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Blackadder Remastered: The Ultimate Edition

Black Adder

Blackadder Remastered: The Ultimate Edition

BBC Warner (Jun 15, 1983)
TV Series | Comedy | History | War
UK | English | Color | 14:55
Ultimate Edition
DVD
NR (Not Rated)
883929090129
| 6 discs
Region 1
Keep Case

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.


Cast View all

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

Episodes View details

1 S1E1: Original Pilot | Jun 20, 1982
2 S1E2: The Foretelling 30 min | Jun 15, 1983

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.

Guest stars: Peter Cook, Peter Benson, Philip Kendall, Kathleen St. John, Gretchen Franklin, Barbara Miller
3 S1E3: Born to Be King 30 min | Jun 22, 1983

With his father away at the Crusades, Edmund comes up with a plan to prove his brother is illegitimate, thus making him Prince Regent.

Guest stars: Alex Norton, Joolia Cappleman, Angus Deayton, Martin Soan, Malcolm Hardee, David Nunn, Martin Clarke
4 S1E4: The Archbishop 30 min | Jun 29, 1983

Edmund is appointed to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury after the king has the last one killed.

Guest stars: Joyce Grant, Carolyn Colquohoun, Bert Parnaby, Roy Evans, David Nunn, David Delve, Leslie Sands, Russell Enoch
5 S1E5: The Queen of Spain's Beard 30 min | Jul 06, 1983

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.

Guest stars: Nicola Critcher, Miriam Margolyes, Stephen Tate, Kenn Wells, Richard Mitchley, David Nunn, Natasha King
6 S1E6: Witchsmeller Pursuivant 30 min | Jul 13, 1983

Percy and Baldrick are to be burned at the stake with Edmund, when he is accused of being a witch.

Guest stars: Sarah Thomas, Stephen Frost, Mark Arden, Perry Benson, Bert Parnaby, Roy Evans, Forbes Collins, Patrick Duncan, Natasha King, Howard Lew Lewis, Richard Murdoch, Louise Gold, Barbara Miller
7 S1E7: The Black Seal 30 min | Jul 20, 1983

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.

Guest stars: John Barrard, Rik Mayall, Perry Benson, Paul Brooke, Big Mick, John Hallam, Roy Evans
8 S2E1: Bells 30 min | Jan 09, 1986

Blackadder feels a funny attraction for his manservant and decides to marry when he discovers he is a she.

Guest stars: Gabrielle Glaister, Rik Mayall, John Grillo, Edward Jewesbury, Sadie Shimmin, Barbara Miller
9 S2E2: Head 30 min | Jan 16, 1986

After the Queen appoints Blackadder Lord High Executioner, he finds himself in trouble when the Queen pardons someone he executed ahead of schedule.

Guest stars: Holly de Jong, Bill Wallis, Patrick Duncan, Linda Pollan
10 S2E3: Potato 30 min | Jan 23, 1986

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.

Guest stars: Tom Baker, Simon Jones
11 S2E4: Money 30 min | Feb 05, 1986

The Queen hampers Blackadder's efforts to raise cash to pay off a debt to a sadistic bishop.

Guest stars: Lesley Nicol, John Pierce Jones, Tony Aitken, Piers Ibbotson, Barry Craine
12 S2E5: Beer 30 min | Feb 13, 1986

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.

Guest stars: Miriam Margolyes, Hugh Laurie, Daniel Thorndike
13 S2E6: Chains 30 min | Feb 20, 1986

Blackadder and Lord Melchett are kidnapped by a German spy right after the Queen decides she will pay no more ransom to kidnappers.

Guest stars: Hugh Laurie, Max Harvey, Mark Arden, Lee Cornes
14 S3E1: Dish and Dishonesty 30 min | Sep 17, 1987

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.

Guest stars: Vincent Hanna, Simon Osborne, Geoffrey McGivern, Dominic Martelli
15 S3E2: Ink and Incapability 30 min | Sep 24, 1987

Blackadder has one weekend to rewrite a dictionary the Prince Regent is sponsoring after Baldrick burns the only copy.

Guest stars: Robbie Coltrane, Lee Cornes, Steve Steen, Jim Sweeney
16 S3E3: Nob and Nobility 30 min | Oct 01, 1987

After the Scarlet Pimpernel gets high praises Blackadder makes a bet that he can go to France and rescue aristocrats, too.

Guest stars: Tim McInnerny, Nigel Planer
17 S3E4: Sense and Senility 30 min | Oct 08, 1987

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.

Guest stars: Hugh Paddick, Kenneth Connor, Ben Elton
18 S3E5: Amy and Amiability 30 min | Oct 15, 1987

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.

Guest stars: Warren Clarke, Barbara Thorne, Roger Avon, Miranda Richardson
19 S3E6: Duel and Duality 30 min | Oct 22, 1987

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.

Guest stars: Stephen Fry, Gertan Klauber
20 S1E1: Captain Cook 30 min | Sep 28, 1989

Blackadder tries painting and cooking as ploys to avoid the scheduled big push out of the trenches.

21 S1E2: Corporal Punishment 30 min | Oct 05, 1989

Edmund is sentenced to death by firing squad for shooting and eating the General's favorite messenger pigeon.

Guest stars: Jeremy Hardy, Stephen Frost, Lee Cornes, Paul Mark Elliott, Jeremy Gittins
22 S1E3: Major Star 30 min | Oct 12, 1989

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.

Guest stars: Gabrielle Glaister
23 S1E4: Private Plane 30 min | Oct 19, 1989

Blackadder and the boys join the Royal Air Corps, where they are promptly shot down behind enemy lines.

Guest stars: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Gabrielle Glaister
24 S1E5: General Hospital 30 min | Oct 26, 1989

Blackadder is assigned to find the spy working out of the hospital.

Guest stars: Bill Wallis, Miranda Richardson
25 S1E6: Goodbyeee 30 min | Nov 02, 1989

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.

Guest stars: Geoffrey Palmer