Blackadder - BBC1 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

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Blackadder. Image shows from L to R: Captain Kevin Darling (Tim McInnerny), Captain Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson), General Melchett (Stephen Fry), Baldrick (Tony Robinson), Lieutenant George Barleigh (Hugh Laurie)

Genre

Sitcom

Broadcast

1983 - 2000

Channel

BBC 1

Episodes

26 (4 series), plus 2 charity specials

Stars

Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Brian Blessed, Miranda Richardson, Patsy Byrne and more

Writers

Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Rowan Atkinson and William Shakespeare

Directors

Mandie Fletcher, Martin Shardlow and Richard Boden

Producer

John Lloyd

Companies

Like a stain on the eiderdown of English history, the Blackadder family has been present at some of the greatest events in our nation's past. We join their tale in the late 1400s, with Edmund Plantagenat, alias 'The Black Adder', the weasley 'spare' son of King Richard IV.

En route to the dawn of the new millennium in 2000, we bump into Lords and Sirs of the dynasty including those from the times of King Charles I, Prince George in Regency England, the Captain Blackadder of World War I, and Elizabeth I's favourite Lord.

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Tagline

The most gripping sitcom since 1380

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Production

Studio

Camera set-up

Multi-camera

Picture

Colour

Soundtrack

All original music composed by Howard Goodall. Closing theme to Blackadder Back & Forth sung by Giles Underwood.

Broadcast details

First broadcast

Wednesday 15th June 1983 at 9:25pm on BBC One

Next repeats

  1. The Black Adder, Episode 6: Saturday at 2:30am on U&Gold
  2. The Black Adder, Episode 5: Wednesday 16th April at 2:45am on U&Gold

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Recording details