Blackadder - BBC1 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide

TV sitcom
BBC One
1983 - 2000
26 episodes (4 series)

The Blackadder dynasty has run through English history since time immemorial, seemingly always hampered by a Baldrick, and often a Percy and Melchett. Stars Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry and more.

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8th September: Colchester MP Pam Cox on the former Cavalry Barracks used in Blackadder (Colchester Gazette)

Blackadder. Image shows from L to R: Captain Kevin Darling (Tim McInnerny), Captain Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson), General Melchett (Stephen Fry), Baldrick (Tony Robinson), Lieutenant George Barleigh (Hugh Laurie)

Genre

Sitcom

Broadcast

1983 - 2000

Episodes

26 (4 series), plus 2 charity specials

Stars

Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Brian Blessed, Miranda Richardson, Patsy Byrne and more

Writers

Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Rowan Atkinson and William Shakespeare

Directors

Mandie Fletcher, Martin Shardlow and Richard Boden

Producer

John Lloyd

Companies

Like a stain on the eiderdown of English history, the Blackadder family has been present at some of the greatest events in our nation's past. We join their tale in the late 1400s, with Edmund Plantagenat, alias 'The Black Adder', the weasley 'spare' son of King Richard IV.

En route to the dawn of the new millennium in 2000, we bump into Lords and Sirs of the dynasty including those from the times of King Charles I, Prince George in Regency England, the Captain Blackadder of World War I, and Elizabeth I's favourite Lord.