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Black Adder

Country: UK | Australia, Language: English, 35 mins

Minor Interest | Sitcom | 1983

Director: Martin Shardlow et al.
Writer: Richard Curtis; Rowan Atkinson; Ben Elton
Producer: John Lloyd

CGiii Comment

Camp, irreverent nonsense...with a touch of genius.

Still as funny now as it was then - and, the ending....never has a sitcom finished on such a monumentally moving scene.

Pity they felt the need to re-hash it several times over...watch the first 3 series, forget the rest.

The Black Adder (1983)
Blackadder II (1986)
Black Adder the Third (1987)
Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988)
Blackadder: The Cavalier Years (1988)
Blackadder Goes Forth (1989)
Blackadder Back & Forth (1999)

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The(ir) Blurb...

Set in England at the end of the War of the Roses, we soon find out that the history we know is a Tudor fiction. In fact, Henry VII did not actually win the battle of Bosworth Field; he lost and though Richard III died in the battle, his nephew King Richard IV (who certainly was not smothered while still a boy in the Tower of London) reigned on for some years. The story focuses on Richard IV's younger son Prince Edmund, a sniveling coward who calls himself the 'Black Adder'. Assisted by his grungy servant Baldrick and the moronic Lord Percy, Edmund plots his rise to greatness.

Cast & Characters

Rowan Atkinson as Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh;
Elspet Gray as The Queen;
Tim McInnerny as Percy;
Patrick Allen as Narrator;
Robert East as Harry, Prince of Wales;
Brian Blessed as King Richard IV;
Tony Robinson as Baldrick;
Bert Parnaby as Cain, A Blind Beggar;
Roy Evans as Abel, A Blind Beggar;
David Nunn as Messenger;
Perry Benson as Daft Ned, A Peasant