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Or perhaps the stage production inspired me to read the book. Perhaps I felt that the book gave me extra knowledge about Robin Hood that inspired me to suggest we do our own amateur filmed Robin Hood play.
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(Not that anyone actually had access to 79 channels on a single TV set back then.) I may have also already read the Bancroft Classics edition of Robin Hood.
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In early 1978, Rocket Robin Hood was playing Saturdays at 11:30am on Channel 79, Toronto's CityTV. It had an unnaturally long rerun life in Canada. The futuristic heroes got up to the same tricks as their famous ancestors, albeit with some sci-fi twists. This cartoon from the late 1960s told the tale of the 30th century direct descendants of Robin Hood and the Merry Men. If nothing else, I'm absolutely certain that I was regularly watching Rocket Robin Hood.
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It was put on by Theatre Aquarius, a local professional theatre company then in its fifth season (a season which began with a production of Peter Shaffer’s Equus.) I tracked down the script, and also the original review from the local paper.Īs I said before, it wasn't the first version of Robin Hood I saw. The director was Blair Mascall, and it starred Gerald Lenton as Robin Hood, Barry van Elen as Alan-a-Dale, Valerie Holland as Maid Marian, Michel Lefebvre as the Sheriff and Donald Saunders as Sir Sneakamore. The play was The Adventures of Robin Hood by Clive Endersby, and it premiered at the Studio Theatre at Hamilton Place on January 19, 1978. However, this play also helped foster a love of the Robin Hood legend that eventually led to the creation of this website. (For the benefit of people born in the 21st century - this was the Stone Age equivalent of YouTube videos, shared just among friends, family and visitors you wanted to torture instead of the whole world.) Because my name was similar to Robin Hood's minstrel, I wanted to play Alan-a-Dale. And most of all, I remember that for weeks afterwards, my friends and I talked about making our own Robin Hood production - most likely as an 8mm home movie. I remember a few details clearly - there was some comic business where we urged Friar Tuck to "duck" and he kept correcting the audience because he thought we were saying his name wrong. But I can tell you that one of my earliest and longest lasting memories of Robin Hood was seeing a children's play in my hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada back when I was seven-and-a-half. Like King Arthur, Sherlock Holmes, or modern-day superheroes such as Superman and Batman, Robin Hood was always there.
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I can't say when I first discovered the legend of Robin Hood. First Performance: Theatre Aquarius, Hamilton, ON, Canada - January 19, 1978