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The Best Episodes of The Adventures of Robin Hood

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The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 3 Episode 21 - The Crusaders
    8.6/10(33 votes)

    S3:E21

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 4 Episode 5 - The Devil You Don't Know
    8.2/10(32 votes)

    S4:E5

    The Sheriff of Nottingham is preparing to leave for three months' duty in London, and a deputy is to replace him. Sir Alan-a-Daleis missing from Robin's camp and presumed held captive by the Sheriff. Robin and Will Scarlet intercept the Deputy Sheriff and free a prisoner, the mysterious Ralph of Plumtree, who insists on impersonating the Deputy Sheriff to discover if Sir Alan is a prisoner. The Deputy Sheriff lays a trap for both Robin and Marian.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 29 - The Black Five
    8.1/10(30 votes)

    S2:E29

    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.

    Director:Anthony Squire
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 3 Episode 7 - My Brother's Keeper
    8.1/10(33 votes)

    S3:E7

    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.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 3 Episode 14 - The Challenge of the Black Knight
    8.1/10(35 votes)

    S3:E14

    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.

    Director:Anthony Squire
    Writer:Leon Griffiths

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  6. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 3 Episode 29 - The Genius
    8.1/10(30 votes)

    S3:E29

    The Abbot calls on Friar Tuck to take Master Nicodemus, a fellow monk and master mathematician, to safety in Sherwood. Prince John has heard of his ideas on mathematics in warfare and wishes to take advantage of them. Count de Severne has been sent to capture Nicodemus and has taken his brother hostage. Robin puts the monk's intelligence to work on a mighty weapon that wins the day.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 4 Episode 26 - Trapped
    8.1/10(27 votes)

    S4:E26

    Robin becomes the latest victim of Sir Hugo DeBask, a lord who arrests travellers through his estate and sets them to work on his lands if they can't pay the fine he imposes at their trial. Looking for him, Marian also falls into the trap. Escape comes from an unexpected quarter.

    Director:Terry Bishop
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 28 - The Borrowed Baby
    8.0/10(36 votes)

    S2:E28

    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.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 3 Episode 10 - The Mark
    8.0/10(35 votes)

    S3:E10

    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.

    Director:Robert Day
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 3 Episode 31 - The Minstrel
    8.0/10(30 votes)

    S3:E31

    Marian brings Roland the Minstrel, exiled from London for derogatory songs about Prince John, to Sherwood. Prince John and the Ambassador of Aragon are to sign a treaty, so the Sheriff locks up all strangers including the minstrel in order to avert any show of disrespect for authority in the area. Robin decides to use Roland's song about the Sheriff to his advantage, and soon all Nottingham is singing it. Robin rescues Roland and Friar Tuck organises the children to sing for the Ambassador.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 3 Episode 32 - The Doctor
    8.0/10(29 votes)

    S3:E32

    Little John breaks his leg escaping from the Sheriff's men. Robin and Friar Tuck carry him to the home of Sir George Woodley, who is being visited by an Italian doctor, Benvolio. Betrayed, the doctor and Little John are arrested. Robin and Tuck's rescue attempt succeeds in rescuing the doctor, but not Little John. The Sheriff is badly wounded by Robin Hood and a bargain is made by the doctor to save both Little John and the Sheriff.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 4 Episode 18 - Hostage for a Hangman
    8.0/10(28 votes)

    S4:E18

    The Deputy Sheriff tells Robin, during a truce, that he will hang two serfs everyday until Robin gives himself up. Robin calls on Marian's guests, two lords who outrank the Deputy Sheriff, Alford and Beaumont to make the Deputy Sheriff show his true colours by dressing them as serfs and hanging them first.

    Director:Peter Seabourne
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 20 - Ambush
    7.9/10(38 votes)

    S2:E20

    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.

    Director:Lindsay Anderson
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 3 Episode 11 - The Bride of Robin Hood
    7.9/10(40 votes)

    S3:E11

    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.

    Director:Anthony Squire
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 3 Episode 39 - Farewell to Tuck
    7.9/10(31 votes)

    S3:E39

    The Sheriff has long suspected that Friar Tuck is in league with Robin Hood, and seizes an opportunity to get rid of him. The Sheriff tries to convince the Archbishop (Carl Bernard) to move Friar Tuck to another parish, but he doesn't bargain for the Archbishop's knowledge of Robin Hood, or his faith in Friar Tuck.

    Director:Terry Bishop
    Writer:Arthur Dales

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  16. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 4 Episode 7 - Six Strings to His Bow
    7.9/10(28 votes)

    S4:E7

    At the 'Blue Boar Inn', Robin meets a strange knight playing a harp — Sir Alan-a-Dale, who is unaware that Prince John has accused him of murder and declared an outlaw. But when a crossbow bolt flies through the window, narrowly missing the knight, Robin thinks he should make his presence known. The Sheriff is hot on Sir Alan's trail, and in warning Sir Alan, Marian is wounded by a crossbow bolt, threatening to reveal her identity to the pursuing Sheriff.

    Director:Terry Bishop
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 4 Episode 10 - The Truce
    7.9/10(29 votes)

    S4:E10

    Needing to win an archery tournament against Lord Repton, the Deputy Sheriff parleys a truce with Robin to be his archer for the day. His opponent is Mark Crispin, champion bowman of England.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Leon Griffiths

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  18. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 4 Episode 17 - The Parting Guest
    7.9/10(28 votes)

    S4:E17

    Still hanging around Robin's camp, Duncan of Stoneykirk turns his attentions to Lady Marian until his lassie Jessie arrives to take Duncan back home. With Duncan refusing to leave Robin, Robin tries to woo Jessie to make him jealous, but it is Marian who is jealous. Robin arranges an archery contest between Marian and Jessie for five gold crowns to set Duncan on the road to Scotland.

    Director:Terry Bishop
    Writer:Louis Marks

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  19. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 4 Episode 21 - The Edge and the Point
    7.9/10(27 votes)

    S4:E21

    Boland, a former Crusader, defeats Will Scarlet and then Robin Hood in a sword fight and is only prevented from killing him by Maid Marian's prowess with the bow. Boland offers his services to the Deputy Sheriff, who makes him his lieutenant and takes sword-fighting lessons so he can kill Robin Hood himself and so take the glory to become Sheriff. Robin Hood accepts the challenge in the hope of revealing the Deputy Sheriff's true colours.

    Director:Gordon Parry
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 4 Episode 25 - Double Trouble
    7.9/10(27 votes)

    S4:E25

    Friar Tuck's identical twin brother Edgar returns to Nottingham. The Deputy Sheriff imprisons Tuck and plots a scheme where his brother Edgar is to impersonate him, for the purpose of staging a sermon. He is to confess publicly that he (as 'Friar Tuck') has aided the outlaws, and is to denounce Maid Marian to the Bishop.

    Director:Terry Bishop
    Writer:Louis Marks

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  21. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 1 Episode 24 - Will Scarlet
    7.8/10(61 votes)

    S1:E24

    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.

    Director:Ralph Smart
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 18 - The Shell Game
    7.8/10(37 votes)

    S2:E18

    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.

    Director:Terry Bishop
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 31 - Too Many Earls
    7.8/10(32 votes)

    S2:E31

    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.

    Director:Robert Day
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 3 Episode 19 - One Man's Meat
    7.8/10(37 votes)

    S3:E19

    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.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 3 Episode 22 - Castle in the Air
    7.8/10(30 votes)

    S3:E22

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Crusaders" is the best rated episode of "The Adventures of Robin Hood". It scored 8.6/10 based on 33 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/17/1958. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Devil You Don't Know".