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Robin Hood :: The Tax Man Cometh (01x06)

Episode Information

Title:

The Tax Man Cometh

Episode #:

01x06

Production Number:

106

Original Airdate:

Saturday November 11th, 2006

Special Airtime:

06:55 pm

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US (BBC America)	Apr 07, 2007

Episode Crew
Director:	Richard Standeven
Writer:	Bev Doyle

Episode Summary

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While on their way to Nottingham, Robin and his crew come across another pair of travelers - Flaxton, a farmer, and his son. Over the course of their journey though, they soon discover that all is not as it seems when it comes to their new acquaintance - he is in fact a tax inspector making his way to Nottingham Castle to make record of the mounds of tax silver stored there.

Robin hatches a plot to possibly find access to the vaults.

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Guest Stars

Guest Stars
•Matt Devere	played	Guard	Recurring (second appearance)
•Michael Elwyn	played	Sir Edward	Recurring (8th appearance)
•Alan Stocks	played	Butcher
•Nikki Amuka-Bird	played	Abbess
•Ryan Winsley	played	Cedric
•Tom Beard	played	Flaxton
•Zoltan Hetenyi	played	Soldier

Episode Notes

This episode made its American debut (BBC America) on Saturday April 7, 2007.

Episode Quotes

Flaxton: You should be dead!
Robin: Many times over.

(While they watch Robin kiss the fake Abbess)
Much: Now you see what I have to put up with?

Cultural References

During a conversation between the Sheriff and Sir Guy about the visiting Abbess and her supposed pilgrimage to Canterbury, the Sheriff mentions Thomas a Becket:

Thomas a Becket was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162-1170. He frequently debated with King Edward II about the privileges of the church. Such was the enmity between the men that Edward was reputedly heard to remark ‘Will no-one rid me of this turbulent priest?’ and on December 29 1170, four of Edward’s knights- believing the King’s words to be a royal command- murdered Becket within Canterbury Cathedral itself. Shortly after, Becket was venerated as a martyr and canonized by Pope Alexander III in 1173. It was a very popular pilgrimage site. Chaucer’s famous work The Canterbury Tales takes the premise of a pilgrimage to Becket’s shrine as a framework for the individual tales.

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