The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV Series) Secret Mission (1956) User Reviews

An Insulting Script

[mmka1 · 24 September 2008]

I have not commented on the other presentations in this interesting series thus far because as they go it is rather standard fare. I do try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but if one works with an on-going project at least do a modicum of research. This script is without doubt an insult to the viewer. Barely two months earlier the character of "Peregrinus/King Richard", played by Patrick Barr, was presented. Here Peregrinus appears again and we are expected to believe that Robin and the band do not recognize the King that they have already clearly seen! Shame! One wonders if actors at that time were even allowed to object to such idiocy in the characters they regularly portrayed.

Secret Mission

[Prismark10 · 5/10 · 9 November 2021]

Directed by Lindsay Anderson. He would become a leading light in the British New Wave of the 1960s.

By this time he had already won an Oscar for Best Short Documentary.

I guess some of these episodes were shown out of order. A pilgrim called Peregrinus arrives in Sherwood Forest looking for Robin Hood.

He persuades Robin to get a list of land Barons loyal to King John.

Meanwhile with the news that a ransom has been paid to free King Richard in the holy lands. The Sheriff of Nottingham arrives to see Robin Hood.

A parson is offered if Robin swears loyalty to King John.

Of course the stranger is King Richard and he has already met Robin Hood a few episodes previously.