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.
Streaming rank this week: 265
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Blackadder tops poll of the best British TV shows ever
Blackadder has been voted the best British television series ever by audiences.
Mail on Sunday, 3rd June 2012Blackadder: the best quotes
As G.O.L.D. treats us to a weekend of historical hilarity, we recall some of Blackadder's finest lines.
Laura Pledger, Radio Times, 18th February 2012Blackadder the Fifth - Any thoughts?
When Rowan Atkinson put Teddy to bed for the last time recently, he did offer up, in exchange, that he'd be up for the possibility more Blackadder brilliance someday in the not-too-distant future. That's the good news.
Bill Young, Tellyspotting, 18th October 2011Blackadder the Fifth? What should the theme be?
After Rowan Atkinson hinted that he'd like to make more Blackadder, we suggest some new scenarios...
Radio Times, 11th October 2011Should the series with the perfect ending return?
Rumors have circulated across the internet the past couple of weeks concerning a possible return of the greatness of Blackadder for another season.
Bill Young, Tellyspotting, 9th October 2011'Blackadder': Tube Talk Gold
Whenever anyone feels compelled to compile a list of the all-time great UK sitcoms, the various iterations of Blackadder are more often than not justly placed near the top.
Morgan Jeffery, Digital Spy, 8th October 2011Rowan Atkinson hints at a fifth series of Blackadder
Veteran comedian Rowan Atkinson wants to do a fifth series of his classic sitcom Blackadder.
Simone Boyle, The Mirror, 1st October 2011Review: The Black Adder (1983)
An innovative and influential '80s sitcom that kept reinventing itself, Blackadder was the embodiment of intelligent cynicism, witty farce, historical playfulness, and delectable dialogue that often (famously) took the form of protracted similes.
Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 9th September 2011Your next box set: Blackadder
From castle to first world war trenches, Blackadder was inspired comedy.
Andrew Pulver, The Guardian, 16th December 2010Fortune vomits on our eiderdown once more - in the good sense - as G.O.L.D. goes wibble for Blackadder with a run of episodes taken from across the four series. The day is topped off by Blackadder stars Fry and Laurie's reunion, which first aired last week, at 10.20pm.
Will Dean, The Guardian, 27th November 2010