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  Captain Blackadder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Captain Edmund Blackadder (1871—1917 assumed, MIA) was the main character in the fourth and final series of the popular BBC sitcom Blackadder.
Blackadder's attempts to escape are usually opposed by General Melchett, who does not seem to realise the futility of sending men to their certain deaths, and Captain Darling, who does.
Captain Blackadder claims to have joined the army in 1888, when "back in those days, if you saw a man in a skirt, you shot him and nicked his country".
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 Blackadder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Harry, Prince of Wales, Prince Regent, Captain of the Guard, Grand Warden of the Northern and Eastern Marches, Chief Lunatic of the Duchy of Gloucester, Viceroy of Wales, Sheriff of Nottingham, Marquis of the Midlands, Lord Hoe-Maker in Ordinary, Harbinger of the Doomed Rat (1460 - 1498)
Blackadder II is set in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (reigned 1558 - 1603).
Blackadder The Third is set in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a period known as the Regency period.
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 Blackadder - Uncyclopedia
The Blackadders can be traced back to an Anglo-Saxon royal line of kings starting with Edmund I who reigned from 939-946, ending when he was horribly murdered by a thief in a brawl at a party.
Lord Blackadder was in service to Elizabeth I, and most of his life was spent chasing her ideals and dreams.
It is recorded at this point that the Blackadder family had somehow lost all its lands and titles, but how this happened is not recorded, but is speculated to have been due to accruing major gambling debts.
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 Field Marshal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Blackadder: It looks like a short-sighted buffalo tried to mate with a palm tree and the resulting offspring was sculpted by a myopic orang-utan coming off a month of binge drinking.
Blackadder: I believe the current odds are 10 to 1 squirrel, 6 to 1 cat or the current favourite at 3 to 1, pigeon.
Blackadder finishes the note he's been writing grabs the can of glue and stick the note around the bird's legs leaving it unable to anything hop comically along the ground.
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 Edmund Blackadder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blackadder is also usually one of the few intelligent people present at any given time, and usually is surrounded by incompetent and stupid servants, equals and superiors.
He is the central character of Blackadder II, and is a nobleman in the court of Elizabeth I of England.
Edmund Blackadder is the Blackadder appearing in the Regency period of British history.
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 Blackadder vs. History: Season Guides   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
His country is at war and Blackadder is at the front of the retreat.
The darkest Blackadder series, the material is fl humor with serious social commentary.
Blackadder, the characters and images are trademarks and copyrighted by the BBC
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 Pappy, Pending and Pappella: Blackadder Quotes
Captain Blackadder: Well, normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump up 250 feet into the air and scatter yourself over a wide area.
Captain Blackadder: We're in the stickiest situation since Sticky the stick insect got stuck on a sticky bun.
Captain Blackadder: Ah, it is a Sopwith Camel.
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 BBC - Comedy Guide - Blackadder Goes Forth
The premise: Captain Blackadder is a career soldier who enlisted to escape the rigours of civilian life and who has enjoyed an action-free existence across three continents.
Blackadder's main concern is how to dissuade Melchett from sending him and his men to certain death.
In the end, the creative team stuck to their guns and, instead of having Blackadder succeed in his quest, had him and his men forced to join the advance and fulfil their fears by going 'over the top' to their deaths.
www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/b/blackaddergoesfo_7770785.shtml   (521 words)

  
 Blackadder Hall - Library - Times Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It all seems very sad, particularly as the current series, in which Blackadder is doing everything in his power to get out of the trenches, is the most assured of the lot.
In Blackadders case, the block has usually been the one you put your head on if a truly lunatic despot decides you have forgotten your place.
The heads of the medieval and Elizabethan Blackadders courtiers were never more than moments from the blade, and if the current Captain Blackadder sticks his head above the parapet as regularly as the mad general thinks he should, he'll get it shot off.
www.blackadderhall.com /library/times_1989.shtml   (830 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty, 1485-1917: Books: Richard Curtis,Ben Elton,Rowan Atkinson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
BlackAdder variously becomes the Archbishop of Canterbury, the betrothed of the Spanish Infanta, a witch on trial, and finally, however briefly, King of England.
In the fourth and final series, Blackadder has fallen from a great height, and is an officer in the trenches of World War I. Baldrick is still there, and Percy and the Prince have transformed into fellow field officers, with Stephen Fry playing a bellicose general here as he did Wellington in the third series.
Blackadder II, set in the court of the virgin queen, starred Miranda Richardson, who was perfect in her cruelty towards the hapless Blackadder.
www.amazon.ca /Blackadder-Whole-Damn-Dynasty-1485-1917/dp/0140296085   (2077 words)

  
 Archive 2003 - The Real Captain Blackadder
Blackadder’s career is interesting because it can form the starting point for an examination of several related questions about British army officers in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries.
Edmund Blackadder once said that he had been educated in the school of hard knocks and the University of life.
The entry costs to join any profession could be high and one reason why so many sons of army officers followed in their father’s footsteps was that the War Office gave serving or retired officers a large reduction on the fees they charged to educate their sons at the cadet colleges.
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 TVRage.Com :: TV Show Summary :: Blackadder :: Television Series Synopsis
Blackadder II: Similarly to the previous series, Blackadder is surrounded by the same two men, only all are of a different generation.
Blackadder and Melchett struggle for the upper-hand of the Queen's favour.
Blackadder The Third: Blackadder's position and status has taken a severe hit as we see this descendant as a butler to the Prince Regent, George, the Prince of Wales, son of King George III.
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Blackadder interrupting the English Queen, in 'Blackadder's Christmas Carol' % Your brain, for example, is so minute, Baldrick, that if a hungry cannibal cracked your head open, there wouldn't be enough inside to cover a small water biscuit.
Edmund Blackadder with a really cunning plan, in Blackadder III % Edmund BlackAdder: I believe, sir, that the doctor is trying to tell you that he is happy because he has finished his book.
Edmund Blackadder in Blackadder III % I was then taken and hung by the larger of my two testicles from the Wall of the Bastille.
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 CNNSI.com - Rugby Union - Blackadder fears long season will take toll on All Blacks - Tuesday December 05, 2000 07:29 AM
Blackadder returned to Christchurch on Monday following a year which started with a pre-season Super 12 match in January and finally ended with the All Blacks victory over Italy late last month.
Blackadder said the long season had taken its toll on him and he worried for the future welfare of emerging talent, such as prop Greg Somerville.
All Black coach Wayne Smith backed Blackadder's belief that the team need to be fresh for international competition and said the International Rugby Board needed to look at when tests should be played, the paper reported.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /rugby/news/2000/12/05/blackadder_burnout   (402 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | RUGBY UNION | Blackadder backs new Kiwi captain
Blackadder was axed from the 30-man All Black squad announced by coaches Wayne Smith and Tony Gilbert to play Samoa, Argentina and France, before the Tri-Nations series kicks off on 21 July.
Blackadder, who captained New Zealand in 10 tests in 2000, has backed his successor.
Last week Blackadder complained that top players were suffering because of the intensity of the rugby union calendar.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/rugby_union/1340964.stm   (350 words)

  
 The Flick Filosopher | Blackadder's Christmas Carol   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In the fourth series, Edmund Blackadder, a captain in the trenches of Europe in WWI, merely hopes to stay alive until the end of the war.
Ebenezer Blackadder, we're told as the story opens on Christmas Eve, is "the kindest and loveliest man in all England," owner of a "mustache shop in Dumpling Lane." Poor but happy, Ebenezer finds his boundless generosity taken advantage of by the poor and conniving -- including Mrs.
Mostly, though, Blackadder's Christmas Carol is a welcome dose of cynicism in a season when all those visions of sugarplums and replays of It's a Wonderful Life can tend to send one into diabetic shock.
www.flickfilosopher.com /christmas/flicks/blackadderscarol.shtml   (697 words)

  
 Untitled Document
From cowards to cads and back again, the Blackadders have managed to seriously lower the integrity of every era through which they have wended their serpentine way.
BLACKADDER II England 1558, and the Blackadders once again bubble to the top of the melting pot of history, as Lord Edmund Blackadder, blessed with a big head and a small beard, tries to win the grace and favor of stark raving mad Queen Bess.
Blackadder's life is full of problems with Samuel Johnson, the Duke of Wellington, Pitt the Younger and the most stupid Baldrick so far.
www.bbcprograms.com /pbs/catalog/blackadder/blacmain.htm   (272 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Black Adder Goes Forth Part 2: Video: Rowan Atkinson,Tony Robinson,Stephen Fry,Hugh Laurie,Tim ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Self-centered, arrogant, and sarcastic, Blackadder is always constantly searching for a way out of this silly war, and will try various, often crazy, variations on escape, all of which will take a turn he never expected.
Rowan Atkinson (Blackadder himself) claims that while shooting the episode, he experienced an unreasonable sense of foreboding, as though he was really going to die at the end.
After we see Blackadder and co. go over the top to their deaths, the music goes to a slow, mournful rendition of the main theme, and the scene shifts...
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 Zaputa's Blackadder Home Page and Menu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The filthy genes of the Blackadder dynasty bubble back to the surface of the melting pot of history as Lord Edmund, arrogant peer-about-town, swaggers back with a big head and small beard in search of grave and favour from stark raving mad Queen Bess.
The annuls of the Blackadder family continue, although their fortunes have rather plummeted with the advent of the Regency period.
Edmund Blackadder, butler to the Prince Regent, veers from calamity to disaster.
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 DVD Bits - Region 4 and Region 1 DVD news, reviews, resources, PC-DVD, hardware
Captain Darling is trying to relay orders through to Captain Blackadder, but the phone lines don’t appear to be working very well, so he sends the orders via carrier pigeon.
Blackadder has a plan though, he sticks some pencils up his nose and underpants on his head in an attempt to convince Melchett that he’s gone insane so he can return to England.
Blackadder Goes Forth is the entire historic fourth series of Blackadder which is set on the Western Front in 1917, Blackadder is now a Captain in the British Army.
www.dvdbits.com /reviews.asp?id=915   (1491 words)

  
 Black Adder Goes Forth (Series 4) (1989)
BlackAdder Goes Forth could have become another of those comedies except for one thing - the time period it was set in.
During the last episode, Goodbyeee, Blackadder's suspenders have a prominent red line of colour bleed throughout the episode.
I thought I saw some occasional cross colouration, but I couldn't nail them down with any degree of accuracy, probably due to the oversaturation of red which made all the other colours look washed-out, except for the browns and sepias which didn't look totally natural as a result.
www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=1182   (1463 words)

  
 Blackadder Hall - Blackadder Goes Forth - series four   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Captain Blackadder, joined the British Army when it was little more than a travel agency for gentlemen with an abnormally high sex drive.
Ordered to find a spy in hospital, Blackadder spots a man with a strong German accent, a beautiful nurse and a chance for three weeks in bed.
Edmund is assigned to find a spy in a hospital, which has a beautiful nurse and a man with a strong German accent called "Smith".
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 The Black Adder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
My favorite Blackadder moment: in BA III, when Edmund muses that hundreds of years from now he wants episodes from his life to be played out weekly at half past nine by some great heroic actor of the age.
Blackadder was by far the funniest show in the history of the world, and still the pinnacle of Rowan Atkinson's success.
I watch Blackadder to laugh, not to debate the merits of involvement in World War I. I was shocked when I saw that episode and disappointed that my fav actor (Atkinson) would stoop to preaching in a comedy show.
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 MCT home page
M, if we were the last three humans on earth, I would be trying to start a family with Baldrick.
Well, of course they are, Blackadder, directed according to the Grand Plan.
Don't worry my boy, if you should falter, remember that Captain Darling and I are behind you.
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 BlackAdder Complete Series By Rachel Hughes Genre Comedy Video 4
BlackAdder III is set in the court of Prince Regent in the 1790s.
Here a kindhearted Blackadder is shown the evilness of his ancestors, and decides being nice isn't worth it.
BlackAdder and Bladrick wreak havoc as they tumble through the past in a time machine.
www.shelikesdvds.com /Reviews/blackadder.htm   (1155 words)

  
 Blackadder Chronicles
In Blackadder II, though no longer royal, he is still an aristocrat, the Earl of Blackadder, courtier to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
Blackadder is accompanied throughout history by various associates, principally his servant Baldric (Tony Robinson), who degenerates from a cunning lout in Blackadder to a shuffling idiot in the three sequels.
A highlight of Blackadder II is Miranda Richardson’s Queen Elizabeth I, whom she portrays as a frizzy-haired ditz with screeching voice, pop eyes, and insouciant vanity.
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 Amazon.com: Black Adder Goes Forth, Part 1: Video: Rowan Atkinson,Tony Robinson,Stephen Fry,Hugh Laurie,Tim ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This collection includes "Captain Cook," in which Edmund becomes the official "war artist"; plus "Corporal Punishment," concerning Edmund's breaching of regulations via cannibalism; and "Major Star," in which the men on the front have to confront fallout from the Russian Revolution.
Captain Blackadder's war maneuvers include cheating in a painting competition; shooting General Melchett's favorite pigeon; and mounting a soldier's show bound for the London hippodrome.
fladder and his men are stuck at the front lines waiting for orders to advance.
www.amazon.com /Black-Adder-Goes-Forth-Part/dp/B00004WG4M   (1589 words)

  
 BBC - Black Adder - Episode Guide: Corporal Punishment
Blackadder is court-martialled, tried by the less-than fair Melchett, and sentenced to death by firing squad.
Blackadder's court martial is less than fair, since Melchett is the judge and Darling the prosecution.
The judge opens by saying, "The case before us is that of the Crown versus Captain Edmund Blackadder, alias the Flanders Pigeon Murderer.
www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/blackadder/epguide/four_corporal.shtml   (275 words)

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