Robot of Sherwood (TV story)
Robot of Sherwood was the third episode of the eighth series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales.
Synopsis
Clara is elated when offered the chance to meet the English folk hero Robin Hood, despite The Doctor's insistence that he is nothing more than a legend.
Travelling to a sun-drenched Sherwood Forest in 1190, they soon realise that something is amiss, as the cruel Sheriff of Nottingham and his sinister robot knights plot to rewrite the course of history.
Can the Doctor put aside his doubts and stir up an unlikely friendship with Robin Hood?
Plot
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Cast
- Twelfth Doctor - Peter Capaldi
- Clara - Jenna Coleman
- Robin Hood - Tom Riley
- Quayle - Roger Ashton-Griffiths
- Quayle's Ward - Sabrina Bartlett
- The Sheriff - Ben Miller
- Alan-a-Dale - Ian Hallard
- Friar Tuck - Trevor Cooper
- Little John - Rusty Goffe
- Will Scarlett - Joseph Kennedy
- Walter - Adam Jones
- Herald - David Benson
- Guard - David Langham
- Knight - Tim Baggaley
- Voice of the Knights - Richard Elfyn
Crew
| Executive Producers Brian Minchin and Steven Moffat |
| Production Designer Michael Pickwoad | ||||||||||
| Casting Director Andy Pryor CDG
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Music Murray Gold
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Original theme music by Ron Grainer • With thanks to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales | ||||||||||
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| Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources. |
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Story notes
- A scene in which the Sheriff of Nottingham was beheaded, revealing him to be a robot, was edited out of this episode's broadcast in light of the beheading of two American journalists by terrorist group Islamic State. [1] It can be seen when the tapestry behind Clara and The Doctor vanishes before Robin cuts the rope and rises to the wooden gantries.
- One of the images brought up on the computer screen is of Patrick Troughton, the actor who portrayed the Second Doctor, and also the first actor who played Robin Hood on television.
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Production errors
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Continuity
- The Doctor suggests to Clara that they are inside a miniscope upon encountering Robin Hood and his Merry Men in Sherwood Forest. (TV: Carnival of Monsters)
- This is not the first time that Doctor has encountered a spaceship disguised as a castle. (TV: State of Decay)
- The Doctor discovers that the spaceship was headed to the Promised Land, just like the Half-Face Man. (TV: Deep Breath)
- The Doctor uses Venusian aikido to disarm Robin Hood, complete with "Hai" same as his Third incarnation commonly did. (TV: The Mind of Evil, Inferno, The Claws of Axos et al.)
- The Doctor previously met a ship that needed Gold to repair the engines, in his fifth incarnation the Djinni used the gold the Black Guardian horded from the Caliph and compressed it to make a warp manifold, the fifth segment to the Key to Time. (AUDIO: The Destroyer of Delights)
- Once again the Doctor calls someone a "pudding brain". (TV: Deep Breath)
- King Richard the Lionheart and his brother Prince John of England are mentioned. Meanwhile in 1190, King Richard is fighting the Crusades, where he met the First Doctor. (TV: The Crusade) The Fifth Doctor would meet the android Kamelion masquerading as the then King John in 1215. (TV: The King's Demons)
- The Doctoror and Robinin Hood escape the cell by feigning a possession in the same way as Ben and Polly did in (TV: The Smugglers)
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