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Blackadder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of The Great War.
“The most gripping sitcom since 1380.”
1986
Blackadder feels a funny attraction for his manservant and decides to marry when he discovers he is a she.
After the Queen appoints Blackadder Lord High Executioner, he finds himself in trouble when the Queen pardons someone he executed ahead of schedule.
After Sir Walter Raleigh takes the Queen's fancy by bringing her a potato, Blackadder decides to become an explorer with the aid of a legless sea captain.
The Queen hampers Blackadder's efforts to raise cash to pay off a debt to a sadistic bishop.
Blackadder's rich and Puritanical aunt and uncle pay him a visit to discuss his inheritance the same night he has a beer-drinking contest.
Blackadder and Lord Melchett are kidnapped by a German spy right after the Queen decides she will pay no more ransom to kidnappers.
Rowan Atkinson
Captain Edmund Blackadder
Tony Robinson
Private S. Baldrick
Hugh Laurie
Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh
Tim McInnerny
Captain Kevin Darling
Stephen Fry
General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett
1989
Blackadder tries painting and cooking as ploys to avoid the scheduled big push out of the trenches.
Edmund is sentenced to death by firing squad for shooting and eating the General's favourite carrier pigeon.
Blackadder grabs yet another opportunity to return to England by organising a morale-raising music hall show, including Baldrick's Charlie Chaplin impersonation and George's appearance as a lady songstress who captures the General's heart.
Blackadder and the boys join the Royal Air Corps, where they are promptly shot down behind enemy lines.
Blackadder is assigned to find the spy working out of the hospital.
Blackadder tries everything he can think of to get sent back to England when orders come in to go over the top in the first charge against the Germans since 1914.
1987
Blackadder becomes involved in politics by getting Baldrick elected MP, in an effort to stop the new Prime Minister, Pitt the Younger, from striking the Prince off the Civil List.
Blackadder has one weekend to rewrite a dictionary the Prince Regent is patronising after Baldrick burns the only copy.
After the Scarlet Pimpernel gets high praises Blackadder makes a bet that he can go to France and rescue aristocrats, too.
The Prince Regent hires a pair of actors to teach him to give better speeches and earn the people's respect after an anarchist tries to blow him up at the theatre.
After Parliament cuts off the Prince's money he decides to marry a rich lady who obtains her money by moonlighting as a notorious highwayman.
The Duke of Wellington has challenged the Prince to a duel for seducing his daughters and the Prince offers Blackadder anything he wants to take his place.
1983
After arriving late for the Battle of Bosworth Field, Edmund kills King Richard III (whom he thinks is stealing his horse) and secures the crown for his father.
With his father away at The Crusades, Edmund comes up with a plan to prove his brother is illegitimate, thus making him Prince Regent.
Edmund is appointed to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury after the King has the last one killed.
The King decides that Edmund should marry a Spanish princess, who Edmund finds unattractive, in order to secure a treaty between Spain and England which will allow an invasion of France.
Percy and Baldrick are to be burned at the stake with Edmund, when he is accused of being a witch.
After the King takes away Edmund's title of Duke, he recruits the six most evil men in the land to take the crown by force.
