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Blackadder is a series of four British period sitcoms, The Black Adder, Blackadder II, Blackadder the Third and Blackadder Goes Forth, along with several one-off specials, that aired on BBC1 from 1983 to 1989. Rowan Atkinson starred throughout as the antihero Edmund Blackadder and Tony Robinson as his servant Baldrick, with each series set in a different historical period and written by Richard Curtis together with Atkinson on the first series and by Curtis and Ben Elton on the later three. In a 2004 poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom, Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, and Blackadder Goes Forth was ranked sixteenth on the British Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Release Year
1983 2
Country
United Kingdom 2
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Original Language
English 1
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1. Blackadder (Wikipedia)
  • Blackadder, Introduction section
    All episodes starred Rowan Atkinson as the antihero Edmund Blackadder and Tony Robinson as Blackadder's servant Baldrick.
  • Blackadder, Description, original language
    In a 2004 poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom, Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, and Blackadder Goes Forth was ranked sixteenth on the British Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes.
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2. Wikipedia
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  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder, Premise section, first-series sentence
    The first series, made in 1983, was titled The Black Adder and was set in the fictional reign of "Richard IV".
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder, reception sentence, Best Sitcom poll
    In the 2004 TV poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom, Blackadder (all four series combined) was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses.
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