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Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of the First World War.

4 Seasons
24 Episodes
Ended
Comedy War & Politics
episode image Plan F: Goodbyeee
9.4/10 (1933 votes)

#1 Plan F: Goodbyeee

S4:E6

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.

episode image Plan B: Corporal Punishment
8.8/10 (1255 votes)

#2 Plan B: Corporal Punishment

S4:E2

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

episode image Ink and Incapability
8.6/10 (1159 votes)

#3 Ink and Incapability

S3:E2

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

episode image Plan E: General Hospital
8.6/10 (1155 votes)

#4 Plan E: General Hospital

S4:E5

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

episode image Beer
8.5/10 (1184 votes)

#5 Beer

S2:E5

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.

episode image Plan D: Private Plane
8.5/10 (1199 votes)

#6 Plan D: Private Plane

S4:E4

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

episode image Duel and Duality
8.4/10 (1017 votes)

#7 Duel and Duality

S3:E6

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.

episode image Plan C: Major Star
8.4/10 (1110 votes)

#8 Plan C: Major Star

S4:E3

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.

episode image Bells
8.3/10 (1316 votes)

#9 Bells

S2:E1

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

episode image Head
8.3/10 (1183 votes)

#10 Head

S2:E2

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

episode image Potato
8.2/10 (1166 votes)

#11 Potato

S2:E3

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.

episode image Chains
8.2/10 (1083 votes)

#12 Chains

S2:E6

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

episode image Dish and Dishonesty
8.2/10 (1133 votes)

#13 Dish and Dishonesty

S3:E1

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.

episode image Plan A: Captain Cook
8.2/10 (1153 votes)

#14 Plan A: Captain Cook

S4:E1

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

episode image Nob and Nobility
8.1/10 (1048 votes)

#15 Nob and Nobility

S3:E3

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

episode image Sense and Senility
8.1/10 (1048 votes)

#16 Sense and Senility

S3:E4

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.

episode image Amy and Amiability
8.1/10 (1016 votes)

#17 Amy and Amiability

S3:E5

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.

episode image Money
8.0/10 (1116 votes)

#18 Money

S2:E4

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

episode image The Queen of Spain's Beard
7.9/10 (1140 votes)

#19 The Queen of Spain's Beard

S1:E4

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.

episode image The Archbishop
7.7/10 (1119 votes)

#20 The Archbishop

S1:E3

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

episode image The Black Seal
7.6/10 (1052 votes)

#21 The Black Seal

S1:E6

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.

episode image Witchsmeller Pursuivant
7.5/10 (1054 votes)

#22 Witchsmeller Pursuivant

S1:E5

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

episode image The Foretelling
7.4/10 (1369 votes)

#23 The Foretelling

S1:E1

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.

episode image Born to Be King
7.4/10 (1171 votes)

#24 Born to Be King

S1:E2

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

Cast & Chracters

character image Captain Edmund Blackadder

Captain Edmund Blackadder

Actor: Rowan Atkinson
character image Private S. Baldrick

Private S. Baldrick

Actor: Tony Robinson
character image Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh

Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh

Actor: Hugh Laurie
character image Captain Kevin Darling

Captain Kevin Darling

Actor: Tim McInnerny
character image General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett

General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett

Actor: Stephen Fry

The highest rated episode of Blackadder is "Plan F: Goodbyeee" (S4E6) with a rating of 9.40.

This episode received 1,933 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "The Foretelling" (S1E1) with a rating of 7.40.

This episode received 1,369 votes.

The highest rated episode is "The Queen of Spain's Beard" (S1E4) with a rating of 7.90.

This episode received 1,140 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "The Foretelling" (S1E1) with a rating of 7.40.

This episode received 1,369 votes.

The highest rated episode is "Beer" (S2E5) with a rating of 8.50.

This episode received 1,184 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "Money" (S2E4) with a rating of 8.00.

This episode received 1,116 votes.

The highest rated episode is "Ink and Incapability" (S3E2) with a rating of 8.60.

This episode received 1,159 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "Nob and Nobility" (S3E3) with a rating of 8.10.

This episode received 1,048 votes.

The highest rated episode is "Plan F: Goodbyeee" (S4E6) with a rating of 9.40.

This episode received 1,933 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "Plan A: Captain Cook" (S4E1) with a rating of 8.20.

This episode received 1,153 votes.

Name Department Job
Chris Wadsworth Editing Editor
John Lloyd Production Producer
Ben Elton Writing Writer
Richard Curtis Writing Writer

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