Tony Robinson came up with the idea of the show, after watching his daughter playing with other kids and it occurred to him that if she had been in Robin Hood's gang, she would had been the one who was running it, not Robin Hood.
Unusually for a children's sitcom, there were no child characters among the main cast, but even so, kids flocked to a show that was offering a fun take on history, directly aimed at them.
Kate Lonergan quit acting and now works for a gardening company.
When Robin Hood wonders whether his life would ever be made into a movie, Rabies asks if he could be in it. The actor who played Rabies, Howard Lew Lewis, did in fact appear in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) as Hal.
Tony Robinson decided to give the show a break in 1990 and and the show returned in 1993 with Series 3.