Zings and Arrows (Lionizing "Robot of Sherwood")

Hard to believe, but it took Doctor Who more than 50 years to get around to doing a TV adventure centered on Robin Hood. And like a speeding arrow splitting the shaft of another, Robot of Sherwood cracks your usual story assumptions: Instead of presenting an alien explanation for a mythical historical figure, the myth is offered up as historical fact. That raises a couple of notable eyebrows, leading the Doctor to take on a persona that's more cantankerous antihero than otherworldly savior, and his bickering with Robin creates some of the biggest laughs of the series. It's all fun and games, of course, until a robot reveals its cross-shaped eye.

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Story Essentials

• Series 8, Episode 3

• Story number: 247, per the The Pull To Open Codex

• Production Code 1DW 8.03

• Writer: Mark Gatiss

• Showrunner: Moffat

• Aired 6 September 2014

Pull To Open: Robot of Sherwood

• Season 3

• Episode 9

Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor