Robin Hood version of Robin Hood's life. In reaching his conclusion Ritson relied or gave weight to a number of unreliable sources, such as the Robin Hood plays of Anthony Munday, and the Sloane Manuscript. Nevertheless, Dobson and Taylor credit Ritson with having 'an incalculable effect in promoting the still continuing quest for the man behind the myth', and note that his work remains an 'indispensable handbook to the outlaw legend even now'. Ritson's friend Walter Scott used Ritson's anthology collection as a source for his picture of Robin Hood in Ivanhoe, written in 1818, which did much to shape the modern
Friar Tuck Scott's "Robin Hood" (2010). In the film, his hobby is beekeeping, which he uses to make mead and as a weapon against the French. Data impersonates Friar Tuck in the episode "Qpid" (1991) from Gene Roddenberry's "" series (4th season, episode 20). He was portrayed by Michael P. Northey in the TV series "Once Upon a Time" and its spin-off "Once Upon a Time in Wonderland". He was portrayed by Trevor Cooper in the "Doctor Who" Series 8 episode, "Robot of Sherwood". In the "VeggieTales" show, "Robin Good and His Not-So-Merry Men", Archibald Asparagus portrays a version of him named