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Blackadder. Mr. Edmund Blackadder, Esquire (Rowan Atkinson)
Blackadder

Blackadder

  • 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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Blackadder. Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh (Rowan Atkinson). Credit: BBC

The Black Adder (1983)

Throughout the ages men of flair, faculty and outstanding courage have contributed to England's heritage. Others, like the snivelling worm Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh (alias The Black Adder), have emerged from the dust of dodgy documents to claim their wrongful place in history.

Blackadder. Image shows left to right: Lord Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson), Queen Elizabeth I (Miranda Richardson). Credit: BBC

Blackadder II (1986)

England, 1558-1603. The filthy genes of the Blackadder dynasty bubble back to the surface of the melting pot of history as Lord Edmund, arrogant peer-about-town, swaggers back with a big head and small beard in search of grace and favour from stark raving mad Queen Bess.

Blackadder. Image shows left to right: Prince Regent (Hugh Laurie), Mr. Edmund Blackadder, Esquire (Rowan Atkinson). Credit: BBC

Black Adder The Third (1987)

England, 1760-1815. The Blackadder family's fortunes have rather plummeted with the advent of the Regency period and Edmund Blackadder, butler to the Prince Regent, veers from calamity to disaster.

Blackadder. Frondo (Stephen Fry). Credit: BBC

1988 Specials

In The Cavalier Years, it's November 1648 and King Charles I is in hiding from Cromwell and the Roundheads. In Blackadder's Christmas Carol, we visit Ebeneezer Blackadder, the nicest man in England - but perhaps not for much longer...

Blackadder. Image shows left to right: Baldrick (Tony Robinson), Captain Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson). Credit: BBC

Blackadder Goes Forth (1989)

The Western Front, 1917. Captain Blackadder joined the British Army when it was little more than a travel agency for gentlemen with an abnormally high sex drive. Now he's twenty yards from a lot of heavily armed people who want to kill him.

Blackadder. Lord Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson). Credit: ITV

Prince Of Wales Gala Special (1998)

A five minute special produced for ITV's Prince of Wales's 50th Birthday Gala. It's King Charles II's 50th birthday, and Lord Blackadder has been invited to arrange a Royal Gala performance in celebration.

Blackadder. Image shows left to right: Lord Edmund Blackadder V (Rowan Atkinson), Baldrick (Tony Robinson). Credit: Tiger Aspect Productions

Blackadder Back & Forth (2000)

New Year's Eve 1999 and Lord Edmumd Blackadder has assembled an assortment of his friends to celebrate the new millennium - and play a practical joke on, with an unusually cunning plan involving a time machine...

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