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Blackadder Season 1 Episode 6

The Black Seal

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AIRED: 7/20/83

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.

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Rowan Atkinson	Prince Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh
Elspet Gray	the Queen [ 1 ]
Brian Blessed	Richard IV [ 1 ]
Tony Robinson	Baldrick
Patrick Allen	Narrator [ 1 ] The Hawk
Tim McInnerny	Percy [ 1 & 2 ] /Captain Kevin Darling [ 4 ]

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John Barrard	Retired Morris Dancer	Guest Star
Rik Mayall	Mad Gerald as Himself	Guest Star
Perry Benson	Pigeon Vendor	Guest Star

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- Rik Mayall (better known in the series as Lord Flashheart) makes his first appearance in the series in this episode as 'Mad Gerald'.
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- The cold opening of "The Foretelling" says Richard IV reigned from 1485 to 1498. This episode starts in 1498, but Edmund is stuck in a cell for an entire year and Richard IV is still on the throne.
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QUOTES (4)
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- The Hack: God save the King.
  The Band: Cause no one else will.
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- Edmund: Why? Because, Percy, far from being a fit consort for the Prince of the Realm, you would bore the leggings off the village idiot. You ride a horse rather less well than another horse would. Your brain would make a grain of sand look large and ungainly and the part of that can't be mentioned, I am reliably informed by the women of the Court, wouldn't be worth mentioning even if it could be. If you put on a floppy hat and a funny cod-piece, you might just get by as a fool, but since you wouldn't know a joke if it got up and gave you a haircut, I doubt it. That's why you're dismissed.
  Percy: Oh, I see.
  Edmund: And as for you, Baldrick.
  Baldrick: You're out too.
  Baldrick: Fair enough.
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- Prince Edmund: (weakly) Harry...what are my chances?
  Harry: Oh, very good.
  Queen Gertrud: He will live?
  Harry: Living? Oh, I thought you meant of going to heaven.
  Prince Edmund: (weakly) Damn.
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- Richard IV: The Black Dagger!
  Prince Edmund: (meekly) Black Adder!
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NOTES (1)
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- The credits has the actors listed as "Cast in Order of Disappearance".
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ALLUSIONS (2)
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- Edmund: All for one.
  The Band: And each one for himself.
  
  This is a play on a very famous motto of the musketeers in Alexandre Dumas's book: Three Musketeers.
  The original text is Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno in Latin, which meana One for all and all for one.
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- Edmund: We few, we happy few, we band of ruthless bastards!
  
  This line when Edmund is drinking with the other members of the Black Seal is a play on the famous speech from Shakespeare's "Henry V" which starts off with: 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.'
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