Plot
Five Generations Of Britain’s Premiere Comedy
BLACKADDER I: 1485 - Set during the really dark part of the Dark Ages, this premiere season chronicles the wickedly funny misadventures of the terminally treacherous Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh.
BLACKADDER II: 1558-1603 - The nasty genes of the Blackadder dynasty bubble back to the surface as Lord Edmund swaggers around town with a big head and a little beard in search of grace and favor from the stark raving mad Queen Bess.
BLACKADDER III: 1768 - 1815 - A golden age of wealth, power and discovery, though not for Edmund Blackadder, Esq. In a situation that can rightly be seen as something of a slump in the fortunes of the previously aristocratic family, Edmund is now butler and gentleman’s gentleman to the “mini-brained” Prince Regent.
BLACKADDER GOES FORTH: 1917 - There’s disorder on the Western Front when that numb-headed ninny, Captain Blackadder, stumbles onto the battlefields of WWI and discovers that people are trying to kill him.
BLACKADDER BACK & FORTH: 1999 - The new 21st-century Lord Blackadder and scabby but loyal servant, Baldrick, wreak havoc as they tumble through the past in a time machine with disastrous consequences. For me, Blackadder is all about the wit. Similar to The Goodies, I get drawn into the word play and characters. And it’s bloody funny and satirical.
It was part of my high school TV and my wife and I made special effort to see “Blackadder Back & Forth” at the opening of the Millennium Dome.
The final episode of the main run, “Goodbyeee” is as strong a piece on the futility of war as anything else.