Black Adder
This collection contains:
- The Black Adder (1982)
- Black-Adder II (1986)
- Black Adder the Third (1987)
- Blackadder Goes Forth (1989)
- Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988)
- Blackadder: The Cavalier Years (1988)
- Blackadder Back & Forth (1999)
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 and the moronic Lord Percy, Edmund plots his rise to greatness.
Rowan Atkinson | Edmund / Duke of Edinburgh | |
Elspet Gray | The Queen | |
Tim McInnerny | Percy | |
Patrick Allen | Narrator | |
Brian Blessed | King Richard IV | |
Tony Robinson | Baldrick | |
Robert East | Harry / Prince of Wales | |
Bert Parnaby | Cain / A Blind Beggar | |
Roy Evans | Abel / A Blind Beggar | |
David Nunn | Messenger | |
Perry Benson | Daft Ned / A Peasant | |
Alex Norton | McAngus | |
Forbes Collins | Dopey Jack / A Peasant | |
Barbara Miller | Jane Firkettle | |
Howard Lew Lewis | Mr. Applebottom | |
Natasha King | Princess Leia of Hungary | |
Stephen Frost | Soft / A Guard | |
John Carlisle | Murdered Lord | |
Peter Cook | Richard III | |
Paul McDowell | Herbert / Archbishop of Canterbury | |
John Savident | The King | |
Frank Finlay | The Witchsmeller Pursuivant | |
Arthur Hewlett | Godfrey / Archbishop of Canterbury | |
Peter Benson | Henry VII | |
Robert Bathurst | Prince Henry |
Director | Martin Shardlow | |
Geoff Posner | ||
Writer | Rowan Atkinson, Richard Curtis, William Shakespeare | |
Producer | John Lloyd, Geoff Posner | |
Musician | Howard Goodall |
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 6 most evil men in the land to take the crown by force.
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.
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 sponsoring 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.
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 favorite messenger pigeon.
Blackadder grabs yet another opportunity to return to England by organizing 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.