Comments on: “The Adventures of Robin Hood” and the Hollywood blacklist http://arts.hurryupharry.org/2010/07/24/the-adventures-of-robin-hood-and-the-hollywood-blacklist/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:58:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Studio Backgrounds http://arts.hurryupharry.org/2010/07/24/the-adventures-of-robin-hood-and-the-hollywood-blacklist/comment-page-1/#comment-9200 Studio Backgrounds Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:14:11 +0000 http://arts.hurryupharry.org/?p=381#comment-9200 I remember the series as well but I think I must have seen it second time around. I really quite liked Maid Marion !! As always though, in show biz, there's got to be a dodgy undertone. I remember the series as well but I think I must have seen it second time around. I really quite liked Maid Marion !! As always though, in show biz, there’s got to be a dodgy undertone.

]]> By: Larkers http://arts.hurryupharry.org/2010/07/24/the-adventures-of-robin-hood-and-the-hollywood-blacklist/comment-page-1/#comment-9137 Larkers Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:13:32 +0000 http://arts.hurryupharry.org/?p=381#comment-9137 I well remember "The Adventures of Robin Hood". At the time it seemed marvellous fun, especially Friar Tuck (Alexander Gauge) and the superb Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Wheatley, a favourite). Michael Bentine claimed to have witnessed the recording of the theme song "Robin Hood, Robin Hood riding through the glen (sic) ..." whereupon the American producer shouted "It's 'Rabin Hood, Rabin Hood!" Later I really enjoyed mimicking the frequent appearances of Maid Marion (looking very sexy in her cross dressing principal boy look – but what did we know about that then? – greeting Robin as if at their local lawn tennis club; "Hello Robin!" "Hello Marion". Ahh! Such innocence! I well remember “The Adventures of Robin Hood”. At the time it seemed marvellous fun, especially Friar Tuck (Alexander Gauge) and the superb Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Wheatley, a favourite).

Michael Bentine claimed to have witnessed the recording of the theme song “Robin Hood, Robin Hood riding through the glen (sic) …” whereupon the American producer shouted “It’s ‘Rabin Hood, Rabin Hood!”

Later I really enjoyed mimicking the frequent appearances of Maid Marion (looking very sexy in her cross dressing principal boy look – but what did we know about that then? – greeting Robin as if at their local lawn tennis club; “Hello Robin!” “Hello Marion”. Ahh! Such innocence!

]]> By: Shatterface http://arts.hurryupharry.org/2010/07/24/the-adventures-of-robin-hood-and-the-hollywood-blacklist/comment-page-1/#comment-9136 Shatterface Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:29:56 +0000 http://arts.hurryupharry.org/?p=381#comment-9136 There's a lot of overt politics in the early ITC series: 'William Tell' was reinvented as an allegory for the Nazi occupation of Europe and in an early episode of 'The Saint' Simon Templar directly addresses the US TV audience with a speech about how being in a union is as American as apple pie. There’s a lot of overt politics in the early ITC series: ‘William Tell’ was reinvented as an allegory for the Nazi occupation of Europe and in an early episode of ‘The Saint’ Simon Templar directly addresses the US TV audience with a speech about how being in a union is as American as apple pie.

]]> By: mark ramsden http://arts.hurryupharry.org/2010/07/24/the-adventures-of-robin-hood-and-the-hollywood-blacklist/comment-page-1/#comment-9134 mark ramsden Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:52:36 +0000 http://arts.hurryupharry.org/?p=381#comment-9134 There's a 1991 movie Fellow Traveler starring Hill Street's Daniel Travanti about blacklisted screenwriters working in England and Robin Hood. It seemed good at the time and indeed anything containing Imogen Stubbs has to be seen. There’s a 1991 movie Fellow Traveler starring Hill Street’s Daniel Travanti about blacklisted screenwriters working in England and Robin Hood.
It seemed good at the time and indeed anything containing Imogen Stubbs
has to be seen.

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