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"Robin of Sherwood" (1984)

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• Television standards decreed that people could only be hit by arrows in the back or in the front, never in the face. A shot in the thigh was a margin. Likewise, only side swiping was allowed during sword fights, never a full on thrust.
  
  
• First series director 'Ian Sharp' used an effect during a zoom by freezing and skipping frames for one shot in the opening credits. His successor Robert Young loved it so much he started to use it all the time.
  
  
• Judi Trott was the producer's second choice for Maid Marian, after Jenny Seagrove.
  
  

• Clannad never actually looked at the episodes or spotted any music before recording their score. Instead, producer Paul Knight visited them in Dublin about once a year to fetch about an hour worth of music to use in the series.
  
  
• Filmed on location in woods outside Bristol, where all the trees still sported leafs of the period, as opposed to Fir trees brought to England in the nineteenth century.
  
  
• Originated the now-customary character of Robin Hood's Saracen companion - due to Mark Ryan’s unintentional permanent addition to the cast. Every new version of Robin Hood made since has included a Saracen character - or even sidekick.
  
  

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