As a baby boomer, I was fortunate to see the emergence of television in the 1950s, and while some may refer to it as the 'Golden Age' of live drama and comedy, we kids knew better; it was REALLY the 'Golden Age' of syndicated adventure series, geared to us...shows like Adventures of Superman, Roy Rogers With Dale Evans, and ESPECIALLY, The Adventures of Robin Hood: The Complete Series. Produced in England, and starring every kid's second favorite "Outlaw of Sherwood", Richard Greene (and he was a VERY close second to Errol Flynn!), this four-season (1955-1960), half-hour series provided 143 episodes of humor, swordplay, and the kind of adventure we all dreamed of. It spawned a fan club that encompassed two continents and thousands of youthful members, made Mr. Greene a VERY wealthy man, and, surprisingly, holds up quite well, over 50 years later!Truthfully, there are technical problems with this collection; the episode quality ranges from unremastered and scratchy, to poorly remastered and tinted in blue; some episodes are repeated on different discs; and some are out of sequence (the 'Richard of the Lea' episodes featuring the 1938 Errol Flynn film's 'King Richard', Ian Hunter, are very mixed-up and a bit confusing). But the collection is still quite watchable (with improved picture quality in later seasons), and the price is amazingly affordable...and deserves five stars!Shot on a very tight budget, the program had a 'stock company' of supporting actors, who would play different roles each episode; over the course of the series, Maid Marian would be portrayed by two different actresses (Bernadette O'Farrell, then Patricia Driscoll); there would also be very brief substitutions of Little John and Will Scarlett, although the lion's share of episodes featured Archie Duncan and Paul Eddington in the roles. Two wonderful actors became fan favorites; Alexander Gauge, as a corpulent, very witty Friar Tuck, and Alan Wheatley, oozing villainy as the Sheriff of Nottingham. The series also offered a rising generaton of young British stars, early in their careers, including Donald Pleasance (who occasionally appeared as Prince John), Billie Whitelaw, Ian Bannen, Leo McKern, Jane Asher, Nigel Davenport, Anne Reid, Gordon Jackson, Edward Mulhare, Lawrence Naismith, Charles Gray, Desmond Llewellyn, Michael Gough, Nigel Green, Gary Raymond, Edward Judd, and many more. The talent behind the camera was top-notch, as well, with respected directors like Lindsay Anderson, Don Chaffey, and Hammer Films legend, Terence Fisher, and writers, including Ring Lardner, Jr., Howard Dimsdale, and Jan Read.Many episodes of the series carried on the Hollywood (and literary) tradition of Robin defending England for King Richard, while defying the ambitions of Prince John, with a bit more 'bite' than earlier incarnations; producer Hannah Weinstein, an expatriate American in England to avoid the McCarthy 'witchhunts', encouraged blacklisted American writers to join her in England, and pen scripts condemning political, religious, or scientific repression by Prince John and his minions; other episodes were straightforward morality tales, often humorous but occasionally more serious, some of which were, in fact, based on the Robin Hood ballads of Medieval England, giving the series a sense of authenticity many other series have lacked, and a timeless universal appeal for generations of viewers!This series is a joy, one that I have truly enjoyed revisiting over a half-century after their initial broadcast, and can highly recommend for children and adults, today!