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ROBOT OF SHERWOOD

Writer: Mark Gatiss

Director: Paul Murphy Executive producers: Steven Moffat, Brian Minchin Broadcast: 6 September 2014

Director Paul Murphy’s recreation of medieval England is a deliberately exaggerated world, owing far more to Michael Curtiz’ lush Technicolor extravaganza The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), starring Errol Flynn, than to the realities of life in ‘1190ish’ Nottingham.

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