The BEST Episodes of Blackadder

Cunning plans and cutting comedy as the Blackadder dynasty plot their way through British history.

#1 - Plan F: Goodbyeee

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired Nov 2, 1989

Blackadder tries everything he can think of to get sent back to England when orders come in to go over the top in the first charge against the Germans since 1914.

8.48

780 votes

Directors: Richard Boden

Writers: Ben Elton, Richard Curtis

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#2 - Plan E: General Hospital

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired Oct 26, 1989

Blackadder is assigned to find the spy working out of the hospital.

8.10

838 votes

Directors: Richard Boden

Writers: Ben Elton, Richard Curtis

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#3 - Duel and Duality

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired Oct 22, 1987

The Duke of Wellington has challenged the Prince to a duel for seducing his daughters and the Prince offers Blackadder anything he wants to take his place.

8.09

748 votes

Directors: Mandie Fletcher

Writers: Ben Elton, Richard Curtis

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#4 - Bells

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired Jan 9, 1986

Blackadder feels a funny attraction for his manservant and decides to marry when he discovers he is a she.

7.99

1,240 votes

Directors: Mandie Fletcher

Writers: Ben Elton, Richard Curtis

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#5 - Plan B: Corporal Punishment

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired Oct 5, 1989

Edmund is sentenced to death by firing squad for shooting and eating the General's favorite messenger pigeon.

7.95

872 votes

Directors: Richard Boden

Writers: Ben Elton, Richard Curtis

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#6 - Ink and Incapability

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired Sep 24, 1987

Blackadder has one weekend to rewrite a dictionary the Prince Regent is sponsoring after Baldrick burns the only copy.

7.95

1,010 votes

Directors: Mandie Fletcher

Writers: Ben Elton, Richard Curtis

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#7 - Beer

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired Feb 13, 1986

Blackadder's rich and Puritanical aunt and uncle pay him a visit to discuss his inheritance the same night he has a beer drinking contest.

7.91

797 votes

Directors: Mandie Fletcher

Writers: Ben Elton, Richard Curtis

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#8 - Nob and Nobility

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired Oct 1, 1987

After the Scarlet Pimpernel gets high praises Blackadder makes a bet that he can go to France and rescue aristocrats, too.

7.86

784 votes

Directors: Mandie Fletcher

Writers: Ben Elton, Richard Curtis

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#9 - Plan D: Private Plane

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired Oct 19, 1989

Blackadder and the boys join the Royal Air Corps, where they are promptly shot down behind enemy lines.

7.81

846 votes

Directors: Richard Boden

Writers: Ben Elton, Richard Curtis

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#10 - Chains

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired Feb 20, 1986

Blackadder and Lord Melchett are kidnapped by a German spy right after the Queen decides she will pay no more ransom to kidnappers.

7.80

719 votes

Directors: Mandie Fletcher

Writers: Ben Elton, Richard Curtis

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#11 - Money

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired Feb 5, 1986

The Queen hampers Blackadder's efforts to raise cash to pay off a debt to a sadistic bishop.

7.76

856 votes

Directors: Mandie Fletcher

Writers: Ben Elton, Richard Curtis

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#12 - Plan C: Major Star

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired Oct 12, 1989

Blackadder grabs yet another opportunity to return to England by organizing a morale-raising music hall show, including Baldrick's Charlie Chaplin impersonation and George's appearance as a lady songstress who captures the General's heart.

7.75

851 votes

Directors: Richard Boden

Writers: Ben Elton, Richard Curtis

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#13 - Sense and Senility

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired Oct 8, 1987

The Prince Regent hires a pair of actors to teach him to give better speeches and earn the people's respect after an anarchist tries to blow him up at the theatre.

7.74

849 votes

Directors: Mandie Fletcher

Writers: Ben Elton, Richard Curtis

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#14 - Head

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired Jan 16, 1986

After the Queen appoints Blackadder Lord High Executioner, he finds himself in trouble when the Queen pardons someone he executed ahead of schedule.

7.72

1,037 votes

Directors: Mandie Fletcher

Writers: Ben Elton, Richard Curtis

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#15 - The Archbishop

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired Jun 29, 1983

Edmund is appointed to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury after the king has the last one killed.

7.70

878 votes

Directors: Martin Shardlow

Writers: Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson

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#16 - The Foretelling

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired Jun 15, 1983

After arriving late for the Battle of Bosworth Field, Edmund kills King Richard III (whom he thinks is stealing his horse) and secures the crown for his father.

7.66

1,336 votes

Directors: Martin Shardlow

Writers: Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson

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#17 - Dish and Dishonesty

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired Sep 17, 1987

Blackadder becomes involved in politics by getting Baldrick elected MP, in an effort to stop the new Prime Minister, Pitt the Younger, from striking the Prince off the Civil List.

7.61

969 votes

Directors: Mandie Fletcher

Writers: Ben Elton, Richard Curtis

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#18 - Amy and Amiability

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired Oct 15, 1987

After Parliament cuts off the Prince's money he decides to marry a rich lady who obtains her money by moonlighting as a notorious highwayman.

7.59

781 votes

Directors: Mandie Fletcher

Writers: Ben Elton, Richard Curtis

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#19 - Potato

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired Jan 23, 1986

After Sir Walter Raleigh takes the Queen's fancy by bringing her a potato, Blackadder decides to become an explorer with the aid of a legless sea captain.

7.57

804 votes

Directors: Mandie Fletcher

Writers: Ben Elton, Richard Curtis

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#20 - Plan A: Captain Cook

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired Sep 28, 1989

Blackadder tries painting and cooking as ploys to avoid the scheduled big push out of the trenches.

7.54

972 votes

Directors: Richard Boden

Writers: Ben Elton, Richard Curtis

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#21 - Born to Be King

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired Jun 22, 1983

With his father away at the Crusades, Edmund comes up with a plan to prove his brother is illegitimate, thus making him Prince Regent.

7.52

927 votes

Directors: Martin Shardlow

Writers: Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson

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#22 - The Queen of Spain's Beard

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired Jul 6, 1983

The King decides that Edmund should marry a Spanish Princess, who Edmund finds unattractive, in order to secure a treaty between Spain and England which will allow an invasion of France.

7.33

803 votes

Directors: Martin Shardlow

Writers: Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson

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#23 - Witchsmeller Pursuivant

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired Jul 13, 1983

Percy and Baldrick are to be burned at the stake with Edmund, when he is accused of being a witch.

7.31

866 votes

Directors: Martin Shardlow

Writers: Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson

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#24 - The Black Seal

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired Jul 20, 1983

After the King takes away Edmund's title of Duke, he recruits the 6 most evil men in the land to take the crown by force.

7.31

648 votes

Directors: Martin Shardlow

Writers: Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson

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