Blackadder

Name: Blackadder
Genre: Comedy
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Genres: Comedy

First Aired: 1982-06-20Length: 29 MinStatus: Ended

Cunning plans and cutting comedy as the Blackadder dynasty plot their way through British history. (Source: thetvdb.com)

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Season 4 (show/hide)
6	Goodbyeee	1989-11-02
Blackadder tries everything he can think of to get sent back to England when orders come in to go over the top in the first charge against the Germans since 1914. Guest stars: Geoffrey Palmer
5	General Hospital	1989-10-26
Blackadder is assigned to find the spy working out of the hospital. Guest stars: Bill Wallis, Miranda Richardson
4	Private Plane	1989-10-19
Blackadder and the boys join the Royal Air Corps, where they are promptly shot down behind enemy lines. Guest stars: Adrian Edmondson, Gabrielle Glaister, Rik Mayall
3	Major Star	1989-10-12
Blackadder grabs yet another opportunity to return to England by organizing a morale-raising music hall show, including Baldrick's Charlie Chaplin impersonation and George's appearance as a lady songstress who captures the General's heart. Guest stars: Gabrielle Glaister
2	Corporal Punishment	1989-10-05
Edmund is sentenced to death by firing squad for shooting and eating the General's favorite messenger pigeon. Guest stars: Jeremy Gittins, Jeremy Hardy, Lee Cornes, Paul Mark Elliott, Stephen Frost
1	Captain Cook	1989-09-28
Blackadder tries painting and cooking as ploys to avoid the scheduled big push out of the trenches.

Season 3 (show/hide)
6	Duel and Duality	1987-10-22
The Duke of Wellington has challenged the Prince to a duel for seducing his daughters and the Prince offers Blackadder anything he wants to take his place. Guest stars: Gertan Klauber, Stephen Fry
5	Amy and Amiability	1987-10-15
After Parliament cuts off the Prince's money he decides to marry a rich lady who obtains her money by moonlighting as a notorious highwayman. Guest stars: Barbara Thorne, Miranda Richardson, Roger Avon, Warren Clarke
4	Sense and Senility	1987-10-08
The Prince Regent hires a pair of actors to teach him to give better speeches and earn the people's respect after an anarchist tries to blow him up at the theatre. Guest stars: Ben Elton, Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Connor
3	Nob and Nobility	1987-10-01
After the Scarlet Pimpernel gets high praises Blackadder makes a bet that he can go to France and rescue aristocrats, too. Guest stars: Nigel Planer, Tim McInnerny
2	Ink and Incapability	1987-09-24
Blackadder has one weekend to rewrite a dictionary the Prince Regent is sponsoring after Baldrick burns the only copy. Guest stars: Jim Sweeney, Lee Cornes, Robbie Coltrane, Steve Steen
1	Dish and Dishonesty	1987-09-17
Blackadder becomes involved in politics by getting Baldrick elected MP, in an effort to stop the new Prime Minister, Pitt the Younger, from striking the Prince off the Civil List. Guest stars: Dominic Martelli, Geoffrey McGivern, Simon Osborne, Vincent Hanna

Season 2 (show/hide)
6	Chains	1986-02-20
Blackadder and Lord Melchett are kidnapped by a German spy right after the Queen decides she will pay no more ransom to kidnappers. Guest stars: Hugh Laurie, Lee Cornes, Mark Arden, Max Harvey
5	Beer	1986-02-13
Blackadder's rich and Puritanical aunt and uncle pay him a visit to discuss his inheritance the same night he has a beer drinking contest. Guest stars: Daniel Thorndike, Hugh Laurie, Miriam Margolyes
4	Money	1986-02-05
The Queen hampers Blackadder's efforts to raise cash to pay off a debt to a sadistic bishop. Guest stars: Barry Craine, John Pierce Jones, Lesley Nicol, Piers Ibbotson, Tony Aitken
3	Potato	1986-01-23
After Sir Walter Raleigh takes the Queen's fancy by bringing her a potato, Blackadder decides to become an explorer with the aid of a legless sea captain. Guest stars: Simon Jones, Tom Baker
2	Head	1986-01-16
After the Queen appoints Blackadder Lord High Executioner, he finds himself in trouble when the Queen pardons someone he executed ahead of schedule. Guest stars: Bill Wallis, Holly de Jong, Linda Pollan, Patrick Duncan
1	Bells	1986-01-09
Blackadder feels a funny attraction for his manservant and decides to marry when he discovers he is a she. Guest stars: Barbara Miller, Edward Jewesbury, Gabrielle Glaister, John Grillo, Rik Mayall, Sadie Shimmin

Season 1 (show/hide)
6	The Black Seal	1983-07-20
After the King takes away Edmund's title of Duke, he recruits the 6 most evil men in the land to take the crown by force. Guest stars: Big Mick, John Barrard, John Hallam, Paul Brooke, Perry Benson, Rik Mayall, Roy Evans
5	Witchsmeller Pursuivant	1983-07-13
Percy and Baldrick are to be burned at the stake with Edmund, when he is accused of being a witch. Guest stars: Barbara Miller, Bert Parnaby, Forbes Collins, Howard Lew Lewis, Louise Gold, Mark Arden, Natasha King, Patrick Duncan, Perry Benson, Richard Murdoch, Roy Evans, Sarah Thomas, Stephen Frost
4	The Queen of Spain's Beard	1983-07-06
The King decides that Edmund should marry a Spanish Princess, who Edmund finds unattractive, in order to secure a treaty between Spain and England which will allow an invasion of France. Guest stars: David Nunn, Kenn Wells, Miriam Margolyes, Natasha King, Nicola Critcher, Richard Mitchley, Stephen Tate
3	The Archbishop	1983-06-29
Edmund is appointed to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury after the king has the last one killed. Guest stars: Bert Parnaby, Carolyn Colquohoun, David Delve, David Nunn, Joyce Grant, Leslie Sands, Roy Evans, Russell Enoch
2	Born to Be King	1983-06-22
With his father away at the Crusades, Edmund comes up with a plan to prove his brother is illegitimate, thus making him Prince Regent. Guest stars: Alex Norton, Angus Deayton, David Nunn, Joolia Cappleman, Malcolm Hardee, Martin Clarke, Martin Soan
1	The Foretelling	1983-06-15
After arriving late for the Battle of Bosworth Field, Edmund kills King Richard III (whom he thinks is stealing his horse) and secures the crown for his father. Guest stars: Barbara Miller, Gretchen Franklin, Kathleen St. John, Peter Benson, Peter Cook, Philip Kendall

Season 0 (show/hide)
40	Blackadder: A Cunning Story	2023-06-06
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39	Britain's Best Sitcom - Blackadder	2004-01-17
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38	Banker Sketch	2012-11-28
Blackadder sketch about the banking crisis, performed at a special charity gala event “We Are Most Amused” in aid of the Prince’s Trust. Sir Edmund Blackadder is the Chief Executive Officer of Melchett, Melchett & Darling Merchant Bank, who brings his gardener Sodoff Baldrick to an inquiry. Guest stars: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Helen Lederer, Miranda Hart, Sanjeev Bhaskar
37	An Interview With Richard Curtis	2001-01-01
Edited from Laughter in the House: The Story of British Sitcom (1999)
36	Wogan Interviews Baldrick (Children in Need 1988)	1988-11-18
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35	Britain's Best Sitcoms - Blackadder	2004-01-17
This programme was broadcast early in 2004 and was part of a series of programmes where viewers were asked to vote for their favourite sitcom. Each programme featured a particular comedy sitcom and was championed by separate celebrities. This programme featuring "Blackadder" has John Sergeant Iannucci saying why he feels it was the best Comedy Sitcom. A number of excepts are shown including some behind the scenes rehearsals, Various guests and actors from the show give an insight into the programme including Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Stephen Fry, John Lloyd, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Hugh Laurie, Brian Blessed, Michael Grade, Dr Gary Sheffield, Lucy Moore, Miranda Richardson, Howard Goodall, Tony Aitken, Gabrielle Claister, Mandie Fletcher, Chris Wadsworth and Richard Boden.
34	Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments	2008-05-12
A countdown of the top 40 "Blackadder" moments chosen by cast and crew members, celebrity fans and 15 genuine Blackadders.
33	Blackadder: The Lost Pilot	2023-06-15
Sir Tony Robinson goes on a quest to discover the truth of Blackadder's beginnings.
32	Deleted Scenes - Potato
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31	Blooper - Bells
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30	Baldrick on Clown Court
The ‘Clown Court’ outtake sketch from Noel Edmonds’ House Party
29	Britain's Best Sitcom - Blackadder
Britain’s Best Sitcom Back in 2004, the BBC broadcast a series that wanted to find ‘Britain’s Best Sitcom’. The British public voted by phone and text during 2003 to decide on what was the best sitcom. With the results in, the top 10 were produced and a celebrity advocate of a sitcom was chosen to put their case to the public to ultimately decide on what would be the greatest sitcom.
28	Behind The Screen - Black Goes Forth
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27	Look East - Blackadder Goes Forth Interview
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26	Woman's Hour Invasion	1988-09-28
Woman's Hour is a show on BBC Radio 4 consisting of reports, interviews and debates aimed at women, and also includes short serials during the last quarter of the show. On one instance of the show, in 1988, Blackadder and Bladrick, in hopes of raising money for children in need, Take over Woman's Hour. Blackadder, tired of hearing women complain about the problems of 1988, prepares to send the radio show into the past, to show the women how awful life could really be.
25	Blackadder: The Army Years	2000-01-01
A short monologue performed at the Dominion Theatre for the Royal Variety Performance 2000. It features Rowan Atkinson as the modern-day Lord Edmund Blackadder of Her Royal Highness's regiment of Shirkers. The sketch was written and introduced by Ben Elton, who was the compère of the evening.
24	The Royal Gardener	2002-01-01
Sir Osmond Darling-Blackadder, Keeper of the Queen's Lawnsprinkler, talks of his extreme displeasure in the then upcoming Queen's Jubilee (2002).
23	Blackadder and the King's Birthday	1998-11-14
A short sketch performed at the Prince of Wales' 50th Birthday Gala. It featured Rowan Atkinson as Lord Blackadder and Stephen Fry as King Charles II, and was televised on ITV (in the UK) on 14 November 1998.
22	The Shakespeare Sketch	1989-09-18
This non-canonical sketch was performed on stage at the Sadlers Wells Theatre on 18 September 1989. It was written for and performed at an AIDS benefit concert directed by Stephen Fry, and features Rowan Atkinson as a Blackadder-esque character chatting with Hugh Laurie as "Bill" Shakespeare, talking about cutting various sections of Hamlet – in particular the "To be or not to be" soliloquy. Ultimately, Blackadder talks Shakespeare down from an over-long speech to the familiar 'snappy' phrase. The sketch was available on video as part of Hysteria 2 – The Second Coming, released by Palace Video on 21 May 1990 Guest stars: Hugh Laurie, Rowan Atkinson
21	Costume Revisit
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20	Unaired Pilot: The Black Adder	1982-06-20
With his father away at the Crusades, Edmund comes up with a plan to prove his brother is illegitimate, thus making him Prince Regent. The Blackadder pilot was shot but never aired on terrestrial TV in the UK (although some scenes were shown in the 25th anniversary special Blackadder Rides Again). One notable difference in the pilot, as in many pilots, is the casting. Baldrick is played not by Tony Robinson, but by Philip Fox. Another significant difference is that the character of Prince Edmund presented in the pilot is much closer to the intelligent, conniving Blackadder of the later series than the sniveling, weak Edmund of the original series. Set in the year 1582, the script of the pilot is roughly the same as the episode "Born to be King", albeit with some different jokes, with some lines appearing in other episodes of the series. Guest stars: Alex Norton, John Savident, Oengus Macnamara, Philip Fox, Robert Bathurst, Simon Gipps-Kent
19	Rowan Atkinson and producer John Lloyd driving to Alnwick Castle	2009-10-19
Rowan Atkinson continues to go over his time on Black Adder
18	Interview - Rowan Atkinson	2009-10-19
An Interview with Rowan Atkinson about his time as Blackadder
17	Miranda, Tony, Tim & Patsy go back to the BBC	2009-10-19
Miranda, Tony, Patsy and Tim go back to the BBC to look at their old costumes. Do any of them still fit?
16	Rik Mayall in London	2009-10-19
The legendary Rik Mayall chats about himself and how he took over the show as Lord Flashheart, in his own unique style.
15	Hugh Laurie on set in Hollywood	2009-10-19
Hugh Laurie chats about Blackadder and the varios roles he played in the series.
14	Hilary Bevan Jones at BAFTA	2009-10-19
Hilary Bevan Jones is interviewed.
13	Miranda Richardson at the BBC	2009-10-19
Miranda Richardson is interviewed at the BBC about her time as the Queen on Blackadder as well as the other characters she played.
9	Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making	2003-09-15
A behind-the-scenes featurette, "Baldrick's Diary."
8	Tony Robinson in London	2009-10-19
Tony Robinson talks about his time on Black Adder and his Baldrick character.
7	Richard Curtis & Ben Elton in Soho	2009-10-19
The writers chat about how the show was created.
6	Stephen Fry in Africa	2009-10-19
Stephen Fry talks about his time on the show, and his characters.
5	Blackadder Rides Again	2008-12-25
Rowan Atkinson and the cast of the legendary comedy series Blackadder are back for a one-off documentary special this Christmas on BBC One. Blackadder Rides Again features the iconic cast in a documentary to mark 25 years since the original BBC transmission of the much-loved sitcom, first broadcast in 1983. Blackadder Rides Again includes the first-ever in-depth interview with Edmund Blackadder himself, Rowan Atkinson, about his personal experience of being involved in the sitcom and its phenomenal success. Set to join Rowan are the core cast and writing team who have gone on to become some of the greatest names in entertainment, both in the UK and US. These include: Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Miranda Richardson, Tim McInnerny and Tony Robinson. A 60 minute documentary produced by the BBC and broadcast on 25 December 2008, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the show. It featured interviews with all of the major cast members and other contributors, including Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Miranda Richardson, Tim McInnerny and Tony Robinson. Rather than relying on 'talking head' interviews and clips from the show, the documentary included several pieces of rare, and even unseen material (behind the scenes clips, cut scenes from Series 1 etc.). It also reunited certain cast and crew members with their costumes, visited cast members on their current ventures, or took them to the original filming locations.
4	Blackadder: The Whole Rotten Saga	2008-10-09
To mark the 25th anniversary since the first transmission of Blackadder in 1983, the iconic cast of the much-loved sitcom appear together in a documentary for the first time. The show includes an exclusive in-depth interview with Edmund Blackadder himself, Rowan Atkinson - the first time he has agreed to be interviewed about his experience making the show.
3	Blackadder Back & Forth	1999-12-06
It's New Year's Eve 1999, and Blackadder makes a bold claim to his contemporaries. He claims Baldrick has built a time machine with which Blackadder will get historical evidence. What no one knows is that Baldrick really has invented a time machine, with one slight flaw. That sends Blackadder and Baldrick on a millennium's worth of adventure. Blackadder: Back & Forth was originally shown in the Millennium Dome in 2000, followed by a screening on Sky One in the same year (and later on BBC1). It is set on the turn of the millennium, and features Lord Blackadder placing a bet with his friends – modern versions of Queenie (Miranda Richardson), Melchett (Stephen Fry), George (Hugh Laurie) and Darling (Tim McInnerny) – that he has built a working time machine. While this is intended as a clever con trick, the machine, surprisingly, works, sending Blackadder and Baldrick back to the time of the dinosaurs, where they manage to cause the extinction of the dinosaurs, through the use of Baldrick's best, worst and only pair of underpants as a weapon against a hungry T.Rex. Finding that Baldrick has forgotten to write dates on the machine's dials, the rest of the film follows their attempts to find their way back to 1999, often creating huge historical anomalies in the process which must be corrected before the end. The film includes cameo appearances from Kate Moss and Colin Firth. Guest stars: Colin Firth, Crispin Harris, Jenny Bond, Kate Moss, Rik Mayall, Simon Russell Beale, Stephen Fry
2	Blackadder's Christmas Carol	1988-12-23
In the late 1800s, a kind and generous Ebenezer Blackadder is visited the Ghost of Christmas Past, who shows him visions of his ancestors, and the future of the Blackadders if he does not follow the family tradition. The second special was broadcast on Friday 23 December 1988. In a twist on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Blackadder is the "kindest and loveliest" man in England. The Spirit of Christmas shows Blackadder the contrary antics of his ancestors and descendants, and reluctantly informs him that if he turns evil his descendants will enjoy power and fortune, while if he remains the same a future Blackadder will live shamefully subjugated to a future incompetent Baldrick. This remarkable encounter causes him to proclaim, "Bad guys have all the fun", and adopt the personality with which viewers are more familiar. Guest stars: David Barber, David Nunn, Denis Lill, Erkan Mustafa, Jim Broadbent, Miriam Margolyes, Nicola Bryant, Pauline Melville, Philip Pope, Ramsay Gilderdale, Robbie Coltrane
1	The Cavalier Years	1988-02-05
As the only two loyalists to King Charles (sounding a lot like Prince Charles), it is up to Blackadder and Baldrick to come up with a plan to save the King from Oliver Cromwell's death sentence. This special, set in the English Civil War, was shown as part of Comic Relief's Red Nose Day on Friday 5 February 1988. The 15-minute episode is set in November 1648, during the last days of the Civil War. Sir Edmund Blackadder and his servant, Baldrick, are the last two men loyal to the defeated King Charles I of England (played by Stephen Fry, portrayed as a soft-spoken, ineffective, slightly dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the current Prince of Wales). However, due to a misunderstanding between Oliver Cromwell (guest-star Warren Clarke) and Baldrick, the king is arrested and sent to the Tower of London. The rest of the episode revolves around Blackadder's attempts to save the king, as well as improve his standing. Guest stars: Harry Enfield, Hugh Laurie, Tim McInnerny, Warren Clarke

(Source: thetvdb.com)

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