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Blackadder
Blackadder is the generic name that encompasses four series of a BBC One historical sitcom, along with several one-off installments.
All episodes star Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson as anti-hero Edmund Blackadder and his dogsbody, Baldrick. Each series is set in a different historical period with...
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Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Blackadder's Christmas Carol is a one-off episode of Blackadder, a parody of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. It is set between Blackadder the Third (1987) and Blackadder Goes Forth (1989), and is narrated by Hugh Laurie. Produced by the BBC, it...
Original air date:
- Dec 23, 1988
Blackadder: Back & Forth
Blackadder: Back & Forth is a 1999 short film based on the BBC mock-historical comedy series Blackadder that marks the end of the Blackadder saga. It was commissioned especially for showing in the specially built "SkyScape" cinema, erected southeast...
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Bells
"Bells" is the first episode of the BBC sitcom Blackadder II, the second series of Blackadder, which was set in Elizabethan England from 1558 to 1603. Although "Bells" was the first to be broadcast on BBC 2, it was originally destined to be the...
Original air date:
- Jan 9, 1986
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Episode number:
- 1
Blackadder: The Cavalier Years
Blackadder: The Cavalier Years is a 15 minute one-off edition of Blackadder set during the English Civil War, shown as part of Comic Relief's Red Nose Day on Friday 5 February 1988.
The episode included series regulars Rowan Atkinson as Sir Edmund...
Dish and Dishonesty
"Dish and Dishonesty" is the first episode of the third series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder. Due to the thorough parody of the conventions of a British electoral declaration, it has been shown several times on the dates of real General Elections....
Original air date:
- Sep 17, 1987
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- 1
Ink and Incapability
Ink and Incapability is the second episode of the third series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder.
Samuel Johnson (Robbie Coltrane) seeks Prince George's patronage for his new book, A Dictionary of the English Language. The Prince – seeking to amend his...
Original air date:
- Sep 24, 1987
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- 2
Nob and Nobility
"Nob and Nobility" is the third episode of the third series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder.
Blackadder is disgusted with the English obsession with the the Scarlet Pimpernel, the great hero who has saved so many French aristocrats from the Revolution...
Original air date:
- Oct 1, 1987
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- 3
Sense and Senility
"Sense and Senility" is the fourth episode of the third series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder.
An anarchist (played by Ben Elton) makes an attempt on Prince George's life while he is at the theatre. The Prince is shocked by Blackadder's revelation...
Original air date:
- Oct 8, 1987
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Amy and Amiability
"Amy and Amiability" is the fifth episode of the third series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder.
Blackadder is in serious debt. Baldrick suggest that he becomes a highwayman to make money to pay of his bills; however, Blackadder, having "no desire to get...
Original air date:
- Oct 15, 1987
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- 5
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Duel and Duality
"Duel and Duality" is the sixth and final episode of the third series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder.
The Duke of Wellington (Stephen Fry) discovers that the Prince has taken sexual advantage of his two nieces, and challenges him to a duel. The Prince...
Original air date:
- Oct 22, 1987
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Episode number:
- 6
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The Foretelling
"The Foretelling" was the first episode of the first series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder (The Black Adder). It introduces Edmund Blackadder, and opens with a narrative dispelling the depiction of King Richard III of England as a scheming murderer....
Original air date:
- Jun 15, 1983
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Episode number:
- 1
Born to be King
"Born to be King" is the second episode of the The Black Adder, the first series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder.
In 1486, the second year of his reign, and reportedly "the year in which the egg replaced the worm as the lowest form of currency", King...
Original air date:
- Jun 22, 1983
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- 2
The Archbishop
"The Archbishop" is the third episode in of the first series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder (The Black Adder).
In November 1487, the Duke of Winchester leaves his lands to the Church of England, prompting King Richard to have Godfrey, the Archbishop...
Original air date:
- Jun 29, 1983
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- 3
The Queen of Spain's Beard
"The Queen of Spain's Beard" was the fourth episode of the first series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder.
In 1492, Richard IV's court is in disarray. In order to secure Spain's allegiance in a war with France by marrying Harry to the Spanish Infanta....
Original air date:
- Jul 6, 1983
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Episode number:
- 4
Witchsmeller Pursuivant
"Witchsmeller Pursuivant" is the fifth episode of The Black Adder, the first series of the BBC One sitcom Blackadder.
In 1495, the Black Plague is ravaging Europe, and infects King Richard, rendering him more deranged than usual; when Edmund comes...
Original air date:
- Jul 13, 1983
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Episode number:
- 5
The Black Seal
"The Black Seal" is the final of six episodes of the first series of the BBC One sitcom Blackadder (The Black Adder).
On Saint Juniper's Day, 29 January 1498, King Richard IV snubs Prince Edmund, taking away his Dukeship while awarding his brother...
Original air date:
- Jul 13, 1983
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Episode number:
- 6
