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'The Revenge of Robin Hood' Story Code '9617' by Leonard Stadd |
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June 1215: While Tony arrives in the dungeon of a medieval English castle, Doug materialises in the throne room, during an argument between King John, his advisor, Dubois, and the Earl of Huntington. Huntingdon is denounced as a traitor for trying to convince the Barons to force the king into signing Magna Carta, a document that will guarantee freedom to the monarch’s subjects. Huntington attempts to flee, but he trips over Doug, and they are both captured. While the captain of the king’s guards, Engelard, prepares to torture the two prisoners in order to learn the secret meeting place of the Barons, the Tic-Toc personnel send a homing post through the Time Tunnel to retrieve the two time travellers. Doug is rescued by Tony, but soldiers force them to take off before Huntingdon can be freed; too late, the homing post materialises in the dungeon. Reaching the forest, Doug and Tony meet Friar Tuck and Little John, and learn that Huntington is in fact the legendary outlaw, Robin Hood. They are then attacked by soldiers and Little John is wounded by an arrow; the group mange to evade the soldiers and are given sanctuary by Baroness Elmont, who allows the two time-travellers to use her supply of medicines and supplies to tend to Little John’s injury. Engelard’s attempts to torture Huntington have proved fruitless, forcing the furious King John to offer a gold reward to anyone who will help him uncover the meeting place of the traitorous Barons. Learning of the offer, the Baroness decides to betray Doug, Tony and the outlaws to the king’s soldiers…
Cliff-hanger: the homing post fails to work, and so Doug and Tony are flung off into the time / space vortex…
James Darren (Tony Newman), Robert Colbert (Doug Phillips), Whit Bissell (Lieutenant General Heywood Kirk), John Zaremba (Doctor Raymond Swain), Lee Meriwether (Doctor Ann MacGregor), Donald Harron (Huntington), John Alderson (Little John), Ronald Long (Friar Tuck), Erin O'Brien-Moore (Baroness), John Crawford (King John), James Lanphier (Dubois), John Orchard (Engelard)
Directed by William Hale
Produced and created by Irwin Allen
An Irwin Allen Production in Association with Kent Productions, Inc. and Twentieth Century-Fox Television, Inc.
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US TX - 30th December 1966
Notes:
*Featuring Doctor Tony Newman, Doctor Doug Phillips, Lieutenant General Heywood Kirk, Doctor Raymond Swain and Doctor Ann MacGregor