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| Blackadder | |
|---|---|
 Left to right: Tim McInnerny (as Darling), Rowan Atkinson (as Blackadder), Stephen Fry (as Melchett), Tony Robinson (as Baldrick), and Hugh Laurie (as George) 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 2–3) Richard Boden (series 4) |
| Starring | Rowan Atkinson Tony Robinson Hugh Laurie Stephen Fry Tim McInnerny Miranda Richardson |
| 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 – 2 November 1989 |
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Blackadder is a series of four period British sitcoms - The Black Adder, Blackadder II, Blackadder the Third and Blackadder Goes Forth - 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., Tim McInnerny as Percy and Darling, Stephen Fry as Melchett, and Hugh Laurie as George.
The first series was written by Richard Curtis and Atkinson, while subsequent series were written by Curtis and Ben Elton. The shows were produced by John Lloyd. In 2000, Blackadder Goes Forth ranked at 16 in the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes, a list created by the British Film Institute.[1] In a 2001 poll by Channel 4, Edmund Blackadder was ranked third on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters.[2] In the 2004 TV poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom, Blackadder (all four series combined) was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses.[3] It was also ranked as the ninth-best TV show of all time by Empire magazine in 2009.[4] Atkinson said Blackadder is "the thing he found the least stressful" to do.[5]
- ^ BFI Staff (4 March 2009). "The BFI TV 100: 1–100". London, UK: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 11 September 2011.
- ^ "100 Greatest TV Characters". Channel 4. Archived from the original on 31 May 2009. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
- ^ "The Final Top Ten Sitcoms". bbcattic.org. London: BBC. 2004. Archived from the original on 13 October 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2025.
- ^ "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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