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Adventures of Robin Hood: The Complete Second Season

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I've always loved The Adventures of Robin Hood since I was a kid. It was just a good, clean, entertaining TV program for us youngsters. I've watched all the episodes of season one and season two and have been very entertained by them...great memories. Richard Greene is great as Robin Hood. Great supporting cast. Timeless series!

The second season of THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD consists of 39 episodes that aired on CBS-TV during the 1956-57 season, Mondays at 7:30 pm.

MILL CREEK box sets offer good-to-average-quality audio and video transfers of public domain material at a most reasonable price

NOTABLES in Robin Hood, Season #2:
Director John Schlesinger appears in episodes #10 and #26 ("The Haunted Mill" and "The Dowry")
Sixties folk-rocker Peter Asher (of Peter & Gordon) guests in episodes #20 and #21 ("The Ambush" and "The Bandit of Brittany")

REGULAR CAST--
Richard Greene - Robin Hood
Bernadette O'Farrell - Maid Marian Fitzwater
John Arnatt - Sheriff of Nottingham
Gillian Sterret - Lady Genevieve
Donald Pleasence - Prince John
Alexander Gauge - Friar Tuck
Alan Wheatley - Sheriff of Nottingham
Archie Duncan - Little John
Ian Hunter - Sir Richard

ACTORS WHO PORTRAYED SEVERAL CHARACTERS:
Alfie Bass, Peter Bennett, Patricia Burke, Nigel Davenport, John Dearth, Paul Eddington, Willoughby Gray, Paul Hansard, Martin Lane, Simone Lovell, Edward Mulhare, Shaun O'Riordan, Tony Thawnton, Patrick Troughton, Victor Woolf, Terry Yorke


The complete first season of THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD is also available from MILL CREEK.


Program list includes original airdates and guest stars.

A Village Wooing (10/1/56) - Betty Impey/Leslie Phillips
The Scientist (10/8/56) - Miles Malleson/Andrew Crawford
Blackmail (10/15/56) - Anthony Dawson
A Year and a Day (10/22/56) - Amanda Coxell/Dervis Ward
The Goldmaker (10/29/56) - Anthony Baird
The Imposters (11/5/56) - Brenda de Banzie/Nigel Green/Jack Melford
Ransom (11/12/56) - Paul Daneman/Robert Raglan/Philip Ashley
Isabella (11/19/56) - Nina Walker/Helen Cherry/Howard Lang/Noël Hood
The Hero (11/26/56) - Bill Owen/Ralph Michael/Susan Richmond/Mona Lillian
The Haunted Mill (12/3/56) - John Schlesinger/Laurence Hardy
The Black Patch (12/10/56) - Duncan Lamont/Colin Croft/Gwenda Williams
Outlaw Money (12/17/56) - Sid James/Leonard Sachs/Richard Pascoe
The Friar's Pilgrimage (12/24/56) - Greta Gynt/Maureen Davis/Peter Retey
The Trap (12/31/56) - Alfred Burke/Helen Forrest/Andrew Downie
Hubert (1/7/57) - Dorothy Bromiley/William Greene/William Mervyn
The Dream (1/14/57) - Marie Burke
The Blackbird (1/21/57) - William Horsbrugh/Fred Goddard/Bernard Goldman
The Shell Game (1/28/57) - Sam Kydd/Irene Handl/Myrtle Reed/Sylvia Kay
The Final Tax (2/4/57) - Dennis Edwards/Fred Goddard/Barry Fennell
The Ambush (2/11/57) - Peter Asher/Dorothy Alison
The Bandit of Brittany (2/18/57) - Peter Asher/Harold Kasket
The Goldmaker's Return (2/25/57) - Bryan Coleman
Flight from France (3/4/57) - Ingeborg Wells/Alec Mango/Roy Russell
The Secret Pool (3/11/57) - George Benson/Basil Beale
Fair Play (3/18/57) - Thomas Gallagher/Colin Broadley/Selma vaz Dias
The Dowry (3/25/57) - John Schlesinger/Jeanette Hutchinson
The York Treasure (4/1/57) - Helena de Crespo/Karel Stepanek
The Borrowed Baby (4/8/57) - Guy Verney/Dorothy Gordon/Megan Williams
The Black Five (4/15/57) - Peter Cargill/Manning Wilson/Peter Welch
Food for Thought (4/22/57) - John Sharplin/Charles Lloyd Pack/Emrys Leyshon
Too Many Earls (4/29/57) - Arthur Howard/Victor Platt/Peter Johnson
Highland Fling (5/6/57) - Hugh McDermott/Hilary Paterson/Jock Mckay
The Mystery of Ireland's Eye (5/13/57) - Eddie Byrne/Concepta Fennell
The Little People (5/20/57) - Barry Keegan/Peggy Marshall/Carole Lorimar
The Infidel (5/27/57) - Francis Matthews/Alex Scott/Rowland Bartrop
The Frightened Tailor (6/3/57) - Hugh Burden/David Williams/Michael Peake
The Path of True Love (6/10/57) - Lionel Jeffries/Max Faulkner/Hal Osmond
The Road in the Air (6/17/57) - Laurence Hardy/Ronald Hines/Arthur Skinner
Carlotta (6/24/57) - Jennifer Jayne/Terry Yorke

To my mind these are the best of the Robin Hoods on film, and I think I have seen nearly all of them. The actors are first-rate, and the stories remarkably varied and inventive for half-hour episodes. Perhaps those who are so so delicate as to grade them down because of only middling picture and sound quality (these are, after all, black and white TV shows from the '50s) can't get caught up in them to the point where this doesn't matter. I can. Although I'm approaching sixty, watching these I'm once again a little boy in love with swashbuckling heroism--and Bernadette O'Farrell's incomparable Maid Marian.

The Second Season of Robin Hood looks very good on dvd. I wish Millcreek had done such a steller job with the First Season. Season Two's source material must be in considerably better condition than Season One's. The quality is very nice; not as nice as MillCreeks release of Wanted:Dead or Alive (also available from Amazon), but certainly better than 99 percent of public domain releases out there. The episodes look clean and stable, with very little age damage (unlike many of the episodes in Season One). The sound is perfectly fine, with little or no background hiss from age. Highly recomended for fans of this early BBC TV series, and fans of Richard Greene.

This series pre-dated my birth by a fair number of years, but I've found it to be quite a gem for those who enjoy adventures series that are not obviously altered to appeal to modern audiences. Each episode has a self-contained story which can range from light-hearted to somewhat dark. Of course, this is a television show and it's not true to the reality of the times, though it is probably closer in some ways than lavish movie productions from the same time period (or these days). The actors are all a bit theatrical, but very good in their roles.

One interesting point about this series is that you can see that it clearly influenced other entertainment about the same period of time. Black Adder II, for instance, is clearly modeled upon the basic structure of this show. Some of the stories from Black Adder seem to be parodies of stories from this show.

If you like old adventure movies and don't care about having perfect video quality (though this is eminently watchable), this is great value and a whole lot of fun for a weekend in front of the television.

Very enjoyable return to yesteryear! These wonderful B&W, high quality episodes are truly fun to watch, with much historical accuracy in dress, storyline, settings and locale. Can't wait until the 3rd season becomes available!

Definitely a classic. Wonderful characters. Good, if not very elaborate, storylines. And fun fight scenes.
They just don't make them this good any more. Such a show wouldn't be "Politically Correct".

Great deal on a fun DVD. We loved the first season and this one is just as good. I hope the price will drop on season 3!

I was totally surprised by the quality of this television show, considering the era in which it was made. It is well acted, well casted, the costumes and props are awesome, and the storylines make the familiar characters all the more likeable than the Disney movie ever did. Some old advertisements are tagged on to some episodes, which only serves to make them better. This show is fantastic.

Love this series---you'll end up with everyone in the family singing the catchy little intro song. It was also nice to see a program without cursing and an entertaining story in each episode.