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 Harry with several important titles. Suddenly determined, Edmund declares that he will take over the kingdom. He fires Percy and Baldrick, and begins his quest for glory, aided by a retired Morris dance... more

"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 Harry with several important titles. Suddenly determined, Edmund declares that he will take over the kingdom. He fires Percy and Baldrick, and begins his quest for glory, aided by a retired Morris dancer. In a parody of the opening of the film The Magnificent Seven, Edmund sets forth into England in search of the six other "Most Evil Men in the Kingdom,": Edmund plans to ride home and then send for them all through a black-haired messenger. They would gather in the tavern of the recently deceased old Jasper (slain by Friar Bellows), before heading out to seize the royal courts and thus the kingdom. After his comrades disperse, Edmund's plan hits a severe setback. His supposed new friend the Morris Dancer casts off his disguise to reveal... less