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Hello all Robin Hood fans! Nothing new to say. Just wanted to see if anyone else is reading here.
shareHello all Robin Hood fans! Nothing new to say. Just wanted to see if anyone else is reading here.I am! I am! I check in every day. I'm also on the Blue Boar Inn and [The Adventures of] Robin Hood Appreciation Society boards as Grammar Hammer.
I think it's fabulous that there is still so much interest in and admiration for the series more than 50 years after it first aired.
I'd like to be a pessimist, but this is a luxury I cannot afford.
—Joseph of Cordoba
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Thanks for the information. Are your other boards here on IMDB? If not, do you have a link? Also, have you read Cambridge Professor J.C. Holt's book on the "historical" Robin Hood? Good stuff too.
shareBoth the Blue Boar and the Appreciation Society boards are on Yuku. The Blue Boar covers all things Robin Hood, while the Appreciation Society board is devoted to the Richard Greene series—with a few side trips.
Here's the Blue Boar address:
http://theblueboarinnrobinhooddiscussions.yuku.com/
And here's the Appreciation Society board:
http://whirligigtv.yuku.com/forum/view/id/9
There's a great bunch of people at both places (some of them the same), from dilettantes like me to hard-core scholars who will rip each other's throats out if their opinions differ.
I'd like to be a pessimist, but this is a luxury I cannot afford.
—Joseph of Cordoba
I've thoroughly enjoyed the humour and pluck of this series. Does anyone know why the series ended without the closure of King Richard's return? Or am I the only one who was waiting for Locksley Hall to be restored to its rightful owner before the ballad was sung for the last time?
shareMost episodes of 1950s TV shows were meant to stand alone. In fact The Adventures was pretty unusual in its number of linked story arcs. However, when a program in this period ended its run, the last episode was simply that—just another individual story; it was not designed to wrap up all that had gone before it.
We really didn't start to see final episodes that brought true conclusions until the mid-1960s.
I'd like to be a pessimist, but this is a luxury I cannot afford.
—Joseph of Cordoba
Thanks for the information on tv script writing in the early days! There aren't a lot of 50's shows that I still enjoy as much as this one, so I hadn't paid close attention to these changes. I guess can quit sulking now, and turn the dvd player on again. <grin>
It's also important to keep in mind that a typical season of new programs in the '50s was 39 episodes, with only 13 reruns, so it wasn't possible to maintain continuity when only a third of the programs would get a second airing.
I'd like to be a pessimist, but this is a luxury I cannot afford.
—Joseph of Cordoba