Rocket Robin Hood

Rocket Robin Hood
Opening credits to Rocket Robin Hood
Genre	Fantasy
Written by	Ralph Bakshi
Voices of	Carl Banas Ed McNamara Chris Wiggins Bernard Cowan Len Birman Paul Kligman Gillie Fenwick John Scott
Country of origin	Canada
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	52
Production
Producer(s)	Al Guest
Running time	22 minutes
Production company(s)	Trillium Productions Krantz Films Grantray-Lawrence Animation
Release
Picture format	Color
Original release	1967 – 1969

Rocket Robin Hood is a Canadian animated television series, placing the characters and conflicts of the classic Robin Hood legend in a futuristic, outer space setting, produced by Krantz Films, Inc. from 1966 to 1969.

Rocket Robin Hood leads his "Merry Men", including the strong, dimwitted, and likeable Little John; consummate overeater Friar Tuck (who designs all the Merry Men's weaponry); Robin's two-fisted, red-headed cousin Will Scarlet; Robin's plucky girlfriend Maid Marian; his sharp-witted right-hand man Alan-a-Dale; the scrawny, feisty camp cook Giles (a reformed crook and Gabby Hayes type); and other characters from the classic story of Robin Hood. They live in "the astonishing year 3000" on New Sherwood Forest Asteroid, and are determined to foil the despotic plans of Prince John and his bumbling lackey, the Sheriff of N.O.T.T. (National Outer-space Terrestrial Territories), and other villains such as Dr. Medulla, Manta, Nocturne, and the Warlord of Saturn. Rocket Robin Hood and his people fly in spaceships and use weapons such as "electro-quarterstaffs."

Each of the episodes are divided into three parts, with cliffhangers between the first and the second part, as well as the second and the third part of each 22 minute episodes.

All episodes also feature short vignettes of the various characters.

A male chorus sang the opening and the closing themes for each of the three episodes of the cartoons, in the style of the old English ballads.

Rocket Robin Hood was animated and voiced by Trillium Productions, an animation studio that was part of the Guest Group—a creative group of companies owned by producer Al Guest. One of the key animators was Jean Mathieson, one of the first female animators, who later formed Rainbow Animation in Canada and Magic Shadows Inc in the U.S. with Al Guest, where they continued to produce animated TV programming.