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.

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When sitcom gets serious

I have been thinking about the power of pathos in sitcom.

A Dose Of David Mitchell, 4th October 2018

Rowan Atkinson: Blackadder won't return

Rowan Atkinson has confirmed that Blackadder won't be making a return to screens - even though he thinks it'll be fun to reunite with his co-star Tony Robinson.

Female First, 4th October 2018

Tony Robinson suggests Blackadder Series 5

Tony Robinson, talking about Blackadder, has said "I do see a version of the show coming back."

British Comedy Guide, 26th September 2018

Why Blackadder writers reinvented him after series one

35 years ago, it's fair to say that the now-beloved sitcom was a very different beast to begin with.

Mark Butler, i Newspaper, 13th June 2018

Blackadder on Netflix: why you should re-watch it

In among the huge swaths of original content on Netflix, there are also plenty of beloved old favourites primed to be revisited. One such timeless classic is the incomparable Blackadder.

Robert Keeling, Metro, 14th March 2018

Several sitcoms banned by Mastermind

Contestants on the BBC quiz show Mastermind will no longer be allowed to pick Fawlty Towers, Blackadder or Roald Dahl as their specialist subjects as the producers have run out of questions. Mark Helsby, Mastermind's producer, has revealed that some subjects are so popular that they have been "exhausted" for new questions. Father Ted and the Chronicles of Narnia have also been removed.

Graham Ruddick, The Guardian, 30th January 2018

Blackadder's greatest episodes

With an ensemble cast that no other sitcom can ever hope to match, the show gave us plenty of memorable episodes, but we've tried to narrow them down to just a select few.

Rob Keeling, Cult Box, 25th October 2017

So Dominic Watt's research team at York University claim to have discovered 30 lost English words, amongs which is "slug-a-bed" (Opinion, 15 September)? Would this be the same "lost" word used in Blackadder II, wherein the titular character played by Rowan Atkinson rouses the Bishop of Bath and Wells from his drugged slumber with "Wakey, wakey, Bish. You clerics really are slug-a-beds"?

Mark Boyle, The Guardian, 9th September 2017

Blackadder tops list of shows people would like to return

Blackadder, Only Fools And Horses, Spitting Image and Fawlty Towers have come out top of a poll that asked people which classic TV shows they'd like to return.

British Comedy Guide, 15th June 2017

When Blackadder turned election farce into comedy

"At last we can return to sanity. The mad hysteria is at an end. After the chaos of a general election, we can return to normal." So says Edmund Blackadder at the start of 'Dish and Dishonesty' - the very first episode of Blackadder The Third.

Mark Butler, i Newspaper, 5th June 2017

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