Thanks.HisRoyalSweetness wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 4:16 pmYou could probably find the series online. There are 4 of them each consisting of 6 episodes set in a different historical period:Bearfacts wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 3:05 amSadly not something I've seen here although I confess to watching very little TV any longer. I refuse to pay the bastards who own the cable companies what they ask for their service. But if the Bears plan to actually play decent football again I suppose I'll have to give in to one that will carry their games.
The Black Adder (1485 at the end of Wars of the Roses)
Blackadder II (Elizabethan)
Blackadder The Third (Georgian)
Blackadder Goes Forth (World War 1)
There's also a one-off Christmas Special based on Dicken's A Christmas Carol.
The first series, written by Richard Curtis (Four Weddings & A Funeral, Notting Hill, Love Actually, Bridget Jones) and the series lead Rowan Atkinson who you'll probably recognise from Mr Bean and the Johnny English movies. It's not nealry as good as the later series where Ben Elton replaced Atkinson as a writer (who among many other things wrote We Will Rock You, the Queen musical). You'll recognise a few other British actors who appear in it including Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.

And I am familiar with Rowan Atkinson and Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie although with Hugh more from his staring role in House. Based on that character it's always been hard to envision him as a comedic actor as well.