“In the days of the Lion spawned of the Devil’s Brood, the Hooded Man shall come to the forest. There he will meet Herne the Hunter, Lord of the Trees, and be his son and do his bidding. The Powers of Light and Darkness shall be strong within him. And the guilty shall tremble.”
Robin Of Sherwood is being repeated on one of the ITVs, a reminder of that weird period when they put drama series money into a Saturday teatime adventure with added paganism while the BBC were doing Doctor Who in half-hour serials on video, and how much Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves studied some of its specific ideas, notably the addition of a Saracen hero and having the Sheriff and other villains not just corrupt officials of a tyranny but in league with supernatural evil.
I also have one of the two gamebooks. The King’s Demon, by MERP writer and White Dwarf regular and writer of a Robin Hood adventure for it Graham Staplehurst and illustrated by Warlock Of Firetop Mountain’s Russ Nicholson.
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