Cromm Cruac is the 20th episode in the 1980s television show Robin of Sherwood created by Richard Carpenter.
In it, Much the Miller's Son has been caught in a foresters trap and needs treatment, but the village of Wickham is too far to travel to. On their way, Robin Hood (Jason Connery) or Robert of Huntington and his men meet a traveller going to his village, Cromm Cruac. Friar Tuck (Phil Rose) refuses to go there, saying he has heard that name before.
An episode for one hour, including magic and spells and a wide range of characters is written by Anthony Horowitz, and directed by Gerry Mill, with the guest stars Richard O'Brien, John Horsley and Claire Parker.
Music by Clannad.
Inconsistency
Tuck is elsewhere referred to as a friar (and wears what looks like a Franciscan habit throughout the series), but is here called "Brother Tuck" of Thornton Abbey, whose monks wear Cistercian habits. (In Robin Hood and the Sorcerer, when he was the Sheriff's chaplain, he was called "Brother Tuck"; in The King's Fool, when the outlaws were - briefly - pardoned, he objected to the prospect of going back to a monastery, and Robin suggested that he should become a friar as an alternative.)
In fact, Thornton was an Augustinian abbey. (There were no friars, Franciscan or otherwise, in England in the reign of King John.)
In the ballad tradition, Friar Tuck is supposed to have been a brother of Fountains Abbey - a Cistercian house which held no friars.
Notes
Cromm Cruac is the name of a deity worshipped in pre-Christian Ireland.
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