EP 1AvailableNow playingThe Foretelling
34m·6/15/1983·7.0
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.
Blackadder
Season 1 · Episode 1IMDb8.0
- Released
- 6/15/1983
- Duration
- 0h 30m
- Genre
- Comedy
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Cast
- Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie
Overview
Blackadder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of The Great War.
Episodes
EP 1AvailableNow playing
EP 2AvailableBorn to Be King
34m·6/22/1983·6.5
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 3AvailableThe Archbishop
33m·6/29/1983·7.0
Edmund is appointed to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury after the King has the last one killed.
EP 4AvailableThe Queen of Spain's Beard
34m·7/6/1983·7.4
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 5AvailableWitchsmeller Pursuivant
30m·7/13/1983·6.7
Percy and Baldrick are to be burned at the stake with Edmund, when he is accused of being a witch.
EP 6AvailableThe Black Seal
31m·7/20/1983·7.1
After the King takes away Edmund's title of Duke, he recruits the six most evil men in the land to take the crown by force.
Cast
Captain Edmund Blackadder
Rowan Atkinson
Private S. Baldrick
Tony Robinson
Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh
Hugh Laurie
Captain Kevin Darling
Tim McInnerny
General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett
