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Series 1

Series 1 - The Black Adder

Set in the 15th century in England, Prince Edmund, son of King Richard IV tries to get ahead in the Royal Court. Fortunately, his manservant Baldrick is smart enough to keep him out of too much trouble (although he does manage to kill a few kings). more...

Series 2

Series 2 - Blackadder II

England 1558 - 1603. The filthy genes of the Blackadder dynasty bubble back to the surface of the melting pot of history as Lord Edmund, arrogant peer-about-town, swaggers back with a big head and smaal beard in search of grace and favour from stark raving mad Queen Bess. Accompanied by a small rabble of beruffed riff-raff - bottom-breath Baldrick and pea-brained Percy - the serpentine Lord Blackadder lowers the whole tone of England's Golden Age. more...

Series 3

Series 3 - Blackadder the Third

England 1760 - 1815. The annals of the Blackadder family continue, their fortunes have rather plummeted with the advent of the Regency period. Edmund Blackadder, butler to the Prince Regent, veers from calamity to disaster with very little in the way of constructive help from his imbecilic Lord and master, oh and Baldrick, of whom the least said the better. more...

Series 4

Series 4 - Blackadder Goes Forth

The Western Front 1917: Captain Blackadder, joined the British Army when it was little more than a travel agency for gentlemen with an abnormally high sex drive. Now he's twenty yards from a lot of heavily armed people who want to kill him. Worse still, his brother officer is a man whose family brain cell is gathering dust in a pawn shop in Dunstable, and Baldrick is in charge of the cooking. more...

 

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