EPISODE
The Black Adder - Season 1
The comedy series revolves around a model written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson. The series expresses an alternative history that provides a model for King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field. Richard III won the battle only to be understood by someone else and killed. Richard IV, one of the princes, was able to take over everything without fear.
4 March 1924, Guisborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
22 February 1957, Accra, Ghana
1962
22 November 1944, London, England, UK
1938, Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK
9 October 1936, Mexborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
18 May 1941, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
19 November 1924, Sunderland, England, UK
15 August 1931, London, England, UK
27 January 1950, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
28 December 1955
24 May 1949, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
November 28, 2018
It's definitely the writing and varying plateaus of verbal trickery used, even without the novel historical hook, that make Black Adder stand out.
September 11, 2018
Leave it to the Brits to find humor in World War I.
November 28, 2018
There is just something so amazingly awful, so delightfully despicable about the man that you can't help but hang on his every wicked wisecrack and/or deed.
September 11, 2018
It's rare that a hist0ory-based comedy is genuinely funny, and in that sense Blackadder is a true diamond in the rough.
November 28, 2018
Though the writing was strong and the verbal interplay was there, the first series made the mistake of abundance, with Edmund Blackadder too bumbling, the cast too abounding and the sets too sprawling.
November 27, 2018
Pilots are hard to get right, particularly comedy pilots, so it's not surprising that "The Foretelling" is among the series' most uneven episodes.
November 28, 2018
Most of the jokes fall flat and there's no real wit of spark to the characters.