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Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw of Barnsdale and Sherwood, dedicated to the Robin Hood legend from #medieval ballads to modern #RobinHood pop culture. By Allen W. Wright. https://www.boldoutlaw.com/ (An expat, but still proudly Canadian)

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Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · Jul 10

Some seek to divide. Diversity is strength. Robin Hood and the outlaws. (Merry People of All Genders.) #RobinHood

Nasir and Robin Hood from Robin of Sherwood

Azeem and Robin Hood from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Robin Hood and Achoo from Robin Hood: Men in Tights

The outlaws from the 2006 Robin Hood, including Djaq.

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Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 2d

King John I of England (reign 1199-1216) died on the night of October 18-19, 1216 at Newark Castle in Nottinghamshire. Who is your favourite film or television version of King/Prince John? #OTD #MedievalHistory #MedievalMovies #KingJohn #PrinceJohn #RobinHood #Nottinghamshire

Peter Ustinov as Prince John from the Disney cartoon

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Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 2d

Admittedly Zorro borrowed from the Scarlet Pimpernel.

Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 2d

He was a super athletic actor and the first Zorro which definitely was an influence on Batman and superheroes in general.

Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 2d

Douglas Fairbanks was an inspiration for superheroes in general. The Boy Wonder definitely has Robin Hood roots www.boldoutlaw.com/hidden-grove...

Robin the Boy Wonder - The Robin Hood Connection

A Multi-Part Retrospective of Robin the Boy Wonder, Batman's partner. This section looks at how Robin's name and nature came from Robin Hood

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Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 2d

Oct. 18, 1922 - Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood becomes the first film to get a major Hollywood premiere. 100th anniversary spotlight of this silent movie classic: www.boldoutlaw.com/robspot/doug... #OTD #HollywoodHistory #RobinHood #DouglasFairbanks #silentcinema #classicmovies

Douglas Fairbanks as Robin Hood laughing

Four images of the Merry Men: Will Scarlett, Friar Tuck, Allan-a-Dale and Little John (played by Alan Hale for the first of three times)

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Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 5d

I knew right away that this was the profile to do for Deliverance. Tony Caunter’s Friar Tuck is a particular favourite of mine, and one of the best things in the 1975 The Legend of Robin Hood. #TonyCaunter #RobinHood

Straight Outta the Federation - A Blake’s 7 Podcast @sofederation.bsky.social · 5d

RIP Tony Caunter (Sept. 22, 1937 - Oct. 13, 2025). Ensor Jr. in #Blakes7. Friar Tuck in The Legend of Robin Hood. We profiled him when we covered Deliverance. blakes7.libsyn.com/episode-12-d... (profile at 1:22:40) #TonyCaunter #RIPTonyCaunter

Tony Caunter as Friar Tuck with Martin Potter’s Robin Hood

Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 6d

Parke Godwin made the Normans vs Saxon more potent in his novel Sherwood by setting the story over a century before usual, to immediately after the Norman Conquest. #RobinHood

Hardcover cover of Sherwood, a novel by Parke Godwin

Mass market paperback cover of Sherwood by Parke Godwin

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Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 6d

October 14, 1066: The Battle of Hastings. An event that looms large in the Robin Hood legend (after Sir Walter Scott’s 1819 novel Ivanhoe), even though most versions of #RobinHood are set over 100 years later. #BattleofHastings #OTD #NothingsForgotten

Robin of Sherwood: Nobody ran at Hastings

Response to Robin: No, they stood and died by the thousand.

Will Scarlet: That’s an old battle to bring up.

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Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 6d

And when I think of #ErrolFlynn, 1959 and Canada — I also think of Errol Flynn’s appearance as the mystery guest on CBC’s Front Page Challenge: www.cbc.ca/player/play/... As witness to Castro’s revolution

Errol Flynn, witness to revolution in Cuba

Direct from Cuba, Hollywood legend Errol Flynn gives an eyewitness account of Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution.

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Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 6d

Oct. 14, 1959: Errol Flynn dies in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was arguably the greatest movie version of Robin Hood. Contemporary news reports claimed he died laughing. #OTD #ErrolFlynn #RobinHood #HollywoodHistory #ClassicMovies #Vancouver 1938 film: www.boldoutlaw.com/robspot/flyn...

Errol Flynn’s Robin Hood swordfighting Basil Rathbone’s Guy of Gisbourne on the staircase

Photo of Errol Flynn at airport in Vancouver, the week before his death

Errol Flynn’s Robin Hood enters Nottingham Castle with a stag on his shoulders

Errol Flynn’s Robin and Olivia De Havilland’s Marian

Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 6d

A little tidbit I discovered in rewatching the second series of the 2006-2009 Robin Hood TV series is that in the penultimate episode of that season, “A Good Day to Die” by Dominic Minghella, October 14 is said to be Robin Hood’s birthday. Happy birthday to this incarnation of #RobinHood

Guy of Gisborne: Today’s the 14th of October

Jonas Armstrong’s Robin smiling as the gang says Happy Birthday

The mercenaries saying “Happy birthday, Robin Hood”

Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 11d

Rocket Robin Hood and the 60s Spider-Man cartoon shared Canadian voice casts. Paul Kligman’s wonderfully nattering voice brought life to both Friar Tuck and J. Jonah Jameson. #RocketRobinHood #SpiderMan #SpiderMan67 #animation #classicanimation #canadiantelevision

J. Jonah Jameson from the 60s Spider-Man cartoon

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Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 11d

Trust me, Canadian kids noticed when the 60s Spider-Man cartoon borrowed whole episodes from Rocket Robin Hood. #RocketRobinHood #SpiderMan #SpiderMan67 #animation #Canadiantelevision

Rocket Robin Hood and Little John get pulled into a strange door

Spider-Man gets pulled into a strange door

Rocket Robin on a floating hand, facing a crab-headed foe

Spider-Man on a floating hand, facing a crab-headed foe

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Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 11d

Rocket Robin Hood premiered on the English language CBC channels on Oct. 9, 1967. It features the direct descendant of Robin Hood in the year 3000. The early episodes were sci-fi #RobinHood tales. The later episodes by Ralph Bakshi were stranger. #OTD #animation #Canada #CanadianTelevision

Rocket Robin and Little John practice the electro-quarterstaff

Rocket Robin shakes the hand of the original Robin Hood

Rocket Robin and Little John caught in vines

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Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 12d

Beside me, Jonathan Ross’s World of Robin Hood also had scholars like Stephen Knight and Rudy Behlmer, and a bunch of actors including three Little Johns. #RobinHood

Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 12d

The 19th anniversary of Jonathan Ross’s World of Robin Hood (Oct. 8, 2006). A #documentary designed to promote the new #RobinHood TV series. It had interviews with actors of shows past and present, scholars … and me. My interview was filmed in the real #SherwoodForest. #JonathanRoss #OTD

Title card for Jonathan Ross’s World of Robin Hood

Jonathan Ross - with an orange suit and a green Robin Hood hat

Allen W. Wright, creator of BoldOutlaw.com, being interviewed in Sherwood Forest

Sam Troughton and Harry Lloyd being interviewed

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Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 13d

I can’t let the 19th anniversary of the 2006 #RobinHood TV series pass without saluting the amazing Frances Tempest, costume designer of the first two years. www.boldoutlaw.com/robint/franc... She was smart, funny and very honest. I loved meeting her. #OTD #FrancesTempest #classicTV

Frances Tempest holding a Guy of Gisborne action figure, she designed his duster

Frances Tempest’s design for Robin’s hoodie

Frances Tempest’s design for Marian’s riding outfit

Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 13d

Happy 19th anniversary to the 2006-2009 Robin Hood TV series from BBC / Tiger Aspect. The first episode “Will You Tolerate This?” Written by co-creator @dminghella.bsky.social premiered Oct. 7, 2006. The show defined #RobinHood for a generation - a “Playstation Generation”. #OTD #ClassicTV

Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 15d

“Beating and Binding in a Shaky Liturgical Era” looks at the beer-worshipping friar, villainous bishops and other religious figures of the late 20th century #RobinHood legend. (The title cobines a line from a 15th century ballad with a 1991 Roger Ebert review) www.boldoutlaw.com/hidden-grove...

Michael Praed’s Robin Hood holds a knife to Abbot Hugo

Michael McShane’s Friar Tuck preaches about beer

Michael Praed’s Robin Hood drinks a toast to a pagan god

Michael McShane’s Tuck prepares to throw a bishop out of a window

Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 15d

When recapping the previous parts, I tried to channel my inner William Dozier. #Batman66

Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 16d

The second season of #Batman66 began with #Batman and #Robin fighting the Archer, played by #ArtCarney. Check out this article about these #RobinHood themed episodes. www.boldoutlaw.com/hidden-grove... #ClassicTV #superheroes (Cameo by #DickClark)

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Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 16d

"The Rescue of Robin Hood!"
From Detective Comics #116 (October 1946). Check out this article about #Batman and #Robin’s time-travelling adventures in medieval Sherwood Forest www.boldoutlaw.com/hidden-grove... #RobinHood #DCComics #ComicBooks

Robin the Boy Wonder shakes hands with Robin Hood

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Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 16d

Did you know that #Batman’s young partner Robin is named for #RobinHood? Check out this multi-part article that traces Dick Grayson’s journey from youthful ward to his adult #superhero identity #Nightwing, Much on Robin Hood too www.boldoutlaw.com/hidden-grove... #ComicBooks #DCComics

Panels from 1940 comics that compare Robin the Boy Wonder to Robin Hood

From All-Star Batman and Robin, Dick Grayson tries out the alias Hood

Dick Grayson hands his Robin costume to Jason Todd

Batgirl realizes Nightwing’s “Robin Hood thing” is clouding his judgment

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Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 16d

It’s unlocked.

Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw @boldoutlaw.bsky.social · 16d

Does anyone who donated to my site or charity campaigns in the past object if I open up my Hidden Grove for everyone? I set up this password-protected section in 2019. #RobinHood There’s a lot of #RobinofSherwood and #Batman’s partner Robin here.

Table of contents page for The Hidden Grove

The title of contents for the Robin the Boy Wonder articles

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