Perhaps the most memorable tea-time television viewing
for the boys at The Stair was the Robin Hood series
starring Richard Greene as Robin. Rather like the distinctive Fireball
XL5 theme tune it featured the very haunting song below-for the
younger followers of The Stair check it out at the link
underneath the opening lyrics.
Richard Greene is brilliant as Robin Hood. He
combines authority and nobility and is athletic, swashbuckling and a bonny
fechter. Similarly, Alan Wheatley plays a wonderful part as the
dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham, indeed he would have made a wonderful Dick
Dastardly in Wacky Races!; and Friar Tuck is a lovely mix
of affability and irritability and is a cantankerous, beer swilling, deer
guzzling oaf!
As soon as our tea, toast and beans were over and
the theme tune sounded its last bars, Michael Hanlon; Boo-Boo Hanlon; Iain
Hoffmann; Ali Douglas et al were oot the back of The Stair playing
with their bows and arrows!
ps Mrs Anne Duncan (Hoffmann) to the rescue!-I may be wrong on
this but I think we had an unusual link to Richard Greene-a friend of the
family, Patrick Hogg, Director Tourist Information, St Andrews, girlfriend was
Patricia Medina, the actress, who was previously married to Richard
Greene-she later married the famous American actor Joseph Cotten-whew!
'Robin Hood, Robin Hood,
Riding through the glen,
Robin Hood, Robin Hood,
With his band of men,
Feared by the bad, loved by the good,
Robin Hood! Robin Hood! Robin Hood!'
http://youtu.be/BbyYr6L
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