Rocket Robin Hood Rocket Robin Hood Rocket Robin Hood is a Canadian animated television series, placing the characters and conflicts of the classic Robin Hood legend in a futuristic, outer space setting. It was produced by Krantz Films, Inc. and aired on CBC Television from 1966 to 1969. Rocket Robin Hood leads his "Merry Men" -- including the strong, dimwitted, and likeable Little John; consummate overeater Friar Tuck (who designs all the Merry Men's weaponry); his two-fisted, red-headed cousin Will Scarlet; Robin's plucky girlfriend Maid Marian; his sharp-witted right-hand man Alan-a-Dale; scrawny, feisty camp cook Giles (a reformed crook and Gabby Hayes type);
Robin Hood and the Valiant Knight of his death in the earlier "Robin Hood's Death", but that, the more common version, had it done by an abbess, his cousin. This version also omits his usual reconciliation with the king. Howard Pyle used this ballad's story for much of the conclusion of "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood", although he kept the older story of the abbess for the actual death. Robin Hood and the Valiant Knight Robin Hood and the Valiant Knight is Child ballad 153. The king and nobles meet to consider Robin Hood. They send Sir William with a hundred men. Sir William presents