The Black Adder (1983)

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Directed by

Geoff Posner

Martin Shardlow

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Rowan Atkinson
Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh / ... 7 episodes, 1983-2009

Elspet Gray
The Queen / ... 7 episodes, 1983-2009

Tim McInnerny
Percy / ... 7 episodes, 1983-2009

Patrick Allen
Narrator / ... 1 episode, 1983-2009

Brian Blessed
King Richard IV / ... 6 episodes, 1983

Tony Robinson
Baldrick / ... 6 episodes, 1983

Robert East
Harry, Prince of Wales 5 episodes, 1983

Bert Parnaby
Cain, A Blind Beggar / ... 3 episodes, 1983

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Rowan Atkinson

Richard Curtis

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I watched this so long ago, and I remember I loved it. It was my first encounter with Rowan Atkinson, and I have to say this guy is freakin funny! I'd love to watch it again.

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Description: Set in England at the end of the War of the Roses, we soon find out that the history we know is a Tudor fiction. In fact, Henry VII did not actually win the battle of Bosworth Field; he lost and though Richard III died in the battle, his nephew King Richard IV (who certainly was not smothered while still a boy in the Tower of London) reigned on for some years. The story focuses on Richard IV's younger son Prince Edmund, a sniveling coward who calls himself the 'Black Adder'. Assisted by his grungy servant Baldrick and the moronic Lord Percy, Edmund plots his rise to greatness. (IMDB) ... (more)

Release date: 15 June 1983
UPC: 794051155924

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