Line #31 Series/TheNewAdventuresOfRobinHood


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:L to R: [[TheLancer Kemal]], [[TheHeart Marion]], [[TheHero Robin]], [[TheBigGuy Little John]] and [[TheSmartGuy Friar Tuck]]]]
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5	''The New Adventures of Robin Hood'' is a 1997-1998 live-action TV series, produced by Creator/WarnerBros International Television and aired on Creator/{{TNT}}. It was filmed in Vilnius, Lithuania. [[FollowTheLeader The tone of the series resembles]] its contemporaries ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' and ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess''.
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10	%%* Action Girl: Marion
11	* AirVentPassageway: Used by Robin to get out of a Norman castle.
12	* TheAlcatraz: In "The Prison", Sheriff Bickerton invites Robin and Marion to tour his high-security Penishaw prison. Robin declines, but Marion decides to go. But the prison has been taken over by the inmates, and Marion and Bickerton are captured by them. Robin learns what has happened and comes to help. He finds out that Maddox, the leader of the revolt, has vials of a deadly plague, which he threatens to use to contaminate London's water supply, unless some of his men are released by the regional high lord, the Duke of Vortigern. Robin realizes that the only way to prevent catastrophe is to break into the prison and destroy the plague vials. His best chance of getting into the escape-proof facility is with the help of Billy, the only person to ever escape from it. Billy is a beautiful but tough woman, now incarcerated in Vortigern's castle.
13	* AlienEpisode: "Dragon from the Sky" is about an alien crash-landing in Sherwood and repairing his space-ship in time before the Sheriff dissects him.
14	* AmazonBrigade: In "The Legend of the Amazons", Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine has traveled with some of her Amazon warriors from Jerusalem where they found a fabled map.
15	%%* AnachronismStew
16	* ArmyOfTheAges: In "The Legion", Prince John vows to kill Robin once and for all. He trades one year of his life to the sorceress Mortiana so that she may bring back to life three of Alexander the Great's dead warriors.
17	* BackFromTheDead: In "Miracle at Avalon", the healer Gwyneth must return home before her twenty-first birthday, or all who have been healed by her hand will die. Unknown to Robin, he was her first healing when he hit his head as a child, an act that was witnessed by his sworn enemy, Sir Guy of Gisborne. Sir Guy, knowing the consequences if she does not make it home, enlists the help of the evil witch Mordrelle, who was banished from Avalon many years ago, to help prevent Gwyneth's return. But Sir Guy is killed in a fight with Robin, and brought back to life by Gwyneth, so putting him in the same position as Robin. Sir Guy has to kill Mordrelle to enable Gwyneth's return to Avalon.
18	* BachelorAuction: "The Auction". At the Third Annual Widows and Orphans Charity Fair, Friar Tuck holds a charity auction, in which one of the lots is a date with Robin. When Robin learns that his father may still be alive, he goes off in search of his father, but it turns out to be an impersonation by a sorceress, and he has to battle her and another sorcerer before he can return to the auction. Meanwhile Friar Tuck has to hold off the women of the village, who are becoming impatient with Robin's absence.
19	* BadHabits: In "The Road to Royston", Robin saves a beautiful young woman, Gwynedd, disguised as a nun, on the road to the town of Royston. She has been searching for him to enlist his help in saving her sister, Bernadette, who is to be hanged if she does not allow herself to be married against her wishes to Drugo, the henchman of the evil Baron Royston.
20	* BecomingTheMask: In "Heroes", the Sheriff recruits a ConMan named Morty Butterman who is [[IdenticalStranger Robin's exact double]] to take Robin's place and tarnish his reputation. When Morty takes Robin's place, he discovers what it is like to be a true hero. He disobeys the Sheriff and maintains Robin's character. Ulitimately, Morty [[TakingTheBullet intercepts an arrow]] meant for Robin and dies a hero, saving Robin's life.
21	* CriminalDoppelganger: In "Outlaw Express", Robin poses as his evil look-a-like in order to recapture other escaped prisoners.
22	* DieHardOnAnX: In "The Birthday Trap", Robin goes to the fiftieth birthday party of his step-mother, where he encounters an old girlfriend. But a band of thieves enter the castle and interrupt the festivities. They round up the guests and steal all their money and trinkets. Robin is seriously wounded in the battle to recover the stolen items. Knowing the castle well, he relies on his cunning to separate the thieves, and lay traps for them in the rooms they find themselves locked in. But Robin faces his biggest battle high on the castle walls.
23	* EnemyMine: In "Attack of the Vikings", Robin must rescue both himself and his archenemy when he and Prince John are kidnapped by Vikings.
24	* FakingTheDead: In "Witches of the Abbey", three [[HotWitch beautiful, evil witches]] take Little John captive, and make him their slave. Robin's band cannot breech the catacombs of the abbey where the witches have taken him, because of the powerful magic they practise. Robin uses a magic potion from Friar Tuck to fake his own death, knowing that his evil Aunt Alice, the Abbess, will entomb him in the family crypt inside the abbey. He thus gains entry to rescue Little John and vanquish the witches.
25	%%* Five Man Band
26	%%** TheHero: Robin
27	%%** TheLancer: Kemal
28	%%** TheBigGuy: Little John
29	%%** TheSmartGuy: Friar Tuck
30	%%** TheSmurfettePrinciple: Marion
31	* TheFundamentalist: In "Justice for All", the fanatical Father Dutton has sworn to end the old Celtic beliefs in England. He imprisons the druid priests of his village. But some of the villagers don't agree with this and help them. Dutton attacks the helpers, and one of the wounded survivors slips away to seek Robin's help. When he hears what Dutton is doing, he decides to put an end to the priest's plans.
32	* GroundhogDayLoop: In "Day After Day", an evil warlock curses a village to live the same day over and over until the woman he obsesses over agrees to marry him.
33	* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Rather than merely being a bad king as in most versions, this Prince John gleefully sacrifices peasants to Celtic goddesses.
34	* TheHorde: In "Rage of the Mongols", a village on the outskirts of Sherwood Forest is regularly raided by a horde of Mongols. Robin and his band rescue a maiden from the village who has been kidnapped, angering the Mongols.
35	* HowUnscientific: "Dragon from the Sky" is about an alien crash-landing in Sherwood and repairing his space-ship in time before the Sheriff dissects him.
36	* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: In "The Prey", Robin and his men rob a gambling house, and make a mortal enemy of its owner, Simon Asher. Robin is overpowered and captured by a quartet of aristocratic huntsmen: Master Chu, Lord Henry, Lord Spire and Mr. Fox. They offer Robin a chance of survival by playing a game of hunting, with Robin as the prey. To ensure his cooperation, they are holding Friar Tuck hostage.
37	* IdenticalStranger: Robin encounters two unrelated doppelgangers in different episodes. In "Outlaw Express", he encounters his CriminalDoppelganger Jacobi who has just broken out of prison. And in "Heroes", the Sheriff recruits a lookalike ConMan named Morty Butterman as part of a scheme to destroy Robin's reputation.
38	* InvisibilityCloak: In "Raven's Peak", Robin and his band are at a masquerade ball, when Robin's old friend Tom enters, terrified and beaten. He is being chased by Vashon, the captain of Lord Holden's guard. Vashon accuses Tom of murdering Holden and his family. Robin defends Tom, but Vashon will not listen. In the ensuing fight with Vashon, Robin and his gang escape, and learn that Lord Holden is still alive. Vashon is actually pursuing Tom because he holds the key to an invisible cloak with magical powers.
39	* LaserBlade: No, really. When Marion is kidnapped to be a demon god's bride in "Devil's Bride", Robin shows up with an Unicorn horn that can changed into different energy weapons, one of which is a energy sword. This dissolves into a light saber duel when the lead worshiper possessed by the god reveals his own energy sword.
40	* LifeDrinker: In "A Price on His Soul", Baragon is an evil creature, more than 300 years old, who has to keep drinking the blood of the innocent to keep him young and strong.
41	* LivingAphrodisiac: In "Godiva", Little John and Friar Tuck go to a nearby village to organise an engagement party, but become trapped by Godiva, a sorceress and former apprentice of Olwyn. She is seeking revenge on Robin, whom she loves, but who imprisoned her in a tree years previously. Godiva captures Robin, and tries to seize power in the land. It is up to the women to rescue Robin and defeat Godiva, since they are immune to her attractions.
42	* ManchurianAgent: In "The Hanged Man", the Sheriff uses a MadScientist to brainwash either Marion, Little John, or Tuck to kill Robin.
43	%%* MenOfSherwood: Of course.
44	%%* MiniDressOfPower: Marian wears a red one.
45	* MorphWeapon: The unicorn horn in "Devil's Bride" which can become almost anything, including a LaserBlade.
46	* NewOldFlame: In "First Love", Robin's former fiancé Olivia seeks the outlaw hero's help in rescuing her husband.
47	* PrisonEpisode: In "The Prison", Sheriff Bickerton invites Robin and Marion to tour his high-security Penishaw prison. Robin declines, but Marion decides to go. But the prison has been taken over by the inmates, and Marion and Bickerton are captured by them. Robin learns what has happened and comes to help. He finds out that Maddox, the leader of the revolt, has vials of a deadly plague, which he threatens to use to contaminate London's water supply, unless some of his men are released by the regional high lord, the Duke of Vortigern. Robin realizes that the only way to prevent catastrophe is to break into the prison and destroy the plague vials. His best chance of getting into the escape-proof facility is with the help of Billy, the only person to ever escape from it. Billy is a beautiful but tough woman, now incarcerated in Vortigern's castle.
48	* ProWrestlingEpisode: In "Ringside Murder", Robin and his band go to a charity wrestling match, where they meet his old friend Theo, who is now the local sheriff. As Little John, "the Celtic Crusader", is winning his bout against "Gargantua", Lord Burnley a noble is assassinated by a crossbow bolt, and the culprit appears to be Friar Tuck, who has just been given a crossbow that he has accidentally shot. Robin must investigate what happened, and prove Tuck's innocence, by identifying the real culprit.
49	* ReligionOfEvil: In "The Devil's Bride", Marion is abducted by Brother Groliet, an evil member of the God of Death cult. She is intended to become the bride of Balor, the Prince of Darkness, to have a child and give him the power of eternal life.
50	* RoyalHarem: In "The Arabian Knight", Robin and his band encounter a harem of beauties owned by the wicked Francisco, a knight of Arabian descent, who is terrorising the local area and extorting money from its inhabitants, and who wants Marion to join his harem.
51	* SemanticSuperpower: In one episode, Rob acquires a unicorn horn to fight the Big Bad. He can command it to turn into anything from a weapon, to a ladder, to a length of rope. Towards the end he's flailing a bit, and just yells, "Give me what I need!"
52	* SkySurfing: In "The Time Machine", Rowena befriends Elvis, and they fly through the forest on magical skateboards to escape the marauders.
53	* TakingTheBullet: At the end of "Heroes", Robin's IdenticalStranger, ConMan Morty Butterman, intercepts an arrow meant for Robin and dies a hero, saving Robin's life.
54	* TimeMachine: In "The Time Machine", a teenager named Elvis, who is a descendant of Barkley, travels back to Nottingham via his father's time machine, only to have it stolen by raiders.
55	* WaterSourceTampering: In "The Prison", Robin finds out that Maddox, the leader of the revolt, has vials of a deadly plague, which he threatens to use to contaminate London's water supply, unless some of his men are released by the regional high lord, the Duke of Vortigern.
56	* WeaponSpecialization: Marian, in yet another similarity to Series/{{Xena}}, wields a whip and is an expert in its use.
57	* {{Xenafication}}: Marian is a full-blown Series/{{Xena}} clone, even down to her outfit and whip.
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