Ian McLellan Hunter

Having ambushed the Sheriff's courier, Robin's life is put in peril. He is arrested by the Sheriff while Lady Marian Fitzwalter, his childhood companion, is accused of being in league with the outlaws.

Nottingham's tax collectors find it harder and harder to collect the county's levied assessments. When the Sheriff of Nottingham decides to make an example of Will Stukely, a poor farmer who could not pay his taxes, by hanging him, Robin Hood tricks the Sheriff into leaving the walled town, capturing him, and offering to trade his life in exchange for the condemned man's.

Robin stumbles onto a young boy in the forest who wants to join the Merry Men. However, Robin suspects the boy is of royal Norman birth, and sets to understand the boy's real origins.

Maid Marian's absent father has arranged her marriage with the knight who saved her life. When Robin learns that the man to be Marian's husband cares only for her hefty dowry, he plans to break up the wedding by posing as a German knight who had been promised her hand in marriage long ago.

Sir Robin of Locksley returns to England from fighting in the Crusades to discover that the notorious Sir Roger de Lille has been given his family's lands and castles, and has had Robin declared an outlaw. Robin takes refuge in Sherwood Forest and joins a band of outlaws led by Will Scatlock who names him Robin of the hood.

The giant Little John escapes from his feudal lord, and after being captured by the sheriff's men, agrees to capture Robin Hood in exchange for his freedom.

Word reaches Robin that men are being rounded up and the local Lord is greatly expanding his weapon purchases. Suspicious and alarmed, Robin decides to infiltrate the castle and find out what is going on.