Thierry la Fronde

Thierry la Fronde is a French adventure series that ran from 1963 to 1966 in France for four seasons on ORTF 1 and took up the Robin Hood theme. She plays around 1360 during the Hundred Years War between France and England. The French king John II is a prisoner of the English, who, under the leadership of the Black Prince (son of King Edward III. ) Occupy a large part of France. Thierry de Janville is brought about by the machinations of its manager Florent around his noble possession ( the Florent it was that he told Thierry to the English ), and fighting underground against the Englishman represented as cruel occupiers. He wants to free the French king from the clutches of the British. After his escape, he collects as Robin Hood outlaws around and hiding in the woods. His "Lady Marian " is Isabelle. The nickname " la fronde " he has from his favorite weapon, the slingshot.

The series also ran in the Netherlands ( " Thierry de Slingeraar ", from 1967 ), Australia and Canada. They came out in 2006 as a DVD. The screenwriter Jean -Claude Deret, who also plays the villain of the series, published a book of the same in 1964 by Hachette.

The music is by Jacques Loussier ( " Marche de Companions " as the theme song, sung by Jean -Claude Drouot ).

Directors were in the first two seasons Robert Guez and in the last two Pierre Goutas.

Worth mentioning

• In a sequence, the later actress and director Isabelle Breitman plays (also called " Zabou " known), a subsidiary of French-Canadian actress Céline Léger and Jean -Claude Deret, as a baby with.
• The television series was developed as a French response to the large number of Anglo-American Series in the late 50s and early 60s. It was follows popular that they made ​​the name of their protagonists to one of the most popular boys' names in the late 60s.