Box set: Black Adder The Complete Collection

Blackadder II

BBC Home Video (1986)

Comedy, History
 /   / Color / 175 mins
501450317420 
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In Collection
#874
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Plot

Through four series and a few specials, Edmund Blackadder and his greasy sidekick Baldrick conjure up cunning plans as Edmund tries to take advantage of desperate times. These "situation tragedies" had obvious parallels from the Dark Ages to Elizabethan times, the rule of mad George III, and The Great War. Some character names from the first series are open to debate as they are shown in fancy script on screen, usually against unhelpful backgrounds.

Cast

Rowan Atkinson Lord Edmund Blackadder
Tim McInnerny Lord Percy Percy
Tony Robinson Baldrick
Miranda Richardson Queen Elizabeth I
Stephen Fry Lord Melchett
Patsy Byrne Nursie
Tony Aitken Balladeer
Hugh Laurie Prince Ludwig

Crew

Director
Mandie Fletcher
Producer John Lloyd
Writer Richard Curtis , Ben Elton
Musician Howard Goodall

Trailer

Episodes

Disc 01

1
Bells
30 mins  09/01/1986
Blackadder feels a funny attraction for his manservant and decides to marry when he discovers he is a she.

Director:  Mandie Fletcher 

Writer:  Richard Curtis  / Ben Elton 

Guest starring: Gabrielle Glaister,  Rik Mayall, John Grillo,  Edward Jewesbury, Sadie Shimmin, Barbara Miller

2
Head
30 mins  16/01/1986
After the Queen appoints Blackadder Lord High Executioner, he finds himself in trouble when the Queen pardons someone he executed ahead of schedule.

Director:  Mandie Fletcher 

Writer:  Richard Curtis  / Ben Elton 

Guest starring: Holly de Jong, Bill Wallis, Patrick Duncan, Linda Pollan

3
Potato
30 mins  23/01/1986
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.

Director:  Mandie Fletcher 

Writer:  Richard Curtis  / Ben Elton 

Guest starring: Tom Baker, Simon Jones

4
Money
30 mins  05/02/1986
The Queen hampers Blackadder's efforts to raise cash to pay off a debt to a sadistic bishop.

Director:  Mandie Fletcher 

Writer:  Richard Curtis  / Ben Elton 

Guest starring: Lesley Nicol, John Pierce Jones, Tony Aitken, Piers Ibbotson, Barry Craine

5
Beer
30 mins  13/02/1986
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.

Director:  Mandie Fletcher 

Writer:  Richard Curtis  / Ben Elton 

Guest starring:  Miriam Margolyes,  Hugh Laurie, Daniel Thorndike

6
Chains
30 mins  20/02/1986
Blackadder and Lord Melchett are kidnapped by a German spy right after the Queen decides she will pay no more ransom to kidnappers.

Director:  Mandie Fletcher 

Writer:  Richard Curtis  / Ben Elton 

Guest starring:  Hugh Laurie, Max Harvey, Mark Arden, Lee Cornes

Edition Details

Series Black Adder
Release Date 2005
Packaging Custom Case
No. of Disks/Tapes 1

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