Best Blackadder Episodes

Edmund receives a death sentence by firing squad for shooting and eating the General's favorite messenger pigeon.

Blackadder tries everything to get back to England. Orders demand he go over the top in the first charge against the Germans since 1914.

Blackadder feels a strange pull toward his manservant. He decides to marry after discovering she is a woman.

Blackadder enters politics. He gets Baldrick elected MP to stop Prime Minister Pitt the Younger from striking the Prince off the Civil List.

Sir Walter Raleigh wins the Queen's affection with a potato. Blackadder then decides to become an explorer with a legless sea captain's help.

"Private Plane," or "Plan D: Private Plane," is the fourth episode of *Blackadder Goes Forth*, the fourth series of the BBC sitcom *Blackadder*.

"Duel and Duality" is the sixth and final episode of the third series of the BBC sitcom *Blackadder*.

"Chains" ends the BBC sitcom *Blackadder II*, the second series of *Blackadder*. It is set in Elizabethan England, 1558 to 1603. Power-mad and calling himself a "master of disguise," Prince Ludwig the Indestructible kidnaps Lord Blackadder and Lord Melchett. They escape, but Prince Ludwig infiltrates the palace during a fancy dress ball.

Blackadder's rich, Puritanical aunt and uncle visited him to talk about his inheritance. That same night, he participated in a beer drinking contest.

"General Hospital," or "Plan E: General Hospital," is the fifth episode of *Blackadder Goes Forth*, the fourth series of the BBC sitcom *Blackadder*.

Blackadder finds another way back to England by organizing a morale-boosting music hall show. Baldrick performs a Charlie Chaplin impersonation, and George appears as a lady songstress who wins the General's affection.

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

Blackadder's Christmas Carol is a single episode of *Blackadder*, a parody of Charles Dickens' *A Christmas Carol*. It sits between *Blackadder the Third* and *Blackadder Goes Forth*, narrated by Hugh Laurie. The BBC produced it; it first aired on BBC One on December 23, 1988.

"Amy and Amiability" is the fifth episode of the third series of the BBC sitcom *Blackadder*.

Blackadder: Back & Forth is a 1999 short comedy history film. Richard Curtis, Ben Elton wrote it, and Paul Weiland directed it.