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.

  • JustWatch Streaming rank this week: 310

Press clippings

The Office named top landmark comedy of the last 50 years

The Office was the highest-placed comedy in a Broadcasting Press Guild list of the top 50 landmark programmes of the last 50 years.

British Comedy Guide, 13th March 2024

I am not an elderly white man. But you'd think so from my taste in TV comedy

Rising Damp, Only Fools And Horses, The Morecambe And Wise Show... I love them all, even though they haven't aged well.

Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, The Guardian, 13th March 2024

'Great sitcoms are missing from our TV screens and our lives - we need them in these times'

Even if "we're all doomed" under the Tories, as Dad's Army's Pte Frazer would say, shows like George And Mildred, Are You Being Served?, Robin's Nest and Three's Company still make us laugh.

Siobhan McNally, The Mirror, 24th January 2024

Blackadder coming to Blu-ray

All original BBC television episodes of Blackadder have been restored and remastered in HD for a new Blu-ray release.

British Comedy Guide, 12th October 2023

Ben Elton interview

"Any time period would make a good Blackadder with the right jokes."

Michael Hogan, The Observer, 10th September 2023

Blackadder at 40: the difficult birth of a classic TV comedy

Looking back to that first series 40-years-ago, it is odd to think that such a beloved comedy could initially have got it so very wrong.

The Conversation, 14th August 2023

Nigel Planer: 'I made as much from one episode of Blackadder as from all of The Young Ones'

The West End star on divorce, getting recognised and making money on a Second World War barge.

York Membery, The Telegraph, 14th August 2023

Richard Curtis and the love rival MP behind his films' bumbling Bernards

Richard Curtis has admitted that he names irritating characters in his films Bernard after the Tory MP who stole his university girlfriend.

The Telegraph, 24th June 2023

The ten best Blackadder episodes

As one of Britain's finest comedies turns 40, we launch a cunning plan to count down to the very best show.

Tim Glanfield, The Sunday Times, 11th June 2023

As Blackadder turns 40, Howard Goodall reveals musical secrets of classic comedy

The composer and broadcaster on playing with history, blasting off into the charts with Red Dwarf, the difficulty of musicals - and writing for streaming.

Mark Braxton, Radio Times, 8th June 2023

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