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Maid Marian and Her Merry Men
Series 1 DVD cover
Genre
Situation Comedy
Created by
Tony Robinson
Directed by
David Bell
Starring
Kate Lonergan
Wayne Morris
Danny John-Jules
Tony Robinson
Composers
David Chilton
Nick Russell-Pavier
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Original language
English
No. of series
4
No. of episodes
26
Production
Producer
Richard Callanan
Cinematography
David Gautier
Camera setup
Single-camera
Running time
25 minutes 1x 50 Minutes
Production company
BBC
Original release
Network
BBC1
Release
16 November 1989 (1989-11-16) – 16 February 1994 (1994-02-16)
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Maid Marian and her Merry Men is a British children's television series created and written by Tony Robinson and directed by David Bell. It began in 1989 on BBC1 and ran for four series, with the last episode shown in 1994. The show was a partially musical comedy retelling of the legend of Robin Hood, placing Maid Marian in the role of leader of the Merry Men, and reducing Robin to an 'incompetent' ex-tailor.
The programme has been likened to Blackadder, not only for its historical setting and the presence of Tony Robinson (as well as early, uncredited, script editing work being undertaken by Richard Curtis), but also for its comic style. Many of the show's cast, such as Howard Lew Lewis, Forbes Collins, John Rapley, Ramsay Gilderdale and Patsy Byrne, had previously appeared in various episodes of Blackadder alongside Robinson.
The show's success led to an adaptation produced for the stage and a cartoon strip by Paul Cemmick which was serialised in the Daily Telegraph's children's paper The Young Telegraph (also available as a series of collections), and the programme was repeated on BBC One in 2001. Series 1 was released on video in 1990 and 1993, with three episodes each on four tapes, and all four series are available on DVD. It was repeated in April 2002 on the CBBC Channel and the first series was repeated in June 2007 at 12:30 on the CBBC Channel. During the summer of 2009, Gold repeated the entire 4 series.
Tony Robinson was in discussion about a revival in 2018,[1] 2021[2] and 2022.[3]
^"Tony Robinson reveals Maid Marian and her Merry Men revival... with a twist". Digital Spy. 26 January 2018.
^Roper, Kerri-Ann (15 January 2021). "Sir Tony Robinson on 'very different' reboot of Maid Marian And Her Merry Men". Belfast Telegraph.
^"Sir Tony Robinson wants to revive Maid Marian". The List. 14 February 2022.
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