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Plot Summaries
- Stars Rowan Atkinson, Brian Blessed, Robert East, Elspet Gray, Tim McInnerny
- Directors: Martin Shardlow, Geoff Posner
- Genres: Comedy
- Synopsis Set in England at the end of the War of the Roses, we soon find out that the history we know is a Tudor fiction. In fact, Henry VII did not actually win the battle of Bosworth Field; he lost and though Richard III died in the battle, his nephew King Richard IV (who certainly was not smothered while still a boy in the Tower of London) reigned on for some years. The story focuses on Richard IV's younger son Prince Edmund, a sniveling coward who calls himself the 'Black Adder'. Assisted by his grungy servant Baldrick and the moronic Lord Percy, Edmund plots his rise to greatness.
- Stars Rowan Atkinson, Tim McInnerny, Tony Robinson, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry
- Directors: Mandie Fletcher
- Genres: Comedy
- Synopsis Sixty years after the demise of Prince Edmund Plantagenet, Queen Elizabeth I, who's as insane as her ancestors, is England's current leader. Seductive, easy-to-impress, spoiled, and always seeking a husband, "Queenie" has a leading courtier: Lord Edmund Blackaddder, great-grandson of the original. Now, however, he is dryly cynical and intelligent, but still trying to become king; this time by marrying the queen. However, her right-hand-man, Lord Melchett, will always serve as fair competition for her hand. Blackadder is again assisted by the clueless but fashionable Lord Percy Percy and dung-eating, "cunning" peasant Baldrick.
- Stars Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Hugh Laurie, Helen Atkinson-Wood
- Directors: Mandie Fletcher
- Genres: Comedy
- Synopsis During the Regency period, the insane King George III's stark raving mad son, George, is the Prince Regent of Wales. Vulgar and staggeringly slow-and-dim-witted, George exhausts the country's money and would surely be dead by know were it not for his dry, angry, bitter, arrogant and cynical butler, Edmund Blackadder, Esq. Blackadder is an ex-aristocrat who has lost his family fortune and been reduced to servant-hood, and full of loathing knowing he should have a better position then serving a lunatic. Sod-Off Baldrick is his dirty, smelly peasant servant, and Mrs. Miggins is an annoying cheerful coffee-shoppe owner who is too stupid to understand most of Mr. Blackadder's insults.
- Stars Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tim McInnerny
- Directors: Richard Boden
- Genres: Comedy, War
- Synopsis It is 1917, and lunatic General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett is leading the British troops at the front lines against the Germans, while everyone waits for Field Marshall Haig's big push. There are various emotions throughout the camp about it. For Captain Kevin Darling, Melchett's bull-dog-like right-hand man, it makes no difference, as it appears he will be safe and sound with the general when the big push occurs. For Lieutenant George Colhurst Saint Barleigh, he is overly excited at thrashing the Germans. For Private S. (probably for Sod-Off) Baldrick, it's a terrifying experience he is not looking forward to. For Captain Edmund Blackadder, however, it's something he's too cowardly too face. Self-centered, arrogant, and sarcastic, Blackadder is always constantly searching for a way out of this silly war, and will try various, often crazy, variations on escape, all of which will take a turn he never expected. Sharing a dugout with George and Baldrick, his main obstacle for escape is Darling, who will ensure everyone is present for the big push.
Blackadder Back & Forth - Stars Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Miranda Richardson, Tim McInnerny, Hugh Laurie
- Directors: Paul Weiland
- Genres: Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
- Synopsis It's Millennium Eve and Blackadder is hosting a dinner party for a few select friends, Lady Elizabeth ('Miranda Richardson' ), Viscount George (Hugh Laurie), Archbishop Melchett (Stephen Fry), and Archbishop Darling (Tim McInnerny). Baldrick (Tony Robinson) devises yet another of his infamous cunning plans to help his ever greedy master Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) con money from his gullible friends. The pair build a "time machine" from empty cereal packets and place bets with their friends as to when in history they will travel, retrieving various artifacts from their travels as proof, items which Blackadder already owns! However, in a strange twist of fate the time machine actually works and the pair are thrown back in history initially to the Jurassic period. Gradually the pair start to return to their own time stopping off at various famous times in history such as Sherwood Forest and the Battle of Waterloo but will they make it home?
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- Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Brian Blessed, Elspet Gray, Robert East, Tony Robinson
- Directors: Robert East, Tony Robinson, Martin Shardlow, Geoff Posner, Mandie Fletcher
- Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
- Region: All Regions
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 6
- Rating
- Studio: BBC Warner
- DVD Release Date: June 26, 2001
- DVD Features:
- Available Audio Tracks: English (Unknown Format)
- Who's Who in Blackadder
- What's What - Interactive Guide to Historical Figures and Events
- Blackadder's Christmas Carol
- Blackadder in The Cavalier Years
- Archival Richard Curtis Interview
- Blackadder Sing-Along
- Note on DVD sets: During shipping, discs in multidisc sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
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