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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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I just backed SIR SHERLOCK - The Red Letter Day on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/152...
SIR SHERLOCK - The Red Letter Day
The beginning of a brand-new, full-cast audio series and novellas, starring Tom Baker MBE and John Leeson as Holmes and Watson.
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January 25, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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It looks like #Blakes7 is coming back. Maybe once @boldoutlaw.bsky.social concludes a certain personal matter hopefully in February, we can get the show back cc @huestone44.bsky.social www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/bl...
Beloved '70s BBC sci-fi series from Daleks creator confirmed for reboot with Doctor Who director
This is not a drill!
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January 19, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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The upcoming film #TheDeathofRobinHood isn’t the first production to feature the death of Robin Hood. Check out this spotlight about the 1975 BBC TV series The Legend of Robin Hood. www.boldoutlaw.com/robspot/lege... #RobinHood #BritishTV #medieval #70sTV
The Legend of Robin Hood title card The Prioress tells Robin he will begin to feel cold Robin hearing he’ll be dead in hours Robin dies before a small child
January 14, 2026 at 4:56 AM
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Paul Darrow (Avon in #Blakes7) isn’t the only British sci-fi icon to turn up in 1975’s The Legend of Robin Hood. www.boldoutlaw.com/robspot/lege... #RobinHood
Paul Darrow’s Sheriff of Nottingham at the chess board Darrow’s Sheriff of Nottingham looks insane Prince John (David Dixon) and the Sheriff (Paul Darrow) at the sauna Eleanor of Aquitaine cradles Prince John (David Dixon)
January 14, 2026 at 4:45 AM
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All this talk about #TheDeathofRobinHood … our podcast took a look at the 90s TV classic Robin of Sherwood. blakes7.libsyn.com/straight-out... Four episodes released and one more to come #RobinHood #RobinofSherwood #TV
Straight Outta Loxley episode 1 art Straight Outta Loxley episode 2 art Straight Outta Loxley episode 3 art Straight Outta Huntingdon covering the third series episode Adam Bell
January 7, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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A bit of a rebuttal to the new #RobinHood ad campaign. He is a hero. Learn about the legend at www.boldoutlaw.com
Errol Flynn - he was a hero Richard Greene - He was a hero Disney fox - He was a hero Michael Praed - He was a hero.
January 6, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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Audiobooks featuring the stars of the 2006-9 #RobinHood TV series on sale for the season
bigfinish.bsky.social Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · Dec 28
💸 Steal from the rich deals, and give to your audio collection! Click https://bgfn.sh/bfmas25 to get the complete Robin Hood for just £9.99. Merry #BigFinishmas!

Unless otherwise stated, all offers will be available until 23:59 (UK time) on 07 January 2026.
The Twelve Days of BigFinishmas: Robin Hood - The Complete Series
December 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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I'm updating my site's pages about the 2006-2009 Robin Hood TV series. If anyone's still got active sites about the show, today's a good day to share them. Links include @bigfinish.bsky.social 's Robin Hood audio dramas: www.bigfinish.com/ranges/v/rob... #RobinHood #JonasArmstrong #RichardArmitage
Robin Hood: The Complete Series cover
December 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Dec. 22, 1957: The first UK broadcast of The Christmas Goose episode of The Adventures of Robin Hood. Spotlight review: boldoutlaw.com/robspot/greene…#RobinHoodo#50sTVT#ChristmasEpisoded#RichardGreenen#RingLardnerJrJr
Christmas Goose title card Robin Hood in winter clothes with Friar Tuck The imprisoned goose Matilda Robin and Tuck wave goodbye as it snows
December 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Some outlaws don’t get a happy ending although one of them does smile at the end.
sofederation.bsky.social Straight Outta the Federation - A Blake’s 7 Podcast @sofederation.bsky.social · Dec 21
Happy Gauda Prime Day to Servalan and anyone else who celebrates. #Blakes7 #GaudaPrimeDay
Blake looking confused .. as usual Avon looking crazy … as usual (for series D, anyway)
December 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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12 Days of Crusademas 2025 - Day 08: The Adventures of Robin Hood #7
It’s Day 8 and the Bold Outlaw, Allen W. Wright, emerges from Sherwood Forest to bring us The Adventures of Robin Hood #7.
Listen on all Podcast Apps, Spotify and: youtu.be/031I8rmrsQg
12 Days of Crusademas 2025 - Day 08: The Adventures of Robin Hood #7 | #robinhood
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December 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Pierce Egan the Younger (Dec 19, 1814 - July 6, 1880). Egan published a serialized novel Robin Hood and Little John in 1838 (as a book in 1840) It was a widely imitated best-seller and translated into French by Alexandre Dumas #RobinHood #VictorianLiterature #BOTD #PierceEgan
Illustration of Egan from his books Title page of Robin Hood and Little John by Pierce Egan the Younger Illustrated page from Egan’s novel showing an archer in action Friar Tuck performs weddings in this page from Egan’s Robin Hood novel
December 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw was first created in 1997 and has been providing information about #RobinHood ever since www.boldoutlaw.com
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.
www.boldoutlaw.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Happy 62nd anniversary, #DoctorWho! I think Robin Hood has forgiven you for that spoon thing. (The Doctor and Robin Hood bonded over being criticized by Mary Whitehouse.) #DoctorWhoDay
The Doctor meets Robin Hood Newspaper article on Mary Whitehouse’s criticism of The Legend of Robin Hood. Caption mentions her criticism of Doctor Who
November 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Happy 50th anniversary to the The Legend of Robin Hood starring Martin Potter, Diane Keen, Paul Darrow (Avon from #Blakes7) and John Abineri (Herne from #RobinofSherwood). It premiered on Nov. 23, 1975 and was a big hit in America on PBS two years later. #RobinHood #OTD
Legend of Robin Hood title card Martin Potter and Diane Keen as Robin Hood and Lady Marion Paul Darrow’s Sheriff of Nottingham playing chess John Abineri in The Legend of Robin Hood
November 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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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)
Title screen of Disney Robin Hood Robin and Little John Marian admiring Robin’s wanted poster Robin Hood as the stork
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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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#RobinHoodod#medievala#OTDTD
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
November 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Happy Halloween! #TrickorTreat seems very Robin Hood to me. #Halloween #HappyHalloween #RobinHood
Robin Hood scholar who dressed as Robin Hood for Halloween in the 1980s Me as Robin Hood for Halloween in the 1980s
October 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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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
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!”
October 29, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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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
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.
www.boldoutlaw.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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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
Medieval picture of King John Claude Rains as Prince John Peter Ustinov as Prince John from the Disney cartoon Phil Davis as King John
October 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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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 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)
October 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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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
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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 Ensor Jr in Blake’s 7 Tony Caunter as Friar Tuck with Martin Potter’s Robin Hood
October 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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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
October 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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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
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, 2025 at 11:14 AM