The Adventures of Robin Hoodnik

The Adventures of Robin Hoodnik
Production company	Hanna-Barbera
Release date	November 4, 1972
Run time	43:28
Starring	Len Weinrib John Stephenson Joe E. Ross Cynthia Adler Daws Butler Hal Smith Janet Waldo
Producer(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Screenplay by	Jack Mendelsohn
Director(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera Alexy Lovy (voices)
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The Adventures of Robin Hoodnik is an American animated comedy-adventure television movie, based on the English folklore of the legendary heroic outlaw Robin Hood. It aired on November 4, 1972 on ABC who promoted it as a "Saturday Superstar Movie." It was written by Jack Mendelsohn, produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera, and voice directed by Alex Lovy.

The anthropomorphized band of Merry Men led by Robin Hoodnik must save Maid Marian from the clutches of Lord Scurvy, who has forced her hand in marriage with a love potion.

A year later Walt Disney Pictures released Robin Hood, their own more memorable and celebrated anthropomorphized reindition of Robin Hood, who was a fox, and humans did not co-exist with human-like animals.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Robin Hoodnik	Len Weinrib
Sheriff of Nottingham	John Stephenson
Deputy Oxx	Joe E. Ross
Lord Scurvy	Len Weinrib
Scounger	Daws Butler
Alan Airedale	Len Weinrib
Little John	Len Weinrib
Friar Pork	Len Weinrib
Maid Marian	Cynthia Adler
Widow Weed	Janet Waldo
Prunella	N/A
Kickstart	Hal Smith
Whirlin' Merlin	Len Weinrib
Carbuncle	John Stephenson
King Richard	Daws Butler
Alligator	N/A
Santa Claus
Town crier	Unavailable
Marriage officiant	Unavailable

Organizations

• Merry Men

Locations

• Earth
  • England
    • Nottinghamshire
      • Sherwood Forest
        • Robin Hoodnik Headquarters
        • Weed residence
      • Jail
      • Nottingham
        • Scurvy Manor
  • United States (indirectly mentioned)
    • Ohio (indirectly mentioned)
      • Cincinatti (mentioned)
    • Pennyslvania (indirectly mentioned)
      • Pittsburg (mentioned)
  • New York (indirectly mentioned)
    • New York City (indirectly mentioned)
      • Queens (mentioned)
• The Moon

Objects

• Love potion
• Giant toaster
• U-Turn Return Boomerang Bow

Vehicles

• Robin's Band Wagon

Production

Filming

It was copyrighted in 1972.

Music

The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin, who was credited a musical director. Curtin had musical supervision from Paul DeKorte.

Crew credits

• Associate producer: Lew Marshall
• Story editor: Ruth Brooks Flippen
• Story directors: Jan Green, Jim Carmichael
• Animation director: Charles A. Nichols
• Production designer: Iwao Takamoto
• Production supervisor: Victor O. Schipek
• Character designer: Jerry Eisenberg
• Layout supervisor: Roman Arambula
• Background artists: Walt Peregoy, Cathy Patrick, Daniela Bielecka, Don Watson, Janet Brown, Phil Lewis, Bill Butler, Rene Garcia, Don Schweikert
• Titles artist: Iraj Paran
• Technical supervisor: Frank Paiker
• Ink and paint supervisor: Jayne Barbera
• Xerographer: Robert 'Tiger' West
• Sound directors: Richard Olson, Bill Getty
• Supervising film editor: Larry Cowan
• Negative consultant: William E. DeBoer
• Post production: Joed Eaton
• Camera operators: George Epperson, Cliff Shirpser, Norman Stainback, Dennis Weaver, John Aardal

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: November 4, 1972 at 9:30 am on ABC

Behind the scenes

• It has a canned laugh track.
• The act of bribing Scrounger with a treat to do a job and his delighted reaction has been done before:
  • Quick Draw McGraw with Snuffles in the Quick Draw McGraw segments. Scrounger and Snuffles will also work for either side just to get a treat.
  • Dick Dastardly with Muttley in Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines. Scrounger also grumbles incoherently like Mumbly when he doesn't get his reward.
  • Mystery Incorporated with Scooby-Doo in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
• Real-world newspaper articles referred to Robin Hoodnik as Robin Hound.

Errors

• In the first scene Robin's Band Wagon is seen, the sign is missing an apostrophe.
• When Oxxy is first seen back at the castle after pretending to be Robin Hoodnik, he is still in his Robin Hoodnik disguise, which must've been intended as it switched back to his regular uniform when the camera moved closer to him.
• Despite being called Scurvy Manor, a letter calls it Scurvy Castle, which is probably more accurate.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • September 15, 2015: Warner Archive Collection releases Hanna-Barbera Specials Collection on DVD.