* In Issue # 3 ( January 1976, shortly after Monty Python began being broadcast in the U. S .) of the comic book title Batman Family the joint exploits of Batgirl ( Barbara Gordon ) and Robin ( Dick Grayson ) the story " Isle of a Thousand Thrills " borrowed the scenario of a land where anything anybody thinks of is quickly brought to life.

The following inductees have also been elected to the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame: Richie Ashburn, Steve Carlton, Robin Roberts, Mike Schmidt, broadcaster Harry Kalas, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Del Ennis, Chuck Klein, Ed Delahanty, Larry Bowa, Tug McGraw, and Dick Allen.

* Dick Grayson, the original Robin, was a master of Savate and other forms of martial arts.

Walt Disney later modernized the novel with Lt. Robin Crusoe, U. S. N., featuring Dick Van Dyke.

* Robin Harris as Sweet Dick Willie

** The Deep-Walter Goss, Dick Alexander, Tom Beckert and Robin Gregory

Dick Grayson is one such example, having outgrown the mantle of Robin when he was under Batman and taken up the new identity of Nightwing.

Following the retirement of Dick Grayson as Robin, a new version of the character, Jason Todd, debuted in Batman # 357 ( 1983 ).

In the wake of The New 52, Tim Drake later takes on the identity of Red Robin while Jason Todd still operates as the Red Hood, and Dick Grayson reclaims his role as Nightwing.

) Although Robin is best known as Batman's sidekick, the Robins have also been members of the superhero group the Teen Titans-with the original Robin, Dick Grayson, as a founding member and the group's leader and with Tim Drake as the team leader.

In this incarnation, he was red-haired and unfailingly cheerful, and wore his circus costume to fight crime until Dick Grayson presented him with a Robin suit of his own.

Weeks later, after Dick Grayson became Nightwing and Todd proved his crime-fighting worth by helping Batman catch a gang of robbers, Batman offered Todd the position as Robin.

Tim Drake, as Robin, co-founded the superhero team Young Justice in the absence of the Teen Titans of Dick Grayson's generation, but would then later re-form the Teen Titans after Young Justice disbanded following a massive sidekick crossover during which Donna Troy was killed.

On Earth-Two, home of the Golden Age version of DC's superheroes, Dick Grayson continued to be Robin even as an adult, having no successors, and even after Batman's death.

Robin ( Dick Grayson ) was portrayed by Douglas Croft and Johnny Duncan, respectively, in the 1943 and 1949 fifteen chapter Batman serials.

The Dick Grayson version of Robin also appears in Batman: The Animated Series, voiced by Loren Lester.

The animated series Teen Titans features Robin ( voiced by Scott Menville ) as the leader of a team of young heroes ; it is hinted that it is Dick Grayson.

This idea, that Robin is in fact Dick Grayson, is further supported in Teen Titans in an episode in which Starfire travels to the future, and Robin has taken the identity of Nightwing.

In Robin Hood: Men in Tights, a 1993 spoof comedy directed by Mel Brooks, Dick Van Patten played the part of the Abbot.

Most of the current members of the Justice Society Infinity are either original members of Earth-Two's Justice Society, such as the Atom ( Al Pratt ) and Robin ( Dick Grayson ), but it also included characters that are normally associated with Infinity, Inc., such as Jade and Nuklon ( Albert Rothstein ).

From October 2001 to January 2002, several guest celebrities played the Narrator role normally performed by Dick Cavett ( Kate Clinton took over for a week while Cavett was on vacation ), including Gilbert Gottfried, Sally Jesse Raphael, Robin Leach, magicians Penn & Teller, New York Post columnist Cindy Adams, MTV personality Dave Holmes, and talk show host Jerry Springer.

In the final issue of Battle for the Cowl, Bruce Wayne's son, Damian Wayne becomes the new Robin after rescuing Tim from death, working first with Grayson ( who substituted as Batman ), and then his returned father.

Grayson temporarily took over as Batman ( while Wayne was traveling through time ), using the aid of Damian Wayne, making his newish appearance as " Robin ", to defeat and imprison Todd.

DC was initially hesitant to turn Grayson into Nightwing and to replace him with a new Robin.

To minimize the change, they made the new Robin, Jason Peter Todd, who first appeared in Batman # 357 ( 1983 ), similar to a young Grayson.

He ended Tim Drake's run as Robin after he severely injured him, but was later defeated by Grayson who assumed the role of Batman with his former mentor's biological son, Damian, as the new Robin.

This served to connect Drake to Grayson, establishing a link that DC hoped would help readers accept this new Robin.

After Battle for the Cowl, Grayson adopted the mantle of Batman, and instead of having Tim ( who he viewed as an equal, rather than a protégé ) remain as Robin, he gave the role to Damian, who he felt needed the training that his father would have given him.

He made donations to various charitable endeavors using the money he made from his activities, and was viewed by many to be a " modern-day Robin Hood ".

Most of the other light aircraft acquired by the FABF in the 1970s and 1980s have also now been retired along with the Mi-4 helicopters, but some recent acquisitions have been made, including a Beechcraft King Air, a Piper PA-34 Seneca, a CEAPR Robin light training aircraft, and a single Air Tractor AT-802 aerial sprayer aircraft for spraying insecticides, purchased after the northern part of the country suffered heavy crop damage from a 2004 invasion of swarming locusts.

During Selig's tenure as club president, the Brewers participated in postseason play in 1981, when the team finished first in the American League East during the second half of the season, and in 1982, when the team made it to the World Series, under the leadership of future Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.

Sveum named Garth Iorg as his replacement as third base coach, and made Robin Yount the new bench coach, replacing Ted Simmons.

In the earliest sources, Robin Hood is a yeoman, but he was often later portrayed as an aristocrat wrongfully dispossessed of his lands and made into an outlaw by an unscrupulous sheriff.

Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees stated, " He made emotion fashionable, that it was all right to talk about and sing about very emotional things.

At the age of seven, he made his acting debut, playing the court jester in a school production of Robin Hood.

Llewelyn made a brief appearance in ' Little Mother ' an episode of The Adventures of Robin Hood.

According to figures given to the magazine Kit Car ( The UK's Top Selling Kit Car Magazine ) the most popular kit in the United Kingdom in 2005 was made by Robin Hood Sportscars who sell 700 kits a year.

It was an unusually extravagant production for the Warner Bros. studio, which had made a name for itself in producing socially conscious low-budget gangster films, but their adventure movies starring Flynn had generated hefty revenue and Robin Hood was created to capitalize on this.

He is somewhat depressed since Peter Pan, now named Peter Banning ( played by Robin Williams ), has left Neverland, and worries he has nothing left to accomplish, having killed the crocodile and made it into a foundation for a clock tower.

: Genetic Engineering, Industrial Agriculture and Sustainable Alternatives " and the documentary The World According to Monsanto, a film made by a French independent journalist Marie-Monique Robin.

The superhero group the Teen Titans ( first appearance 1964 ) was originally made up entirely of sidekicks: Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, Wonder Girl, and Speedy.

The Whittwood Town Center ( formerly the Whittwood Mall ) anchored by JC Penney, Target, Sears, Vons, and Kohl's has made way for Red Robin and Black Angus.

* The Guardians of the Universe made an appearance in Justice League: The New Frontier voiced by Robin Atkin Downes.

On 25 October 2006, Townshend declined at the last minute to do a scheduled interview with Sirius Satellite Radio host Howard Stern after Stern's co-anchor Robin Quivers and sidekick Artie Lange made joking references to his 2003 arrest.

His marriage to Youngs temporarily made him the brother-in-law of John Savage, Robin Young, and Jim Youngs ).

In 1989, Hawke made his breakthrough appearance, playing shy student Todd Anderson opposite Robin Williams's inspirational English teacher in Dead Poets Society.

In 2002, Maurice was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ), along with his brothers, but the awards were not presented until 2004, after Maurice's death ; his son Adam accompanied Barry and Robin to Buckingham Palace for the ceremony, representing his father.

* Robin Williams made his first appearance as " Mork " on Happy Days.

In 1955, Columbia made a film as a musical comedy with a score by Jule Styne and Leo Robin.