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The Best Episodes of Maid Marian and Her Merry Men

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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 1989 on BBC One and ran for four series, with

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    Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 3 Episode 2 - Driving Ambition
    8.6/10(22 votes)

    #1 - Driving Ambition

    S3:E2

    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:Unknown
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  2. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 4 Episode 1 - Tunnel Vision
    8.6/10(22 votes)

    #2 - Tunnel Vision

    S4:E1

    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:Unknown
    Writers:Mark Billingham, David Lloyd

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  3. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 4 Episode 5 - Robin the Bad
    8.6/10(22 votes)

    #3 - Robin the Bad

    S4:E5

    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.

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  4. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 4 Episode 6 - The Nice Sumatran
    8.6/10(20 votes)

    #4 - The Nice Sumatran

    S4:E6

    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.

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  5. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 2 Episode 5 - Rotten Rose: Part 1
    8.5/10(25 votes)

    #5 - Rotten Rose: Part 1

    S2:E5

    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.

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  6. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 3 Episode 3 - Keeping Mum
    8.5/10(22 votes)

    #6 - Keeping Mum

    S3:E3

    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.

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  7. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 3 Episode 6 - The Great Mud Harvest
    8.5/10(22 votes)

    #7 - The Great Mud Harvest

    S3:E6

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 4 Episode 2 - Bouncy Sheriff
    8.5/10(21 votes)

    #8 - Bouncy Sheriff

    S4:E2

    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.

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  9. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 4 Episode 7 - Voyage to the Bottom of the Forest
    8.5/10(21 votes)

    #9 - Voyage to the Bottom of the Forest

    S4:E7

    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:Unknown
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  10. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 1 Episode 3 - A Game Called John
    8.4/10(35 votes)

    #10 - A Game Called John

    S1:E3

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 2 Episode 6 - Rotten Rose: Part 2
    8.4/10(17 votes)

    #11 - Rotten Rose: Part 2

    S2:E6

    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.

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  12. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 3 Episode 1 - The Big Baby
    8.4/10(24 votes)

    #12 - The Big Baby

    S3:E1

    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.

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  13. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 3 Episode 5 - Robin and the Beansprout
    8.4/10(22 votes)

    #13 - Robin and the Beansprout

    S3:E5

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 4 Episode 3 - Raining Forks
    8.4/10(23 votes)

    #14 - Raining Forks

    S4:E3

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 4 Episode 4 - The Wise Woman of Worksop
    8.4/10(22 votes)

    #15 - The Wise Woman of Worksop

    S4:E4

    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.

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  16. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 2 Episode 3 - Little Brown Noses
    8.3/10(27 votes)

    #16 - Little Brown Noses

    S2:E3

    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:Unknown
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  17. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 3 Episode 4 - They Came from Outer Space
    8.3/10(23 votes)

    #17 - They Came from Outer Space

    S3:E4

    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.

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  18. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 1 Episode 6 - The Whitish Knight
    8.2/10(30 votes)

    #18 - The Whitish Knight

    S1:E6

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    Director:Unknown
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  19. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 2 Episode 2 - The Worksop Egg Fairy
    8.2/10(25 votes)

    #19 - The Worksop Egg Fairy

    S2:E2

    The first egg in two years is laid in Worksop.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 1 Episode 2 - Robert the Incredible Chicken
    8.1/10(36 votes)

    #20 - Robert the Incredible Chicken

    S1:E2

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    Director:Unknown
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  21. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 1 Episode 4 - The Miracle of St. Charlene
    8.1/10(28 votes)

    #21 - The Miracle of St. Charlene

    S1:E4

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    Director:Unknown
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  22. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 1 Episode 5 - The Sharp End of a Cow
    8.1/10(28 votes)

    #22 - The Sharp End of a Cow

    S1:E5

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 2 Episode 1 - The Beast of Bolsover
    8.1/10(25 votes)

    #23 - The Beast of Bolsover

    S2:E1

    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.

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  24. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 2 Episode 4 - Rabies in Love
    7.9/10(18 votes)

    #24 - Rabies in Love

    S2:E4

    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:Unknown
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  25. Maid Marian and Her Merry Men Season 1 Episode 1 - How the Band Got Together
    7.6/10(43 votes)

    #25 - How the Band Got Together

    S1:E1

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Best Episodes Summary

"Driving Ambition" is the best rated episode of "Maid Marian and Her Merry Men". It scored 8.6/10 based on 22 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/14/1993. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Tunnel Vision".