The best episodes of Robin Hood
Ranked by viewer rating, highs first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
Robin and the Outlaws, The Sheriff, Gisborne and Marian are now in the Holy Land. Robin warns the King of the impending threat to his life, but the Sheriff's cunning has prevailed; instead of a heroes welcome, Robin and the Outlaws are treated as traitors...Marian makes a final attempt to redeem Gisborne; if he kills the Sheriff, he will have everything he wants, including her... but will fear of the Sheriff and the smell of power win the battle for Gisborne's soul?The battle for England is on. Will Robin be released in time to save the King's life? Will Marian escape from the clutches of the Sheriff?
- 02
When a group of boys stumbles on Gisborne's weapons testing site, all but one is taken prisoner. Daniel raises the alarm and Robin hatches a plan, but with Gisborne protected by an indestructible suit of armour, a rescue attempt is more difficult than it might first appear. Robin must think fast if he's to save a boy's life and stop a vital part of the Sheriff's war machine.
- 03
When Robin and the Outlaws arrive for Robin's birthday they are surrounded by the Sheriff's mercenaries, while traitor, Allan a Dale, realises that the Sheriff and Gisborne are heading to the Holy Land to kill the King. Fearless Marian takes it upon herself to stop the Sheriff in his tracks whilst Allan must choose his allegiance. Will Robin realise that the mercenaries are merely there to distract him from the Sheriff's new dastardly plan and will Allan come to his senses?
- 04
The Sheriff and his sinister scientist Joseph are testing a chemical weapon on a street in Nottingham and blaming the ill-effects on the pestilence,but Will Scarlett's father Dan knows it's not the pestilence at all. When the Sheriff murders Dan for speaking out against a suspected poisoning, Robin must track down the source of poison in time. But what will he do when he realises that Will is intent on avenging his father's death?
- 05
Marian's arrival in the gang distracts them from detecting the Sheriff's infiltrator in their midst. As Carter the assassin strikes his deadly blow, Robin discovers he's concealing another secret - revenge forhis dead brother. Rather than punishing the murderous assassin, Robin wins him over and persuades him to turn the tables on the Sheriff.
- 06
The King's guard Legrand arrives with a vital mission for Robin. As Robin joins the quest to unravel the coded clues leading to the mysterious Thesaurus Patriae, Marian decides to act alone in helping Locksley villagers. The Sheriff is hunting the Thesaurus Patriae, too. Everyone's in for a surprise when King Richard's treasure turns out to be neither gold nor jewellery.
- 07
A family reunion between Allan and his brother Tom turns sour when Tom and his crooked friends tag along.
- 08
Robin can't come to terms with losing Marian. He refuses to help Edward in confronting the King.
- 09
The Nottingham Fair arrives, bringing with it the lure of the silver arrow competition.
- 10
Lambert invents an explosive black powder, but in the wrong hands it could be lethal.
- 11
At Locksley, Robin and Little John witness a brutal tax collection and the arrest of Little John's son.
- 12
King Richard returns to England. Marian faces marriage to Guy of Gisborne.
- 13
A medieval grand casino arrives at Nottingham Castle which the Sheriff isn't planning to lose, so he's built a strongroomcontaining a labyrinth of deadly traps to guard the gambling silver. With the help of Marian and the wealthy and apparently feckless Bavarian count who's unwittingly about to be fleeced by the Sheriff, Robin is determined to beat the complex security system.
- 14
When Robin discovers that the Black Knights are descending on Nottingham to sign an insidious pact against the King, he turns to Lord Winchester as his only hope. With Winchester on-side and ready to stand upto the Sheriff, Robin thinks the job is done - until he realises, to his horror, that Winchester is corrupt. Robin must steel himself to make the ultimate sacrifice for England.
- 15
Robin is determined to get hold of the Great Pact of Nottingham, but when a lovelorn Knight begs the outlaws to help him save his girl, Robin decides he'll use the Knight's silver to locate where the Sheriff'streasure, including the Pact, is hidden. But with Allan A Dale now firmly on the dark side and leaking the outlaws' secrets to Gisborne, Robin realises he must act quickly to save Marian. Worse still, Edward has his own agenda for the Pact, with tragic and life-changing consequences for Marian.
- 16
A return to Sherwood sees the outlaws constructing a new camp. But the sherriff has plans of his own as Knighton Hall is razed to the ground and Marian and Edward are arrested.
- 17
A mortally wounded messenger from King Richard flees Locksley Manor, pursued by Gisborne's men, and runs straight into the arms of Robin. In his dying breaths, the messenger utters the word 'Lardner', to Robin's confusion.What is clear, though, is that Gisborne and the Sheriff are hunting the same Lardner. Trapped in the tree that houses the secret, Robin and Marian realise that unless they resort to desperate measures - and the help of a Fool - they face certain death.
- 18
The Sheriff sleepwalks into Sherwood Forest as Prince John's messenger arrives to check all is well. Finding him absent, the messenger summons Prince John's army to raze Nottingham to the ground at sunset.Desperate times compel Gisborne to rely on Robin's tracking skills to find the Sheriff, but Robin realises the Sheriff has stumbled onto an opportunity to regain the Pact of Nottingham. Gisborne risks his life standing by Marian as they fight to save the people of Nottingham.
- 19
The humiliated Sheriff storms into Locksley, threatening revenge until Robin surrenders.
- 20
Robin Hood is blamed when a sniper murders innocent people in Nottingham. Desperate to stop the killings, Robin must form an unholy alliance with the Sheriff.
- 21
Robin and his men discover an abandoned baby in Sherwood Forest just before the Sheriff kidnaps Roy.
- 22
Robin and his gang come across a tax inspector and use him as cover for entry to Nottingham Castle.
- 23
A horrified Robin realises that his plan to capture the Sheriff's spy Henry of Lewes has failed because he has a traitor in his gang. Luckily,Henry has arrived at the castle unconscious and Robin can also depend on Marian's spying and loyal wise-woman Matilda to help him in his mission. Can Robin silence Henry and rescue Matilda before the Sheriff ducks her for witchcraft, and will he work out who the traitor is?
- 24
Robin unleashes a series of events leading to the discovery of a Saracen visitor at Nottingham Castle.
- 25
A heat wave hits Nottinghamshire and, when Prince John blocks all the local wells, the outlaws are forced to take desperate measures to save those at risk.Prince John discovers Robin and Isabella's secret relationship, and orders Gisborne to dispose of them, telling him that if he completes the task he will be made the new Sheriff. Isabella proposes a life away from Nottinghamshire, and Robin has to make a difficult choice about his future.
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