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Richard Curtis

Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis, CBE (born 8 November 1958) is a BAFTA-, Primetime Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated English screenwriter, music producer, actor and film director, known primarily for romantic comedy films such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones's Diary, Notting Hill, The...
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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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Goodbyeee...

"Goodbyeee..." is the title of the final episode of the BBC One sitcom Blackadder Goes Forth and was originally the final episode of Blackadder to be produced and transmitted, until the 1999 special Blackadder: Back & Forth was appended to the...

Original air date:

  • Nov 2, 1989

Episode number:

  • 6

Corporal Punishment

"Corporal Punishment" is the second episode of Blackadder Goes Forth, the fourth series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder. Orders for Operation Insanity arrive and Blackadder breaches regulations by eating the messenger. Can the "Flanders Pigeon Murderer...

Original air date:

  • Oct 5, 1989

Episode number:

  • 2

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 1, it was originally destined to be the...

Original air date:

  • Jan 9, 1986

Episode number:

  • 1

General Hospital

"General Hospital" is the fifth episode of Blackadder Goes Forth, the fourth series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder. George, Baldrick, and Blackadder are playing "I spy". Needless to say, Baldrick is clueless, saying breakfast begins with tea (but not...

Original air date:

  • Oct 26, 1989

Episode number:

  • 5

Head

"Head" is the second episode of the BBC period comedy Blackadder II, the second series of Blackadder, which was set in Elizabethan England from 1558 to 1603. Blackadder is attempting to teach Baldrick the basic concepts of addition when he is...

Original air date:

  • Jan 16, 1986

Episode number:

  • 2

Chains

"Chains" is the final episode of the BBC sitcom Blackadder II, the second series of Blackadder, which was set in Elizabethan England from 1558 to 1603. Power-mad and self-professed "master of disguise", Prince Ludwig the Indestructible kidnaps Lord...

Original air date:

  • Feb 20, 1986

Episode number:

  • 6

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Beer

"Beer" is the fifth episode of the BBC sitcom Blackadder II, the second series of Blackadder, which was set in Elizabethan England from 1558 to 1603. In the episode, an embarrassing incident with a turnip, an ostrich feather and a fanatically...

Original air date:

  • Feb 13, 1986

Episode number:

  • 5

Money

"Money" is the fourth episode of the BBC sitcom Blackadder II, the second series of Blackadder, which was set in Elizabethan England from 1558 to 1603. Blackadder and a cheap prostitute named Molly are disturbed at four in the morning by the baby...

Original air date:

  • Feb 5, 1986

Potato

"Potato" is the third episode of the BBC sitcom Blackadder II, the second series of Blackadder, which was set in Elizabethan England from 1558 to 1603. The episode opens with Blackadder at home, preparing to go to court to celebrate the return of...

Original air date:

  • Jan 23, 1986

Episode number:

  • 3

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

Episode number:

  • 1

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

Episode number:

  • 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

Episode number:

  • 6

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Major Star

"Major Star" is the third episode of Blackadder Goes Forth, the fourth series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder. The Russian Revolution produces two more appalling results: an offensive by Germany and a really offensive Charlie Chaplin impression by...

Original air date:

  • Oct 26, 1989

Episode number:

  • 3

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

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, King Richard IV departs on a Crusade. His younger son, Prince Edmund, thinks there's a chance to get some real power, but in...

Original air date:

  • Jun 22, 1983

Episode number:

  • 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

Episode number:

  • 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

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

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

Episode number:

  • 6
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