62. Robin Hood, Part 1

Welcome to Sherwood! In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we bring you part one of our two-part look at the world’s most famous outlaw, Robin Hood!

For this episode, we read and watched:

• The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Howard Pyle’s 1883 novel.
• Robin Hood (United Artists, 1922), directed by Allan Dwan, produced by, written by, and starring Douglas Fairbanks.
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (Warner Brothers, 1938), directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley, written by Norman Reilly Raine, Seton I. Miller, and Rowland Leigh, and starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, and Claude Rains.
• The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (Disney, 1952), directed by Ken Annakin, written by Lawrence Edward Watkin, starring Richard Todd, Joan Rice, James Hayter, and Peter Finch.
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (ITV, 1955–1959), created by Hannah Weinstein, and starring Richard Greene and Alan Wheatley.
• Sword of Sherwood Forest (Hammer, 1960), directed by Terence Fisher, written by Alan Hackney, and starring Richard Greene, Sarah Branch, and Peter Cushing.
• A Challenge for Robin Hood (Hammer, 1967), directed by C.M. Pennington-Richards, written by Peter Bryan, and starring Barrie Ingham, Peter Blythe, James Hayter, and John Arnatt.
• Robin Hood (Disney, 1973), directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, story by Ken Anderson, and starring Brian Bedford, Peter Ustinov, Phil Harris, and Terry-Thomas.
• Robin and Marian (Columbia, 1976), directed by Richard Lester, written by James Goldman, and starring Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Shaw, and Richard Harris.

Footnotes:

• Frock Flicks: Top 5 Wimples in Cinema History
• Richard Pascoe and Playing Shakespeare
• James Goldman and The Lion in Winter

61. The Absent-Minded Professor

In this extra special, very scientific episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Disney’s The Absent-Minded Professor and Flubber!

For this episode, we watched and discussed:

• The Absent-Minded Professor (1961), directed by Robert Stevenson, written by Bill Walsh, and starring Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Tommy Kirk, and Keenan Wynn. Watch it on Disney+, iTunes, or Amazon.
• Flubber (1997), directed by Les Mayfield, written by John Hughes, and starring Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher McDonald, Wil Wheaton, Clancy Brown, and Ted Levine. Watch it on Disney+, iTunes, or Amazon.

Footnotes:

• Son of Flubber (1963)
• Hubert “Dr. Boom” Alyea (and one of his lectures)
• Relevant past episodes: Mary Poppins and Miracle on 34th Street
• Behind the scenes of Flubber: part one and part two

60. A Room with a View

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we revisit E.M. Forster with a look at A Room with a View!

For this episode, we read and watched:

• Forster’s original 1908 novel. Read it on iBooks or Amazon.
• The 1985 Merchant Ivory film adaptation, directed by James Ivory, written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and starring Helena Bonham Carter, Julian Sands, Maggie Smith, and Daniel Day-Lewis. Watch it on iTunes or Amazon.
• The 2007 television movie from ITV, directed by Nicholas Renton, written by Andrew Davies, and starring Elaine Cassidy, Rafe Spall, Timothy Spall, and Sophie Thompson. Watch it on Amazon.

Footnotes:

• Our episode on Howards End
• LibriVox’s dramatized reading of A Room with a View, starring Arielle Lipshaw