Black Adder

The Blackadder-Series 1

BBC (1983)

9397810037694

8.0

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TV Series | Comedy

UK | English | Color | 03:10

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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 Baldrick and the moronic Lord Percy, Edmund plots his rise to greatness.

Episodes View details

0 Original Pilot 32 min | Jun 15, 2023

Set in Elizabethan times, Prince Edmund plots to kill McAngus after the King gives him all of Edmund's Scottish lands.

1 The Foretelling 35 min | Jun 15, 1983

Henry Tulip is coming. The Normans are invading (again), and the King, Richard the Third, prepares to lead his armies into battle at Bosworth.

2 Born to Be King 33 min | Jun 22, 1983

When Edmund's Scottish lands are given to the King's Supreme Commander, Douglas McAngus, he plots revenge.

3 The Archbishop 31 min | Jun 29, 1983

The KIng needs to find a replacement for the late Archbishop of Canterbury; someone who will lead the church properly, someone easily bullied, possibly someone related to him.

4 The Queen of Spain's Beard 33 min | Jul 06, 1983

To dominate Northern Europe, King Richard arranges a marriage between his son Edmund and the Spanish Infanta.

5 Witchsmeller Pursuivant 30 min | Jul 13, 1983

With the Black Death ravaging Europe, Witchsmellers scour England for the witches who caused the plague. Following the burning of a local witch (and her pussycat) Edmund runs afoul of a fanatical Witchsmeller.

6 The Black Seal 30 min | Jul 20, 1983

When Edmund loses his title of Duke of Edinburgh, he snaps, fires Baldrick and Percy and hires some of the most cruel men in England; Sir Wilfred Death, Three-Fingered Pete, Guy de Glastonbury, Sean the Irish Bastard, Friar Bellows and Jack Large to help him take over the kingdom.

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	Rowan Atkinson	The Laird of Roxburgh / Selkirk and Peebles
	Tim McInnerny	Percy / Duke of Northumberland
	Elspet Gray	Gertrude / Queen of Flanders
	Brian Blessed	Richard XII of Scotland
	Patrick Allen	Narrator
	Tony Robinson	Baldrick / Bachelor of the Parish of Chigwell
	Robert East	Harry / Prince of Wales
	David Nunn	Messenger
	Roy Evans	Abel / A Peasant
	Perry Benson	Italian Priest
	Bert Parnaby	Cain / A Peasant
	Natasha King	Princess Leia of Hungary
	Alex Norton	McAngus / Duke of Argyll
	Howard Lew Lewis	Mr. Applebottom
	Stephen Frost	Soft / A Guard
	Forbes Collins	Trusting Father
	Barbara Miller	Regan
	Jim Broadbent	Don Speekingleesh / An Interpreter
	Miriam Margolyes	Infanta Maria Escalosa of Spain
	Patrick Malahide	Guy of Glastonbury
	Ron Cook	Sean / The Irish Bastard
	William Russell	The Duke of Winchester
	John Hallam	Sir Wilfred Death
	Paul Brooke	Friar Bellows
	Frank Finlay	The Witchsmeller Pursuivant