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The Worst 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 - The Inquisitor
S1:E335/7/1956
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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Director:Ralph Smart
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#2 - Tables Turned
S1:E345/14/1956
When Derwent overhears some messengers talk about the "jewels" they're guarding, he devises a plan to steal the shipment, and successfully carries it out, only to discover that the "jewels" are two small children, who prove to be more than a nuisance. Soon the tables are turned, however.
Director:Bernard Knowles
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Bernard Knowles
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#3 - The Traitor
S1:E355/21/1956
King Richard is held prisoner in Austria and Robin must ensure the safe passage of the ransom money to the coast, but one of the three lords who brought it to Marian's castle is a potential traitor.
Director:Terence Fisher
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Terence Fisher
Writer:Unknown
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#4 - The Thorkil Ghost
S1:E365/28/1956
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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Director:Terence Fisher
Writer:Unknown
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#5 - The Knight Who Came to Dinner
S1:E376/4/1956
A penniless knight, Sir Richard of the Lea, has mortgaged his estate to the abbot, and cannot repay his debt. The outlaws lend him the sum he needs. To ensure they get their money back, Robin sends Friar Tuck to the abbey in the guise of Sir Richard's squire.
Director:Ralph Smart
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Ralph Smart
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#6 - The Wager
S1:E386/11/1956
When Robin bets Friar Tuck that he can obtain more money by begging than the Friar can by other means, he encounters the unsavory members of the Beggars guild, and Norman soldiers also make things very difficult.
Director:Bernard Knowles
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Bernard Knowles
Writer:Unknown

The 20 BEST Episodes of The Adventures of Robin Hood

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#7 - The Prisoner
S1:E397/9/1956
Prince John has issued a decree that King Richard is dead and that he will be crowned King. Robin disbelieves this, and sets to work to discover the truth. Robin and Marian head to London and the Prince's palace to stop the coronation taking place, by proving King Richard still lives. Robin must free the King's messenger held in John's dungeon in time.
Director:Bernard Knowles
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Bernard Knowles
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#8 - A Village Wooing
S2:E110/1/1956
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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#9 - The Scientist
S2:E210/8/1956
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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#10 - Blackmail
S2:E310/15/1956
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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#11 - A Year and a Day
S2:E410/22/1956
Under Medieval English law, a peasant who escapes serfdom and lives in a city for "a year and a day" is a free man, given the man lives openly, not in hiding. Surgeon Calend has nearly completed that duration, and only has to remain 'at large' until sunset that day and he will be free.
Director:Bernard Knowles
Writer:Unknown
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#12 - The Goldmaker
S2:E510/29/1956
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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Director:Terry Bishop
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#13 - The Imposters
S2:E611/5/1956
Lady Pomfret's husband hasn't returned from the Crusades for seven years, and under the law he is deemed to be dead. Her cousin LeBlonde has arrived to take possession of her estate, but an imposter, or two, might help in this situation.
Director:Lindsay Anderson
Writer:Unknown
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#14 - Isabella
S2:E811/19/1956
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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#15 - The Hero
S2:E911/26/1956
The Sherriff's brother, Sir Montichet, an unpopular tax collector is killed. Mark, an opportunist thief sees the murder, and is blamed for it. Robin welcomes him into his band, but the Sheriff plans to hang eight villagers unless Mark gives himself up.
Director:Terence Fisher
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Terence Fisher
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#16 - The Haunted Mill
S2:E1012/3/1956
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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Director:Lindsay Anderson
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#17 - The Black Patch
S2:E1112/10/1956
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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#18 - Outlaw Money
S2:E1212/17/1956
To help the villagers of Lotham, who are being very heavily taxed, Robin supplies table silver to the silversmith and Master of the Nottingham Mint, to melt down into coin for the starving villagers. Unknown to Robin, the Sheriff already suspects the silversmith is in sympathy with King Richard. When the villagers try to spend them at the market, they are denounced as counterfeit and Friar Tuck is arrested and put on trial for forgery.
Director:Terry Bishop
Writer:Unknown
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#19 - The Friar's Pilgrimage
S2:E1312/24/1956
Robin realizes with winter coming on that there is a shortage of honey for the Merry Men. He decides to join Tuck on a journey to Canterbury to so he can locate a supply of honey and allow Tuck to complete his religious pilgrimage. At Canterbury, they find a local maid, Alice, accused of witchcraft, saving her from drowning by the Count Duprez's soldiers. Robin and Friar Tuck uncover a plot by the Count against Lady Margaret.
Director:Arthur Crabtree
Writer:Unknown
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Director:Arthur Crabtree
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#20 - The Trap
S2:E1412/31/1956
Sir Simon, and agent of Prince John, goes undercover as a cobbler named Jack. He pretends to be mistreated by the Sheriff, in a plan to join Robin's band, and to turn the outlaws against Robin. 'Jack' lays black rumours of Robin robbing clerics and taking money from the King's ransom and betraying Tom of Guant, now residing in the Sheriff's dungeon.
Director:Terry Bishop
Writer:Unknown
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#21 - Hubert
S2:E151/7/1957
Lady Rowena is being forced to marry a local nobleman, De Vere. Sir Hubert is determined to storm the castle single-handed, to save Rowena, his true love. Robin is soon at work on his behalf.
Director:Terence Fisher
Writer:Unknown
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#22 - The Dream
S2:E161/14/1957
Marian's cousin Sir William Fitzwalter arrives in Sherwood with a message from Queen Eleanor regarding the King's ransom in Austria, but Marian has a forbidding dream of warning and Robin must determine the truth behind his claims and Marian's fears.
Director:Terence Fisher
Writer:Unknown
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#23 - The Blackbird
S2:E171/21/1957
After being embarrassed by his fellow outlaws over his romantic feelings for Joan, Little John leaves the Blue Boar Inn in ill humour and is caught by the Sheriff's soldiers. He is captured and taken to the Sheriff who sentences him to be hanged.
Director:Terence Fisher
Writer:Unknown
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#24 - The Shell Game
S2:E181/28/1957
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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#25 - The Final Tax
S2:E192/4/1957
Tom Joyner, a serf, is supposed to be dying, and Sir Charles intends collecting the tax to which he is legally entitled if one of his villagers dies. Imposing the tax, means Sir Charles is entitled to any of Tom's goods and chattels, which will leave the serf's family penniless. Tom, however, was only stunned and Friar Tuck devises a plan to thwart the rascally Lord Bailiff.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Unknown
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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Inquisitor" is the worst rated episode of "The Adventures of Robin Hood". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Ralph Smart and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/7/1956. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Tables Turned".