Best Blackadder series?
Poll: Best Blackadder series?
Total Members Polled: 334
Discussion
ash73 said:
Disappointed the 1st series is doing so badly in the poll, I always liked that era of history and the brutality suits the comedy. The 4th series was very repetitive imo but for some reason it's the most liked?! Maybe the poignant ending influences people's views?
Your right ref the poignant ending, but IMO Flash was the best version in 4, the trench style cooking and coffee, the hospital spy, the Speckled Jim trial, the firing squad, Georgina and Captain Darling are all stand out amazing moments for that series.It just proves just how brilliant Blackadder was, that it proves so difficult to choose your favorite out of 4 series. A master class of script writing and acting.
ajprice said:
He's said it a few times now but in 4 the reason for Melchett's "Baaah" when he sat down or moved around was that he had really bad piles, it was only known to a few of them during the filming 
I must say, I did like the way the Latin-speaking General Melchecus in Back & Forth ended his missive with 'Baaaaaaaah-us'.VoziKaoFangio said:
Christmas Carol is brilliant. Compulsory viewing every Christmas, whilst stuffed and sloshed on Christmas night.
Piggy wiggy wiggy woo.
Baldrick, you wouldn't see a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord, singing "Subtle plans are here again!" Piggy wiggy wiggy woo.
What would a modern day Blackadder be like? Simon Cowell? Malcolm Tucker?
Halmyre said:
Baldrick, you wouldn't see a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord, singing "Subtle plans are here again!"
What would a modern day Blackadder be like? Simon Cowell? Malcolm Tucker?
Several were mooted, most of which have been covered in one-off specials, including Romans, The English Civil War and Dickens-inspired Victorian.What would a modern day Blackadder be like? Simon Cowell? Malcolm Tucker?
Apparently the closest one they got to making as a full series since Goes Forth ended was one set in a WWII POW camp, with the familiar cast as captured British airmen and Adrian Edmonson as the Camp Kommandant (basically the von Richthofen character he played in 'Private Plane'), and Melchett as the reticent Richard Attenborough-type character who'd practically set up home in the place. Apparently there would be a constant theme of Blackadder not really wanting to escape as he knew he'd just end up back on the front line again. They ended up not bothering with it as they realised it'd end up too much like Goes Forth.
Personally, I quite like the idea of a pisstake of all those Sixties spy thrillers. Could be called 'Blackadder's 5'. Inspiration could be early Bond films, Harry Palmer, The Saint, The Avengers - that sort of thing. Blackadder as some suave spy with a Jensen Interceptor or suchlike, Melchett as the 'M' character, Darling as a kind of male Miss Moneypenny (much to his own annoyance), George as a Sixties dandy-type prone to blabbing state secrets after a few drinks, that Melchett hired because they knew each other at Cambridge, Queenie updated to be a young Elizabeth II (regularly appears on some huge TV screen in the SIS boardroom to give everyone a shrill ticking-off), and Baldrick as an inept junior radio operator who's constantly cramping Agent Blackadder's style and making a mess of missions.
I reckon it'd work, especially given that it could follow Blackadder tradition with comedy German villains (the Stasi).
Twincam16 said:
Halmyre said:
Baldrick, you wouldn't see a subtle plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord, singing "Subtle plans are here again!"
What would a modern day Blackadder be like? Simon Cowell? Malcolm Tucker?
Several were mooted, most of which have been covered in one-off specials, including Romans, The English Civil War and Dickens-inspired Victorian.What would a modern day Blackadder be like? Simon Cowell? Malcolm Tucker?
Apparently the closest one they got to making as a full series since Goes Forth ended was one set in a WWII POW camp, with the familiar cast as captured British airmen and Adrian Edmonson as the Camp Kommandant (basically the von Richthofen character he played in 'Private Plane'), and Melchett as the reticent Richard Attenborough-type character who'd practically set up home in the place. Apparently there would be a constant theme of Blackadder not really wanting to escape as he knew he'd just end up back on the front line again. They ended up not bothering with it as they realised it'd end up too much like Goes Forth.
Personally, I quite like the idea of a pisstake of all those Sixties spy thrillers. Could be called 'Blackadder's 5'. Inspiration could be early Bond films, Harry Palmer, The Saint, The Avengers - that sort of thing. Blackadder as some suave spy with a Jensen Interceptor or suchlike, Melchett as the 'M' character, Darling as a kind of male Miss Moneypenny (much to his own annoyance), George as a Sixties dandy-type prone to blabbing state secrets after a few drinks, that Melchett hired because they knew each other at Cambridge, Queenie updated to be a young Elizabeth II (regularly appears on some huge TV screen in the SIS boardroom to give everyone a shrill ticking-off), and Baldrick as an inept junior radio operator who's constantly cramping Agent Blackadder's style and making a mess of missions.
I reckon it'd work, especially given that it could follow Blackadder tradition with comedy German villains (the Stasi).
I think a modern Blackadder would be a sleazy MP - but that has been done too with Alan B'Stard.
The Blackadder Five, a 60s pop band was a good idea. Baldrick would have been responsible for JFK's murder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder#Future
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder#Future
The VERY FIRST Black Adder, the pilot not seen in the UK:
Interesting that Atkinson plays Edmund very like as in Blackadder II. Demonstrates that Black Adder I could have been much better than it turned out to be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5NWNHS3eM4
Interesting that Atkinson plays Edmund very like as in Blackadder II. Demonstrates that Black Adder I could have been much better than it turned out to be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5NWNHS3eM4
Edited by Ayahuasca on Thursday 6th June 18:34
king up the filming can do wonders. They have to make best of what they have. Then hit on gold.VoziKaoFangio said:
Blackadder is massively popular in Serbia, in fact they have made their own version of it (Crna Guja). Only Fools and Horses is probably the biggest ever TV show there too. They love British comedy, and music come to that.
Such a shame they cannot warm to our black footballers !This bloody thread just makes me want to curl up & listen to Edmund
Probably two, three, four then one for me. Three and four are still brilliant, but as others have said, they've hit on the formula by then and it can feel overdone. Two just has that slightly manic glint in its eye, especially Miranda Richardson. Plus of course it has Tom Baker and Rik Mayall's gloriously OTT cameos. Christmas Carol is good fun, but Back and Forth was arse.
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