Episode 0: Original Pilot
Original Air Date: 1982
Episode 1: The Foretelling
Original Air Date: 15 June 1983
Episode 2: Born to Be King
Original Air Date: 22 June 1983
Episode 3: The Archbishop
Original Air Date: 29 June 1983
Episode 4: The Queen of Spain's Beard
Original Air Date: 6 July 1983
Episode 5: The Witchsmeller Pursuivant
Original Air Date: 13 July 1983
Episode 6: The Black Seal
Original Air Date: 20 July 1983
Episode 1: Bells
Original Air Date: 9 January 1986
Blackadder develops feelings for a woman posing as his male servant.
Episode 2: Head
Original Air Date: 16 January 1986
Edmund is "awarded" the post of Lord High Executioner, a position which frequently results in the loss of one's own head.
Episode 3: Potato
Original Air Date: 23 January 1986
Edmund attempts to impress the Queen by embarking on his own voyage of discovery to the New World.
Episode 4: Money
Original Air Date: 5 February 1986
The president of the Bank of the Black Monks calls upon Blackadder in order to collect a £1000 debt.
Episode 5: Beer
Original Air Date: 13 February 1986
Blackadder finds himself hosting a drinking competition on the same night he is entertaining his puritanical relatives.
Episode 6: Chains
Original Air Date: 20 February 1986
Blackadder and Melchett are kidnapped by a neurotic German spy just after the Queen announces she is sick of paying ransom to kidnappers.
Episode 1: Dish and Dishonesty
Original Air Date: 17 September 1987
Blackadder enters politics in an attempt to avoid Pitt the Younger from striking the Prince off the Civil List.
Episode 2: Ink and Incapability
Original Air Date: 24 September 1987
Baldrick burns the only copy of Samuel Johnson's dictionary, and Blackadder has only one weekend to rewrite it.
Episode 3: Nob and Nobility
Original Air Date: 1 October 1987
Blackadder seeks to prove he's just as capable of rescuing people from France as The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Episode 4: Sense and Senility
Original Air Date: 8 October 1987
Following a failed assassination attempt, the Prince Regent hires two actors to tutor him in public speaking.
Episode 5: Amy and Amiability
Original Air Date: 15 October 1987
When Blackadder discovers that the Prince Regent is completely broke, he devises a plan to restore his fortunes through marriage.
Episode 6: Duel and Duality
Original Air Date: 22 October 1987
Blackadder's militant cousin McAdder arrives in London as the Prince Regent seduces some relatives of the fiery Duke of Wellington.
Episode 1: Captain Cook
Original Air Date: 29 September 1989
Captain Blackadder spots an opportunity to get away from the trenches when General Melchett announces a painting competition for the cover of "King and Country" magazine.
Episode 2: Corporal Punishment
Original Air Date: 5 October 1989
Blackadder hatches a cunning plan to avoid starvation and ignore his orders by eating carrier pigeons.
Episode 3: Major Star
Original Air Date: 12 October 1989
Blackadder sees an opportunity to escape the trenches by organizing a variety show as entertainment for the troops.
Episode 4: Private Plane
Original Air Date: 19 October 1989
Blackadder and his friends join the Air Corps, wrongly believing it will be less dangerous than being in the trenches.
Episode 5: General Hospital
Original Air Date: 26 October 1989
The General asks Blackadder to find a spy in the hospital; one of the patients has a thick German accent and an interest in all things military.
Episode 6: Goodbyeee
Original Air Date: 2 November 1989
Blackadder pretends that he's insane to avoid certain death carrying out the General's order for the "big push".
In January 2005, Tony Robinson told ITV's This Morning that Rowan Atkinson is more keen than he has been in the past to do a fifth series, set in the 1960s (centred around a rock band called the "Black Adder Five", with Baldrick — aka 'Bald Rick' — as the drummer) [4]. However, aside from a brief mention in June 2005 [5] there have been no further announcements from the BBC that a new series is being planned. Furthermore, in November 2005, Rowan Atkinson told BBC Breakfast that although he would very much like to do a new series set in Colditz or another prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, the chances of it happening are extremely low [4]. There were a couple of ideas that had previously floated for the fifth series. Batadder was intended to be a parody of Batman with Baldrick as the counterpart of Robin (suggested by John Lloyd). This idea eventually came to surface as part of the Comic Relief sketch "Spider-Plant Man" in 2005, with Atkinson as the title hero, Robinson as Robin, Jim Broadbent as Batman and Rachel Stevens as Jane Mary. Star Adder was to be set in space in the future (suggested by Atkinson)[6] though this too was touched upon in Blackadder's Christmas Carol. On April 10, 2007, Hello! reported that Atkinson was moving forward with his ideas for a fifth series. He said, "I like the idea of him being a prisoner of war in Colditz.......That would have the right level of authority and hierarchy which is apparent in all the Blackadders." [7]
A post on [3] from Ben Elton in early 2007 states that BlackAdder will return in some form whether it be a TV series or Movie. Ben Elton has since not given any more information on BlackAdder 5.
During an interview in August 2007 regarding Rowan Atkinson's latest movie "Mr Bean's Holiday", a question was brought up about any further BlackAdder series being made, a simple reply of "No, no chance" was given, more or less ending the chance of a new TV show being created.
"There was a plan for a film set in the Russian revolution, a very interesting one called The Red Adder. He would have been a lieutenant in the Secret Police. Then the revolution happened and at the end he is in the same office doing the same job but just the colours on his uniform have changed. It was quite a sweet idea and we got quite a long way with it but in the end it died a death."
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