12 Facts About Blackadder

Blackadder is a series of four period British sitcoms, plus several one-off instalments, which originally aired on BBC One from 1983 to 1989.

In 2000, the fourth series, Blackadder Goes Forth, ranked at 16 in the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes, a list created by the British Film Institute.

Blackadder follows the misfortunes of Edmund Blackadder, who in each series is a member of the same British family dynasty.

In series one, Edmund Blackadder is not particularly bright, and is much the intellectual inferior of his servant, Baldrick .

However, in subsequent series the positions are reversed: Blackadder is clever, shrewd, scheming and manipulative while Baldrick is extremely dim.

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Black Adder, the first series of Blackadder, was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson and produced by John Lloyd.

Blackadder II is set in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, who is portrayed by Miranda Richardson.

Blackadder is joined by his batman Private S Baldrick and idealistic Edwardian twit Lieutenant George .

Blackadder pilot was shot but never broadcast on terrestrial TV in the UK .

In 2000, the fourth series, Blackadder Goes Forth, ranked at 16 in the "100 Greatest British Television Programmes", a list created by the British Film Institute.

In 2004, a BBC TV poll for "Britain's Best Sitcom", Blackadder was voted the second best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses.

Blackadder represented the creative energy we all had in the '80s.