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{{short description|American television series - 1975}}

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When Things Were Rotten is an American sitcom television series created in 1975 by Mel Brooks and set in 1197 as a parody of the Robin Hood legend.BOOK, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), John Clute and John Grant, 1997, Orbit, 978-1-85723-368-1, It aired for half a season on the ABC network.WEB,weblink Borscht Belt Sherwood Forest, Frank DeCaro, The New York Times, 19 July 2013, 19 February 2021, The series starred Dick Gautier as the handsome and heroic Robin Hood.The series received mostly critical acclaim,See, for example, "Review," by Cleveland Amory, "When Things Were Rotten," TV Guide, December 13, 1975, p. 18 though John Leonard wrote that watching it was "like being locked inside a package of bubblegum where the only card is Alvin Dark."Leonard, John. "The Worst Television Season Ever, Ever, Ever," The New York Times, Sunday, October 26, 1975. Retrieved September 30, 2021 It failed to find an audience and was cancelled after 13 episodes. The Bionic Woman was its midseason replacement, and became a great success.WEB, The Bionic Woman (1976): Season 1,weblink 2014-09-03, DVD Talk, Eighteen years later, Brooks produced another Robin Hood parody, the feature film (Robin Hood: Men in Tights).The complete series was released on DVD in 2013 as a manufactured-on-demand item exclusively available on Amazon.com's CreateSpace.DVD release info {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150105145051weblink|date=2015-01-05}} at TVShowsOnDVD.com

Cast

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• Dick Gautier as Robin Hood
• Dick Van Patten as Friar Tuck
• Bernie Kopell as Alan-a-Dale
• Richard Dimitri as Bertram and Renaldo
• Henry Polic II as Hubert, the Sheriff of Nottingham
• Misty Rowe as Maid Marian
• David Sabin as Little John
• Ron Rifkin as Prince John

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