Mel Brooks Reveals What Happened to His Robin Hood TV Show! RARE interview!
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Film legend Mel Brooks talks about creating his short-lived 1975 Robin Hood TV spoof "When Things Were Rotten," with TV Time Machine host Jim Benson.
When Things Were Rotten only aired for 13 episodes on ABC TV, but the ill-fated TV show ultimately served as Mel Brooks' inspiration for his hilarious 1993 film, Robin Hood Men in Tights.
When Things Were Rotten starred Dick Gautier as Robin Hood, Misty Rowe as Maid Marian, Dick Van Patten as Friar Tuck, Bernie Kopell as Alan-a-Dale, and Henry Pollic II as the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Mel Brooks is best known for being writer, producer, director, and star of such classic comedy films as The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, and Spaceballs.
It was just shown on Catchy Comedy. It was great revisiting this great show.
Glad to hear that! Hilarious show!
it was terrible, it was dated even in 1974. A lot of visual , literal jokes , not unlike Blazing Saddles but the talent just wasn't there
I appreciated the "goofiness" of it back then...though I was too young to go to Brooks' movies. My dad loved "The Producers" and told my older brother and I, "we should watch this show, Mel Brooks is funny!" Not having cable when Nick At Nite reran it, I never saw it again.
Some of the best TV comedies also were some of the most short-lived. When Things Were Rotten, Police Squad, Sledge Hammer. Frequently, spoofs don't translate well to television, but in the case of 'Rotten' and Police Squad, end up becoming huge hits on the silver screen.
@@thetvtimemachine I agree regarding Police Squad and Sledge Hammer but this show stunk and I loved Mel Brooks. It was all TV actors and I think that was part of the problem.
Many viewers were expecting too much from Mel Brooks. They tuned in expecting Blazing Saddles every week and tuned out when they didn't get it. It was too much of a farce with not enough humanity.
Mel Brooks was also hamstrung by what could be said and shown on network television. Brooks spent most of his career trying to move beyond TV and concentrate on films and the theater. The network's Standards and Practices divisions were one of the reasons why he for the most part, avoided the small screen.