The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series)
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 starred 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 were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers.
The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series)
Richard Greene as Robin Hood
Maid Marian (Patricia Driscoll) with the Merry Men
Robin Hood protects Maid Marian and fends off a villain played by John Dearth. The series was not filmed in colour.
Richard Marius Joseph Greene was a noted English film and television actor. A matinée idol who appeared in more than 40 films, he was perhaps best known for the lead role in the long-running British TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood, which ran for 143 episodes from 1955 to 1959.
Greene in 1938.
Memorial plaque in St Paul's, Covent Garden.
Image: The Adventures of Robin Hood, Vol. 1, No. 6