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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Foretelling

    • June 15, 1983
    • BBC One

    After arriving late for the Battle of Bosworth Field, Edmund kills King Richard III (whom he thinks is stealing his horse) and secures the crown for his father.

  • S01E02 The Queen of Spain's Beard

    • July 6, 1983
    • BBC One

    The King decides that Edmund should marry a Spanish Princess, who Edmund finds unattractive, in order to secure a treaty between Spain and England which will allow an invasion of France.

  • S01E03 The Archbishop

    • June 29, 1983
    • BBC One

    Edmund is appointed to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury after the king has the last one killed.

  • S01E04 Born to Be King

    • June 22, 1983
    • BBC One

    With his father away at the Crusades, Edmund comes up with a plan to prove his brother is illegitimate, thus making him Prince Regent.

  • S01E05 Witchsmeller Pursuivant

    • July 13, 1983
    • BBC One

    Percy and Baldrick are to be burned at the stake with Edmund, when he is accused of being a witch.

  • S01E06 The Black Seal

    • July 20, 1983
    • BBC One

    After the King takes away Edmund's title of Duke, he recruits the 6 most evil men in the land to take the crown by force.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Bells

    • January 9, 1986
    • BBC One

    Blackadder feels a funny attraction for his manservant and decides to marry when he discovers he is a she.

  • S02E02 Head

    • January 16, 1986
    • BBC One

    After the Queen appoints Blackadder Lord High Executioner, he finds himself in trouble when the Queen pardons someone he executed ahead of schedule.

  • S02E03 Potato

    • January 23, 1986
    • BBC One

    After Sir Walter Raleigh takes the Queen's fancy by bringing her a potato, Blackadder decides to become an explorer with the aid of a legless sea captain.

  • S02E04 Money

    • February 5, 1986
    • BBC One

    The Queen hampers Blackadder's efforts to raise cash to pay off a debt to a sadistic bishop.

  • S02E05 Beer

    • February 13, 1986
    • BBC One

    Blackadder's rich and Puritanical aunt and uncle pay him a visit to discuss his inheritance the same night he has a beer drinking contest.

  • S02E06 Chains

    • February 20, 1986
    • BBC One

    Blackadder and Lord Melchett are kidnapped by a German spy right after the Queen decides she will pay no more ransom to kidnappers.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Dish and Dishonesty

    • September 17, 1987
    • BBC One

    Blackadder becomes involved in politics by getting Baldrick elected MP, in an effort to stop the new Prime Minister, Pitt the Younger, from striking the Prince off the Civil List.

  • S03E02 Ink and Incapability

    • September 24, 1987
    • BBC One

    Blackadder has one weekend to rewrite a dictionary the Prince Regent is sponsoring after Baldrick burns the only copy.

  • S03E03 Nob and Nobility

    • October 1, 1987
    • BBC One

    After the Scarlet Pimpernel gets high praises Blackadder makes a bet that he can go to France and rescue aristocrats, too.

  • S03E04 Sense and Senility

    • October 8, 1987
    • BBC One

    The Prince Regent hires a pair of actors to teach him to give better speeches and earn the people's respect after an anarchist tries to blow him up at the theatre.

  • S03E05 Amy and Amiability

    • October 15, 1987
    • BBC One

    After Parliament cuts off the Prince's money he decides to marry a rich lady who obtains her money by moonlighting as a notorious highwayman.

  • S03E06 Duel and Duality

    • October 22, 1987
    • BBC One

    The Duke of Wellington has challenged the Prince to a duel for seducing his daughters and the Prince offers Blackadder anything he wants to take his place.

  • S03E07 Blackadder's Christmas Carol

    • December 23, 1988
    • BBC One

    In the late 1800s, a kind and generous Ebenezer Blackadder is visited the Ghost of Christmas Past, who shows him visions of his ancestors, and the future of the Blackadders if he does not follow the family tradition. The second special was broadcast on Friday 23 December 1988. In a twist on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Blackadder is the "kindest and loveliest" man in England. The Spirit of Christmas shows Blackadder the contrary antics of his ancestors and descendants, and reluctantly informs him that if he turns evil his descendants will enjoy power and fortune, while if he remains the same a future Blackadder will live shamefully subjugated to a future incompetent Baldrick. This remarkable encounter causes him to proclaim, "Bad guys have all the fun", and adopt the personality with which viewers are more familiar.

Season 4

  • S04E01 Captain Cook

    • September 28, 1989
    • BBC One

    Blackadder tries painting and cooking as ploys to avoid the scheduled big push out of the trenches.

  • S04E02 Corporal Punishment

    • October 5, 1989
    • BBC One

    Edmund is sentenced to death by firing squad for shooting and eating the General's favorite messenger pigeon.

  • S04E03 Major Star

    • October 12, 1989
    • BBC One

    Blackadder grabs yet another opportunity to return to England by organizing a morale-raising music hall show, including Baldrick's Charlie Chaplin impersonation and George's appearance as a lady songstress who captures the General's heart.

  • S04E04 Private Plane

    • October 19, 1989
    • BBC One

    Blackadder and the boys join the Royal Air Corps, where they are promptly shot down behind enemy lines.

  • S04E05 General Hospital

    • October 26, 1989
    • BBC One

    Blackadder is assigned to find the spy working out of the hospital.

  • S04E06 Goodbyeee

    • November 2, 1989
    • BBC One

    Blackadder tries everything he can think of to get sent back to England when orders come in to go over the top in the first charge against the Germans since 1914.

  • S04E07 Blackadder Back & Forth

    • December 6, 1999
    • Sky One

    It's New Year's Eve 1999, and Blackadder makes a bold claim to his contemporaries. He claims Baldrick has built a time machine with which Blackadder will get historical evidence. What no one knows is that Baldrick really has invented a time machine, with one slight flaw. That sends Blackadder and Baldrick on a millennium's worth of adventure. Blackadder: Back & Forth was originally shown in the Millennium Dome in 2000, followed by a screening on Sky One in the same year (and later on BBC1). It is set on the turn of the millennium, and features Lord Blackadder placing a bet with his friends – modern versions of Queenie (Miranda Richardson), Melchett (Stephen Fry), George (Hugh Laurie) and Darling (Tim McInnerny) – that he has built a working time machine. While this is intended as a clever con trick, the machine, surprisingly, works, sending Blackadder and Baldrick back to the time of the dinosaurs, where they manage to cause the extinction of the dinosaurs, through the use of Baldrick's best, worst and only pair of underpants as a weapon against a hungry T.Rex. Finding that Baldrick has forgotten to write dates on the machine's dials, the rest of the film follows their attempts to find their way back to 1999, often creating huge historical anomalies in the process which must be corrected before the end. The film includes cameo appearances from Kate Moss and Colin Firth.