Edmund Blackadder 

Dame fortune vomits on my eiderdown once again.

Blackadder the Third to me is the crowning glory of the whole Blackadder series. It gets no better than this although some may disagree.

Edmund is now reduced to the mere role of Servant to the Prince of Wales and as usual he is always strapped for cash despite having various little schemes in place such as selling off the prince's sock collection.

Steeped in the events of the time, Such notables as Pitt the Younger and Dr Johnson make appearences as well as a higwayman and a couple of actors.

Blackadder : If you can't make money, you'll have to marry it.
Prince George : Marry? Never! I'm a gay bachelor, Blackadder, I'm a roarer, a rogerer, a gorger and a puker! I can't marry, I'm young, I'm firm buttocked, I'm...
Blackadder : Broke?
Prince George : Well, yes, I suppose so.
Blackadder : And don't forget sir, that the modern church smiles on roaring and gorging within wedlock, and indeed rogering is keenly encouraged.
Prince George : And the puking?
Blackadder : Mm. I believe still very much down to the conscience of the individual church-goer.

Prince George 

We're all English...Well you're not You're German

Big trousers, big wigs and like Pooh he has very little brain. Hugh Laurie plays the foppish Prince George who is manipulated at every turn by the wily ways of his Butler.

Prince George : Sink me Blackadder if I haven't just had the most wonderful evening of my life.
Blackadder : Tell me all sir.
Prince George : Well as you know when I set out I looked divine. At the party as I passed all eyes turned.
Blackadder : And I daresay quite a few stomachs.

Never unfasten your trousers 

Baldrick is the same loveable smelly creature we know and love.

His greatest ambition is to own a turnip. If he had a lot of money he would buy a great big turnip in the country.

In this series he gets elected to Parliament for the constituency of Dunny on the Wld and finally to the peerage.

Baldrick : Don't worry mister B, I have a cunning plan to solve the problem.
Blackadder : Yes Baldrick, let us not forget that you tried to solve the problem of your mother's low ceiling by cutting off her head.

The video is niothing to do with me by the way it's just one I found so I thought "what the hell."

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Mrs Miggins 

Mrs Miggins Coffee shop is the most fashionable in London and it is here that Blackadder finds most of his soxial contacts including the Conte de Fru Fru a french aristocrat who has escaped from paris. He ios in reality The Scarlet Pimpernel.(Nigel Planer.)

Baldrick hero-worships the Pimpenel but that's another story.

Blackadder: Mrs Miggins, that sausage looks like a horse's willie.
Mrs Miggins: That's because it is a horse's willie.

The Duke of Wellington 

Is this the demise of Blackadder?

After the Prince gets into trouble with the Duke's daughters the Duke challanges the Prince to a duel.

Blackadder agrees to take his place and face the Duke.

Blackadder : Tell me do you ever stop bullying and shouting at the lower orders?
Wellington : NEVER! There's only one way to win a campaign shout, shout and shout again.
Blackadder : You don't think that inspired leadership and tactical ability have anything to do with it?
Wellington : NO! It's all down to shouting. WAAGGHH!

Great Stuff on Amazon 

Black Adder: The Complete Collector's Set

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Blackadder's Christmas Carol [Region 2]

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Blackadder III [Region 2]

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Blackadder II [Region 2]

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Blackadder Goes Forth [Region 2]

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Blackadder links 

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The official home of Blackadder on the Beeb

Blackadder Hall

Loads of great stuff and links

Blackadder stuff on Ebay 

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My other Blackadder lenses 

The Black Adder

Series 1 set in medievil times

Blackadder II

Romps in Elizabethan England

Blackadder Goes Forth

The war to end all wars, Unless we can think of a way of getting out of here

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