List of films and television series featuring Robin Hood

Notable Adaptations

Fairbanks as Robin Hood in the 1922 film version.

• 1908: Robin Hood and His Merry Men was the first appearance of Robin Hood on the screen, a silent film directed by Percy Stow.
• 1912: Robin Hood, starring Robert Frazer as Robin Hood.
• 1922: Robin Hood, 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 film featuring Harold Warrender as Locksley (Robin Hood).
• 1953: Patrick Troughton, in Robin Hood on the BBC Television Service, was the first person to play Robin Hood on television.
• 1955–1960: The long-running British series The Adventures of Robin Hood starred Richard Greene as Robin Hood, and is also remembered for its catchy theme tune.
  • Robin Hood's Greatest Adventures (1956) (also starring Donald Pleasence as Prince John)
  • Robin Hood, the Movie (1958)
  • Robin Hood: The Quest for the Crown (1958)
  • Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960) (In this version, Richard Greene reprises his role from TV).
• 1964: Robin and the Seven Hoods
• 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 is 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, 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: In Robin and Marian, Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn played the couple at the end of their lives in a revisionist version of the story.
• 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 made-for-TV spoof The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood (1984) starred George Segal (Robin), Morgan Fairchild (Marian), Roddy McDowall (Prince John), and Janet Suzman (Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine), and Robert Hardy turned up at the end as King Richard.
• 1984–1986: The 1980s British series Robin of Sherwood, aka Robin Hood, was a New Age fantasy 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 most of the adaptations that followed, most notably the introduction of a Muslim outlaw.
• 1989–1994: The British children's TV show Maid Marian and her Merry Men 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: Animated series Young Robin Hood, developed by Belgian studio Cinar, 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: Animated series Robin Hood no Dai Boken (Japanese: ロビンフッドの大冒険), developed by Japanese studio 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: In Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Kevin Costner played the outlaw and Sean Connery performed the customary cameo appearance of King Richard in the finale.
• 1993: The Mel Brooks spoof Robin Hood: Men in Tights 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 France–U.S. TV series The New Adventures of Robin Hood starred Matthew Porretta as a black-leather-clad Robin, and John Bradley. The tone of the series resembled its contemporaries Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess. 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 descendent 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: Robin Hood's heroic daughter, Gwyn, Keira Knightley on horseback with bow in hand, takes over her father's role and comes to his rescue in the made for TV movie Princess of Thieves.
• 2006-: BBC One's Robin Hood is the latest retelling of the story as a 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, particulary 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.
• 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 entitled "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" (U.S. Acres), where Orson T. Pig played Robin Hog.

Captain Picard as Robin Hood in the Star Trek episode Q-pid.

• 1991: Star Trek: The Next Generation 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.
• 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.