PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Many great dynasties, strong and brave, have played a part in shaping Britain's heritage. The Blackadders are not one of them. From cowards to cads and back again, the Blackadders have managed to seriously lower the integrity of every era through which they have wended their serpentine way.

THE BLACK ADDER
The first recorded Blackadder, cursed from youth by a deformed haircut, creeps around medieval England in a pair of unattractive tights. His career starts with the murder of his own charming Uncle Richard III, and heads downwards from there, never helped by his companions, pea-brained Percy and pea-sized Baldrick.

BLACKADDER II
England 1558, and the Blackadders once again bubble to the top of the melting pot of history, as Lord Edmund Blackadder, blessed with a big head and a small beard, tries to win the grace and favor of stark raving mad Queen Bess.

BLACKADDER THE THIRD
A couple of hundred years on, Blackadder re-emerges as the butler and confidante of George Prince Regent, a well-meaning dandified dunderhead. Blackadder's life is full of problems with Samuel Johnson, the Duke of Wellington, Pitt the Younger and the most stupid Baldrick so far.

BLACKADDER GOES FORTH
A world-weary Captain Blackadder, veteran of numerous campaigns, suddenly finds himself in the trenches facing 4 million German machine guns. He is not a happy man. He'd be slightly happier, however, if it weren't for his war companions, mad General Melchett, sly Captain Darling and malodorous Private Baldrick.

CAST
Rowan Atkinson (as Blackadder)
Tony Robinson (as Baldrick)
Tim McInnerny (as Percy and Captain Darling)
Brian Blessed (as King Richard IV)
Elspet Gray (as The Queen)
Robert East (as Prince Harry)
Miranda Richardson (as Queen Elizabeth I)
Stephen Fry (as Lord Melchett and General Melchet)
Patsy Byrne (as Nursie)

PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Written by Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral), Ben Elton and Rowan Atkinson
Directed by Martin Shardlow, Mandie Fletcher and Richard Boden
Produced by John Lloyd

DURATION
24 x 30' & 1 special