For other uses, see Blackadder (disambiguation).Not to be confused with Black adder.
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Blackadder
Left to right: Tim McInnerny, Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Tony Robinson and Hugh Laurie in Blackadder Goes Forth
Genre
Period sitcom
Created by
Richard Curtis Rowan Atkinson
Written by
Richard Curtis Rowan Atkinson (series 1) Ben Elton (series 2–4)
Directed by
Geoff Posner (pilot) Martin Shardlow (series 1) Mandie Fletcher (series 2 and 3) Richard Boden (series 4)
Starring
Rowan Atkinson Tony Robinson Hugh Laurie Tim McInnerny Miranda Richardson Stephen Fry
Theme music composer
Howard Goodall
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Original language
English
No. of series
4
No. of episodes
24 (plus 4 specials) (list of episodes)
Production
Producer
John Lloyd
Camera setup
Multi-camera
Running time
30 minutes approx
Production company
BBC
Original release
Network
BBC1
Release
15 June 1983 (1983-06-15) – 2 November 1989 (1989-11-02)
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Blackadder is a series of four period British sitcoms, plus several one-off instalments, which originally aired on BBC1 from 1983 to 1989. All television episodes starred Rowan Atkinson as the antihero Edmund Blackadder and Tony Robinson as Blackadder's dogsbody, 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, e.g., Melchett (Stephen Fry), Lord Percy Percy / Captain Darling (Tim McInnerny) and George (Hugh Laurie).
The first series, The Black Adder, was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, while subsequent series were written by Curtis and Ben Elton. The shows were produced by John Lloyd. In 2000, the fourth series, Blackadder Goes Forth, ranked at 16 in the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes, a list created by the British Film Institute. In a 2001 poll by Channel 4, Edmund Blackadder was ranked third on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters.[1] In the 2004 TV poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom, Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses. It was also ranked as the 9th-best TV show of all time by Empire magazine.[2] Rowan Atkinson said Blackadder is "the thing he found the least stressful" to do.[3]
^"100 Greatest TV Characters". Channel 4. Archived from the original on 31 May 2009. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
^"The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time – Number 20: Blackadder". Empire. Archived from the original on 19 March 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2009.
^Pingitore, Silvia (5 July 2022). "The shortest interview ever with Mr Bean star Rowan Atkinson". Retrieved 3 July 2023.
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