EPISODE
In this comedy series, writers Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson present a distinctive historical model. It is the alternative historical series that King Richard III won at the Battle of Bosworth Field only to be understood by someone and killed. Richard IV took over, one of the princes who sought to increase his status.
22 February 1957, Accra, Ghana
19 November 1924, Sunderland, England, UK
19 August 1903, Vienna, Austria
28 October 1941, Lisburn, Northern Ireland, UK
19 May 1946, Harlesden, London, England, UK
20 March 1932, Finsbury, London, England, UK
July 29, 1928 in Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK
24 May 1949, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
18 September 1956, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, England, UK
7 March 1958, Harlow, Essex, England, UK
17 March 1927, Nyasaland [now Malawi]
4 July 1926, Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, UK
1938, Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK
April 6, 1907 in Kestow, Kent, England, UK
13 June 1943, England, UK
7 July 1911, Covent Garden, London, England, UK
1956, London, England, UK
1948, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
September 11, 2018
Leave it to the Brits to find humor in World War I.
November 28, 2018
Though the writing was strong and the verbal interplay was there, the first series made the mistake of abundance, with Edmund Blackadder too bumbling, the cast too abounding and the sets too sprawling.
November 28, 2018
Most of the jokes fall flat and there's no real wit of spark to the characters.
November 27, 2018
Pilots are hard to get right, particularly comedy pilots, so it's not surprising that "The Foretelling" is among the series' most uneven episodes.
November 28, 2018
It's definitely the writing and varying plateaus of verbal trickery used, even without the novel historical hook, that make Black Adder stand out.
November 28, 2018
There is just something so amazingly awful, so delightfully despicable about the man that you can't help but hang on his every wicked wisecrack and/or deed.
September 11, 2018
It's rare that a hist0ory-based comedy is genuinely funny, and in that sense Blackadder is a true diamond in the rough.
