Product Details

• Actors: Richard Greene
• Directors: n, a
• Format: Box set, Black & White, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Timeless Media Group
• DVD Release Date: August 19, 2008
• Run Time: 750 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001AQJOP0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #262,619 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD:BEST SSN1 - DVD Movie

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Twenty-one episodes from this classic TV series of the 50's, July 7, 1999

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David Blake (Basingstoke, Hampshire, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adventures of Robin Hood [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you've sort of wished you had some examples of Richard Greene's "Robin Hood" TV shows from the 50's - but have never done anything about it - then this boxed set might be for you. Otherwise, you might find you already own several of the episodes included.

"Robin Hood" is the quintessential English adventure story - set in days when soldiers fought with swords and arrows. Each episode is introduced (explained?) by a American frontman who uses 90's language. As an Englishman, I found this highly irritating. For example, he tells us at one point that Robin strives for "a win-win situation". Yuk!

He also tells us the series was filmed actually in Sherwood Forest. Wrong! It was filmed in some woods just outside London. Still, never mind, because the shows are what really matter - and they are still highly enjoyable. Entertaining, gently educating the young viewers about life way back when.

The actors are exceptional - to an adult it is amusing to see the same people playing different roles in each episode in order to keep casting costs within tight budgets. Because the actors are so good, I was annoyed that both the opening and end credits have been stripped off the episodes. I would have much preferred them to the frontman.

The episodes are: Children of the greenwood, The miser, Too many earls, Friar Tuck, The youngest outlaw, Woman's war, The highlander, Isabella, Tables turned, An apple for the archer, The lottery, A year and a day, Goodbye Little John, The May Queen, The prisoner, Ladies of Sherwood, The Thorkill ghost, The secret pool, Bride for an outlaw, Checkmate, The frightened tailor.

Buy it! It's good.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Revisiting my youth and Merry Olde England, December 21, 1999

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Penina Keen Spinka (Glendale, Arizona, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adventures of Robin Hood [VHS] (VHS Tape)

What a treasure! I have been begging the video stores to find out if such a compilation existed. Thank you, Amazon. I'm an old fan of this show, watching it from the very beginning and loving every moment of it. After all these years, it's like a time machine to be able to see those faces and hear those voices again. As an adult, I can see nuances in plots, judge the acting and the stories in different ways than I did as a 10 year old. How I wanted to join that outlaw band. In one episode, an 11 year old girl actually did do it for a short time and Robin gave her a kiss goodnight. In my jealous green, I'd fit right into Sherwood Forest. Even though the tapes are in glorious black & white, even though the sound is, at times, difficult, even though stock footage is sometimes used, this was a class production with real castles and the right feel of Olde England in the late Eleven Hundreds when Richard was the absent king and only Robin Hood and friends could keep the kingdom from sucumbing to his evil brother John. The actors experiment with different roles. Once, even the sheriff (Alan Wheatley) played a French Count, but it was refreshing to see him stretch his acting abilities. The show was true to its times in costuming and social behavior, so very English and well constructed. Please, can anyone convince Mathathon Music & Video to do the rest of the episodes? Penina Keen Spinka <[e-mail]>

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Terrific British television series from the 1950s, December 31, 2002

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Robert Huggins (Suburban Philadelphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adventures of Robin Hood [VHS] (VHS Tape)

For fans of 1950s-era television series, it's pretty hard to top this 21 episode set from Marathon Music & Video. "The Adventures of Robin Hood" still holds up remarkably well some 45 years after it was produced and aired on television. At times, this British produced series shows its age but, overall, the vast majority of the episodes are entertaining, thanks to good writing, acting, and production values. Richard Greene is a very appealing lead as Robin, but, at times, the supporting roles are a bit confusing as different actors portrayed characters like Maid Marian and Little John during the series' run in the US, from 1955 to 1958.

As much as I enjoy this series, these tapes are not without their problems, hence my rating of four stars rather than five. Several of the tapes had muddled audio which, I suspect, were NOT due to the condition of the source material as the introductions to each episode (read by Marathon's host) are muddled as well. The introductions are really unnecessary as they are the same descriptions found on each of the individual video boxes. Also, there is only one opening title segment for each tape and not each episode (3 episodes per tape), and there are absolutely no closing credits. It would have been nice to learn who the various actors were, though Donald Pleasence can easily be spotted as the evil Prince John.

After viewing these tapes once (I will be viewing them again), my hope is that Marathon Music & Video (or some other enterprising Public Domain video company) does two things:

1. Release more episodes (with full opening and closing credits), and

2. Release existing and/or previously unreleased episodes on DVD.