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The Adventures of Robin Hood (series)

The Adventures of Robin Hood
Series title over an image of an arrow in a tree
Genre Drama
Adventure
Folklore
Period drama
Created by Based on traditional legends
Starring Richard Greene
Bernadette O'Farrell
Patricia Driscoll
Alexander Gauge
Archie Duncan
Alan Wheatley
John Arnatt
Opening theme Edwin Astley
Ending theme Carl Sigman sung by Dick James
Composer(s) Edwin Astley
Albert Elms
Country of origin United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of episodes 143 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Hannah Weinstein
Producer(s) Sidney Cole
Running time 25 minutes
Production company(s) Sapphire Films
Distributor Official Films Inc. for ITC Entertainment
Release
Picture format 4:3 35mm Black-and-white
Audio format Monaural
Original release 25 September 1955 (1955-09-25) ATV – 1 March 1959 (1959-03-01) ATV

The Adventures of Robin Hood is a British television series comprising 143 half-hour, black and white episodes broadcast weekly between 1955 and 1959 on ITV. It stars Richard Greene as the outlaw Robin Hood and Alan Wheatley as his nemesis, the Sheriff of Nottingham. The show followed 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 show's writers and producers.

The programme was produced by Sapphire Films Ltd for ITC Entertainment, was filmed at Nettlefold Studios with some location work, and was the first of many pre-filmed shows commissioned by Lew Grade. In 1954, Grade was approached by American producer Hannah Weinstein to finance a series of 39 half-hour episodes, at a budget of £10,000 an episode, of a series she wished to make called 'The Adventures of Robin Hood', for which she had already signed Richard Greene to the project as Robin Hood and been given the backing of US distribution company, Official Films Inc, who were confident of selling it to the US market. Grade was so impressed by her proposal that he agreed immediately to back the series, hoping to make large profits by selling programmes to the lucrative American market. In the UK, the series premiered on ATV London, on Sunday 25 September 1955 the US premiere was on Monday 26 September 1955 by CBS, ATV Midlands began the series on Friday 17 February 1956, the series had a staggered start across the other regions from 1956–1961 as the ITV regional stations came on-air for the first time in the UK. The series was shot on 35mm film to provide the best possible picture quality, and had fade-outs where US commercials were intended to slot in (the series was sponsored in the US by Johnson & Johnson (Baby products, Band-Aid) and Wildroot (Hair products).


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