episodes of The Adventures of Robin Hood.
There are 4 seasons of The Adventures of Robin Hood.
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The Adventures of Robin Hood has ended.