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Blackadder
Left to right: (Back) Tim McInnerny, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, (Front) Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson in Blackadder Goes Forth
Genre	Period, Situational comedy
Created by	Richard Curtis Rowan Atkinson Ben Elton
Starring	Rowan Atkinson Tony Robinson Tim McInnerny Miranda Richardson Stephen Fry Hugh Laurie
Theme music composer	Howard Goodall
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	24 (plus 3 specials) (List of episodes)
Production
Producer(s)	John Lloyd
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	30 min. approx
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC One
Picture format	PAL (576i)
Audio format	Monaural sound
Original run	15 June 1983 – 2 November 1989
External links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Blackadder is the generic name that encompasses four series of an acclaimed BBC One historical sitcom, along with several one-off installments. The first series was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, while subsequent episodes were written by Curtis and Ben Elton. The shows were produced by John Lloyd, and starred Rowan Atkinson as the eponymous anti-hero, Edmund Blackadder, and Tony Robinson as his sidekick/dogsbody, Baldrick.

In 2000, Blackadder Goes Forth ranked at 16 in the "100 Greatest British Television Programmes", a list created by the British Film Institute. Also in the 2004 TV poll to find "Britain's Best Sitcom", Blackadder was voted the second best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses. It was also ranked as the 20th Best TV Show of All Time by Empire Magazine.^[1]

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