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The Best Episodes of Maid Marian and Her Merry Men

Every episode of Maid Marian and Her Merry Men ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Maid Marian and Her Merry Men!

Maid Marian and her Merry Men is a British children's sitcom created and written by Tony Robinson and directed by David Bell. It began in...
Genres:ComedyFamily
Network:BBC One

Best Episodes Summary

"Rotten Rose: Part 2" is the best rated episode of "Maid Marian and Her Merry Men". It scored 9/10 based on 15 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/20/1990. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Rotten Rose: Part 1".

  • Rotten Rose: Part 2
    9.0/1015 votes
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    #1 - Rotten Rose: Part 2

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 12/20/1990

    Due to be executed with Marian, Robin realises that she did not betray him when Rose reveals that she wants his body stuffed for her Robin Hood Museum. Fortunately the other merry men attack, under cover of the rubbish bins, and save Robin and Marian, who leaves Rose to the tender mercies of the lecherous Guy, tied up in the torture chamber. Robin is ashamed for what happened but Marian persuades him to stay with the merry men.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Rotten Rose: Part 1
    8.9/1022 votes
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    #2 - Rotten Rose: Part 1

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 12/13/1990

    Marian is unsettled to see her sneaky ex-schoolmate 'Rotten' Rose Scargill cosying up to Robin and tells Rose the reality of their situation as outlaws. Rose then betrays both Marian and Robin to the sheriff and they are caught and imprisoned. From the window of the torture chamber Robin sees Marian appearing to be friendly with Guy. In fact Guy has a crush on her and is trying to force himself on her but Robin misunderstands the situation and believes Marian has betrayed him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Driving Ambition
    8.9/1020 votes
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    #3 - Driving Ambition

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 1/14/1993

    The sheriff needs money to bribe driving instructor Snooker to let John pass his driving test and sees his chance when Rose hi-jacks Marian's suggestion to hold a Eurovision-style song contest.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Keeping Mum
    8.9/1020 votes
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    #4 - Keeping Mum

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/28/1993

    Panic ensues when a comet appears over Worksop, causing Snooker to fall off a ladder and get covered in glue and leaves and King John to fear an alien invasion. He determines to build an arsenal against it but steals all the villagers' clothes to sell in order to provide funds to build it.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Great Mud Harvest
    8.9/1020 votes
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    #5 - The Great Mud Harvest

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 2/11/1993

    Everyone is feeling the pinch and the sheriff sacks Gary to cut costs. The sheriff is almost sacked by the king but avoids it and,along with remaining guard Graeme, takes a trunk containing the king's gold to the bank. Fearing attack they dress up in an elephant costume but the trunk breaks off it and Graeme, mis-hearing the sheriff, takes the elephant's trunk to the bank and leaves the money behind.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Tunnel Vision
    8.9/1020 votes
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    #6 - Tunnel Vision

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 1/5/1994

    King John aims to tunnel to Scunthorpe but the locals are horrified as Scunthorpe dwellers have two heads. Rose and Guy aim to raise cash with a phoney ransom by pretending that Marian has kidnapped Guy,who goes off to the forest. As part of the plan Marian and Rose are tied together and are pelted with mud by the villagers,who assume they are a two-headed monster from Scunthorpe.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Mark Billingham

  • The Nice Sumatran
    8.9/1018 votes
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    #7 - The Nice Sumatran

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 2/9/1994

    After the castle is attacked King John decides to abdicate in favour of Guy. He goes off to the outlaws' hideout where Robin, hoping the king will leave him money, entertains him. However the king eats the merry men out of house and home to Marian's annoyance.Guy is an extremely childish ruler and the sheriff is tired of his infantile demands. He thus forges an unlikely alliance with Marian and the merry men, whereby they use giant puppet dinosaurs to frighten Guy into abdicating. However John likes it so much in the hideout he refuses to leave.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Voyage to the Bottom of the Forest
    8.9/1019 votes
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    #8 - Voyage to the Bottom of the Forest

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 2/16/1994

    Rabies falls asleep, causing the outlaws to miss an ambush but, on waking, he sees a boat purchased by the king at a boat show. The merry men steal it and take it to Scarborough to push off the cliffs, in the process landing in a parallel universe where nice princesses Rose and Guya have been usurped by a witch who looks like Gladys and an ogre who is a ringer for Snooker. Rabies becomes a hero when he steals Gladys's magic wand and turns her into a box of tissues and Snooker into a set of place mats.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Baby
    8.8/1022 votes
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    #9 - The Big Baby

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/1993

    The sheriff has a giant jelly baby in the likeness of King John made to give him as a present but the merry men steal it. In order to cut his losses and find another gift for the king, the sheriff tells the villagers that it is the festival of Bloopie when they must give presents to Father Bloopie, alias King John. When he has them all in the castle the sheriff plans to keep them until he gets presents from them but they are rescued by the merry men, using the jelly baby as a battering ram before they eat it.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Robin and the Beansprout
    8.8/1020 votes
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    #10 - Robin and the Beansprout

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/1993

    Robin goes to Worksop to buy a Chinese takeaway but finds he has been given only one bean-sprout,which he throws away in disgust. Gary and Graeme have been sent to get a 'fur' to clothe Guy with, but come back with a fir tree by mistake, which is discarded in the same place as the bean-sprout. Robin believes this is just like 'Jack and the Bean-stalk' and he climbs the tree, ending up in the Royal dining room, where he steals the king's takeaway for the merry men.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bouncy Sheriff
    8.8/1019 votes
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    #11 - Bouncy Sheriff

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 1/12/1994

    Fed up with the merry men's sexist attitudes Marian quits the gang and teams up with Rose, who is selling home improvements, including a flat pack extension for the castle in which John can put Guy's many toys. Rose, of course, is planning to deliver Marian and her men to the sheriff and lures them into the dungeons. However Marian escapes and ends up in the extension, which promptly collapses. Feeling ashamed of themselves the lads invite Marian back as their leader though Rose prefers to stay in the dungeons rather than become their au pair.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Raining Forks
    8.8/1021 votes
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    #12 - Raining Forks

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 1/19/1994

    When the villagers catch colds the sheriff takes them to the seaside but, once there, forces them to build him and the king a holiday camp in time to celebrate High Forks Night. This commemorates a failed attempt to kill the Royal family which caused forks to go flying up in the air. The merry men are holidaying nearby and so Marian dresses as the food inspector, allowing her and her gang to infiltrate the camp, where they tell the villagers to feign having the Multi-Coloured Pimple Plague in order to escape.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Robin the Bad
    8.8/1021 votes
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    #13 - Robin the Bad

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 2/2/1994

    King John hires a man who is Robin's exact double to do bad things around Worksop, thereby discrediting him and the outlaws. However he is rumbled by Marian who persuades him to work with the merry men and a dead ringer for the sheriff and make Robin popular again. With the job done the look-alike sheriff gets somewhat carried away and heads to the castle to attack King John, making life difficult for his double.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Little Brown Noses
    8.7/1025 votes
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    #14 - Little Brown Noses

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 11/29/1990

    Little Colin is stolen by the Sheriff, and it's up to the Merry Men to get her back. Guy of Gisborne, the King's Nephew, arrives.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • They Came from Outer Space
    8.7/1021 votes
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    #15 - They Came from Outer Space

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/1993

    Panic ensues when a comet appears over Worksop, causing Snooker to fall off a ladder and get covered in glue and leaves and King John to fear an alien invasion. He determines to build an arsenal against it but steals all the villagers' clothes to sell in order to provide funds to build it.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Wise Woman of Worksop
    8.7/1020 votes
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    #16 - The Wise Woman of Worksop

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 1/26/1994

    The gang are suffering from insomnia and keeping everybody else awake so Gladys gives them a cure, Sleepy Cake, though it only succeeds in making them look like the Beatles. Gladys says her father knows a cure but he is a prisoner in King John's castle so the merry men set out to rescue him.They get him out, though not only do Marian and Robin get caught in the process but the old boy wants to go back to the castle as he is used to being a prisoner.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Worksop Egg Fairy
    8.6/1023 votes
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    #17 - The Worksop Egg Fairy

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 11/22/1990

    The first egg in two years is laid in Worksop.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Rabies in Love
    8.3/1016 votes
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    #18 - Rabies in Love

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 12/6/1990

    Rabies falls in love with the strongest woman he's ever seen, and it's up to the Merry Men to ensure he gets his dream girl. Unfortunately, she's also the target of the Sheriff's scheme to get rid of King John's annoying nephew, Guy.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Game Called John
    8.2/1035 votes
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    #19 - A Game Called John

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/30/1989

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Miracle of St. Charlene
    8.2/1028 votes
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    #20 - The Miracle of St. Charlene

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/7/1989

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Sharp End of a Cow
    8.2/1028 votes
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    #21 - The Sharp End of a Cow

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/14/1989

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Whitish Knight
    8.2/1030 votes
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    #22 - The Whitish Knight

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/21/1989

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Beast of Bolsover
    8.2/1024 votes
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    #23 - The Beast of Bolsover

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 11/15/1990

    A rival gang arrives in Worksop, led by the Australian Beast of Bolsover and his nephew the Nuisance of Nuneaton. They refuse to leave unless they are paid twenty five gold pieces or someone defeats the Beast in a fight. The merry men capture the sheriff, who is suffering from amnesia, and when John refuses the ransom, Marian persuades the sheriff that he is one of her gang and gets him to fight the Beast.When Rabies accidentally knocks Robin's wardrobe out of a tree it falls on the sheriff,who remembers who he is as a result and arrests the Beast and his mob.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Robert the Incredible Chicken
    8.0/1035 votes
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    #24 - Robert the Incredible Chicken

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/23/1989

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • How the Band Got Together
    7.5/1042 votes
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    #25 - How the Band Got Together

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/16/1989

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A