"Robin of Sherwood" episodes - Search/Destroy

faves include the jewish pogrom one you mention, the later "rutterkin" one (with ian ogilvy), crom cruach, the special hounds of lucifer, both the final stories (time of the wolf, and the greatest enemy)

special mention for the end of series 1 with richard the cockfarmer/lionheart because that's HOW IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE ORIGINAL LEGEND. i mean bloody hell, all this rich/poor stuff cos of king john, then when richard turns up it's all sweetness and light? I THINK NOT. bloody ruling class with their "let's kill the infidels, and would you peasants mind awfully paying for it" crap.

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FITE.

naturally i liked it, however i cannot remember much: except guy of gisbourne also played stalky of stalky and co, and will scarlett went on to re-invent the brit gangsta movie

Guy of JIZZbourne hahahahahahaha!

The second one is so obviously proto-Legolas.

84-86. Guest stars included: Gemma Craven, Matt Frewer, Ian Ogilvy, Richard O'Brien and Martin Shaw (beinger camper than he was in the professionals).

Ray Winstone obv famous, Clive Mantle was in casualty, John Abineri pops up in things from time to time, Nicholas Grace was the evil head of the cable channel in the Max Headroom fillum,

that was scary. they seemed to have done the effect by showing film of a wax statue of LUCIFER melting in reverse order.

oddly, all the Michael Praed episodes were in summer, while all the ones with Jason Connery are in autumn or winter.

another GRATE episode: the one where they meet some older scumbag outlaws and realise that's their future.

jason connery series actually follows the change of the seasons, so some with snow/cold in the middle of the series.

older scumbag outlaws = Adam Bell and his gang. He comes from another genuine legend of outlaws, i'm sure the story is googlable.

i) the TV aerials on Nottingham Castle

ii) the bit where they go to the Black Guardian's castle, and it's blatantly a mediavel ruin, and they explain this away by saying the local peasants ransacked the place very efficiently when the Black Guardian was killed.

Erm seriously I remember it well, Saturday afternoons at 5 or so, he looks more like Chesney Hood in that picture to be honest. Wasn't there a few fantasy/sex episodes in it? I remember one was awfully like Conan the Barbarian.

I actually have the Clannad soundtrack somewhere. Must dig it out.

This thread is very odd:

i) it seems to have come from nowhere, very suddenly

ii) it's a topic I thought of posting myself just the other day

iii) It has that 'Hey, Does Anyone Remember The Clangers?' vibe which notoriously afflicts stereotypical Students / hazy 70s revivalists / sinister - but which is VERY RARE ON ILX. ie: usually people on ILX know what they're on about (and I am very used to not having a clue what they're on about) - but here, those same people who are usually so assured and well-informed keep writing things like 'I almost remember this, didn't it have an elk god in it?', 'Did Clannad do the music?' etc etc. I almost have a feeling people are winding me up - I mean, the answers to those questions, at least, are as fresh to me as anything re. TV this year.

I think what this shows is that a) I must have taken the programme a lot more seriously than other people; b) I am older than all the other kids; c) as we know, I never left the 80s anyway.

As for the S/D: whoever said the Templars episode was on the groats: that was surely the very best of a good lot.

I've also had the good fortune to catch a couple of episodes the recent wacky American New Adventures of Robin Hood which is very full of magick and mullets and also very knowing (cf: shallow Valley Girl / airhead / sorceress Rowena). It's not great. What I want to know is why our American friends pronounce the name Robin Hood with the accent on the Rob: ROBinhood (similar emphasis to nationhood)?

Well?

Question to 'Mr Showbiz' in the Evening Times the other day: 'Did Kylie Minogue start her career in Neighbours?' (technical answer no, of course, but I don't think that's what they meant, or at least Mr Showbiz assumed not)

I too have always wondered about the ROBinhood US pronunciation. Its mental.