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Blackadder Season 1 · Episode 2

Born to Be King

22nd June 1983 34 mins Season 1 Episode 2

With his father away at The Crusades, Edmund comes up with a plan to prove his brother is illegitimate, thus making him Prince Regent.

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Season 1 · Episode 3

The Archbishop

Edmund is appointed to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury after the King has the last one killed.
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Rowan Atkinson
Rowan Atkinson
Captain Edmund Blackadder
Tony Robinson
Tony Robinson
Private S. Baldrick
Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie
Lieutenant The Honourable George Colthurst St. Barleigh
Tim McInnerny
Tim McInnerny
Captain Kevin Darling
Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry
General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett