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I was a big fan of The Adventures of Robin Hood as a boomer TV watcher in the 1950's. I just had some show restored and I'll post them at a later date. This post shows some of the sponsors of the show during a half hour program.
If your a boomer you'll remember Wildroot Cream Oil Hair produc.
The show is a British television series comprising 143 half-hour, black and white episodes broadcast weekly between 25 September 1955[a] to 1 March 1959 on ITV. It starred Richard Greene as the outlaw Robin Hood, and Alan Wheatley as his nemesis, the Sheriff of Nottingham.
The show followed the legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers.
The programme was produced by Sapphire Films Ltd for ITC Entertainment, filmed at Nettlefold Studios with some location work, and was the first of many pre-filmed shows commissioned by Lew Grade.
In 1954, Grade was approached by American producer Hannah Weinstein to finance a series of 39 half-hour episodes, at a budget of £10,000 an episode, of a series she wished to make called The Adventures of Robin Hood.
She had already signed Richard Greene to the project as Robin Hood and been given the backing of US distribution company, Official Films Inc, who were confident of selling it to the US market. Grade was so impressed by her proposal that he agreed immediately to back the series, hoping to make large profits by selling programmes to the lucrative American market.
In the UK, the series premiered on ATV London, on Sunday 25 September 1955.[5] ATV Midlands began the series on Friday 17 February 1956,[6] with a staggered start across other regions from 1956 to 1961 as the ITV regional stations came on-air for the first time in the UK.
The US premiere was on Monday 26 September 1955 by CBS. The series was shot on 35mm film to provide the best possible picture quality, and had fade-outs where US commercials were intended to slot in (the series was sponsored in the US by Johnson & Johnson (baby products, Band-Aid) and Wildroot Cream-Oil).
#RobinHood #RichardGreene #WildrootVreamOil #iragallen
I was a big fan of The Adventures of Robin Hood as a boomer TV watcher in the 1950's. I just had some show restored and I'll post them at a later date. This post shows some of the sponsors of the show during a half hour program.
If your a boomer you'll remember Wildroot Cream Oil Hair produc.
The show is a British television series comprising 143 half-hour, black and white episodes broadcast weekly between 25 September 1955[a] to 1 March 1959 on ITV. It starred Richard Greene as the outlaw Robin Hood, and Alan Wheatley as his nemesis, the Sheriff of Nottingham.
The show followed the legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers.
The programme was produced by Sapphire Films Ltd for ITC Entertainment, filmed at Nettlefold Studios with some location work, and was the first of many pre-filmed shows commissioned by Lew Grade.
In 1954, Grade was approached by American producer Hannah Weinstein to finance a series of 39 half-hour episodes, at a budget of £10,000 an episode, of a series she wished to make called The Adventures of Robin Hood.
She had already signed Richard Greene to the project as Robin Hood and been given the backing of US distribution company, Official Films Inc, who were confident of selling it to the US market. Grade was so impressed by her proposal that he agreed immediately to back the series, hoping to make large profits by selling programmes to the lucrative American market.
In the UK, the series premiered on ATV London, on Sunday 25 September 1955.[5] ATV Midlands began the series on Friday 17 February 1956,[6] with a staggered start across other regions from 1956 to 1961 as the ITV regional stations came on-air for the first time in the UK.
The US premiere was on Monday 26 September 1955 by CBS. The series was shot on 35mm film to provide the best possible picture quality, and had fade-outs where US commercials were intended to slot in (the series was sponsored in the US by Johnson & Johnson (baby products, Band-Aid) and Wildroot Cream-Oil).
#RobinHood #RichardGreene #WildrootVreamOil #iragallen
