Black Adder

Comedy

Rowan Atkinson	The Blackadder - Prince Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh
Brian Blessed	King Richard IV of England
Robert East	Harry, Prince of Wales
Elspet Gray	The Queen
Tim McInnerny	Percy
Tony Robinson	Baldrick
Patrick Allen	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Director	Martin Shardlow; Geoff Posner
Writer	Richard Curtis; Rowan Atkinson; William Shakespeare

One of the best comedy series ever to emerge from England, Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of World War I. In his pre-Bean triumph, British comic actor Rowan Atkinson played all five versions of Edmund, beginning with the villainous and cowardly Duke of Edinburgh, whose scheming mind and awful haircut seem to stand him in good stead to become the next Archbishop of Canterbury--a deadly occupation if ever there was one. Among tales of royal dethronings, Black Death, witch smellers (who root out spell makers with their noses), and ghosts, Edmund is a perennial survivor who never quite gets ahead in multiple episodes.