Blackadder: The Complete Collection

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Episodes

• Series 1, The Foretelling

  Season 1: Episode 1SD

  Edmund, the mostly forgotten son of Richard Duke of York, oversleeps and arrives late for the Battle of Bosworth. After accidently cutting off the head of Richard III and saving the life of the opposition leader Henry Tudor, he finds himself installed as the Duke of Edinburgh. In a bid to be taken more seriously, he changes his name to The Black Adder, and a legend is born.
  1. Series 1, The Foretelling
  33 Min

  15/06/1983

  £1.49

• Series 1, Born to be King

  Season 1: Episode 2SD

  The supreme commander of the King's army, Lord Dougal McAngus, arrives home early from the crusades and is awarded Blackadder's Scottish lands as a reward for his bravery in battle. Enraged, Blackadder hatches a plot for revenge, but soon changes his mind when McAngus offers him documents showing that Harry is illegitimate.
  2. Series 1, Born to be King
  33 Min

  22/06/1983

  £1.49

• Series 1, The Archbishop

  Season 1: Episode 3SD

  The King has murdered three successive Archbishops of Canterbury so Blackadder is understandably terrified when he is the next appointment. Determined not to be the next prelate to be brutally slain in a freak accident, he brilliantly persuades a rich nobleman to donate all his lands to the King and not the Church. However, the King accidentally orders Blackadder's murder anyway.
  3. Series 1, The Archbishop
  32 Min

  29/06/1983

  £1.49

• Series 1, The Queen of Spain's Beard

  Season 1: Episode 4SD

  It is a time of wars and political upheaval, and the King decides to make an alliance between England and Spain by marrying Blackadder to the Spanish Infanta. Blackadder is keen to end his appalling run of luck with women, that is until he meets the Infanta. His schemes to thwart the marriage all fail, until news comes of a new alliance between France and Switzerland.
  4. Series 1, The Queen of Spain's Beard
  33 Min

  06/07/1983

  £1.49

• Series 1, Witchsmeller Pursuivant

  Season 1: Episode 5SD

  It is a time of plague and omens in the kingdom. In this atmosphere of paranoia, the Witchsmeller Pursuivant is called to court, to sniff out the chief witch and bring an end to the country's bad luck. Inconveniently, the Witchsmeller decides that Edmund is the Chief Witch, and that Percy and Baldrick have something a bit witchy about them, too.
  5. Series 1, Witchsmeller Pursuivant
  30 Min

  13/07/1983

  £1.49

• Series 1, The Black Seal

  Season 1: Episode 6SD

  Blackadder decides that he can wait no longer to seize his destiny. He sets out to recruit the six most evil men in the Kingdom - The Black Seal - to help him take control of the country. His plans are thwarted by the arrival of his oldest enemy: the Hawk. This implacable foe throws Edmund into a dungeon and goes off to take over the kingdom himself.
  6. Series 1, The Black Seal
  31 Min

  20/07/1983

  £1.49

• Series 2, Bells

  Season 1: Episode 7SD

  Blackadder finds his new manservant, Bob, curiously pleasant company. So much so, that he almost kisses him. Afraid for his position at court, Blackadder searches for a 'cure', until Bob conveniently reveals that she is in fact a girl called Kate. As their romance blossoms they set a date to be married, but then the swashbuckling Lord Flashheart appears.
  7. Series 2, Bells
  30 Min

  09/01/1986

  £1.49

• Series 2, Head

  Season 1: Episode 8SD

  The Queen appoints Blackadder as the new Lord High Executioner - a job in which no-one survives more than a week. Blackadder starts badly by executing a chap called Farrow two days early, so as to give him and the rest of the team half the week off. The problem is that the widow (sorry, wife) wants to see her husband one last time, and then the Queen annoyingly decides to pardon Farrow altogether.
  8. Series 2, Head
  26 Min

  16/01/1986

  £1.49

• Series 2, Potato

  Season 1: Episode 9SD

  Sir Walter Raleigh is home from his epic voyage to the new world, with tales of adventure and discovery that greatly impress the Queen. Goaded on by Sir Walter, and with the Queen promising to marry him if he succeeds, Blackadder vows to sail around the Cape of Good Hope, a journey so dangerous that it spells almost certain death.
  9. Series 2, Potato
  30 Min

  23/01/1986

  £1.49

• Series 2, Money

  Season 1: Episode 10SD

  Blackadder owes £1000 to the Bank of the Black Monks of St. Herod. If he doesn't repay it by evensong, the baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells will brutally murder him with the aid of a poker. The boys try various money-making schemes, but sadly all their efforts are in vain. Then at the eleventh hour, Blackadder hatches a plan so cunning you could brush your teeth with it.
  10. Series 2, Money
  29 Min

  06/02/1986

  £1.49

• Series 2, Beer

  Season 1: Episode 11SD

  During an argument about who is best at holding their liquor, Blackadder challenges Melchett to a rowdy drinking competition at his house. Unfortunately, his aunt and uncle Lord and Lady Whiteadder have invited themselves over for dinner to discuss his inheritance. Blackadder gets hideously sozzled and manages to insult everyone. Only the magic power of beer can save him.
  11. Series 2, Beer
  29 Min

  13/02/1986

  £1.49

• Series 2, Chains

  Season 1: Episode 12SD

  When Blackadder and Melchett are kidnapped by the evil Prince Ludwig, the Queen is given an impossible choice. She can only pay the ransom on one of them, but which one? She decides to spend the money on a big party instead. The boys eventually manage to buy their freedom by giving Ludwig some vital information that will enable him to assassinate the Queen.
  12. Series 2, Chains
  29 Min

  20/02/1986

  £1.49

• Series 3, Dish and Dishonesty

  Season 1: Episode 13CCSD

  Pitt the Younger has just been elected Prime Minister. His priorities are war with France, tougher sentences for geography teachers and a right royal kick up the Prince's backside. But he hasn't counted on the Prince's wily butler, E. Blackadder Esq. To stop Parliament from voting away all George's money, Blackadder hatches a fiendish plan.
  13. Series 3, Dish and Dishonesty
  29 Min

  17/09/1987

  £1.49

• Series 3, Ink and Incapability

  Season 1: Episode 14CCSD

  Prince George decides he needs to shake off his reputation as England's greatest thicky, so he agrees to patronise Dr Johnson's new dictionary. Unfortunately, Baldrick doesn't recognise the infinite value of the manuscript, which took the finest mind in England 10 years to complete, and he throws it on the fire.
  14. Series 3, Ink and Incapability
  29 Min

  24/09/1987

  £1.49

• Series 3, Nob and Nobility

  Season 1: Episode 15CCSD

  Everyone in Britain is mad with admiration for the Scarlet Pimpernel, who has been bravely rescuing French aristocrats from the clutches of evil revolutionaries. The scornful Blackadder accepts a bet from the foppish lords Smedley and Topper that he can rescue an aristo himself. But actually going to France would be insanely dangerous, so Blackadder opts for an alternative solution.
  15. Series 3, Nob and Nobility
  29 Min

  01/10/1987

  £1.49

• Series 3, Sense and Senility

  Season 1: Episode 16CCSD

  The Prince is understandably worried about his popularity after an anarchist throws a bomb at him. He agrees to recite a brilliant speech by Blackadder and decides that he wants his two favourite actors, Mr David Keanrick and Mr Enoch Mossop, to coach him. But things take a turn for the worse when Baldrick overhears the actors plotting against the Prince.
  16. Series 3, Sense and Senility
  26 Min

  08/10/1987

  £1.49

• Series 3, Amy and Amiability

  Season 1: Episode 17CCSD

  As ever, the Prince is terminally short of cash, so he is persuaded to marry the fantastically wealthy heiress, Miss Amy Hardwood. Having wooed her heart for the Prince with a lot of drippy poetry, Blackadder is disgusted to learn that the Hardwoods have been lying about their fortunes from industry, and in fact have been living off lard butties for five years.
  17. Series 3, Amy and Amiability
  29 Min

  15/10/1987

  £1.49

• Series 3, Duel and Duality

  Season 1: Episode 18SD

  The Duke of Wellington challenges the Prince to a duel after the latter made sexual advances to the Duke's nieces. Blackadder agrees to fight the Duke in the Prince's place, in exchange for the Prince's entire fortune, an amusing clock and a stack of French erotica. When a plan for his mad Scottish cousin to take his place falls through, Blackadder must face the duel himself.
  18. Series 3, Duel and Duality
  29 Min

  22/10/1987

  £1.49

• Series 4, Captain Cook

  Season 1: Episode 19SD

  In the trenches on the front, Edmund vows that he's damned if he's doomed. When General Haig unveils his new strategy to move his drinks cabinet nearer to Berlin, Blackadder volunteers to be Official War Artist.
  19. Series 4, Captain Cook
  29 Min

  28/09/1989

  £1.49

• Series 4, Corporal Punishment

  Season 1: Episode 20SD

  In 13 years of service to King and Country, Edmund has faced danger - from tackling an over spiced curry in Nepal to confronting 200,000 grass-skirted men in Mombassa. But now he is truly in a pickle.
  20. Series 4, Corporal Punishment
  29 Min

  05/10/1989

  £1.49

• Series 4, Major Star

  Season 1: Episode 21SD

  Bad news reaches the trenches. The October Revolution in Moscow has produced three appalling results: a cease-fire by Russia, an offensive by Germany and a Charlie Chaplin impression by Baldrick.
  21. Series 4, Major Star
  29 Min

  12/10/1989

  £1.49

• Series 4, Private Plane

  Season 1: Episode 22SD

  Blackadder joins the Royal Flying Corps in order to escape the trenches. When he crashes behind the enemy lines with Baldrick, Lord Flashheart battles the Red Baron in order to rescue them.
  22. Series 4, Private Plane
  28 Min

  19/10/1989

  £1.49

• Series 4, General Hospital

  Season 1: Episode 23SD

  Edmund is given three weeks to find a spy in the hospital. He takes this as an opportunity to get on with the lovely Nurse Mary and to spend the better portion of those weeks in bed.
  23. Series 4, General Hospital
  28 Min

  26/10/1989

  £1.49

• Series 4, Goodbyeee

  Season 1: Episode 24SD

  Edmund and Lt. Barley share a nice rat stroganoff in their tent when word arrives that tomorrow morning the troops are going 'over the top'. Could a feigned bout of insanity put Edmund on the road to Calais?
  24. Series 4, Goodbyeee
  29 Min

  02/11/1989

  £1.49

• Blackadder Christmas Carol

  Season 1: Episode 25SD

  Christmas Eve, 1850. In the reign of good Queen Vic, there stood, in Dumpling Lane in old London town, the Moustache Shoppe of one Ebenezer Blackadder - the kindest and loveliest man in all England. That is until the Spirit of Christmas shows up and introduces him to the ways of his loathsome ancestors...
  25. Blackadder Christmas Carol
  43 Min

  23/12/1988

  £1.49

• Blackadder: Back and Forth

  Season 1: Episode 26SD

  It's New Year's Eve 1999 and Lord Edmund Blackadder and friends are gathered to celebrate the Millennium. Blackadder discloses he has built a time machine - and to prove it works he proposes a wager of £10,000 to anyone who cares to name an historical object for him to collect on his journey through time... Blackadder bids his friends farewell and steps into the time machine and he and Baldrick set upon a journey spanning centuries.
  26. Blackadder: Back and Forth
  33 Min

  01/10/2000

  £1.49

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