Blackadder
Blackadder is a series of four period British sitcoms – The Black Adder, Blackadder II, Blackadder the Third and Blackadder Goes Forth – along with several one-off instalments, that originally aired on BBC1 from 1983 to 1989. All episodes starred Rowan Atkinson as the antihero Edmund Blackadder and Tony Robinson as Blackadder's servant Baldrick. Each series was set in a different historical period, with the two protagonists accompanied by different characters, though several reappear in one series or another, including Tim McInnerny as Percy and Darling, Stephen Fry as Melchett, and Hugh Lauri
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★ 8.0Blackadder 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.
- Aired
- 1983–1989
- Seasons
- 4 · 24 episodes
- Status
- Ended
- Created by
- Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson, Ben Elton
- Network
- BBC One
- Genres
- Comedy
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- Left to right: Tim McInnerny (as Darling), Rowan Atkinson (as Blackadder), Stephen Fry (as Melchett), Tony Robinson (as Baldrick), and Hugh Laurie (as George) in Blackadder Goes Forth
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- Period sitcom
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1980s British black comedy television series1980s British multi-camera sitcoms1983 British television series debuts1989 British television series endingsAlternate history television seriesBBC black comedy television showsBBC television sitcomsBlackadderBritish parody television seriesEnglish-language British television showsHistorical television series