La Vipère noire

Épisode 1 - The Foretelling

15 juin 1983 - 4/5

After arriving late for the Battle of Bosworth Field, Edmund kills King Richard III (whom he thinks is stealing his horse) and secures the crown for his father.

Épisode 2 - Born to Be King

22 juin 1983 - 3.9/5

With his father away at the Crusades, Edmund comes up with a plan to prove his brother is illegitimate, thus making him Prince Regent.

Épisode 3 - The Archbishop

29 juin 1983 - 4/5

Edmund is appointed to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury after the king has the last one killed.

Épisode 4 - The Queen of Spain's Beard

6 juillet 1983 - 4/5

The King decides that Edmund should marry a Spanish Princess, who Edmund finds unattractive, in order to secure a treaty between Spain and England which will allow an invasion of France.

Épisode 5 - Witchsmeller Pursuivant

13 juillet 1983 - 3.8/5

Percy and Baldrick are to be burned at the stake with Edmund, when he is accused of being a witch.

Épisode 6 - The Black Seal

20 juillet 1983 - 3.8/5

After the King takes away Edmund's title of Duke, he recruits the 6 most evil men in the land to take the crown by force.

Épisode 1 - Bells

9 janvier 1986 - 3.7/5

Blackadder feels a funny attraction for his manservant and decides to marry when he discovers he is a she.

Épisode 2 - Head

16 janvier 1986 - 3.7/5

After the Queen appoints Blackadder Lord High Executioner, he finds himself in trouble when the Queen pardons someone he executed ahead of schedule.

Épisode 3 - Potato

23 janvier 1986 - 3.9/5

After Sir Walter Raleigh takes the Queen's fancy by bringing her a potato, Blackadder decides to become an explorer with the aid of a legless sea captain.

Épisode 4 - Money

5 février 1986 - 4.2/5

The Queen hampers Blackadder's efforts to raise cash to pay off a debt to a sadistic bishop.

Épisode 5 - Beer

13 février 1986 - 3.9/5

Blackadder's rich and Puritanical aunt and uncle pay him a visit to discuss his inheritance the same night he has a beer drinking contest.

Épisode 6 - Chains

20 février 1986 - 4.1/5

Blackadder and Lord Melchett are kidnapped by a German spy right after the Queen decides she will pay no more ransom to kidnappers.

Épisode 1 - Dish and Dishonesty

17 septembre 1987 - 3.9/5

Blackadder becomes involved in politics by getting Baldrick elected MP, in an effort to stop the new Prime Minister, Pitt the Younger, from striking the Prince off the Civil List.

Épisode 2 - Ink and Incapability

24 septembre 1987 - 3.9/5

Blackadder has one weekend to rewrite a dictionary the Prince Regent is sponsoring after Baldrick burns the only copy.

Épisode 3 - Nob and Nobility

1 octobre 1987 - 3.9/5

After the Scarlet Pimpernel gets high praises Blackadder makes a bet that he can go to France and rescue aristocrats, too.

Épisode 4 - Sense and Senility

8 octobre 1987 - 3.9/5

The Prince Regent hires a pair of actors to teach him to give better speeches and earn the people's respect after an anarchist tries to blow him up at the theatre.

Épisode 5 - Amy and Amiability

15 octobre 1987 - 3.9/5

After Parliament cuts off the Prince's money he decides to marry a rich lady who obtains her money by moonlighting as a notorious highwayman.

Épisode 6 - Duel and Duality

22 octobre 1987 - 4.3/5

The Duke of Wellington has challenged the Prince to a duel for seducing his daughters and the Prince offers Blackadder anything he wants to take his place.

Épisode 7 - The Cavalier Years

5 février 1988 - 4/5

As the only two loyalists to King Charles (sounding a lot like Prince Charles), it is up to Blackadder and Baldrick to come up with a plan to save the King from Oliver Cromwell's death sentence. This special, set in the English Civil War, was shown as part of Comic Relief's Red Nose Day on Friday 5 February 1988. The 15-minute episode is set in November 1648, during the last days of the Civil War. Sir Edmund Blackadder and his servant, Baldrick, are the last two men loyal to the defeated King Charles I of England (played by Stephen Fry, portrayed as a soft-spoken, ineffective, slightly dim character, with the voice and mannerisms of Charles I's namesake, the current Prince of Wales). However, due to a misunderstanding between Oliver Cromwell (guest-star Warren Clarke) and Baldrick, the king is arrested and sent to the Tower of London. The rest of the episode revolves around Blackadder's attempts to save the king, as well as improve his standing.

Épisode 8 - Blackadder's Christmas Carol

23 décembre 1988

In the late 1800s, a kind and generous Ebenezer Blackadder is visited the Ghost of Christmas Past, who shows him visions of his ancestors, and the future of the Blackadders if he does not follow the family tradition. The second special was broadcast on Friday 23 December 1988. In a twist on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Blackadder is the "kindest and loveliest" man in England. The Spirit of Christmas shows Blackadder the contrary antics of his ancestors and descendants, and reluctantly informs him that if he turns evil his descendants will enjoy power and fortune, while if he remains the same a future Blackadder will live shamefully subjugated to a future incompetent Baldrick. This remarkable encounter causes him to proclaim, "Bad guys have all the fun", and adopt the personality with which viewers are more familiar.

Épisode 1 - Captain Cook

28 septembre 1989 - 4.2/5

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

Épisode 2 - Corporal Punishment

5 octobre 1989 - 4.4/5

Edmund is sentenced to death by firing squad for shooting and eating the General's favorite messenger pigeon.

Épisode 3 - Major Star

12 octobre 1989 - 4.3/5

Blackadder grabs yet another opportunity to return to England by organizing a morale-raising music hall show, including Baldrick's Charlie Chaplin impersonation and George's appearance as a lady songstress who captures the General's heart.

Épisode 4 - Private Plane

19 octobre 1989 - 4.2/5

Blackadder and the boys join the Royal Air Corps, where they are promptly shot down behind enemy lines.

Épisode 5 - General Hospital

26 octobre 1989 - 4.4/5

Blackadder is assigned to find the spy working out of the hospital.

Épisode 6 - Goodbyeee

2 novembre 1989 - 4.5/5

Blackadder tries everything he can think of to get sent back to England when orders come in to go over the top in the first charge against the Germans since 1914.

Épisode 7 - Blackadder Back & Forth

6 décembre 1999 - 4.3/5

It's New Year's Eve 1999, and Blackadder makes a bold claim to his contemporaries. He claims Baldrick has built a time machine with which Blackadder will get historical evidence. What no one knows is that Baldrick really has invented a time machine, with one slight flaw. That sends Blackadder and Baldrick on a millennium's worth of adventure. Blackadder: Back & Forth was originally shown in the Millennium Dome in 2000, followed by a screening on Sky One in the same year (and later on BBC1). It is set on the turn of the millennium, and features Lord Blackadder placing a bet with his friends – modern versions of Queenie (Miranda Richardson), Melchett (Stephen Fry), George (Hugh Laurie) and Darling (Tim McInnerny) – that he has built a working time machine. While this is intended as a clever con trick, the machine, surprisingly, works, sending Blackadder and Baldrick back to the time of the dinosaurs, where they manage to cause the extinction of the dinosaurs, through the use of Baldrick's best, worst and only pair of underpants as a weapon against a hungry T.Rex. Finding that Baldrick has forgotten to write dates on the machine's dials, the rest of the film follows their attempts to find their way back to 1999, often creating huge historical anomalies in the process which must be corrected before the end. The film includes cameo appearances from Kate Moss and Colin Firth.

Épisode 8 - Blackadder Rides Again

25 décembre 2008 - 4.3/5

Rowan Atkinson and the cast of the legendary comedy series Blackadder are back for a one-off documentary special this Christmas on BBC One. Blackadder Rides Again features the iconic cast in a documentary to mark 25 years since the original BBC transmission of the much-loved sitcom, first broadcast in 1983. Blackadder Rides Again includes the first-ever in-depth interview with Edmund Blackadder himself, Rowan Atkinson, about his personal experience of being involved in the sitcom and its phenomenal success. Set to join Rowan are the core cast and writing team who have gone on to become some of the greatest names in entertainment, both in the UK and US. These include: Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Miranda Richardson, Tim McInnerny and Tony Robinson. A 60 minute documentary produced by the BBC and broadcast on 25 December 2008, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the show. It featured interviews with all of the major cast members and other contributors, including Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Miranda Richardson, Tim McInnerny and Tony Robinson. Rather than relying on 'talking head' interviews and clips from the show, the documentary included several pieces of rare, and even unseen material (behind the scenes clips, cut scenes from Series 1 etc.). It also reunited certain cast and crew members with their costumes, visited cast members on their current ventures, or took them to the original filming locations.

Épisode 9 - Baldrick's Video Diary - A Blackadder in the Making

15 septembre 2003 - 4.3/5

A behind-the-scenes featurette, "Baldrick's Diary."

Épisode 10 - Blackadder: A Cunning Story

6 juin 2023 - 4/5

Épisode 11 - Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

12 mai 2008 - 3.7/5

A countdown of the top 40 "Blackadder" moments chosen by cast and crew members, celebrity fans and 15 genuine Blackadders.

Épisode 13 - The Royal Gardener

1 juin 2002 - 4/5

Rowan Atkinson has created a new reincarnation of Blackadder for a TV advert promoting the Queen’s jubilee concert. The new character, Sir Osmond Darling-Blackadder, is keeper of Her Majesty’s lawn sprinkler.