List of films and television series featuring Robin Hood

The following are some of the notable adaptations of the Robin Hood story in film and television.

*1908: "Robin Hood and His Merry Men", a silent film directed by Percy Stow, and the first appearance of Robin Hood on the screen.
*1912: "Robin Hood", a film starring Robert Frazer as Robin Hood.
*1922: "Robin Hood", a film starring Douglas Fairbanks.
*1938: "The Adventures of Robin Hood", starring Errol Flynn in his most acclaimed role, considered by many to be the best Robin Hood movie.
*1946: "Bandit of Sherwood Forest"
*1948: "The Prince of Thieves"
*1951: "Tales of Robin Hood"
*1952: "The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men" and "Miss Robin Hood"
*1952: "Ivanhoe", a film featuring Harold Warrender as Locksley (Robin Hood).
*1953: "Robin Hood" a television series on BBC One, featured Patrick Troughton, in the first representation of Robin Hood on television.
*1955–1960: "The Adventures of Robin Hood", a long-running British series starring Richard Greene that is also remembered for its catchy theme tune.
*1956: "Robin Hood's Greatest Adventures" (also starring Donald Pleasence as Prince John)
*1958: "Robin Hood, the Movie"
*1958: "Robin Hood: The Quest for the Crown"
*1960 "Sword of Sherwood Forest", a film with Richard Greene reprising his television role
*1964: "Robin and the Seven Hoods", a musical film set in 1930s gangster Chicago, with Frank Sinatra as "Robbo"
*1967: "A Challenge for Robin Hood", a Hammer version, with Barrie Ingham as Robin
*1967: "Rocket Robin Hood", a space-age version of the Robin Hood legend, where he and his band of Merry Spacemen live in the year 3000 on Sherwood Asteroid and fight the evil Sheriff who rules the space territory of N.O.T.T. (Trillium / Steve Krantz Production)
*1970 : "L'Arciere di Sherwood" (known under the English-language titles "Long live Robin Hood" and "The Scalawag Bunch"), an Italian film starring Giuliano Gemma as Robin Hood.
*1973: Walt Disney's "Robin Hood", perhaps the most famous animated version of the legend, which had the various characters depicted as anthropomorphic animal characters, including Robin Hood and Maid Marian as foxes.
*1975: "The Legend of Robin Hood", a six-episode BBC miniseries starring Martin Potter in the title role. The adaptation was aired on public television in the USA later in the 1970s.
*1975: "When Things Were Rotten", a comedy TV series produced by Mel Brooks and starring Richard Gautier (as an imbecilic Robin Hood), Bernie Kopell and Misty Rowe.
*1975: "Robin Hood's Arrows" ("Strely Robin Guda", "Стрелы Робин Гуда"), a Russian adaptation by Sergey Tarasov, starring Boris Khmelnitsky as Robin Hood, with songs of Vladimir Vysotsky.
*1976: "Robin and Marian", a film with a revisionist version of the story starring Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn as the couple at the end of their lives.
*1981: "Time Bandits", Terry Gilliam's time-travel comedy, starring John Cleese as Robin Hood.
*1983: "The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe" ("Ballada O Doblestnom Rytsare Ayvengo", "Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго"), a Russian adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe" by Sergey Tarasov, with songs of Vladimir Vysotsky, starring Boris Khmelnitsky as Robin Hood, who helps Ivanhoe to restore Richard's kingdom.
*1984: "The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood", a made-for-TV spoof starring George Segal (Robin), Morgan Fairchild (Marian), Roddy McDowall (Prince John), and Janet Suzman (Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine); Robert Hardy turned up at the end as King Richard.
*1984–1986: "Robin of Sherwood", aka "Robin Hood", a New-Age-fantasy-style British television series starring Michael Praed as Robin, later replaced by Jason Connery (son of Sean Connery) as Robert, called Robin. In this version the two Robins actually get to "wear" hoods occasionally. The series set the template for many of the adaptations that followed, most notably the introduction of a Muslim outlaw.
*1989–1994: "Maid Marian and her Merry Men", a British children's TV show, rewrote the legend somewhat, with Marian as the dynamic leader of the resistance against Prince John, Robin as her thick-headed, buffoonish figurehead, and Nottingham as John's put-upon, sarcastic enforcer.
*1990: "Young Robin Hood", an animated series developed by Cinar and Hanna-Barbera, tells a version of the story in which Robin and his men, as well as Maid Marian, are teenagers. This version also incorporates several fantasy elements. For example, Robin is sometimes assisted by a forest-dwelling old woman who knows magic.
*1990: "Robin Hood no Dai Boken" ( _ja. ロビンフッドの大冒険), a Japanese animated series developed by Tatsunoko Productions, tells a version of the story in which Robin and his men (and women), as well as Maid Marian, are — in majority — children. This version also incorporates several fantasy elements, mainly expressed in mystic powers of the nature and a powerful treasure protected by the forest Sherwood itself. The whole series contains strong environmental messages.
*1991: "Robin Hood", starring Patrick Bergin and Uma Thurman, is an inventive use of some of the best of the Robin Hood heritage.
*1991: "", a film with Kevin Costner in the lead role, and Sean Connery in a cameo appearance as King Richard in the finale.
*1993: The Mel Brooks spoof "" recycles bits from his short-lived late-1975 Robin Hood TV sitcom "When Things Were Rotten". Cary Elwes plays Robin in the movie, and Patrick Stewart appears in the ending, spoofing Sean Connery's take on King Richard the Lionheart (even speaking in a light Scottish accent).
*1996: "Robin of Locksley" was a made for TV movie starring Devon Sawa as a modern teenage Robin attending a prep school with the snobbish John Prince.
*1997: "The New Adventures of Robin Hood", a France–U.S. TV series, starred Matthew Porretta as a black-leather-clad Robin, and John Bradley. The tone of the series resembled its contemporaries ' and '. Porretta had appeared as Will Scarlet O'Hara in "Men in Tights".
*1997: "Ivanhoe", a TV mini-series featuring Aden Gillett as Robin of Locksley.
*1999: The children's series "Back To Sherwood" featured a teenage descendant of Robin ("Robyn Hood") who discovers she has the power to travel back in time, and joins with the children of her ancestor's band (Joan Little, Phil Scarlet, etc.)
*2001: "Princess of Thieves", a Disney-produced American made-for-TV movie, starred Keira Knightley as Robin Hood's heroic daughter, Gwyn, who takes over her father's role and comes to his rescue.
*2006-: "Robin Hood", a BBC One television series, produced by Tiger Aspect. It was first broadcast as thirteen-episode series in the UK from October to December 2006, with a second series following in 2007. Jonas Armstrong stars in the title role.
*Forthcoming: "Nottingham", a film directed by Ridley Scott, will depict a less virtuous Robin Hood and a more noble Sheriff of Nottingham

Robin Hood-themed episodes of other series

Since Robin Hood is a character in the public domain, there is no restriction on his use. Thus, he has often made cameo appearances in other series that do not necessarily revolve around the legend, particularly in cartoons or a science fiction and fantasy setting.

*1939: "Robin Hood Makes Good", a Chuck Jones animated cartoon.
*1949: "Rabbit Hood", a Chuck Jones animated cartoon with Bugs Bunny.
*1958: "Robin Hood Daffy", a Chuck Jones animated cartoon in which Daffy Duck believes he is Robin Hood and tries unsuccessfully to convince this to an unbelieving Porky Pig.
*1960: "Robin Hood", an episode of "Peabody's Improbable History".
*1968: "Pinkcome Tax", an Arthur Davis animated cartoon, where the Pink Panther takes on the role of a Merry Man, and unsuccessfully tries to free a poor man from jail.
*1968: In "The Time Tunnel" episode "The Revenge Of Robin Hood", the former outlaw is the Earl of Huntington who gets King John to sign the Magna Carta.
*1981: "Time Bandits", starring John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall; written and directed by Terry Gilliam had a short spoof of the Robin Hood legend, with Robin being portrayed as an upper class twit.
*1982: An episode of the TV series "Voyagers!" features Robin Hood.
*1984: The UK kids' cartoon series DangerMouse launched their sixth season of the show with a spoof titled "Once Upon A Timeslip", in which the narrator discovered his voice controlled the on-screen antics, and who then put DangerMouse and his assistant Penfold through a comic adventure as Robin Hood and Little John.
*1989: Robin Hood was parodied in an episode of "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!" as Hooded Robin, an Albatoss who can imitate anyone's voice, and helped the young Mushroom Peoples of Sharewood Village against the Sheriff of Koopingham.
*1990: A "Garfield and Friends" episode was called "Robin Hog", a "U.S. Acres" where Orson fantasizes himself as Robin Hog.
*1990: The "Tiny Toon Adventures" episode "Weirdest Story Ever Told" featured a segment titled "Robin Hare". This version featured Buster as the title character and Montana Max as the "Sheriff of Naughty Ham".
*1991: "" episode "Q-pid" features the crew being forced to play out a real-Robin Hood tale (Captain Picard, played by Patrick Stewart, as Robin Hood) when Q recreates it.
*1996: Wishbone plays Robin Hood in the episode "Paw Prints of Thieves", to portray Joe's fight to give leftover food to a homeless shelter, even if it's against regulations.
*1997: In an episode of "Cutey Honey Flash", one of the forms Honey takes in that episode is Robin Hood Honey.
*1999: The "Blackadder" Millennium Special "Back And Forth" featured Robin Hood much like the recurring character Lord Flashheart, with similar boisterous personas and the same actor (Rik Mayall), with Kate Moss as Maid Marian. In his role, he proclaims his Merry Men have "strong muscle tone and are not gay!" though his Merry Men later betray and kill him after Blackadder convinced them that their purpose of Stealing from the Rich and Giving to the Poor is ultimately pathetic.
*2001: Robin Hood and the Merry Men make a cameo appearance as unwelcome rescuers in the movie version of William Steig's "Shrek". Here, they speak with French accents, partake in Irish step-dancing, and are defeated by a girl.
*2005: "Charmed" episode 7.14, "Carpe Demon", an ex-demon named Drake uses his powers to turn himself and the sisters into Robin Hood, Maid Marion, and Robin's merry men. A sorcerer casts a spell on Drake making him believe that he is Robin Hood and that Phoebe is Maid Marion.

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