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The Adventures of Robin Hood - The Alchemist
episode 1.15
UK 1956
produced by
Sidney Cole for Sapphire Films/ITV
directed by Ralph Smart
starring Richard Greene, Alan Wheatley, Alexander Gauge, Rufus Cruikshank, Harriette Johns, Anthony Sharp, Charles Stapley, Dorothy Blythe, Joyce Blair, Gabriel Toyne, John Dearth, Willoughby Gray, Arthur Skinner
written by Eric Heath
TV-series
Robin Hood, Robin Hood (Richard Greene), Adventures of Robin Hood, Adventures of Robin Hood (1950's)
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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An old woman, Etherelda (Dorothy Blythe) is found with part of the loot
that Robin Hood (Richard Greene) and his merry men made at one of their
raids ... but when hearing this, the Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Wheatley)
decides on a novel approach to both punish her and capture Robin Hood: He
has proclaimed her a witch in hopes that Robin and his men will come save
her. Of course, the Sheriff has little problems in convincing the
superstitious townfolks that Etherelda is really a witch, and at court, he
presents such a waterproof case that not even Friar Tuck (Alexander Gauge)
succeeds in defending her ... and soon enough she is convicted to be
burned at the stake ...
When her execution is supposed to take place though, Robin has decided
to turn the superstition of the townfolks against the Sheriff and his men,
and with a black cat, a few toads and kites that look like birds, he has
scared them witless at first, and later convinced them that there is no
such thing as witchcraft - and Etherelda goes free in the end.
Mediocre episode that somehow never comes to full swing - mainly
because Robin's trickery, using a cat, toads and kites, looks terribly
unimpressive on TV and thus totally lacks believability.
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