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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 Worst Episode
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    The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 30 - Food for Thought
    6.8/10(36 votes)

    S2:E30

    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.

    Director:Sidney Cole
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 1 Episode 15 - The Alchemist
    6.9/10(73 votes)

    S1:E15

    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.

    Director:Ralph Smart
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 1 Episode 28 - Children of the Greenwood
    6.9/10(59 votes)

    S1:E28

    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.

    Director:Ralph Smart
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 1 Episode 36 - The Thorkil Ghost
    6.9/10(55 votes)

    S1:E36

    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.

    Director:Terence Fisher
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 8 - Isabella
    6.9/10(47 votes)

    S2:E8

    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.

    Director:Lindsay Anderson
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 3 Episode 2 - A Tuck in Time
    6.9/10(31 votes)

    S3:E2

    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.

    Director:Terry Bishop
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 1 Episode 12 - The Highlander
    7.0/10(80 votes)

    S1:E12

    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?

    Director:Ralph Smart
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 1 Episode 17 - The Brothers
    7.0/10(71 votes)

    S1:E17

    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?

    Director:Bernard Knowles
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 1 Episode 31 - The Byzantine Treasure
    7.0/10(52 votes)

    S1:E31

    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.

    Director:Terence Fisher
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 1 - A Village Wooing
    7.0/10(51 votes)

    S2:E1

    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.

    Director:Bernard Knowles
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 3 Episode 5 - Change of Heart
    7.0/10(34 votes)

    S3:E5

    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.

    Director:Terry Bishop
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 1 Episode 8 - Queen Eleanor
    7.1/10(85 votes)

    S1:E8

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 1 Episode 18 - The Intruders
    7.1/10(71 votes)

    S1:E18

    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.

    Director:Ralph Smart
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 1 Episode 20 - Errand of Mercy
    7.1/10(64 votes)

    S1:E20

    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.

    Director:Ralph Smart
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 1 Episode 33 - The Inquisitor
    7.1/10(53 votes)

    S1:E33

    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.

    Director:Ralph Smart
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 2 Episode 10 - The Haunted Mill
    7.1/10(37 votes)

    S2:E10

    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.

    Director:Lindsay Anderson
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 4 Episode 1 - Sybella
    7.1/10(29 votes)

    S4:E1

    On his way to join King Richard in the Holy Land, the Earl of Steyne is ambushed by Baron Onslow, and killed. Onslow changes clothes with the dead Earl, and posing as him, rides to Nottingham, with the Earls' letter of introduction from Robin to the King. The Juggler Ali overhears Onslow plotting with the Sheriff to kill King Richard. Ali's partner Sybella, who has an amazing memory but can hardly speak English, tries to warn Robin.

    Director:Terry Bishop
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 1 Episode 1 - The Coming of Robin Hood
    7.2/10(135 votes)

    S1:E1

    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?

    Director:Ralph Smart
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 1 Episode 2 - The Moneylender
    7.2/10(112 votes)

    S1:E2

    Robin and Edgar lighten the load of a greedy and dishonest moneylender, Herbert of Doncaster , by taking his purse full of money, and giving the contents of it back to the poor villagers and farmers from whom he had taken it. Will Scatlock, the outlaws' leader, is mortally wounded, and with his dying breath he passes the leadership of his band of men to Robin Hood.

    Director:Ralph Smart
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 1 Episode 6 - A Guest for the Gallows
    7.2/10(94 votes)

    S1:E6

    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?

    Director:Ralph Smart
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 1 Episode 10 - The Ordeal
    7.2/10(80 votes)

    S1:E10

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 1 Episode 13 - The Youngest Outlaw
    7.2/10(77 votes)

    S1:E13

    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?

    Director:Bernard Knowles
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 1 Episode 14 - The Betrothal
    7.2/10(76 votes)

    S1:E14

    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.

    Director:Ralph Smart
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 1 Episode 21 - The Vandals
    7.2/10(63 votes)

    S1:E21

    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.

    Director:Arthur Crabtree
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. The Adventures of Robin Hood Season 1 Episode 26 - The Miser
    7.2/10(56 votes)

    S1:E26

    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.

    Director:Bernard Knowles
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Food for Thought" is the worst rated episode of "The Adventures of Robin Hood". It scored 6.8/10 based on 36 votes. Directed by Sidney Cole and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/22/1957. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Alchemist".