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The Best Episodes of The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2

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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
    The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 1 - A Village Wooing
    7.1/10(48 votes)

    #1 - A Village Wooing

    S2:E1

    Men try to join Robin's outlaw band for some strange reasons, but surely Wat Longfellow's was the strangest of all. He wanted to join so he could get married to the widow Winifred!

    Director:Bernard Knowles
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 2 - The Scientist
    7.3/10(45 votes)

    #2 - The Scientist

    S2:E2

    Robin attempts to help Monk Albertus, a scientist who is accused of withholding secrets about a dangerous weapon.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 3 - Blackmail
    7.6/10(43 votes)

    #3 - Blackmail

    S2:E3

    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.

    Director:Bernard Knowles
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 4 - A Year And A Day
    7.4/10(35 votes)

    #4 - A Year And A Day

    S2:E4

    A year and a day - that's the length of time an escaped serf has to stay free before freedom is his forever. But he has to stay in the public eye, and how can he do this when he is a wanted man? Surgeon Calend has done it for a year, but there's another day to go.

    Director:Bernard Knowles
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 5 - The Goldmaker
    7.4/10(37 votes)

    #5 - The Goldmaker

    S2:E5

    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?

    Director:Terry Bishop
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 6 - The Imposters
    7.7/10(38 votes)

    #6 - The Imposters

    S2:E6

    Robin's principles are well-known, if not well-liked. There are two kinds of men he doesn't like: traitors and impostors. Unless he is the impostor?

    Director:Lindsay Anderson
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 7 - Ransom
    7.7/10(35 votes)

    #7 - Ransom

    S2:E7

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

    Director:Terence Fisher
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 8 - Isabella
    7.1/10(43 votes)

    #8 - Isabella

    S2:E8

    There is only one attractive young woman in Nottingham that Robin trusts, and that's Marian. Can he trust the lovely Isabella too? Prince John is planning to divorce his wife, Princess Avice, who asks Robin for help

    Director:Lindsay Anderson
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 9 - The Hero
    7.3/10(31 votes)

    #9 - The Hero

    S2:E9

    Mark becomes a hero under false pretences. But is he hero enough to take the consequences?

    Director:Terence Fisher
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 10 - The Haunted Mill
    7.3/10(33 votes)

    #10 - The Haunted Mill

    S2:E10

    Tom the Miller is being harassed by a series of misfortunes, which his powerful neighbor, Sir William, ascribes to the 'Little People', but Friar Tuck doesn't believe this falsehood, and asks Robin for help.

    Director:Lindsay Anderson
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 11 - The Black Patch
    7.7/10(34 votes)

    #11 - The Black Patch

    S2:E11

    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.

    Director:Terry Bishop
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 12 - Outlaw Money
    7.7/10(30 votes)

    #12 - Outlaw Money

    S2:E12

    Money problems are not new, but outlaws have unconventional methods of solving them. To help the villagers of Lotham, who are being very heavily taxed, Robin supplies table silver to the silversmith and official minter of Nottingham to melt down into coin. Unknown to Robin, the Sheriff already suspects the silversmith is in sympathy with King Richard.

    Director:Terry Bishop
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 13 - The Friar's Pilgrimage
    7.5/10(31 votes)

    #13 - The Friar's Pilgrimage

    S2:E13

    It may be odd that Robin should decide to accompany Friar Tuck on his pilgrimage to Canterbury, but several people are glad he did, as they are soon embroiled in a case of witchcraft.

    Director:Arthur Crabtree
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 14 - The Trap
    7.5/10(29 votes)

    #14 - The Trap

    S2:E14

    The Sheriff's campaign against Robin and the outlaws has not been very successful, but Sir Simon, an agent of Prince John, comes along with a new idea, and proposes to carry it through himself. The Sheriff is pleased to hand over to someone else.

    Director:Terry Bishop
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 15 - Hubert
    7.3/10(34 votes)

    #15 - Hubert

    S2:E15

    Lady Rowena is being forced to marry a local nobleman, De Vere. Sir Hubert is determined to storm the castle single-handed, to save her. But who will save him?

    Director:Terence Fisher
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 16 - The Dream
    7.5/10(39 votes)

    #16 - The Dream

    S2:E16

    Marian's cousin, Sir William Fitzwalter, comes from Eleanor, the Queen Mother, to ask Robin's help. It means Robin has to go to Austria. That night Marian has a strange dream, causing her to fear for his safety.

    Director:Terence Fisher
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 17 - The Blackbird
    7.6/10(36 votes)

    #17 - The Blackbird

    S2:E17

    Most people can stand a bit of teasing, but the outlaws go too far with Little John, and he walks off in a huff. It was a pity he didn't look where he was going - it would have saved Robin a lot of trouble. Little John is caught by the Sheriff's men and sentenced to hang, and Robin has to rescue him.

    Director:Terence Fisher
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 18 - The Shell Game
    7.8/10(35 votes)

    #18 - The Shell Game

    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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  19. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 19 - The Final Tax
    7.5/10(31 votes)

    #19 - The Final Tax

    S2:E19

    When Tom Joyner (Fred Goddard) falls from a high tree trying to retrieve Sir Charles's (Paul Eddington) son's cat, the Lord Bailiff (Dennis Edwards) after Friar Tuck has pronounced death, and invokes the Heriot Tax, which means Sir Charles is entitled to any of Tom's goods and chattles, which will leave the serf's family penniless. Tom however was only stunned and Friar Tuck devises a way to end this death tax in the village forever, with a little help from Little John and the gang.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 20 - The Ambush
    7.9/10(36 votes)

    #20 - The Ambush

    S2:E20

    Prince John is always trying to seize the English throne while King Richard is in the Holy Land. But there is someone with a better claim: Arthur of Brittany. Suppose, by some regrettable accident, that Arthur were killed?

    Director:Lindsay Anderson
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 21 - The Bandit of Brittany
    7.2/10(32 votes)

    #21 - The Bandit of Brittany

    S2:E21

    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.

    Director:Terry Bishop
    Writer:Milton Schlesinger

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  22. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 22 - The Goldmaker's Return
    7.3/10(32 votes)

    #22 - The Goldmaker's Return

    S2:E22

    The Sheriff has found the man everyone is looking for: Lepidus, an alchemist who can make gold. But the old man has been in his laboratory for a month and has produced nothing. The Sheriff gives him just seven days more. Robin, feeling guilty for delivering hime to the Sheriff, tries to rescue him.

    Director:Terry Bishop
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 23 - Flight From France
    7.4/10(32 votes)

    #23 - Flight From France

    S2:E23

    Robin and Friar Tuck are at an inn in France, where, they discover, Sir Roderick is staying on a mission to raise money for Prince John. Robin decides to take Sir Roderick's place, and seize the gold for King Richard, but the plan goes wrong.

    Director:Terry Bishop
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 24 - The Secret Pool
    7.4/10(38 votes)

    #24 - The Secret Pool

    S2:E24

    Robin and Marian are fishing in a pool which Robin explains has the biggest fish in the area. It belongs to Sir Cedric Hayworth, who knows nothing about it. When Robin has dealings with the knight later, he spins him a very fishy yarn to trick him.

    Director:Don Chaffey
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 25 - Fair Play
    7.3/10(34 votes)

    #25 - Fair Play

    S2:E25

    '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.

    Director:Terry Bishop
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"A Village Wooing" is the best rated episode of "The Adventures of Robin Hood" season 2. It scored 7.1/10 based on 48 votes. Directed by Bernard Knowles and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/1/1956. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Scientist".