There was an episode of the Spider-man cartoon series in the 60's that was EXACTLY copied from Rocket Robin Hood. They just painted Spider-man over Robin. (An alien bug-like bad guy.)
Even when I was a kid in the mid 70's I knew this cartoon was cheaply made and hated it. There was nothing else on early sunday mornings..but the cheap/lazy animation was annoying
LOLZ half the show was this intro and a few other little interludes, they filled a lot of time with basically nothing but I liked the show as a child. epic theme song
Oh man i remember see this on channel 36 watl in 1967 n 69 season final espd too...that was a UHF station...it was later drop cause of parents n the PTA n children's workshop complainin of Bad stuff like shootin people....ahh good times Good times!
I'm watching this again, after so long, and LAUGHING MY ASS OFF. Used to sneak down to my parents' living room to watch this at 5am, when I was a kid. But my mom always caught me and sent me back to bed. They were airing it on Teletoon Retro, a few years back, and I watched it every morning, just for shits and giggles. Couldn't get over how cheesy it was, seeing it as an adult...lmao
Cheers bro. Rocket Robin Hood is not just a tv show!!! I have some episodes, if your interested give me a shout. Long live Rocket Robin Hood until the fantastic years to come!!!!
wow, I spent my toddler years in Detroit and the earliest memory I have of wanting to rush home from nursery school to watch a cartoon, was of Rocket Robin Hood. I left a few years later for NYC and for years I'd mention this cartoon and get odd looks, as if I was crazy. Absolutely loved it!
what a great opening, but even when you were a kid, you could tell this was low budget, and kinda crappy, I would change the channel for Looney Tune, or Insptector Gadget anyday.
Oh man...I remember watching this show when I was a really little kid. The stuff that sticks out to me now is Friar Tuck taking a single bite out of his food and throwing it away (who doesn't remember that?), Rocket Robin Hood firing an arrow at some lever Prince John was trying to pull, and of course the visuals during the "Band of brothers, marching together." bit. Good times, good times... As it's been so long, I can't recall the name of the cook (if he even had one). Does anyone know it?
yes it was aired 1966 to 69 i think but its funny but this animation was amazing for back then but yes it aired it was a pretty good show actually but they dont air it now
@jackthePS3GAMER all of the cartoons was hand draw hand paint. i remember most of the cartoons was in black and white. color tvs came outin the late 60 early sevenites. now we got hdtv digatil tv they are com'ing out with 3d tv
@MrAmputechture they made alot of crazy cartoons not this computer junk we got nowi remeber all these old cartoons i'm 48 going on 49 yes they are classic
yeah im sure they were worried about a cartoon character getting burnt and since when did you measure out everything anyway and damn dude this show was the SHIT!!! and its meant to make kids happy so its legal whether you like it or not
This brings back soooo many memories. I can't begin to describe how much I hated watching this show as a kid, and seeing nth reruns because we only had access to one channel back then. But RRH will always evoke fond memories thanks to the magic of rose-coloured glasses. Any like many of the commenters here, I remember that episode of Spider Man that lifted animation straight from RRH! Epic! RRH will live on forever!
WOW! I'd totally forgotten this masterpiece of 1960's cartoons. I came across the title and the theme song popped into my head. And here it is, exactly as I remember it! That's so embarrassing! Why is it your brain can store all this stuff from 40+ years ago, but yet you can't remember where you left your keys this morning?
i remember a few years ago me and a few friends dropped some acid and watched old vhs tapes of rocket robin hood, hercules and hilarious house of frightenstein. lets just say.. trippin balls. especially when the "wolfman" was djing. wow.. i do and dont miss LSD.
Growing up in Toronto without cable in the early eighties there were only two choices for cartoons before school: City TV at 7 am and Global at 8. This ran on City along with Hercules and 60's version of Spiderman for so many years. Who can forget the crappy animation where a character only has one eye, and friar tuck's drumstick toss? Still we watched it every morning, religiously!
I was a House of Fightenstein man myself. But I agree, watched RRH religiously as well in those frigid Toronto mornings. Looks like you are an escape from NY fan also, cool!
Oh my goodness! You are so right! I grew up in Mississauga at that time - same choices. However, I remember Buffalo 29 having pretty good Tom and Jerry in the afternoon.
I grew up in Massena, New York, a stone's throw from Cornwall, Ontario Canada. This cartoon was a Canadian Classic and I would watch it Religously at my grandparents house back in the 60's. We got alot of Canadian TV back then including MR. Dressup, The Friendly Giant, and Hockey Night in Canada. God Bless Canada!!
Canadian Content regulations STILL keep it on the air-on Teletoon retro, along with it's co production at the time, Spiderman...all canadian voice actors primarily from CBC toronto in the late 60s.
google "whalloping websnappers" for a nice tribute site to some of these actors, as the same actors largely did both shows, though obviously different roles.
@snarfdude Thank you for the info about Rocket Robin being on DVD!!!! That's so cool, I LOVED this cartoon!!! I'll look for it now for sure! Thank YOU!!!!
no problem...I was surprised myself....that and forest rangers were big when I was a kid, and both are on DVD....got mine at HMV, future shop might have it, a quick check and found it on amazon.ca CHEAP! Get it before it gets deleted!
@Chrissusie1 I lived in Plattsburgh when I was a kid. I loved CBC and CFCF12 for their awesome kid's programming. Happy to see someone else with happy TV memories from the Great White North. Did that apply to us?
@Chrissusie1 You do know that both Friendly and Mr Dressup were born in the States but only became famous after coming to Canada? Oh, Death in Kids in the Hall's When Death Came to Town was wearing Friendly's old vest.
Loved when I was a kid. On the people who are looking at a homo vibe never saw the show.. As a kid all you saw were the rockets and arrows. And even as a kid I still looked out for maid Marion, Princess on g force, mary-anne and ginger, and elly may
yes it was a bathhouse away from it.. but at the same time it was more wholesome programming i think.. i had the luck to see these growing up in the early 80s in Canada on ITV the home of SCTV (now Global Edmonton) along with The Wonderful World Of Oz, and the Pinnochio stop motion show as well as the Mighty Hercules and Astroboy (the latter which oddly had a slightly different title sequence and voices as well as names.. anyone want to answer me why?)
lmao i had this in my head which is weird since it hasn't been on tv in ages. its to hilariously camp. its a great thing. and its do damn bloody catchy lol the show was defiantly.. interesting.. "With a blast from Robins electro quarter-staff" lol dunno.. jsut great stuff.. they should sell the whole season it would be great.
Oh god. On saturday, I was hanging out with a bunch of friends and one of the guys plays the guitar very well. He was prepping for an event he would be playing at in about a week and had just finished an absolutely amazing piece. He's then like, "Everyone gather 'round!"
We were so hyped from a massive sugar-overload, so we were all really bouncy. He suddenly begins to say "...Space travellers abound and listen to the tale of Rocket Robin Hood!" Then did the pose at :13.
yeah, this show used to precede Murphy's Solid Gold heroes in the Bay Area back in the 70s...Murphy's would show Iron Man, Hulk, Capt. America and Thor cartoons.
I definitely remember-I was only 4 or 5 and watching this and Mighty Hercules.Believe it or not,I also had a He-Man t-shirt I wore,even though I'm female.
The animation isnt bad, just classic. Its the same animation used in Hercules, Spiderman, and the other Marvel heroes. I loved this cartoon, but have never seen any memoribilia. How about a live-action movie?
I loved this cartoon as a kid. I know the animation is bad but hey most of them were bad back then...Plus I even watched this in Italian..lol...this and Hercules
maid marian was like in ONE episode!...the best was how this was the company that made the spiderman cartoon..and they re-used scenes..and even the entire "Dementia 5" episode frame by frame...i still do the Friar Tuck thing with one bite of food..toss it over my shoulder at Xmas
I was a child when I saw Rocket Robin Hood in a Japanese version. I still remember this tune. The medieval-taste introduction and lyrics are different from ours. Both are cool and exhilarating. Listening to this, I recall the 60s go-go atomoshere. RRH and Captain Armstrong were America itself to a Japanese kid. Even as a kid I was excited with a carefree sence of almighty science. But is it that bad?
I wasn't born when this was on but did see the reruns as a kid. I do think it was kind of silly but also cool if that's possible. You have to admit the wepons in that show were amazing even if it was a cartoon.
just been told by my mum that she used to sit me infront of this as a baby so i had to check it out. now i see why i never liked postman pat and thomas the tank engine, cos this is better
i know the graphics weren't that good, but i'll tell you this, i'd rather see these old school cartoons than the crap they have nowadays like finding nemo, sharks tale, and the incredibles.
what i don't like about a lot of cartoons nowadays is the cgi
I watched it in its 'prime' in the lat 1960's. Didnt think it was still being shown, especially outside of Canada. I look at it now and cannot believe the gay inuendo. Rock on Rocket Robin!
Growing up in Southeastern Pennsylvania I remember the show, but not this opening sequence. It seems to me they used one of the "interludes" for the opening - specifically the "In Times of Trouble" one. Guess the station figured that they could slip in another 30 second commercial if they didn't use the full into.
Yeah, this show may be a little crude and some what corny but it is still better than the sacarine sweet Politically Correct crap that seems to run non-stop on the Disney channel!
it is, unquestionably, horrid. Far, far beyond merely "bad". I think there were about 4 minutes of new material per episode, as they mostly just ran the little character "bios" constantly after commercial breaks. Still, I watched it so much as a child in the 80s, I can't help but be fond of it. Like an embarrassing, but harmless, relative, I guess. Anyway, this is now shown daily on RetroToon in Canada, if anyone is interested. And, no, it hasn't improved with age.
That's the first time I've heard THAT song (LOL).Personally I liked both Rocket Robin and the Mighty Hercules series.And I live in South Jersey where the two shows were broadcast on the Philadelphia-based TV stations.We had the Wizard Of Oz series,too. Never heard of Mr.Dressup. (???)
You mean they actually played this in Jersey, no way lol- -in Canada it sometimes seemed like it was the ONLY crappy cartoon we had to watch Hey, you can add Speed Racer from The Uncle Floyd Show to bad cartoons
Yes way-LOL.One drawback though,in my area the series was aired minus the opening and closing themes,and without those vignettes.This was back in the 1960's mind you.
As for UNCLE FLOYD,it used to be aired 7:00 PM,Mon.-Fri.,following reruns of Dark Shadows.How I miss that bunch,especially 'Bonezboy'. (Heeyyy!) Its a pleasure chatting with someone from up north.
Well I lived almost 10 years at Exit 14B area 201, but did live in Princeton 609 for a couple of months. Did ya see there are some Uncle Floyd clips on youtube as well as Thee Joe Franklin ladies and gentlemen- he now offers podcasts, from silent movies to digital technology and still no one outside of the tri state area knows who he is.
The worst cartoon ever - this is the crap we had to watch when we were kids in Canada, we had this and The Mighty Hercules(second worse cartoon) The Wizard of Oz, Mr Dress-Up and The Friendly (alcoholic) Giant- that was pretty much it unless you had access to American TV stations.
Its an opinion on some of the worst cartoons ever made- read what most of the people here wrote- Rocket Robinhood was cheap poorly made garbage -the humour and entertainment is how awful it is- if you don't like what I write or don't care, then why comment on it.
He's right. it looks awful, but if you're 7, you watch it anyway while your babysitter is ironing. this just brings back memories, not of how well the show was done, but of where you were when you watched it as a kid
That theme almost gets me choked up. And people who come here dissing this just don't get it. Of course it's going to seem childish now that you are old and jaded but there was a time when we were young and wide eyed and impressed with everything. We didn't look at life with cynicism.
Lame graphics, corny tunes, bizarre plots...but when you are 7 years old, which is when I watched this cartoon, this was the greatest thing since sliced bread! It burned into long term memory. You never forget.
YOu would not believe how hilariously bad this cartoon was. I saw it at the San Diego Comic-Con this last week. It looked like a "Saturday night Live" parody.
How stoned were the dudes that dreamed this cartoon up? Holy cow, this is just hilarious. I miss stuff like this. Think of how many 'feasibility study' groups a company would put a cartoon thru now days that would kill stuff like this. Thank god for adult swim.
There was an episode of the Spider-man cartoon series in the 60's that was EXACTLY copied from Rocket Robin Hood. They just painted Spider-man over Robin. (An alien bug-like bad guy.)
They had to be the same production company.
wdchefdave56 2 weeks ago
The incredibly poor production value is what made it so good.
TheRimDoctor 3 weeks ago
I love this theme song! I don't care what anyone says!
IamNadiaMaria 1 month ago
Even when I was a kid in the mid 70's I knew this cartoon was cheaply made and hated it. There was nothing else on early sunday mornings..but the cheap/lazy animation was annoying
machtlos 1 month ago
So, any ideas why Robin Hood and friends never come down with bad cases of buttburn? Personally, my money is on fireproof spandex. :p
StrickenRecord 2 months ago
Did he really say they live on a STAR?
The air conditioning bills must be murder.
rogermwilcox 2 months ago
Tambien vi esa caricatura en México era entre 1980 y 1981. Saludos
supermamon1974 3 months ago
I remember comming home for lunch eating chicken noodle soup with buttered bread and watching this as I ate long a go
fallbread 3 months ago
@fallbread For me it was tomato soup and grilled cheese =)
smackyo 3 months ago
wtf
Scafl 4 months ago
this show was cool.... lots of repeats when i watched it
BalllsToYou 4 months ago
What a phag
Bangura187 4 months ago
cybersix was on after this :D
SuperGamerDan 4 months ago
@SuperGamerDan Teletoon by chance?
Gilmoreboy2007 2 months ago
0:20 who the hell WHY
thespaceboon101 6 months ago
Robin will whoop your ass!!!!!!
MrROTD 6 months ago
LOLZ half the show was this intro and a few other little interludes, they filled a lot of time with basically nothing but I liked the show as a child. epic theme song
MrROTD 6 months ago
Oh man i remember see this on channel 36 watl in 1967 n 69 season final espd too...that was a UHF station...it was later drop cause of parents n the PTA n children's workshop complainin of Bad stuff like shootin people....ahh good times Good times!
MrLehnerd 6 months ago
Loved the "outer space" sound effects!
airwickowl 7 months ago
I had completely forgotten about this show....
tigerspirit1917 8 months ago
this just gave me a great idea for a space opera role playing session.
pavo6503 8 months ago
WAHAHAHA!!! This can't be real! xP
desuMaKun 8 months ago
I'm watching this again, after so long, and LAUGHING MY ASS OFF. Used to sneak down to my parents' living room to watch this at 5am, when I was a kid. But my mom always caught me and sent me back to bed. They were airing it on Teletoon Retro, a few years back, and I watched it every morning, just for shits and giggles. Couldn't get over how cheesy it was, seeing it as an adult...lmao
babygiraffe123 10 months ago 2
This was a Hit on UHF Channel WCCB 18 in Charlotte along with Spiderman and The Marval Cartoon hour.
beachbootybum1 10 months ago
Cheers bro. Rocket Robin Hood is not just a tv show!!! I have some episodes, if your interested give me a shout. Long live Rocket Robin Hood until the fantastic years to come!!!!
rocket0robin0hood 1 year ago
this show was so bad it was good
shinyglanz 1 year ago
watching this on teletoon retro ATM! awsome show!
clayrocks3 1 year ago
I'm turning this into a movie.
Dipstikk 1 year ago 33
ROCKET ROBIN!
codypg 1 year ago
wow, I spent my toddler years in Detroit and the earliest memory I have of wanting to rush home from nursery school to watch a cartoon, was of Rocket Robin Hood. I left a few years later for NYC and for years I'd mention this cartoon and get odd looks, as if I was crazy. Absolutely loved it!
erictrickster 1 year ago
@erictrickster
Yeah, only Americans that grew up along the Canadian border would have a clue what you are talking about, since it was a Canadian show.
plow76 1 year ago 2
@plow76 Actually, back in the late sixties and early seventies KCOP 13 in Los Angeles was running this show.
GIRlovesWaffles 10 months ago
wow friar Tuck has a wicked straight right too!! and wasnt "Demetia 5 about going beyond the speed of light??"
porpoisefathom 1 year ago
Amazing cartoon,thanks for the memories.
nsminc 1 year ago
I used to watch this on TV in Britain in the early 80's. Occasionally I'd see it on foreign TV when I travelled abroad.
MondoBeno 1 year ago
3, 2, 1, IT'S RIPPING TIME!!!
WatchVenusSpa 1 year ago
what a great opening, but even when you were a kid, you could tell this was low budget, and kinda crappy, I would change the channel for Looney Tune, or Insptector Gadget anyday.
sitdowntracy 1 year ago
@sitdowntracy true. especially when this show came on after looney tunes. :p
IamNadiaMaria 1 month ago
when i was 5 years old i stared whachi ng this, last time i heard the theme was when i was 7 when i saw this i though why the f*** not!
sirlioce 1 year ago
Go Triar Fuck!
CO9207 1 year ago
This is the best show
Melomancer 1 year ago
Oh man...I remember watching this show when I was a really little kid. The stuff that sticks out to me now is Friar Tuck taking a single bite out of his food and throwing it away (who doesn't remember that?), Rocket Robin Hood firing an arrow at some lever Prince John was trying to pull, and of course the visuals during the "Band of brothers, marching together." bit. Good times, good times... As it's been so long, I can't recall the name of the cook (if he even had one). Does anyone know it?
Hawkstar270 1 year ago
the 80s and 90s were the best decades for cartoons
xpressin 1 year ago
FUCK I hated this show. I remember my father saying to me "T.S.", later I found out that meant 'total shit'.
endingsociety11 1 year ago
DAMN!!!!! I used to watch this and totally forgot until now!!.
Dai101 1 year ago
yep-- i watched this at 6/7am sharp back in 1977 in derby line/VT/canada...
BUT havent seen it in 33 years...
wow-- very cool-- im an old SOB at 39.. but go FRIAR TUCK ..
johnjaha00 1 year ago
Oh damn! I remember watching this just for the laughs when it came on during the night. I thought the animation was so bad that it was funny.
I didn't realize this was a 1960's cartoon so I have to give it more appreciation than I did when I first watched it.
Ooabloka 1 year ago
is this a joke or did somebody actually make and air this cartoon?
MrAmputechture 1 year ago
@MrAmputechture - was a late '60's cartoon. Was awesome in its time.
HunterRose1972 1 year ago
haha yea its real dood...sooo bad eh
luvchiild 1 year ago
yes it was aired 1966 to 69 i think but its funny but this animation was amazing for back then but yes it aired it was a pretty good show actually but they dont air it now
jackthePS3GAMER 1 year ago
@jackthePS3GAMER all of the cartoons was hand draw hand paint. i remember most of the cartoons was in black and white. color tvs came outin the late 60 early sevenites. now we got hdtv digatil tv they are com'ing out with 3d tv
jimkelly49 1 year ago
@MrAmputechture they made alot of crazy cartoons not this computer junk we got nowi remeber all these old cartoons i'm 48 going on 49 yes they are classic
jimkelly49 1 year ago
@MrAmputechture
No joke. But it was supposed to be a low budget offering. done so on purpose
thinbutfun 1 year ago
That jet pack Robin's wearing would give the back of his legs third degree burns....therefore this show is fundamentally flawed!
PoutinePete 2 years ago
yeah im sure they were worried about a cartoon character getting burnt and since when did you measure out everything anyway and damn dude this show was the SHIT!!! and its meant to make kids happy so its legal whether you like it or not
jackthePS3GAMER 1 year ago
my dad's uncle did some of the backgrounds for that and something else to...his name is john scott
1234slipknot5678 2 years ago 3
really wow that is so cool!!!!
PieFights 1 year ago
dumb show
coldroll6 2 years ago
Rocket Robin Hood remain my favorite super-hero ever. That includes the cartoons characters, comics characters, etc...
skinwalkerxxx 2 years ago 5
This brings back soooo many memories. I can't begin to describe how much I hated watching this show as a kid, and seeing nth reruns because we only had access to one channel back then. But RRH will always evoke fond memories thanks to the magic of rose-coloured glasses. Any like many of the commenters here, I remember that episode of Spider Man that lifted animation straight from RRH! Epic! RRH will live on forever!
uncaringbear 2 years ago 4
WOW! I'd totally forgotten this masterpiece of 1960's cartoons. I came across the title and the theme song popped into my head. And here it is, exactly as I remember it! That's so embarrassing! Why is it your brain can store all this stuff from 40+ years ago, but yet you can't remember where you left your keys this morning?
spacefan1962 2 years ago 4
Greatest intro song ever.
WatchVenusSpa 2 years ago 2
i remember a few years ago me and a few friends dropped some acid and watched old vhs tapes of rocket robin hood, hercules and hilarious house of frightenstein. lets just say.. trippin balls. especially when the "wolfman" was djing. wow.. i do and dont miss LSD.
jherikurl 2 years ago
Growing up in Toronto without cable in the early eighties there were only two choices for cartoons before school: City TV at 7 am and Global at 8. This ran on City along with Hercules and 60's version of Spiderman for so many years. Who can forget the crappy animation where a character only has one eye, and friar tuck's drumstick toss? Still we watched it every morning, religiously!
snakehissken 2 years ago 3
I was a House of Fightenstein man myself. But I agree, watched RRH religiously as well in those frigid Toronto mornings. Looks like you are an escape from NY fan also, cool!
freetobefreddy 2 years ago
Oh my goodness! You are so right! I grew up in Mississauga at that time - same choices. However, I remember Buffalo 29 having pretty good Tom and Jerry in the afternoon.
rdseheult 2 years ago
there should be a heavy metal remake of the theme song. It would sound kind of like Stairway to Heaven.
Tulkastaldo 2 years ago
Best cartoon theme song ever!
tickattack 2 years ago
It's good, but I think the title goes to the original "Spiderman" theme.
ftsjr 2 years ago 3
You're so right. This is definitely no. 2 though.
BlackBronson 2 years ago
Jazz Hands at 0:13
dontgd 2 years ago 2
I grew up in Massena, New York, a stone's throw from Cornwall, Ontario Canada. This cartoon was a Canadian Classic and I would watch it Religously at my grandparents house back in the 60's. We got alot of Canadian TV back then including MR. Dressup, The Friendly Giant, and Hockey Night in Canada. God Bless Canada!!
Chrissusie1 2 years ago 51
@Chrissusie1I remember these shows too & it's so nice to see an American not dissing us here up North, lol. God Bless the US also Chrissusie1! :-)
BCraingirl 1 year ago
@Chrissusie1 Don't forget Hilarious House of Frightenstein!
TSM8088 1 year ago
@Chrissusie1- your comment means more than you know..thanks--
Canada & USA- two great peoples and two great cultures together with pride!!
porpoisefathom 1 year ago
@Chrissusie1
Canadian Content regulations STILL keep it on the air-on Teletoon retro, along with it's co production at the time, Spiderman...all canadian voice actors primarily from CBC toronto in the late 60s.
google "whalloping websnappers" for a nice tribute site to some of these actors, as the same actors largely did both shows, though obviously different roles.
Rocket Robin Hood is also out now on DVD.
snarfdude 1 year ago
@snarfdude Thank you for the info about Rocket Robin being on DVD!!!! That's so cool, I LOVED this cartoon!!! I'll look for it now for sure! Thank YOU!!!!
sixchiensblancs 1 year ago
@sixchiensblancs
no problem...I was surprised myself....that and forest rangers were big when I was a kid, and both are on DVD....got mine at HMV, future shop might have it, a quick check and found it on amazon.ca CHEAP! Get it before it gets deleted!
snarfdude 1 year ago
@snarfdude Thanks! and yes the Forest Rangers were good too!
I've been finding a lot of my childhood shows on the internet, what fun...
Meeeeemories....... hee hee hee...
sixchiensblancs 1 year ago
@Chrissusie1 Yep, me too, watched alot of Canadian cartoons woohoo hehe.
pspboy7 10 months ago
@Chrissusie1 I lived in Plattsburgh when I was a kid. I loved CBC and CFCF12 for their awesome kid's programming. Happy to see someone else with happy TV memories from the Great White North. Did that apply to us?
pavo6503 8 months ago
@Chrissusie1 You do know that both Friendly and Mr Dressup were born in the States but only became famous after coming to Canada? Oh, Death in Kids in the Hall's When Death Came to Town was wearing Friendly's old vest.
lucettelp 8 months ago
@Chrissusie1 I live in Watertown Ny and have the same story! Good memories man!
Megatron65 6 months ago
lol.
TheCagedTiger 2 years ago
The minstrel in the gallery brewed a song of love & haters?
Comicvajra 2 years ago
BAND OF BROTHERS MARCHING TOGETHER!
CaptainVonFurry 2 years ago 11
Parts of this cartoon were played in spiderman at the same time. Both the giant bugs were fought by Spiderman and Rocket Robin hood!
poppa8169 2 years ago
Dementia Five was lifted from Spiderman as well...some of that animation theft was pretty shameless.
FGN123 2 years ago
'Twas actually the other way around, my friend. Spiderman "lifted" Dementia 5 from RRH. They drew a Spiderman costume over top of Robin.
RocketRobinHood 2 years ago 5
REALLY? I never would've guessed Spidey was so low-budget lol, I mean it looked good for its time.
FGN123 2 years ago
@FGN123 No theft involved. Anyone can see it's the same compnay that did them both lol
blorgensteen 1 year ago
I remembered this cartoon and thought to myself "how can they breath in outter space with no space helmet on?"
Oh to be young again...
ronofontario 2 years ago
Any idea who owns the rights to this thing? Cause I looked up Trillium and Krantz and got nowhere
jivenesspie 2 years ago
Loved when I was a kid. On the people who are looking at a homo vibe never saw the show.. As a kid all you saw were the rockets and arrows. And even as a kid I still looked out for maid Marion, Princess on g force, mary-anne and ginger, and elly may
uplaterandy 2 years ago
I watched this show when it used to air on Teletoon around right after Cybersix, I think.
I liked the maid for some reason. xDD
smilingtrees101 2 years ago
yes it was a bathhouse away from it.. but at the same time it was more wholesome programming i think.. i had the luck to see these growing up in the early 80s in Canada on ITV the home of SCTV (now Global Edmonton) along with The Wonderful World Of Oz, and the Pinnochio stop motion show as well as the Mighty Hercules and Astroboy (the latter which oddly had a slightly different title sequence and voices as well as names.. anyone want to answer me why?)
daiatlus79 2 years ago
lmao i had this in my head which is weird since it hasn't been on tv in ages. its to hilariously camp. its a great thing. and its do damn bloody catchy lol the show was defiantly.. interesting.. "With a blast from Robins electro quarter-staff" lol dunno.. jsut great stuff.. they should sell the whole season it would be great.
Mazereaugh 2 years ago
cool...thanks- brings back memories
porpoisefathom 2 years ago
man I loved this show
URYNOME 2 years ago
Oh god. On saturday, I was hanging out with a bunch of friends and one of the guys plays the guitar very well. He was prepping for an event he would be playing at in about a week and had just finished an absolutely amazing piece. He's then like, "Everyone gather 'round!"
We were so hyped from a massive sugar-overload, so we were all really bouncy. He suddenly begins to say "...Space travellers abound and listen to the tale of Rocket Robin Hood!" Then did the pose at :13.
rubysaphire100 3 years ago 2
Wow, I thought they did everything to squeeze the popularity of Robin Hood and now I see this.
WTF?
Holbiwankenobi 3 years ago
¡que recuerdos mano! esta caricatura era una de mis favoritas, ademas de que aqui en Mexico la tradujeron con el nombre de "Meteoro Robin Hood"
jorgemario666 3 years ago
omg xD
essandra64 3 years ago
I hope they don't ruin this by turning it into a live action movie.
CelesteK 3 years ago 4
I wouldn't worry about that if I were you.
Doki66 3 years ago 3
yeah, this show used to precede Murphy's Solid Gold heroes in the Bay Area back in the 70s...Murphy's would show Iron Man, Hulk, Capt. America and Thor cartoons.
invincibleironman3 3 years ago
I think every Canadian who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s remembers this show :)
I used to watch when I came home for Lunch from School memories.
KnightJourney 3 years ago 2
I definitely remember-I was only 4 or 5 and watching this and Mighty Hercules.Believe it or not,I also had a He-Man t-shirt I wore,even though I'm female.
konokitsune 3 years ago 2
I certainly do. I loved the theme songs, both opening and closing. :)
Coriandra2002 3 years ago
I grew up in the 1960's and I remember it from then.
DaChieftain 2 years ago
i love old movies and cartoons there better then todays shows and movies
wolflover549 3 years ago
teletoon retro took dis show off da air
tristanm5 3 years ago
i know that sucks
wolflover549 3 years ago
The animation isnt bad, just classic. Its the same animation used in Hercules, Spiderman, and the other Marvel heroes. I loved this cartoon, but have never seen any memoribilia. How about a live-action movie?
LOKISlog7 3 years ago 2
I remember hearing the intro at the end of the program on Teletoon Retro. I forget what show I watched after this though...
Samsasrenjet 3 years ago
I loved this cartoon as a kid. I know the animation is bad but hey most of them were bad back then...Plus I even watched this in Italian..lol...this and Hercules
italvito 3 years ago
the animation is sooo bad, but its such a good show! ;p
BananaphoneGirl 3 years ago
why are all of their eyes small .... but this show makes me laugh .... pure foolishness
tristanm5 3 years ago
after this on teletoon retro is rocky+bullwinkle which is way better but i still like the rrh theme song
OrochimaruBren 3 years ago
I shamefully admit to thinking this was cool, of course I say the same thing about spelljammer so I love the medieval in space thing.
jayngfet0 3 years ago
The Friar Tuck take one bite and throw the chicken leg.
macassa420 3 years ago 2
The only good thing about the theme is the guitar solo at 12-14 and 22-24. I always imitate it all the time. LOL at 1:08
marcosementilli 3 years ago
Up there with The Mighty Hercules as the worst cartoon series of all time. A waste of talent and money, really!
markojameow 3 years ago
maid marian was like in ONE episode!...the best was how this was the company that made the spiderman cartoon..and they re-used scenes..and even the entire "Dementia 5" episode frame by frame...i still do the Friar Tuck thing with one bite of food..toss it over my shoulder at Xmas
rageohol 3 years ago
Such a horrible cartoon but brings back good memories. This cartoon always drove me nuts with the re-running of clips in the middle.
hardc1974 3 years ago
I have asked countless people in the past if they ever watches this, they have never heard of it. I was beggining to think I'd made it up until now!!
mike0702manc 3 years ago
ditto mike, ditto
fredboot 3 years ago
I was a child when I saw Rocket Robin Hood in a Japanese version. I still remember this tune. The medieval-taste introduction and lyrics are different from ours. Both are cool and exhilarating. Listening to this, I recall the 60s go-go atomoshere. RRH and Captain Armstrong were America itself to a Japanese kid. Even as a kid I was excited with a carefree sence of almighty science. But is it that bad?
taxreduction 3 years ago
Blast from the past!
mostunworthy 3 years ago
i remember it well!
bloggo1 3 years ago
I wasn't born when this was on but did see the reruns as a kid. I do think it was kind of silly but also cool if that's possible. You have to admit the wepons in that show were amazing even if it was a cartoon.
cne08 3 years ago
just been told by my mum that she used to sit me infront of this as a baby so i had to check it out. now i see why i never liked postman pat and thomas the tank engine, cos this is better
roryox 3 years ago
watch how our rockets race here from afar!
goonyouknit 3 years ago
This show was made in toronto...I don't know how but it was, you can check on that... yay for canada!
hatmatidor 3 years ago 2
Epic intro theme
Greener316 3 years ago
Have not seen this since the early 70's.
THanks for posting this
OctoberSaint 3 years ago
i know the graphics weren't that good, but i'll tell you this, i'd rather see these old school cartoons than the crap they have nowadays like finding nemo, sharks tale, and the incredibles.
what i don't like about a lot of cartoons nowadays is the cgi
sunshinesuperman9 3 years ago
I watched it in its 'prime' in the lat 1960's. Didnt think it was still being shown, especially outside of Canada. I look at it now and cannot believe the gay inuendo. Rock on Rocket Robin!
Biancawithrow 4 years ago
Pause it at 20 seconds in to see the greatest single frame of animation in the universe ever.
mooseproduce 4 years ago
LMAO
goonyouknit 3 years ago
Oh Jeeze. I love this theme song. :P
TuesdayNovember 4 years ago
God, this show so lame.
I loved it.
DogbootsGod 4 years ago
Best. Cartoon. Themesong. Ever.
The show was kinda silly but wif enuff Cocoa Puffs in ya (later on in life enuff BC Bud) it was very enjoyable! ^_^
Be Well.
dethspud 4 years ago
i don't care what people think, i love this cartoon.
thing is, was rocket robin hood gay?
sunshinesuperman9 4 years ago
how could he be gay when he had maid maryann around?...it was not maid adam...
iamnewfie1 4 years ago
lol saturday night live mad a spoof of this show called ace and gary the obviously gay duo lol
Shane0mac1281 3 years ago
"how could he be gay when he had maid maryann around?."
women like to hangout with gay guys because they like to shop with them.
sunshinesuperman9 3 years ago
Growing up in Southeastern Pennsylvania I remember the show, but not this opening sequence. It seems to me they used one of the "interludes" for the opening - specifically the "In Times of Trouble" one. Guess the station figured that they could slip in another 30 second commercial if they didn't use the full into.
Yeah, this show may be a little crude and some what corny but it is still better than the sacarine sweet Politically Correct crap that seems to run non-stop on the Disney channel!
CavoriteProductions 4 years ago
Carswell!!!!!!
shazam667 4 years ago
The show was to be released on dvd, but was delayed and there has been no update on its release.
youngercga1968 4 years ago
us kids back then had great imagination, we didnt need to be spoonfed or wrapped in cotton wool, not like the puny kids of today
casiolump 4 years ago
yeah
R3SPAWNS 4 years ago
it is, unquestionably, horrid. Far, far beyond merely "bad". I think there were about 4 minutes of new material per episode, as they mostly just ran the little character "bios" constantly after commercial breaks. Still, I watched it so much as a child in the 80s, I can't help but be fond of it. Like an embarrassing, but harmless, relative, I guess. Anyway, this is now shown daily on RetroToon in Canada, if anyone is interested. And, no, it hasn't improved with age.
EmotionallyExhausted 4 years ago
lol!@! the best - had a crush on maid marion from the age of 5....!!!
Awesome.
luckyvet 4 years ago
Come gather around me. Space travelers surround me.
Hark now to the ballad of Rocket Robin Hood.
I may well confound you, astound you, spellbound you,
with heroes and villains, the bad and the good.
Watch now as our rockets race here from afar.
For now, with our Robin, we live on a star."
"Three. Two. One. Blast off!
TheOneEd83 4 years ago
That's the first time I've heard THAT song (LOL).Personally I liked both Rocket Robin and the Mighty Hercules series.And I live in South Jersey where the two shows were broadcast on the Philadelphia-based TV stations.We had the Wizard Of Oz series,too. Never heard of Mr.Dressup. (???)
kokujin1014 4 years ago
You mean they actually played this in Jersey, no way lol- -in Canada it sometimes seemed like it was the ONLY crappy cartoon we had to watch Hey, you can add Speed Racer from The Uncle Floyd Show to bad cartoons
roodeey 4 years ago
Yes way-LOL.One drawback though,in my area the series was aired minus the opening and closing themes,and without those vignettes.This was back in the 1960's mind you.
kokujin1014 4 years ago
However in the later 1980's,Robin made its way to one of the New Jersey Tv stations with the missing material complete and intact.
kokujin1014 4 years ago
As for UNCLE FLOYD,it used to be aired 7:00 PM,Mon.-Fri.,following reruns of Dark Shadows.How I miss that bunch,especially 'Bonezboy'. (Heeyyy!) Its a pleasure chatting with someone from up north.
kokujin1014 4 years ago
Well I lived almost 10 years at Exit 14B area 201, but did live in Princeton 609 for a couple of months. Did ya see there are some Uncle Floyd clips on youtube as well as Thee Joe Franklin ladies and gentlemen- he now offers podcasts, from silent movies to digital technology and still no one outside of the tri state area knows who he is.
roodeey 4 years ago
The worst cartoon ever - this is the crap we had to watch when we were kids in Canada, we had this and The Mighty Hercules(second worse cartoon) The Wizard of Oz, Mr Dress-Up and The Friendly (alcoholic) Giant- that was pretty much it unless you had access to American TV stations.
roodeey 4 years ago
roodeey if you don't like it or don't care then why are you here?
CelesteK 4 years ago
CelesteK
Its an opinion on some of the worst cartoons ever made- read what most of the people here wrote- Rocket Robinhood was cheap poorly made garbage -the humour and entertainment is how awful it is- if you don't like what I write or don't care, then why comment on it.
roodeey 4 years ago
He's right. it looks awful, but if you're 7, you watch it anyway while your babysitter is ironing. this just brings back memories, not of how well the show was done, but of where you were when you watched it as a kid
MacGrurry 4 years ago
Never heard of this. The animation looks a bit....crude. I dunno.
archer1949 4 years ago
loved this show as a kid...actually still do it brings back child hood memories ,go get em robin....
iamnewfie1 4 years ago
That theme almost gets me choked up. And people who come here dissing this just don't get it. Of course it's going to seem childish now that you are old and jaded but there was a time when we were young and wide eyed and impressed with everything. We didn't look at life with cynicism.
ycanada 4 years ago
used to love this show, back in the day
DrSativa 4 years ago
Lame graphics, corny tunes, bizarre plots...but when you are 7 years old, which is when I watched this cartoon, this was the greatest thing since sliced bread! It burned into long term memory. You never forget.
drumbunny 4 years ago
"We live on a star"? Huh?
HomerWinslow 4 years ago
YOu would not believe how hilariously bad this cartoon was. I saw it at the San Diego Comic-Con this last week. It looked like a "Saturday night Live" parody.
Laceykat66 4 years ago
lmao i prank called a guy when i was younger n i sang this song on his answering machine because his real name was robin hood :D
mr1attacker 4 years ago
If there can be Sherlock Homes In The 22nd Century and Firelfy, (which was a space western) then why can't there be Rocket Robin Hood.
diop1976 4 years ago
I remember this cartoon from childhood. . .lower grade that Spider-Man but still lots of fun.
So bad, it's good!
Manchuriancandidate 4 years ago
wow! this show really did exist!
jaybo197306 4 years ago
How stoned were the dudes that dreamed this cartoon up? Holy cow, this is just hilarious. I miss stuff like this. Think of how many 'feasibility study' groups a company would put a cartoon thru now days that would kill stuff like this. Thank god for adult swim.
mx5rush 4 years ago
one of my favorite cartoons of all time ...go rocket robin
iamnewfie1 4 years ago
my dad said that was the stupidest show ever
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