Rocket Robin Hood Pilot

The year is 3000. Earth's oceans are mysteriously disappearing (?) and the Sheriff of N.O.T. is claiming the exposed land is "sovereign" -- meaning it belongs to him. Rocket Robin Hood and his Band of Merry Spacemen live on an artificial asteroid (New Sherwood Forest), where they are visited by an Earthling who apprises them of the Sheriff's plans. Robin pays a visit.

Rocket Robin Hood is a Canadian-produced cartoon that first aired on the CBC from 1966-1969, and was later re-broadcast on Vancouver channels like CKVU. For some of us high schoolers, smoking pot and watching Rocket Robin Hood was an after school pastime. It was only yesterday that I found its pilot.

Pilots are seeds for those who know only their flowers. They are often surprising, like the first time I saw the Star Trek pilot after years of watching Star Trek. What's Spock on? I remember thinking. He's so hyper. A jonesing junkie.

The first episode of RRH ("Prince of Plotters") features some significant differences, most notably in the skin colour of the Sheriff and his deputies. At 3:45 a small town mayor pulls out a cell phone -- and asks the (female) operator to connect him to Prince John.