Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw

Our phone was avocado green, but pretty much grew up with this kind of model.

Sure, but Laura Holt was even better as Remington Steele.

Did they give Blake new CGI flying abilities for the BluRay?

Title screen of Disney Robin Hood

Robin and Little John

Marian admiring Robin’s wanted poster

Robin Hood as the stork

Nov. 8, 1973: Robin Hood (Disney cartoon) was released in theatres. #OTD #Disney #RobinHood #Disneycartoons #animation 50th anniversary spotlight: www.boldoutlaw.com/oodelally-ro... (Robin is voiced by Brian Bedford)

Robin Hood’s tombstone with more info about dates

Broader shot of Robin’s grave at Kirklees Priory in Yorkshire

Gatehouse of Kirklees Priory

Sean Connery in Robin and Marian, preparing to shoot the last arrow

Robin Hood’s death date 24 Kalends, 1247 is a phony Roman style date that’s impossible. But if you really kept counting back from the kalends, that would be Nov. 8, 1247 boldoutlaw.com/rhbal/bal120b.… Happy Death Day, #RobinHood. #medieval #OTD

Robin Hood scholar who dressed as Robin Hood for Halloween in the 1980s

Me as Robin Hood for Halloween in the 1980s

Happy Halloween! #TrickorTreat seems very Robin Hood to me. #Halloween #HappyHalloween #RobinHood

Robert Hardy in All Creatures Great and Small

Longbow: A Social and Military History by Robert Hardy

Robert Hardy and Tom Baker in The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood

Robert Hardy’s King Richard disrobes. Someone in the crowd shouts “It’s a flasher!”

Robert Hardy was born 100 years ago today. (Oct. 29, 1925 - Aug. 3, 2017) Maybe you know him as Siegfried Farnon in the original All Creatures Great and Small or from Harry Potter films or as Winston Churchill. Did you know he wrote the definitive book on the #medieval longbow? #RobertHardy #BOTD

Robin Hood -- Bold Outlaw of Barnsdale and Sherwood Robin Hood information – well-researched articles, ballads, interviews, pictures on the history of the Robin Hood legend from the Middles Ages to today.

Happy #InternationalRobinHoodDay! I’m working on some updates for www.boldoutlaw.com and will be donating to a few charities today. Proud to be a part of keeping the #RobinHood legend alive. #RobinHoodDay #LoveNotts

Samantha modeled for this packaging designed by the firm of McMann and Tate.

Medieval picture of King John

Claude Rains as Prince John

Peter Ustinov as Prince John from the Disney cartoon

Phil Davis as King John

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

Admittedly Zorro borrowed from the Scarlet Pimpernel.

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

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

Douglas Fairbanks as Robin Hood laughing

Movie ad for Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre

Marian leans to kiss Robin’s silhouette

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)

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

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

Hardcover cover of Sherwood, a novel by Parke Godwin

Mass market paperback cover of Sherwood by Parke Godwin

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

Bayeau Tapestry: King Harold is killed

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.

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

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

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’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

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...

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

Guy of Gisborne: Robin Hood’s birthday.

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

The mercenaries saying “Happy birthday, Robin Hood”

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

Friar Tuck from Rocket Robin Hood

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

Actor/comedian Paul Kligman

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

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

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 title card

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

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

Stephen Knight being interviewed

Clive Mantle

Nick Brimble

Gordon Kennedy

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

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

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

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

Guy and Marian

Frances Tempest’s design for Robin’s hoodie

Frances Tempest’s design for Marian’s riding outfit

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

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

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

“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...

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

The Archer robs Wayne Manor

The Archer has Batman and Robin hostage

The Archer confronts the Dynamic Duo

The Caped Crusaders meet Dick Clark

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)