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In his only scene, George III mentions that he is having to deal with a war in France.

In fact, George III was far from the absolutist tyrant depicted here (while he did involve himself in politics more than his modern successors, he generally left the running of the country to the government), although the fact that this is an American production probably explains why he is shown thus.

It's highly unlikely that the King himself would get directly involved with the hunt for a local smuggler, even one as troublesome as the Scarecrow.

The fact that impressment was one of the grievances of the American colonists against British rule may well account for the way it's presented in this (American) series.

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Furthermore, it was usually only used in times of war, and there's evidence to show that the events of this series occur a year before the American War of Independence starter. In actual fact, the press wasn't an indiscriminate force of terror, it was a somewhat heavy-handed means of finding sufficient men (preferably with previous seafaring experience) to crew the Royal Navy's ships being a naval matter, it most certainly would not have been invoked by an Army general, even as a threat.

General Pugh holds the possibility of impressment over the townsfolk, threatening to drag their husbands and sons to the Royal Navy if they don't do as he says.

It would be much more likely for a squire to volunteer a younger son to serve in the Royal Navy as a midshipman. If it happened by some mistake, there would be hell to pay for the officers responsible.

The son of a member of the landed gentry (especially the firstborn son) would never have been pressed as a common sailor.

Adipose Rex: In his one appearance, George III is portrayed by a rather rotund actor.Here he's a staunch hero who abhors killing. In the books he was a notorious pirate and murderer before he became a vicar. "The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh" contains examples of: note Dinotopia, released on Blu-ray by Mill Creek Entertainment instead of Disney, beat The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh by three years.

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In 2019, the three parts of "The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh" became the first Wonderful World of Color episodes released on Blu-ray, and only the second serial from any incarnation of Disney's anthology show to reach that format.

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Like many serials produced for Disney's anthology show at the time, it was edited into a feature-length movie for distribution outside of America, retitled Doctor Syn, Alias the Scarecrow. He is instead an ordinary, though highly intelligent, parish priest who decided sometime before the story began that the best way to help his parishioners would be to adopt a Secret Identity and become the leader of the local smuggler gang. Syn's Anti Heroic qualities are removed and the series makes no suggestion of his extensive, often rather dark Back Story from the novels. Walt Disney even went so far as to claim that Doctor Syn was a real person when introducing each episode, despite the books having never been marketed as anything but historical fiction. It bears little resemblance to the books it was based on - mainly because it's actually not based on the original novels by Russell Thorndike instead, Disney based the miniseries on a novel called Christopher Syn by William Buchan which was itself based on The Further Adventures of Doctor Syn, the fourth book in Thorndike's series. Mipps, and Geoffrey Keen as his nemesis, the unprincipled General Pugh. It starred Patrick McGoohan as the title character, George Cole as his Number Two Mr. The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh (also known as Doctor Syn, Alias the Scarecrow) is a three-part series loosely based on Russell Thorndyke's Doctor Syn novels, made for Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color in 1963 note although the year is given as 1964 in the title card of the movie version.