Maid Marian and Her Merry Men - Season 3 - Eps 5: Robin and the Beansprout

Name: Eps 5: Robin and the Beansprout
Released: 1993-02-04
Rating: 2.9

1993-02-04 • 25 min • ⭐ 5.8/10

Robin goes to Worksop to buy a Chinese takeaway but finds he has been given only one bean-sprout,which he throws away in disgust. Gary and Graeme have been sent to get a 'fur' to clothe Guy with, but come back with a fir tree by mistake, which is discarded in the same place as the bean-sprout. Robin believes this is just like 'Jack and the Bean-stalk' and he climbs the tree, ending up in the Royal dining room, where he steals the king's takeaway for the merry men.

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About Maid Marian and Her Merry Men

Title: Maid Marian and Her Merry Men

First Air Date: 1989-11-16

Last Air Date: 1994-02-16

Status: Ended

Rating: 5.8/10 (from 13 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 5

Total Episodes: 25

Network: BBC One

Genres: Comedy, Family

Production Companies: Unknown

Synopsis

Maid Marian and her Merry Men is a British children's sitcom created and written by Tony Robinson and directed by David Bell. It began in 1989 on BBC One and ran for four series, with the last episode shown in 1994. The show was a partially musical comic retelling of the legend of Robin Hood, placing Maid Marian in the role of leader of the Merry Men, and reducing Robin to an incompetent ex-tailor. The programme was much appreciated by children and adults alike, and has been likened to Blackadder, not only for its historical setting and the presence of Tony Robinson, but also for its comic style. It is more surreal than Blackadder, however, and drops even more anachronisms. Many of the show's cast such as Howard Lew Lewis, Forbes Collins, Ramsay Gilderdale and Patsy Byrne had previously appeared in various episodes of Blackadder alongside Robinson. Like many British children's programmes, there is a lot of social commentary sneakily inserted, as well as witty asides about the Royal family, buses running on time, etc. Many of the plots spoofed or referenced film and television shows including other incarnations of Robin Hood in those mediums.