King Arthur and Robin Hood on the Radio

<p> Before stories of King Arthur and Robin Hood were adapted and readapted for film television and theater radio scriptwriters looking for material turned to Thomas Malory's <I>Le Morte Darthur</I> (1485) and Howard Pyle's <I>The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood</I> (1883). Throughout the 1930s to the mid-1950s their legends inspired storylines for <I>Abbott and Costello Popeye Let's Pretend Escape Gunsmoke The Adventures of Superman</I> and others. Many of these adaptations reflect the moral and ethical questions of the day as characters' faced issues of gender relations divorce citizenship fascism crime and communism in a medieval setting.</p>