Blackadder II, Episode 4 - Money
Blackadder is facing money troubles - or, as he puts it, 'cashflow problems' - that are far from helped when the notorious baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells arrives to call in a thousand-pound debt.
Further details
The Bishop of Bath & Wells arrives to collect on a debt that Edmund owes. The clergy of Elizabethan England could be ruthless in their methods of chastising their flock, which explains the red hot poker the Bishop is brandishing.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 6th February 1986
- Time
- 9:30pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
Press
So Dominic Watt's research team at York University claim to have discovered 30 lost English words, amongs which is "slug-a-bed" (Opinion, 15 September)? Would this be the same "lost" word used in Blackadder II, wherein the titular character played by Rowan Atkinson rouses the Bishop of Bath and Wells from his drugged slumber with "Wakey, wakey, Bish. You clerics really are slug-a-beds"?
Mark Boyle, The Guardian, 9th September 2017
Streaming rank this week: 80