Blackadder: Blackadder Goes Forth, Episode 6 - Goodbyeee

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 Goes Forth, Episode 6 - Goodbyeee

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

The time has finally come to go "over the top" and face the dreaded Hun on the battlefield. George is thrilled by the prospect, but Blackadder is still less than enthusiastic and resolves to call in an old trick and a long-standing favour owed to him by Field Marshal Haig...

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Further details

Edmund and Lt. Barleigh share a nice rat stroganoff in their dugout when word arrives that tomorrow morning the troops are going "over the top". Could a feigned bout of insanity put Edmund on the road to Calais?

Notes

This episode was produced without closing credits. Consequently, we have assumed the crew to be the same as in the rest of this series.

Broadcast details

Date: Thursday 2^nd November 1989
Time: 9:30pm
Channel: BBC One
Length: 30 minutes

Cast & crew

Cast
Rowan Atkinson	Captain Edmund Blackadder
Tony Robinson	Baldrick
Stephen Fry	General Melchett
Tim McInnerny	Captain Kevin Darling
Hugh Laurie	Lieutenant George Barleigh

Guest cast
Geoffrey Palmer	Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig

Writing team
Richard Curtis	Writer
Ben Elton	Writer

Production team
Richard Boden	Director
John Lloyd	Producer
Chris Wadsworth	Editor
Chris Hull	Production Designer
Howard Goodall	Composer

Video

Blackadder - The Final Scenes

The moving final scenes of Blackadder Goes Forth. As Captain Blackadder and his comrades prepare to go 'over the top' to meet certain death, the show's rapid gag rate slows... and then stops.

Featuring: Rowan Atkinson (Captain Edmund Blackadder), Tony Robinson (Baldrick), Tim McInnerny (Captain Kevin Darling) & Hugh Laurie (Lieutenant George Barleigh).

Press

The true history of Blackadder's final episode

Thirty years ago, a silly BBC comedy went over the top with one of the most powerful scenes ever shown on British TV. Here's how they did it.

Tom Fordy, The Telegraph, 27th September 2019

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