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1* ActorLeavesCharacterDies: Michael Praed left the show when he was offered a part in ''Series/Dynasty1981'', resulting in Robin being KilledOffForReal at the start of the third season and Creator/JasonConnery taking up the mantle.
2* CaliforniaDoubling: England doubled for England, just not the same bits of it. Sherwood Forest was mostly represented by a wood outside Bristol, Nottingham Castle by various northern castles and Wells Cathedral, and other locations were scattered across the country, mostly in the north and west.
3* TheDanza: In the first season, minor outlaw Martin is played by Martin West.
4* DawsonCasting: Queen Isabella in "The Pretender" is explicitly noted to be 12 years old. Cory Pulman was 23 at the time of the episode.
5* DuelingWorks:
6** The show was scheduled directly against the Creator/ColinBaker era of ''Series/DoctorWho'' for the teatime-adventure audience... and, in what was seen as a major sign of that era's dubious quality, regularly trounced it in the ratings.
7** Also with ''{{Series/Crossbow}}''. Sherwood came out three years earlier, and because episodes were an hour long, the individual episode plots were more sophisticated. However, ''Crossbow'' has more serialisation. They share DNA, as Creator/AnthonyHorowitz created ''Crossbow'' and wrote for this series. Also, Robert Addie played villainous Sir Guy of Gisbourne in this series, and villainous Arris in ''Crossbow''.
8* FollowTheLeader: The series lead to an ''explosion'' of Robin Hood media in the late 80s and early 90s, ranging from other TV series, variety of movies, anime and what not. All of those were borrowing left and right from the series, rather than any prior incarnation of Robin Hood.
9* FountainOfExpies: Nasir led to the creation of similar characters in several subsequent Robin Hood retellings, either due to a desire to make the cast more ethnically diverse or just because the later creators assumed that he was a traditional character.
10** Mark Ryan got into the act himself when he once co-wrote a ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' TimeTravel story that was a homage to the series, wherein ComicBook/BlackCanary met Robin (naturally a lookalike of Green Arrow) and his band, including one "Rassan".
11* HeAlsoDid: Mark Ryan (Nasir) voices Bumblebee in the Film/TransformersFilmSeries titles handled by Creator/MichaelBay.
12* LifeImitatesArt: In an example which would probably make Richard Carpenter spin in his grave, a [[https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Woden%27s_Folk neo-pagan neo-Nazi groupuscule]] were reported to be claiming the series' "hooded man" prophecy as a real ancient myth and their inspiration.
13* TheOtherDarrin: Baron de Belleme's girlfriends were recast in "The Enchantment", probably because they had to do some plot-relevant acting instead of sitting around looking hot.
14* RealLifeRelative: Edward of Wickham's son Matthew is played by Jeremy Bulloch's real son Robert. According to DVD extras, many of the child extras were real children of the cast and crew.
15* ReferencedBy: according to Creator/MercedesLackey, Michael Praed as Robin was the inspiration for the character description of [[Literature/LastHeraldMageTrilogy Vanyel Ashkevron]]. The cover of ''Magic's Promise'' (second book in the trilogy) looks so much like Praed that it could actually be a straight-out portrait.
16* ThrowItIn:
17** An on-set accident in which Robert Addie's horse clashed heads with Jeremy Bulloch during a take was included in the finished show, reframed as a deliberate KickTheDog moment on Guy's part.
18** During the filming of the quarterstaff fight between Robert of Huntingdon and Little John, Clive Mantle accidentally really hit Jason Connery over the head. Again, the blow was included in the finished show.
19** De Rainault's assessment of Philip Mark as a "posturing catamite" was supposedly an ad lib.
20* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
21** Creator/PaulMcGann auditioned for Robin after Michael Praed left, but was considered too short.
22** Alan-a-Dale was intended to be a recurring character, but the production team and regular cast considered the actor's performance to be very poor.
23** A pitch for a SequelSeries set ten years later had Michael Praed's Robin BackFromTheDead or NotQuiteDead.
24** There was supposed to be a fourth season but the series was discontinued. There were serious plans for this to include Guy killing Marion in order to ignite the final conflict (Something which eventually did happen in the later BBC ''Series/RobinHood'', to very controversial effect).
25* WordOfGay: According to a DVD interview with Richard Carpenter, original Merry Men Tom the Fletcher and Dickon were a gay couple. Unfortunately, they were the ones who [[BuryYourGays got killed off in the second episode]].
26* WordOfSaintPaul: According to Creator/RayWinstone, Will Scarlet regularly used to go off and rob people on his own and [[SociopathicHero not give the money to the poor]], with the incident in "The Children of Israel" not being very unusual.
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