The Adventures of Robin Hood vs The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin

The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin has the higher audience score (8.4/10 against 6.4/10 for The Adventures of Robin Hood). The Adventures of Robin Hood is the older of the two (1955 against 2026). Both are family shows, so they suit a similar mood.

The Adventures of Robin Hood posterThe Adventures of Robin Hood1955 VS The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin posterThe Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin2026
The Adventures of Robin HoodThe Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin
Audience score★ 6.4/10★ 8.4/10
Year19552026
Seasons41
GenresFamilyDrama, Family
Country––
Creator / director–Jeremy Boreing, Jesse V. Johnson
Main castJohn Arnatt, Richard Greene, Archie Duncan, Alexander Gauge, Alan WheatleyColin Cunningham, Myles Clohessy, Daniel Fathers, Rose Reid, David Brooks

Synopsis

The Adventures of Robin Hood

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers.

The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin

Merlin, the immortal son of the bard Taliesin and Atlantean Princess Charis, is followed through his tragic upbringing, descent into madness, and shocking disappearance, leading to the legend that surrounds him. Set before King Arthur's birth, Merlin, assumed dead or a myth, reemerges in sub-Roman Britain to unite the fractured kingdoms under threat from Saxon invaders.

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