alan wheatley played sheriff of nottingham in robin hood.
alan wheatley played sheriff of nottingham in robin hood.
who played sheriff of nottingham in robin hood?
alan wheatley
the adventures of robin hood (tv series)









































the adventures of robin hood is a british television series comprising 143 half-hour, black and white episodes broadcast weekly between 1955 and 1959 on itv. it starred richard greene as the outlaw robin hood, and alan wheatley as his nemesis, the sheriff of nottingham. the show followed the legendary character robin hood and his band of merry men in sherwood forest and the surrounding vicinity. while some episodes dramatised the traditional robin hood tales, most were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers.
the adventures of robin hood (tv series)
this ballad is an abridgment of an older ballad, "robin hood and the potter". there are two extant versions of "robin hood and the butcher," version a and version b. version b, which is the version summarized above, does not include a fight between robin hood and the butcher, which takes place in a missing part of version a and in "robin hood and the potter." in the version summarized above, however, robin does mention a "shot" (3.19) during the feast of the guild, which probably refers to an archery contest between robin and the sheriff's men in which robin was victorious and which is recorded in "robin hood and the potter." version a was discovered in the percy folio, the most important source for the child ballads collection, but was missing three half-page sections (which is not surprising, given the way percy and previous owners of the folio treated it). there are several differences in the gross features and nuance of plot between the two versions. in version a, robin announces that the sheriff has a vendetta against him (thus setting the stage for robin's later encounter with the sheriff), and the butcher he initially meets has a vicious dog that flies at robin's face and is then killed. robin also strikes at the butcher, presumably (according to the potter and other butcher ballads) engaging in a losing fight with him. robin then buys the butcher's meat and travels to nottingham disguised as a butcher, where he attracts the attention of the sheriff's wife. she offers him and any of his company shelter, and robin orders drink before going to the market. as in version b, he sells the meat quickly and at a low price. impressed, the other butchers invite him to come drink with them as a fellow in their craft. the account of robin's feast with them is missing up to the sheriff's offer of money for robin's beasts, which robin silently plans to steal when they are in sherwood forest. when the sheriff, his body-guard butchers, and robin arrive in the forest, again, robin is fortunate to see many deer which he can claim as his own, but the sheriff is already suspicious. robin summons his band with his horn and, instead of little john and a few others, fifty archers come to join them. the denouement of the gathering is missing from this version, but in the next stanza the sheriff has safely arrived home in nottingham and is telling his wife what happened: as in the other version, robin has stolen all the sheriff's money and has complimented him on his wife (unbeknownst of whom robin would have beheaded him), but in this version the reason for the compliment is clear. the sheriff praises his wife for her kindness to robin and robin for teaching him a lesson, and vows never to set after him again.
robin hood and the butcher