The Black Adder is the unaired pilot episode of the television series Blackadder. Filmed on 20 June 1982, it features the earliest incarnation of Rowan Atkinson's character Edmund Blackadder, and follows a plot which was closely adapted into the series one episode Born to be King.
Like the first series, The Black Adder, it was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson. However, the episode features a number of major differences to the aired fi...
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The Black Adder is the unaired pilot episode of the television series Blackadder. Filmed on 20 June 1982, it features the earliest incarnation of Rowan Atkinson's character Edmund Blackadder, and follows a plot which was closely adapted into the series one episode Born to be King.
Like the first series, The Black Adder, it was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson. However, the episode features a number of major differences to the aired first series, mainly in casting and its Elizabethan era setting (eventually returned to for the second series). Most notably, comic actor Philip Fox plays the character Baldrick, rather than Tony Robinson, who was to play the role in all subsequent series. John Savident plays the role of the King, who was replaced by Brian Blessed for the first series. Prince Harry was played by Robert Bathurst instead of Robert East. The rest of the cast (Atkinson, Tim McInnerny and Elspet Gray) were reunited for the commissioned series.
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