Blackadder
BBC (ended 1989)
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Specials
- Ep 1A Blackadder's Christmas Carol12/23/88
In the late 1800's a kind and generous Ebeneezer Blackadder is visited the ghosts of his ancestors and told to follow the family tradition. ''
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Season 4
- Ep 8Blackadder Back & Forth12/31/99
It's New Year's Eve 1999, and Blackadder makes a bold claim to his contemporaries. He claims Baldrick has built a time machine with which Blackadder will get historical evidence. What no one knows is that Baldrick really has invented a time machine, with one slight flaw. That sends Blackadder and Baldrick on a millennium's worth of adventure.moreless - Ep 7(A Royal Birthday Celebration)11/14/98
Blackadder is commissioned to provide entertainment for the royal gala for King Charles. '' - Ep 6Goode Bye11/2/89
- Ep 6Plan F: Goodbyeee11/2/89
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. '' - Ep 5Plan E: General Hospital10/26/89
Blackadder is assigned to find the spy working out of the hospital. '' - Ep 4Plan D: Private Plane10/19/89
Blackadder and the boys join the Royal Air Corps, where they are promptly shot down behind enemy lines. '' - Ep 3Plan C: Major Star10/12/89
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. '' - Ep 2Plan B: Corporal Punishment10/5/89
Edmund is sentenced to death by firing squad for shooting and eating the General's favorite messenger pigeon. '' - Ep 1Plan A: Captain Cook9/28/89
Blackadder tries painting and cooking as ploys to avoid the scheduled big push out of the trenches. ''
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Season 3
- Ep 8The Cavalier Years2/5/88
As the only two loyalists to King Charles (sounding a lot like Prince Charles), it is up to Blackadder and Baldrick to come up with a plan to save the King from Oliver Cromwell's death sentence. - Ep 6Duel and Duality10/22/87
The Duke of Wellington has challenged the Prince to a duel for seducing his nieces and the Prince offers Blackadder anything he wants to take his place. - Ep 5Amy and Amiability10/15/87
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. ' - Ep 4Sense and Senility10/8/87
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. '' - Ep 3Nob and Nobility10/1/87
After the Scarlet Pimpernel gets high praises Blackadder makes a bet that he can go to France and rescue aristocrats, too. ' - Ep 2Ink and Incapability9/24/87
Blackadder has one weekend to rewrite a dictionary the Prince Reagent is sponsoring after Baldrick burns the only copy. ' - Ep 1Dish and Dishonesty9/17/87
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.
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Season 2
- Ep 6Chains2/20/86
Blackadder and Lord Melchett are kidnapped by a German spy right after the Queen decides she will pay no more ransom to kidnappers. ' - Ep 5Beer2/13/86
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. - Ep 4Money2/5/86
The Queen hampers Blackadder's efforts to raise cash to pay off a debt to a sadistic bishop. ' - Ep 3Potato1/23/86
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. ' - Ep 3The Archbishop2/1/86
- Ep 2Head1/16/86
After the Queen appoints Blackadder Lord High Executioner, he finds himself in trouble when the Queen pardons someone he executed ahead of schedule. ' - Ep 1Bells1/9/86
Blackadder feels a funny attraction for his manservant and decides to marry when he discovers he is a she. '
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Season 1
- Ep 6The Black Seal7/20/83
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. '' - Ep 5Witchsmeller Pursuivant7/13/83
Percy and Baldrick are to be burned at the stake with Edmund, when he is accused of being a witch. '' - Ep 4The Queen of Spain's Beard7/6/83
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. '' - Ep 3The Archbishop6/29/83
Edmund is appointed to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury after the king has the last one killed. '' - Ep 2Born to Be King6/22/83
With his father away at the Crusades, Edmund comes up with a plan to prove his brother is illegitimate, thus making him Prince Regent. '' - Ep 1The Foretelling6/15/83
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. '' - Pilot
With his father away at the Crusades, Edmund comes up with a plan to prove his brother is illegitimate, thus making him Prince Regent. ''
