The Black Adder (TV Series)
1983 · Series · 35 min. · United Kingdom
TV Series (1983-1989). 4 Seasons. 25 Episodes. 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.
Direction Richard Curtis · Rowan Atkinson · Martin Shardlow · Geoff Posner
Cast Rowan Atkinson · Stephen Frost · Tim McInnerny · Tony Robinson · Brian Blessed · Miranda Richardson · Elspet Gray · Hugh Laurie · Robert East · Helen Atkinson-Wood · Roy Evans · Bert Parnaby · Alex Norton · Natasha King · Peter Cook · Perry Benson
Soundtrack Howard Goodall
Screenplay Richard Curtis · Ben Elton · Rowan Atkinson · William Shakespeare
Cinematography William Dudman
Original title The Black Adder (TV Series)
Also known as Blackadder
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