
Robin tells the lot of them about an archery contest at the castle the next day, the prize for which is an arrow made of solid gold. A man tries to stop them from taking a young woman, but the Sheriff kills him for his disobeyance, and takes the woman and some gold.īack in the forest, Robin introduces Clara, who’s found period garb and extensions in the TARDIS’s closet, and the Doctor to his merry men. In a nearby village, the Sheriff of Nottingham and his guards show up. The Doctor and Robin fight-Robin with a sword and the Doctor with a spoon. The two exchange sassy comments, and we find out that the mysterious man is, or so he says, Robin Hood. But he sets course for Sherwood Forest in the year 1190 anyway.Īs he walks out of the TARDIS, an arrow lodges in the side of the TARDIS and a roguish man winks at him from across the stream.

He presses her into telling him anyway, and when she says she’s always wanted to meet Robin Hood, he tells her that he is indeed made up.

She tells him there is someone she’s always wanted to meet, but that he’ll say it’s impossible, that he’s made up. The episode begins with the Doctor offering to take Clara anywhere she’d like to go.

into a Dalek named Rusty, natch.Īlthough the Doctor has faced many a fantastical character in his eons of life, even he knows there’s a line between fantastical and fictional. Previously on Doctor Who: The Doctor and Clara go on a fantastic voyage.
